A new poll shows the majority of americans believe that special Counsel Robert Mueller has a conflict of interest because of his past ties with former fbi director james comey. We are asking you, do you have confidence in the Robert Mueller russian probe . Republicans call 2027488001. Democrats, 2027488000. Independents, 2027488002. Reach us on twitter cspanwj, and on facebook at. Com cspan. Facebook. Com cspan. Lets look at what the president said on the white house lawn yesterday. It is a shamep what happened with the fbi but we will rebuild the fbi and it will be bigger and better than ever. It is sad, when you look at the documents and how they have done that is really, really disgraceful. You have a lot of angry people seen yet. It is a sad thing to watch. I am going today on behalf of the fbi, their new building, when everybody, not me, the level of anger at what they have been witnessing with respect to the fbi is very sad. Host more on that from the Washington Post today. It said the president appeared to be referred to revelations that a senior fbi official exchanged antidonald trump and proHillary Clinton this Text Messages while working on Hillary Clinton pro of a private you mail server while she was secretary of state and during investigationller into russian interference into the president ial election, including the possibility of coordination with the donald trump campaign. This comes as the relationship between the white house and the Justice Department and the fbi, the fbis reputation is in tatters over its handling over political sensitive information. Do you have confidence in Robert Muellers probe . Mississippi, democratic line. Caller i do have competent in mueller. People running the fbi are conservatives. For anybody to say that he has a problem, they are wrong. And the fbiervative is being run by mostly conservatives and the people sending me texts have a right to their opinion and a right to their vote. Agree with their texts host howard is on the line, calling from anderson, california on the independent line. What do you think . Caller i think we have real problems. We have the media that has been could you imagine if donald trump had done some of the things that happened in the last administration . For if we had done some of the things that have happened or been found to have happened and what we are calling an investigation, but we are off track and in terms of it being an investigation as it looks more like a takeover of, not just the government, but the Democratic Political party. We have so many charges from 2016 that we should be looking at. What happened for Bernie Sanders . Cnnsappened with coverage and giving hillary clues to what was going to go on . And the comments we have, donna brazil, i think people are great. We need to come together as a nation. Host the things you were talking about, those were certainly political problems for caller it is beyond political problems, we are interfering with an election, correct . Isnt it electoral interference . The things we are talking about . That is a fair question. Robertoint was mueller is a prosecutor and is looking to see whether crimes were committed. Do you see a difference between his probe and asking questions congress should ask about what happened during the election . Caller the question Robert Mueller is supposed to be looking at is what occurred during the 2016 election, right . What do we think about using gps . Fusion gps . What do we think about Hillary Clinton and the fbi donating to that organization . What do we think about i do not believe in conspiracy theories, but what about the deep state at what has gone on with people . Andatch the news from 2016 day after day there were releases of what the president was saying to people, conversations he was having with leaders from other nations. Cnnt you think i love feared but i i love cnn. I am almost that up with you guys. You have people who call in and say we did not treat the last president like we are treating this president. John and everybody on the station say, yes we do, we treat them exactly the same. When we questioned president obama about honesty and ct,egrity as far as the aca a when we looked at him telling lets talk about russia for a second. Host just a couple of seconds left because we have a lot callers. Caller one more item. When you look at russia and you see that we have made these accusations about donald trump, but when we look at russia and saw how barack obama and Hillary Clinton handed them a reset button on day one when barack obama said that you tell Vladimir Putin, this is my last election, i can be a lot more cooperative as soon as the election is over. Host lets look at what President Trump said while speaking at quantico a little while after calling the fbi disgraceful. President trump you represent the best of america. We you leave us with a debt can never hope to repay. Today, we honor you. We thank you. And we know that, by your example, some of the children here today and watching at home, will be inspired to fill your shoes, to continue your service, to follow in your footsteps. And to take the oath to carry wear the shield, and to join the ranks of heroes. Thank you to our police, thank youto our sheriffs, thank to the fbi. And thank you to our Law Enforcement families. God bless you all. Thank you very much. Host republican line from texas. The you have confidence in Robert Muellers investigation . Caller yes, i do. Host why is that . Anything do not see that shows he has not done competent work. Agentsts between the fbi , as soon as Robert Mueller found out they were having him come he got them off of his case and it made me feel more confident that he is doing his job. Like the closer he gets to doing to getting the facts out, the more people are turning against him. When he was originally appointed as a republican by a republican, everybody thought it was great. It looks like he is giving facts that may be going against what donald trump is doing, everybody is starting to turn against them. I would say turning at starting to turn against them. Turn against him. Let him get to the end of the investigation but running him down before time runs out, it is undercutting our political process, or our judicial process. Host lets look at what the reported,ted hill a majority of voters say special Counsel Robert Mueller has a conflict of interest because of his past ties to former fbi director james comey according to the latest Harvard Harris survey feared survey. 54 responded that the relationship between james comey amounts to aeller conflict of interest including 70 of republicans, 53 of independents, 40 of democrats. Byron on the line from louisiana , democratic line. Are you confident in Robert Muellers investigation . Caller every confident, more so than i am with the president and his tweets. He is getting too close to the truth, i think and they are trying to stop them in any way they can. I agree with the republican from texas. Believablemuch more than the president that gets up at 5 00 in the morning with all of the tweets. He is worried he is trying to get rid of him. T is there a concern Robert Mueller was tasked with looking into russian meddling and it seems like he is looking into other things, the president s financial records and other things. Do you think the probe is getting too broad . Caller that is the problem. We do not know any of Donald Trumps financial records except for one year somebody got in the 1990s. That is the main problem. Russia has been backing donald trump 420, 30 years. For 2, 30 years0. Host newsweek has a piece on the poll we just talked about, headlines americans think Robert Mueller and james comey our friends, they are not. It says that a majority of americans believe that the Russian InvestigationRobert Mueller and james comey our friends despite the fact that the men have never visited each others homes or spend much time together outside of work. Both are registered republicans and james comey succeeded Robert Mueller as the head of the fbi in 2013. It said that they served in the administration together at george h. W. Bush george w. Bush but are not known to have a close relationship. Jeffrey is coming from illinois on the independent line. Good morning. Caller thank you very much. I believe that mueller is doing a great job. In terms of connecting the dots. In terms of american conversation about this issue, we do not connect dots. That is what he is doing. The closer he gets in terms of connecting all of the dots, he will be disparaged and in many forms or fashion. The American People need to not allow that to happen because we need to get to the truth. Concerned,hould be why are we having this conversation about russians involvement to our president . There used to be a thing called a mole. We were concerned about moles. I believe, that is the reason for this investigation, they believe that donald trump, our olesident, is a russian m funded by the russian government and that is why we need to make sure this investigation is done with the highest degree of integrity. Mueller is doing that. I would ask you, there has to be other research out there besides putting out one Research Article that states 54 , you need to put a balanced perspective because there has to be other research them something saying the majority of americans believe that. That is one research. I would ask cspan to find other research to balance the perspective. Int about your confidence mueller, is there concern about you have these fbi officials tasked with the investigation who were making these comments program Hillary Clinton and antidonald trump. ,f you were under investigation would you want people exchanging messages saying that they do not like you . Caller here is the deal on that. You take the individuals, i do not know how many investigators mueller have. I would imagine there would be two people there is probably 200, you are, talking to people out of a large number of people and mueller cannot control every single human being part of this investigation. Flynnr has identified lied under oath, and identified that President Trumps Campaign Manager has been indicted. Criticaltten to two pieces of truth that the American People should allow. ,e are talking about two people that is the numerator, the denominator is a big number and that is a small percentage. He fired those people immediately. Heoes to show you that has the highest level of integrity and he is doing the right thing. I hope the American People allow this to be completed. Host republican line, nevada. It morning, corey good morning, corey. Caller i have a different take on this. When mueller was first appointed , both sides were praising him. After the prosecuting attorneys he started appointing were publicly known to support the Clinton Campaign, everybody reversed themselves. I look at that as an indication noteller had at least saying the prime suspect, but mueller would have wanted to point people who publicly supported hillary, if he suspected that maybe there were some 30 fbi Hillary Clinton supporters that were in the fbi, . Ho better to root them out if it turns out to be that way, the left would accept known Hillary Clinton supporters busting these dirty cops, so to speak. It does not say hillary had to know anything about it. It could have been overzealous supporters feared if you are a , i think hillary peopleould encourage that say, donald trump supporters, and maybe discourage Hillary Clinton supporters. For this reason. I am sure mueller did not know what would happen. I think the fact that he has about half of that team as being publicly known supporters is a good insurance policy in case the investigation can go somewhere, not expected. I wonder if other people would have i have never heard this. I am curious to know if other people think it would explain that, and explain why the Justice Department seems to be acting differently about providing documents. They are stiff arming the congress. Rump directed documents to be provided . General sessions said something, i do not remember exactly, this may be Something Different than it appears. It makes me think, mueller could have the last laugh of all his buddies screaming, what was he thinking . You could throw your briefcase out and hit 100 lawyers and 20 of them would be good and none would have contributed to the campaign. My guess is, one of his criteria was specifically not just hillary supporters but publicly known hillary supporters would be someone that would be a great benefit on your team if that investigation happens to go in a certain direction. Host ed calling from washington, d. C. On the democratic line. Are you confident in the Russian Investigation by Robert Mueller . Caller yes, i am very confident and i work under the state department and i know the intelligence business. The reason i am confident, Robert Mueller 17 intelligence agencies supported this investigation. The reason i am confident, angela merkel, when donald trump went to the g20 meeting he got up from the table and walked around all of the g20 people and embarrassed the United States. He went around the table and sat down next to Vladimir Putin. There are three newspapers of the world that endorsed Hillary Clinton. She was the only president the most qualified person to ever run for president in the history of this country. Newseather journal, dallas , atlanta journal, dallas trump hasld embarrassed this country. He pulled us out of the Global Warming aspects of the nation and pulled he is embarrassing , taken people off their health care. Cspan, you are doing a great job. I speak german. Angela merkel has a phd in quantum physics. [indiscernible] she was hoping hillary would be president. The only female leader of the world, hillary would have been the next leader and going against the establishment that threaten our freedom and our world peace. Host other headlines this one from cnn, saying that President Trumps lawyers are set for a key meeting with special counsel next week as the president s private lawyers are slated to meet with Robert Mueller and members of his team as soon as next week. What the president s team ansiders the ability to get opportunity to gain a clearer understanding of the next steps in the probe, according to sources from a with the matter and sources believe this meeting has greater significance because it comes after the completion with interviews with white house personnel requested by the special counsel and after all requested documents have been turned over. Request more still documents and more interviews but no request have been made to interview the president or Vice President sources tell cnn. Betty is on the line from green bay, wisconsin on the independent line. There you are. Sorry. What do you think . Caller i support him 100 . He is republican but an independent. He is so qualified. The republicans and democrats both said that he was outstanding. This was before he started the investigation. I work for a republican congressman during the watergate. I went through that. I saw it all. What donald trump is doing is far greater than what nixon did. I cannot believe he will get the , becausef the people downs the fbi and other agencies and he is supposed to lift them up. The first red flag i saw was during the campaign when asked why he was so popular company smiled and said because i tell people what they want to hear. That is not an answer. You are supposed to talk about what you want to get done. Me other thing that bothers is the fact that the russians were in the oval office with no americans. That is the degrading of the office. The only people he does not talk about or against, is the russians and the kkk. Mueller is doing a great job. Listening to William Browder yesterday, russia is really dangerous and people have to realize it. That is my opinion. Host ok. Thank you. Thomas is calling from north las vegas, nevada on the republican line. Do you have confidence in special counsel muellers investigation . Feared to, not really correct the one person, there are 17 lawyers and eight or nine of them supported clinton and the Democratic Party. I agree rush is dangerous and we should help the ukraine. Russia is dangerous and we should help the ukraine. The russian only provable interference is hacking into the server. They released emails that showed collusion between the oppressed and the Democratic Party. Collusion against sanders with Hillary Clinton. Those things change the elections and they expose the truth. Why are americans so offended about the truth being known . That changed more votes more than any other act. Host russian intelligence officials found that russians attempted to access voter logs, put up fak