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Probably theyll be talking about a change in legal team here and that brings up the question, could it be a change in legal strategy, perhaps a plea deal in the works? that remains to be seen. >> jessica schneider, watch that very closely. in the meantime we want to bring in samuel bul, former federal prosecutor. ill come back to rick gates in a second. sara murray reporting that the president is now saying he would still like to sit down with investigators from special counsel robert muellers t...

Told that something illegal was done which is not just the way a court would look at the problem. >> former federal prosecutor samuel bul on the problems with that memo and hes not the only one that thinks it has legal yus, a, saying its deliberately misleading and legally wrong. with a good morning to you out there in utah. lets get right to congressman jerry nadler, his rebuttal focuses on four key points and doesnt show the government lacked evidence aside from the dossier from the christophe...

That this memo under cuts the fbi and the people investigating trump and thats really what they try to do. but they keep trying to act like this is something they are not really a part of it. something congress does, even though the under lying intelligence that is in the memo doesnt necessarily portray the whole fbi and doj as some sort of deep state after the president. >> an undercutting attempt by the white house of the fbi. what do you make the trey gowdy breaking with the president on this...

Electoral system. its very different. in watergate congress worked to uncover facts as well as the investigators on the special prosecution force, and here you have congress trying to obstruct the fact facting process and not doing their jobs and trying to undermine the investigation of mueller, and you have a president of the united states who now says hes totally vindicated. i was a prosecutor after i was in congress. i prosecuted, i dont know, tens of thousands of felons, and everyone said to...

Burns and nancy cook and we have a lot of questions for msnbc legal analyst katie fang. with the president focused on this gop memo this weekend, right? >> reporter: absolutely. the president is certainly not listening to the kind of comments from trey gowdy, so important in this because hes a former federal prosecutor, leaving congress. he was the person that house intelligence chairman devin nunes chose to look at the underlying intelligence presented to the fisa court. he was really at ground...

Defense might be and how the president might answer questions. number one, and we played the sound before. we dont need to play it again. on the issue of obstruction, the president -- people says obstruction because i was fight back. samuel, youre a lawyer. is there a fighting back exemption to the issue of obstruction of justice? >> no. if the president is talking about his public statements that there was no collusion or he didnt obstruct, fine, hes entitled to fight back in that sense and he ...

Are raising alarm over this so-called secret society at the fbi. but the messages themselves, weve seen are cryptic at best. one at issue here, the fbi lawyer, lisa page says to strzok the day after the election, are you going to even give out your calendars? seems kind of depressing. maybe it should just be the first meeting of the secret society. its unclear here what exactly shes referring to without more context which we dont have. ive reached out to the lawyers for comment, as well as we co...

Looking like -- >> thats one poll. there are multiple polls and margin of error is much tighter. >> i want to turn to the president. comey revealing the president may have been trying to protect his friend -- this is something you said, excuse me, you said that yet you think comey was trying to protect his friend -- sorry that the president was trying to protect his friend there. i want to listen to samuel bul who told my colleague something else. >> if hes got an improper purpose, hes doing thi...