president of the united states can use a flunky in the attorney general's office to bury an investigation against himself? >> absolutely not. joy, i think we need to think of it in these terms. number one, regardless of what comes out of the mueller report, and we all need to be patient and wait for those results, that doesn't mean we need to be placated by what comes out of that report, the american people and our american congress does not need the mueller report, joy, as a permission slip to continue investigating donald trump for the committing of crimes that as everyone has said this morning, has happened before our very eyes. having said that, i believe in robert mueller. i think that everything we've heard about this man in terms of duty to country, duty to the rule of law, suggests to me we have take very seriously what comes out of that investigation and recognizing it's very limited in scope. at the end of the day, do we wait for the mueller report? absolutely. should the mueller report be the