issues of his past opponent. >> it seems like that anxiety has almost been channelled in a different direction. i think leading up to the holidays, to christmas and new year's, we saw president trump be pretty antagonistic toward the mueller investigation, and now he seems to be reining that in. that could be coming from the advice hifz lawyeof his lawyers he's sort of focusing on the justice department in general. he said in his "time" interview he has control of the justice department. there should be a disconnect, a wall between these two, especially when it comes to law enforcement. >> literally he is correct. he has control over everything. but there has been the norm, the practice has been that there is a separation, that presidents don't comment on pending investigations. >> that's exactly right. and julia understands that as well as anyone, andrea. you don't comment on pending investigations because you don't want to influence pending