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Matter and who had been a great help to me over that week and told him what was happening. he said i will meet you at the hospital. >> they had to race administration officials to the bedside. >> director mueller instructed the fbi agents not to allow me to be removed from the room under any circumstances. >> in the end, ashcroft backed them. >> he enlisted bob mueller because he knew bob mueller had this incredible non-partisan reputation in washington, while comey might be able to be personall...

But youll never hear about it from mueller. >> i mean this is someone who has turned down more press conferences and interviews than most people in washington ever get the chance to give. he doesnt really like talking about himself. he doesnt really like speaking with the press. >> reporter: at the start, mueller was a bipartisan favorite. >> he would have been on anybodys list of, lets say, the top five people in the country to have, you know, taken on this kind of a responsibility. >> we all n...

Interfering in the 2016 presidential election, and he has obtained guilty pleas from five people for various charges, including michael flynn, president trumps first national security adviser, and rick gates, the former deputy chairman of the trump campaign. whats more, there is no sign that muellers investigation is coming to a close. here is cnns gloria borger with the first of a two-part profile of a man who once headed the fbi. >> reporter: special counsel robert mueller is a mystery man, pe...

De-escalation training is something that is part of police training in practical every city across the united states now. what these officers did of course is not an example of that. they did just the opposite. they actually caused a situation to elevate even higher. i think to keep it in perspective, though, you know, police officers have contact with citizens every single day. they arrest people every day. they take some very dangerous people off the street, including those that are armed, and...

Mueller has a long history in official washington, especially during one incident under john ashcroft. >> by 2004 mule are weller was the fbi. it was the first time mueller and comey would find themselves in a very controversial legal drama. >> i was very upset. i was angry. >> comey was worried the bush administration was determined to keep an eavesdropping program that they thought was illegal. a ashcroft was in the hospital leaving comey in charge. >> i was concerned that given how ill i knew...

The smallwo wooden warehouse in which were stored the various effects of your loved ones. a white sneaker. a syracuse sweatshirt. christmas presents and photographs. >> hes been effectively the same bob mueller in every place he has ever worked, whether that was the u.s. attorneys office in san francisco in the 1970s, whether that was the george h.w. bush administration in the 1980s, whether that was the d.c. homicide prosecutors office in the 1990s, or the fbi in the 2000s. he is hard-driving. ...

Mueller now is intense but hes seen worse. >> you forget this is a man that in his early 20s fought in vietnam. i dont think theres anything in washington thats going to give him any type of fear that he faced when he was a young man. >> reporter: mueller grew up in the wealthy philadelphia suburbs and attended ans elite boarding school. a classmate of john kerry. then to princeton. but the combat death of a classmate in vietnam inspired mueller to join the marines. >> he was wounded in combat, ...

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