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Based in the truth but in general trump has been very, very successful at rallying the party to him and by and large republicans have fallen into line. his popularity with the republican party is second only to george w. bush after 9/11 looked over the last four decades. hes enormously popular in the republican party and further to johns point the numbers show that the attack on mueller is working. mueller -- the idea that the mueller investigation is a witch-hunt had been accepted by another 5%...

Mueller." take us inside the cover story. im just looking at the cover, looking at him, it brings to my mind the image of the emperor with no clothes. are the clothes off yet, massimo? >> oh, no. >> not an image anyone wants to contemplate. the -- john is absolutely right. whats going on here, there are two wars going on. one is an intense war out of sight largely between trumps lawyers and mueller over whether or not trump will testify under oath. trump is famously undisciplined. he could waver...

Russia investigation. >> they are a group of 13 highly partisan democrats that make up the mueller team, excluding him, are trying very, very hard to frame him, to get him in trouble when he hasnt done anything wrong. comey is the real villain of the whole thing. i think in muellers case its more hes not taking control of these people that work for him and theyre going around starting these new investigations. he has to have the discipline to put a stop to it or were going to have to do everythi...

Getting in trouble to the point where hes been there for less than a month and has already committed enough faux pas, theres suggestion of a degree of meddling in internal german domestic politics that theres a discussion about germany sending him back to the united states and saying this person is doing something no diplomat is supposed to do, intervene in our domestic politics so that is another reason why the state department spokeswoman is put in a position of having to say things that are -...

Mueller. >> wow. >> this is what chris matthews called on this show the other day the fog machine. just spray the fog out there. there are 13 angry democrats, just corrupt and indict in your own public way what is bob mueller is taking on right now and its not going to work. not to be too dismissive of rudy giuliani, john heilemann, but bob mueller is not watching interviews conducted from tel aviv and then saying to himself, you know, rudy giuliani thinks i should speed this up and end it by se...

Fred, because technically the president is the head, the boss of the justice department. so he can order certain investigations. now, customarily presidents dont do this, they kind of stay back and let justice do what its supposed to do. and if he orders such an investigation, its opening pandoras box, in my view, because first of all, the investigation wouldnt necessarily involve an investigation of what mueller was doing and whether muellers investigation was due in part to an illegal infiltra...

Potential implications? sdp >> i dont see the implication that its going to help the president in the long run. i see it as possible additional counterobstruction of justice. remember, the big problem is proving obstruction of justice, if he was running this organization to negate things later found out by mueller, it sounds like he was trying to kill the investigation by doing this. i think its a dangerous move by the president. >> interesting. you heard congressman fred lieu of california said...

President cannot, should not be indicted because the because has things of national security other pressing issues that he has to deal with and he is in a unique position. that was reaffirmed by the clinton administration. their justice department. but erin, that has never been challenged. it has never been challenged in court and it has never been attempted. therefore thats why it hasnt been challenged. so it was an open question. whether mueller, depending on what he found, whether he finds an...

Questions. well see what we get from the president and his lawyers. >> white house has some explaining to do. there was no white house press briefing today so they couldnt explain much. >> i think its worth going back to the very top of the show where the news was broke here from dana bash about the fact were not going to see an indictment from mueller. here is why thats important. we talk about the strategy from the trump campaign. lets look beyond the legalities of that. could you imagine a si...

Lines after 9/11 when he was leading the fbi was even under all of that stress, he would say im still getting more sleep than i ever did in vietnam. >> you also point out in your interview just how different the paths are that mueller and president trump have taken throughout their lives, which is quite obvious. >> yeah, and this is sort of one of the almost shakespearean aspects of this tale. you mentioned thursday is a one-year anniversary of muellers appointment. their lives started in sort o...