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Press white house reporter zeke miller. yesterday was a fascinating day of twists and turns with a round of cable news interviews that really was, seen by many as a bit bizarre. whats your take on that. >> they said he was ultimately, going to cooperate with special counsel robert muler. it was reminiscent of president trumps call-ins with the cable news stations and throughout the campaign and before hand when he was a reality television star, dominating the news cycle. maybe not following thro...

Court. i presented many to the foreign intelligence -- >> there are several different levels. >> they are finished intelligence products, extraordinarily vetted. it has never been declassified that there was a fisa application. if the reporting was correct that there was a fisa application on an american affiliated with a campaign, that would garner the most amount of scrutiny. it would be considered highly sensitive. it would have been scrubbed really carefully and cautious in terms of the repr...

Interview, if i were mueller, i would send him a grand jury subpoena and let him deal with the ramifications of that. >> but thats a heavy handed political move. hes got to be thinking a little bit about that stuff. it does tell us, if nothing else, that the constant calls that the president is excited about this, he wants to do it, is not 100% true. because his lawyers would be be scrubbing back to the clinton days, the espy case, it is of dubious legal value. >> well, there certainly is a publ...

Trump in terms of ordering the sacking of robert mueller, when you take that in itself, it is vital to realize that is more extreme and the position that has been held by some of his more extreme or shall we a hard-core allies or current or former administration officials. even someone like steve bannon who obviously used to be on good terms with the president. shortly after he left the white house he advised the president to get rougher and tougher with mueller and get yourself some new lawyers...

Even someone like steve bannon who obviously used to be on good terms with the president. shortly after he left the white house he advised the president to get rougher and tougher with mueller and get yourself some new lawyers. and basically start as the president would say, fighting back more when it comes to robert mueller and his team of investigators. even then someone like steve bannon never urged the president to order the sacking or the firing of robert muler. >> thats a great point. barb...

Box they wont let anyone see. >> thats exactly what the white house did with the fire and fury book. they said dont look at this. everyone had to look. what is the white house so concerned about bannon telling lawmakers. were also seeing why mueller felt compelled to issue a subpoena to steve bannon. >> thats the other question i want to ask you. what do you take is the significance of that news which is interesting insofar as we dont think hes used ha particular tool in his tool kit with someon...

Mueller, you agreed to a sitdown interview. now he can say i was forced to testify. >> like giving him cover. >> its giving him cover. that is also maybe what congress wanted to do today by issuing a subpoena. they wanted him to have cover in order to testify freely. >> one of the things we havent seen yet and its a big difference between watergate where democrats obviously were the majority, we havent seen the congressional committees go to war with the white house about this stuff. theres been...

Potential subpoena before the special council or the grand jury was when a news clipping was brought into the committee room. so no, if those reports are accurate, thats something i learned about in the press report. >> and whatever refusals he gave to you presumably would not extend to the special counsel, right? can he just do the same thing in front of muellers investigators? >> my view is no, that this is -- this is an essential glowing gag rule when it comes to anything during the transitio...

Thanks, guys. >> steve bannon woke up this morning facing one subpoena. hes going to bed tonight facing a second. today we learned he is the first person in president trumps inner circle to receive a grand jury subpoena from special counsel robert muler in the russia investigation. muellers team has interviewed about a dozen administration officials without use ive grand jury subpoena. the news broke while bannon happened to be on capitol hill today appearing before the house intel committee and...

Collar fraud. most of them, as i would be, are looking at the seventh floor. the president is taking aim at a handful of top officials. congress is taking aim because this is a political issue. they want to say any findings from the muller investigation are tainted. there is a fundamental difference between the day to day of analysts, agents, and how they view this and whats going on at the director level at the fbi. this has a minimal effect on the day-to-day workforce. they have other things t...