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What the intention was there and whether thats an offense. And one question that might be at the heart of all of this why do you believe you were fired . I guess i dont know for sure. I believe i think the president fired me because of the russia investigation, something about the way i was conducting it the president felt created pressure on him he wanted to relieve. I didnt know that at the time, but i watched his interview. Ive read the press accounts of his conversations so i takes him at hi...

President. we did not want to work with mr. giuliani. simply put, we were playing the hand we were dealt. mr. giulianis requests were a quid pro quo for arranging a white house visit for president zelenski. everyone was in the loop. it was no secret. >> the attorney adds that giulianis conversations with trump would not be fully protected either. with me now former nsa counsel robert deets. let me get both of your perspectives on this. robert, let me talk to you. do you think this is a good idea...

>> robert, where do you see this going over the next couple of days? are we going to get bogged down into some politics? are we going to see this play out in the courts with the don mcgahns before it even gets tie trial phase in the senate? >> gee, do you think it could actually become political? yeah, i think it is. but at this stage, whats happening is posturing. remember, mitch mcconnell has not put out any sort of draft rules of how he thinks this ought to play out. until we get that, were n...

Interest of the president and the country for him to be allowed to do his work. thats what i think hes going to do. >> if he fired bob mueller, i think he would see a tremendous backlash response from both democrats but also house republicans. >> robert deets is a former counselor to the cia and general counsel at the nsa. clint watts is a former special fbi agent. thanks to both you have for being here. robert, let me start with you. i want to play the recording, part of donald trumps conversat...

Reputation. it was so good thats why president obama asked him to stay past his ten-year term. this is ridiculous. president trump probably offered an invitation to director mueller to come and talk to him about maybe taking over as the fbi director. how could he claim thats a conflict if he probably asked mueller to come to the white house. he was probably trying to serve the president and then -- >> you cant imagine that mueller invited himself to the white house? >> no. hes already been the f...

Talk about conflicts. he was interviewing for the job. >> so, robert, this is about the fact that president trump spoke to bob mueller about the job of leading the fbi. a job hes had in the past. he is now suggesting to the new york times that that presents a conflict in his investigation into russian interference in the election and any relationship the trump campaign to that. in your mind, can you figure out where that conflict would lie? >> no. there is no conflict. the conflict traditionally...

Government to help tip the election is not very america first. the idea that a 39-year-old businessman who is grew up in manhattan, traveled the world, doesnt understand that taking help from a russian government in a u.s. election is just wrong? maybe he doesnt know its potentially illegal but just doesnt know its wrong that its not the right thing to do. that doesnt pass the smell test. if it gets to the point bob mueller wants to bring a case that wont look compelling to the jury what i would...

That i have seen. >> okay. well afterwards he clarified telling nbc news the vice president had no meetings with any individuals associated with the russian government during the campaign or transition. its a little vague that could open the door to meeting someone not associated with the russian government or someone in that other meeting. >> my son a wonderful young man. he took a meeting with a russian lawyer. not a government lawyer, but a russian lawyer. >> robert deets is a former senior c...

Second, we have a special counsel thats doing an investigation over at justice department. we have an investigation here in the house. we have an investigation in the senate. i think its very important that these professionals in these committees do their jobs so that we can get to the bottom of all of this. casey. >> mr. speaker, would you accept a meeting with a representative -- >> im not going to go into hypotheticals. >> would you accept a meeting with somebody who said i information from a...

Criminal law the way that everyone else is. so to the extent that there are statutes that he broke, then he could be held responsible for them. i dont think in this case that this meeting and the e-mails leading up to it in and of themselves are enough for criminal charges or i should just say i dont think the department of adjust would bring such charges, but certainly to the extent that this is kind of the opening salvo in a conspiracy that he joined to help the are russians in meddling the el...