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Look back. >> charles: to be sure, his mandate did expand. >> it did. the way the statue works, rod rosenstein was in a position to approve or disapprove of any expansions of the probe. its safe to say it never turned inward on itself. never got to a point that said lets talk about strzok and page and fisa abuse and all the things that john durham is being appointed to look at. the daylight is coming. im not sure its a postmortem than a new autopsy. theres more coming and i suspect it will be in...

Is kind of an afterthought or something they talk about secondly. and you can see perhaps why then you dont have the public outrage one would expect in that mueller talked about yesterday. that all americans need to pay attention to what russia did in the election. all of the focus is more -- they are not having, you know, hearings about how to defend against, how to do a postmortem of what russia did and how to defend against that in 2020. it is all focussed on the president. and in that sense ...

Leaders agreed to extend the deadline beyond march twenty ninth giving the u.k. some breathing space why did it take them so long to reach that decision and are they satisfied with the outcome give us a post-mortem. there is one really simple reason because there are twenty seven so if everybody only gets ten minutes to talk about bracks it and what he thinks about it and how he or she things their country are affected by it then we do the calculation this drags on and then of course somebody sa...

For lets not forget a wall that will be a failed policy. thats what experts tell us is that it is not going to work. republicans dont want it, democrat dont want it. so this is where the president is taking us to, down it really incredibly dangerous path. theres something else i want to say that mika and joe were talking about, which is the politics of fear, politics of racism, politics of bigotry. we have to remember what this all about you it will mike i dont see as he thought african nations ...

Today in whittaker. you started it off the show, this is exactly what this was, there was an audience of one and he went out there to perform. some of the things he said just defy lodge ek. the idea that a president that thinks all day and all night long about his investigations, cl it is robert mueller or not, they would not bring those things up and we know he brought those things up with everyone around him and doesnt respect traditional boundaries of law enforcement. the idea that he wouldnt...

Interviews he wants a fixture there. he wants his own comey. what do you think of that? >> you saw whatever the president wants, you saw today in whitaker. you started it off, this is exactly what this was. an audience of one. and he went out there to perform. some of the things he said just defy logic in terms of what we know about president trump. the idea that the president who thinks all day long and all night long about his investigations, whether its robert mueller or southern district of ...

Robert mueller. >> i believe those special counsel regulations should stay in place for the duration of this investigation and we can do a postmortem then. i have no reason to think theyre not working. i am not going to do anything that i think is wrong and i will not be bullied into doing anything i think is wrong. joining me is pete williams our deputy assistant general, harry littman. the democrats are wondering which william barr is going to be. >> he went out of his way several times to say...

And the existing rules, i think, reflect the experience of both republican and democratic administrations and strike the right balance. they are put noticing -- put together in the clinton investigation. >> it recalls misconduct, dereliction of duty, conflict. will you follow that standard? >> of course. >> what if the president asked you to rescind or change those special counsel regulations? >> i think those special counsel regulations should stay in place for this investigation. we can do a p...

The dam since elliot richardson. a lot of different administrations on both parties have experimented with special counsel arrangements. existing rules, i think, reflects the experience of both republican and democratic in administrations and strike the right balance. they are put together in the clinton administration after ken starrs investigation. >> thats right. the current regulations on the books right now prevent the attorney general from firing without cost to special counsel. they requi...

Counsel arrangements. existing rules i think reflect the experience of both republican and democratic administrations and strike the right balance. they are put together in the clinton administration after ken starrs investigation. >> thats right. so the current regulations on the books right now prevent the attorney general from firing without cause the special counsel. they require misconduct, dereliction of duty, incapacity, conflict. would you follow that standard? >> of course. >> what if t...