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Case? >> i think he can. this is where this story line merges with the story line around this memo and why is the nunes memo so important to republicans, so important to the president, so important to the white house? because it is a way of undermining muellers credibility, trying to portray mueller and everyone associated with the investigation as bias and out to get trump and having something to hide. youll start to see the president invoking the memo in this context. if hes asked about why he...

Memo. the president clearly believes hes got the political mojo at this point. so right? host of mornings on the mall and juan williams. good to see you both tonight. >> nice to see you, shannon. >> shannon: weve heard from the democrats saying this is all about undermining mueller. i thought it was interesting that trey gowdy saw all the underlying intelligence said this, as i have repeatedly said i also remain 100% confident in special counsel robert mueller. the contents of this memo do not i...

Closing with the release of the memo. the president clearly believes hes got the political mojo at this point. so right? host of mornings on the mall and juan williams. good to see you both tonight. >> nice to see you, shannon. >> shannon: weve heard from the democrats saying this is all about undermining mueller. i thought it was interesting that trey gowdy saw all the underlying intelligence said this, as i have repeatedly said i also remain 100% confident in special counsel robert mueller. th...

Messages. the guy who wrote them was removed by mueller as soon as he learned about this in the summer. and a lot of this is part of undermining muellers investigation, making it look like its just a partisan witch hunt so that whenever he comes up with can be easily dismissed. >> bret: you dont have concerns about the substance? >> yes, i do but the reason that a lot of republicans are harping on this is because they want to make sure that when mueller finally does finish his report that they c...

To have an administration -- this is -- the justice department is trumps justice department, and therefore, its his fbi, and hes underwriting their credibility. and had aes conducting it like political campaign. hes now saying he has no intention of firing mueller, but hes saying that because he knows that theres no public opinion that would support that. so what hes trying do is undermine the fbi, and therefore, mueller, so he can get at this idea of undermining mueller, either by firing him or...

He looks like hes being protected by trump. if i were trump id say what am i here for, to protect mike pence? pence never says anything. >> he certainly hadding to the one to go out and sell to the american people that michael flynn never discussed sanctions with kislyak. depending on what went on behind the scenes then he may have been taking some of the dirt. but its clear that they are trying to distance pence from all of this. they can have the presidents legal team. they can have the presid...

Celebrated interview and then your paper has another block buster today about this question of undermining mueller. it seems to me that the president in both your interview and through the reporting of your paper exposed today, is really trying to say that his financial past is off limits, and that if mueller goes into what he has declared to be a bad zone here, that there will be consequences. so a, am i right that is now just clear, and b., where does that take us? >> no question, i think hes ...

Jeffrey. with all due respect, you dont know. thats why we need an independent investigation, that the president is not pressuring anybody on. and we need that to play out. and we also need the president and his surrogates with all due not respect but direction at you to stop criticizing and undermining mueller. hes moving forward in this, and as soon as you guys start to sweat you attack the messenger. >> all right. i want to dig deeper into more legal angles when we come back. talk to professo...

Russians try to -- >> did donald trump say "go do that"? >> i dont know. >> of course, he didnt. >> with all respect, you dont know, and thats why we need an independent investigation that the president is not pressuring anybody on. we need that to play out, and we also need the president surrogates to stop criticizing and undermining mueller. hes moving forward in this, and as soon as you guys start to sweat, you attack the messenger. >> i want to dig deeper into more legal angles when we come ...

About hmuellers relationship with comey. there really isnt much of a relationship there. theyve said, oh, mueller cant do this because him and comey are best friends and comey did this to get him appointed. well, indeed they have worked together in the past. mueller and comey did. they arent really that close. they arent really buddy buddy. there are folks that comey has been very close with over the years that he worked with as a prosecutor or that he took with him to the fbi, but there really ...