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We start with politics and the congressional investigations of russia. heres what democratic congressman mike quigley said earlier on msnbc. >> i feel on a continuing basis that there is increased evidence of obstruction taking place. why are the republicans rushing this through? why are they trying to discredit there mueller? where are they doing any of these things? because the investigation is getting to hot for them. theyre not subpoenaing everyone that they should. theyre not forcing answer...

So theres a lot we dont know. but at the same time i dont think mueller can continue this probe deep into 2018. i think he can go until the spring, but if it goes too close to the summer or the fall, then its going to look political. i agree with sarah, mueller has a great reputation, but at the same time he did bring on people who gave donations to hillary clinton and a couple of them got in trouble recently. so that actually helps allies of president discredit his team. >> longer equals politi...

>> no. like he said, he talks to the white house on a wide range of issues. i think the unfortunate thing is that mr. mueller has had such a distinguished career and he got into this thing and it has become so hopelessly partisan and compromised, the kind of staff that he picked and some of the horrible things coming out of the fbi, the department of justice that some of your people were talking about earlier. its very unfortunate. theres been no evidence of collusion and theres been no evidence...

That the white house is necessarily orchestrating some kind of coordinated effort to discredit robert mueller, but certainly youre hearing the same sorts of criticisms being echoed throughout the party. i think that argument is gaining traction because there are questions about some conduct of agents below robert mueller. theres no question that republicans are weaponizing those questions, but its important that observers of this not conflate questions about conduct of agents far below robert mu...