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On a serious question, some of the news coming out of the special counsels investigation is they have staffed up and they now have expertise to investigate and prosecute i guess if they find something, financial crimes. what constitutes a financial crime? what kind of person can commit a financial crime? >> any person. foreigner or an american. although i think mueller is going to care a lot more about anything that comes close to the campaign satellites, to use the -- >> right. the presidents w...

Doesnt bake any sensmake any s. republican appointee. a law enforcement person. more importantly, its the first inning, literally the first day this has been publicly documented. i dont know if anyone has any idea where it goes. it could ultimately help donald trump if a respectable person clears him of charges and say its time to move on or could hurt him in other ways. either way, this is a guy who ran on law and order and supporting the cops. ma what do you think the fbi is? federal cops. the...

>> want you show you what some of your other colleagues said today. >> i looked at the mayor and said thats not the right tone. i myself am going to try to tone down some of my rhetoric, i invite my democrat friends and they are friends to do likewise. >> im a little bit pessimistic that anything much is going to change. i got a call after this happened to my congressional office praising what had happened, hoping donald trump was next. one of my colleagues got an e-mail saying one down, 217 to ...

Summer of the tea party and some of the most outrageous calls coming into our congressional offices, people coming in angry. it was really a scary moment. and i think each one of us has a public responsibility to call the public to a higher good. i mean, thats not going to control everybody whos out there who decides they want to take it upon themselves to exercise a political message in a violent way, but each one of us has a responsibility. look, im glad chris collins apologized for his earlie...

>> has senator rubio developed a close enough rapport with the president to pick up the phone, call him, say, the reason youre now -- as ari said, under criminal investigation, mr. president, is because of the way youre conducting yourself in office. you know, pull back. i mean, get off twitter. about to call it the twitter. my old boss used to call google "the google" once. get off twitter, focus on an agenda and let us handle the investigation. does he have -- do you have a sense that senator ...

Waning months of his presidency and, you know, senator paul has had his own reasons for opposing things like this all the way along. im not sure theyre exactly on the same plane. >> probably a good guess. thank you for spending time with us, kasie. amazing reporting all day yesterday, too. thank you. donna, i wonder if this is one of those rare unintended but welcomed consequences where democrats and republicans can be aligned on foreign policy again because of the trump administrations posture ...

New york times" that they think they can confirm a unitary or unlawful firing of the prosecutor. the fact is that the president doesnt have that authority. he has a lot of authority. he can fire the defense secretary, he can fire the labor sec taretary but the way the ru work today right now, the rules require only the decision can be made by the attorney general or acting attorney general in the case of recusarecusal. so when the president says he wants to do it, you mentioned a reality show pr...

Onboard, and willing to send a pretty strong message to the white house. so i think, i dont know if i necessarily want to call it a shot across the bow, but this is one area where congress is able to exercise some power, and they used it and i think -- i think it really sets a much different tone for those members. lindsey graham and john mccain have been willing to talk about this very vocally all the way along. others have been less vocal but i think the legislation speaks for itself in that r...

Condone or appreciate the conduct toward bob mueller. i think ive described him as an american treasure, he is one of the good guys in a town full of people who dont live by the same kind of codes of service that bob mueller lives by. but i have heard that their political strategy is to go at mueller the way they went at comey in terms of motive and grandstanding and showboating. is that going to work in a legal sense? >> well, it is certainly allowed. it is lawful to voice your opinion of the o...

Every republican in congress and everything ive seen from republican elected officials is to defend the integrity of bob mueller and the only people out toeing the presidents line are either paid spokespeople for his legal team or former campaign surrogates like newt gingrich. >> reporter: yeah, theyve not directly responded on that why you see this big yawning gap between what republicans are going to have to face voters in 18 months and what their own campaigns are saying. you know, to ari eex...