mueller will treat him fairly. but adding the russia investigations make the u.s. look very bad and the sooner it is worked out the better it is for the country. more now from cnn's ryan nobles in west wapalm beach. the president implied he should be more like president obama's attorney general eric holder. >> these comments are pretty revealing. it shows he's smarting from attorney general jeff session's decision to recuse himself in the russia investigation. the president repeated numerous times in this new york times interview he thought that was a mistake, that sessions had no reason to step aside from that investigation. but he took it a step further when he compared sessions to former attorney general eric holder and how eric holder treated president obama. he said, quote, it's too bad that jeff recused himself. i like jeff. i don't want to get into loyalty, but i will tell you that i will say this.