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Of the attorney general and the head of the fbi for allowing an investigation. now, there may have been valid arguments as rod rosenstein made for wycombemy needed to be fired. but president trump went on national tv and admit head fired him for a very different reason. i think those are legitimate things that congress can look into. i think there are other things with two years of congress not fulfilling its responsibility to conduct oversight of the government. but i think the mueller investig...

Investigation, or to stifle it, were those unwarranted? >> i think its worth talking about, when whitaker took the job. but the prospect of robert mueller whom i worked under for 4 1/2 years at the fbi would somehow change the investigation, change the work of 22 months, because somebody looked at him in the face in a meeting and said i dont like what youre going for find. i would look at that as about the same chance that i quarterback an nfl team next season. furthermore, even if you didnt tru...

Imaginations will allow. how revealing could it actually be? >> it could be pretty revealing. the big question and congressman schiff got at it was who else is aware of the false testimony that michael cohen has given? and, frankly, whether president trump or those around him were aware, questions had been raised about whether president trump directed or asked or encouraged michael cohen to make false statements to congress. that is a question that has hung out, and cohen, i assume, will be aske...

Chairs the house intelligence committee has a plan if attorney general william barr decides to keep the report under wraps. >> well, we will obviously subpoena the report. we will bring bob mueller in to testify before congress. we will take it to court f. necessary. and in the end i think the department understands theyre going to have to make this public. i think barr will ultimately understand that as well. >> joining me now, "the new york times" politics editor and cnn political analyst patr...

Expect, which is what has robert mueller found, who did he talk to? or is the trump administration willing to risk sosrt of this edited version and possibility of just putting things out piecemeal? i think thats step one and schiff knows that right now putting pressure on the justice department to either look transparent or to look like they may be, you know, heavily editing something is the pressure to go to. ultimately, it feels like to matter what happens, either side may end up going to cour...

Withholding the why, the motive, for a reason. as phil mud was sort of saying earlier, that there is a lot more to come when you begin to sort of read between the lines of what mueller knows and isnt telling us. >> juliet, you are shaking your head in agreement. i want to know why. >> absolutely. first of all, someone is finally going to jail for hillarys e-mails. i dont think it is who of the lock her up crowd thought. lets begin with the basics. that the democratic candidates e-mails and her t...

Senate. with republicans, thats likely not the case. >> good point. phil mud, buzzfeed reports they have other witnesses, e-mails, texts, documents that corroborate what michael cohen is saying. in muellers sentencing memo, as far as michael cohen, mueller writes this. cohen provided relevant and useful information concerning his contacts with persons connected to the white house during the 2017/2018 time period. and thenned ed adds, cohen des preparing and circulating his response to the congre...

Them. we dont know yet. >> didnt be as simple as greed and wanting to get out of debt that we know that he might have been making a financial deal of some kind? >> sure. but he wanted to pass the information because he wanted to pay off debts. we know from his court appearance that his business was in trouble. but the question i have is why did he think they were interested in that information? i want to know what he expected intent. what he expected them to use that for. it cant be good, but we...

Cnn learned late this evening once again this president will double down on a controversial decision. the military has been ordered to withdraw half the troops in afghanistan. if your heads not spinning, youre not listening. i want to bring in wesley clark and phil mud. we need to steady the ship, give me a sense of the proportion of whats going on in our government right now? >> i think the -- this is a really dangerous time for the u.s. government, its christmas holidays. you have a lot of sna...

With these and better subjects, i believe it is right for me to step down from my position. cnn learned late this evening once again this president will double down on a controversial decision. the military has been ordered to withdraw half the troops in afghanistan. if your heads not spinning, youre not listening. i want to bring in wesley clark and phil mud. we need to steady the ship, give me a sense of the proportion of whats going on in our government right now? >> i think the -- this is a ...