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>> david, real quick. >> here's what we should be focusing on after this tumultuous weekend. what are members of congress doing to prepare for the possibility trump would move to fire mueller, to protect the authority of the special counsel if not mueller somebody else. there's legislation in draft that would reactivate the independent counsel statute so judges would appoint a new special counsel. so we'd have confidence that this investigation would continue. that's when we'll know the republicans are serious, when they say i'm going to support the legislation that's been drafted and this leg...

Feeling emboldened. the president is feeling increasingly comfortable where he is as the commander in chief. he's sort of flexing his muscles a bit. this is more about that than it is about anger. and i think the president realizes finally the severity of this, how serious it is. and i'm not sure he's exactly going -- knows how to get out of it. he does hate firing people. i think he understands the costs that could come with getting rid of mueller. >> so tell us exactly what happened, the tick-tock, of the questions and then the response to it. and is it possible he did not recognize the seve...

He needs to do his job. >> so steve, that being said, why does the president keep attacking mueller if he is truly innocent? >> right, well, he is innocent and i disagree with that premise though from congressman gowdy as much as i admire him. in america and in any advanced law abiding country, we can't say okay, here's the investigation let's find the crime. there is no crime. there's no collusion. so we cannot empower a panel of investigators and lawyers to try to find -- and perhaps in my opinion, manufacture a crime. that's the way things are done in third world countries, not the way we d...

This. but he's not just alone here. he's getting support from his legal team as well. it seems a concerted effort to discredit mueller over and over again. >> yes. and he doesn't want to directly attack mueller because that would be political suicide for him in a sense, but he wants to attack people around mueller. he called the fbi disgraceful fbi back in december. calling them disgraceful, that's completely out of control. and then going after mccabe andpeople around mueller without attacking mueller himself. the source of legitimacy is what we're talking about here. the source the legitimac...

Joining me now are two men who know a thing or two about the russia investigation, chief investigative correspondent for yahoo! news, michael isikoff, and mother jones washington bureau chief, david corn. they are co-authors of "russian roulette." to all my viewers, i say, settle in for this, because it's going to be a great conversation. you guys have some amazing nuggets and i want to start with you here, michael. your thoughts first up on the president's tweets directly attacking mueller, i believe for the first time by name? >> yeah, it does seem like he's ramping up the attacks, although ...