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theyre willing to carry a protest sign for a day. with us now to talk about this, mark, senior national political reporter for nbc news digital. nbc news washington correspondent and moderator of "washington week" on pbs who is a professor at the cardell school of law. well have more on the polling in a moment. mark, what else did the judge say in his order a short time ago? >> for me, what really stood out is this was mentioned in court on friday when i was there, but the judge specif...

Comes as there are reports that trump and his lawyers are considering asking for a special master to look what the fbi sees during the search of mar-a-lago. what does that mean? >> somebody appointed by the court with input from both the parties who it should be and usually there is a list of candidates assembled by the parties and assembled to the court, somebody learning in the law and familiar with discovery and also with the particular issues presented here, which would be claims of executiv...

Question the decisionmaking of robert mueller, to ask him to put in writing his reasons for actions he takes, to overrule actions that he takes. he controls his budget. he could even fire mueller with good cause. so obviously theres a concern when somebody comes in, not only expressing views as you pointed out, very critical of mueller, but also, as you alluded to a moment ago, ana, here is a man who interviewed for a job being the defense attorney for the trump administration against the muelle...

Investigation, he was responsible. when i say he, i mean the director, was responsible to report that to the department of justice so that they could take appropriate action. the reality is that director comey didnt report that, and i think hes made it pretty clear, as have some of the other principals, that they didnt feel like the president was actually trying to interfere directly in the investigation. i think that the president probably didnt get a sense early enough of the fine line between...

This no one making a claim of responsibility, tom? >> my impression of that is that it may not have been coordinated in any way from overseas. you dont have al qaeda central or al qaeda in the arabian peninsula or pakistani taliban involved in this directly but they may have inspired somebody here to self-radicalize and do it. it could be somebody learning from "inspire" magazine as weve talked about before or on the internet thats learned how to do this and does it because they are in support o...