Showdown Over Mueller News Today

Well, a good sunday morning, everybody. for nearly two months, we have heard little from special counsel robert mueller, nor have we heard much about mueller from president trump. they both went quiet. it is possible the silence has worked in mr. trumps favor. the midterm exit poll found that 46% of those polled disapproved of muellers handling of the russia investigation. thats of course almost exactly equal to the presidents job rating. and the republicans house vote share. just 41% approved o...

Hillary clinton. and even pressure the justice accident to name a second special counsel to investigate her. >> why in the world we would be so sanguine about this and allow it to happen is beyond me. >> and retiring republican senator jeff flake is making it clear he wont vote for any more judicial nominees from the until the senate votes on a bill to protect muellers job. >> he suggested ways to diminish it, to starve it of funding, for example. >> and there is this threat from democrats. >> i...

Capitol hill and democrats believe that mr. mueller should be allowed to do his job. and i have no indication he is going to be interfered with at all. >> i know you have said you would support this bill, this mueller, essentially, the mueller protection bill, i think you voted for it, in committee. >> yes. >> in the judiciary. democrats have talked about connecting it to the spending bill. and using their votes in the house that will be needed as leverage. do you support that move? >> not reall...

Questions at all from mueller which he acknowledged doing this week. whatever the reason the president is turning up the temperature on the special counsel, just as the prospect of a government shutdown gets linked to over whether we want to protect mueller from the president. >> what is your answer to the special counsel? >> we do it next week. they are all done. >> president trump revealing after nearly a year of negotiations, he has answered written questions from robert mueller. >> i wrote t...

We dont know why he did the written answers. did he do it under threat of subpoena? did he do it because he knows a subpoena is coming, it is not coming? mueller hasnt spoken. that is a big reminder here. >> there has clearly been some back and forth of the questions. which you would expect of any special counsel. and any president. but i think the most under-discussed story is up to this point, despite trump pounding on mueller, constantly, the white house has cooperated with this probe, and i ...

Touch funding, not going to interfere at all? >> yes, i am. he said that he is going to support the regular order process. under the law, special counsels reports to the deputy attorney general and any recommendations are sent up to the attorney general, and in this case, the acting attorney general. he said he is going to let regular order prevail here. in other words, he is not going to reach out and try to stop the investigation. >> so he is letting -- >> does this mean rod rosenstein still o...