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After the firing of archbald cox, the judge issued an opinion in which he pointed out, it's clear in american law that you cannot violate the regulation, one ari brought up, because you are president. so megan would presumably know this, and in addition to protecting himself, which i think is the more reasonable interpretation of this, he would also understand this wouldn't hold up and the three-week reads for attacking mueller, i would not be surprised if that ended up in a courtroom that the judge would dismiss it as a frivolous. the worst thing the judge can say to a lawyer is you made an a...

Are president. so megan would presumably know this, and in addition to protecting himself, which i think is the more reasonable interpretation of this, he would also understand this wouldn't hold up and the three-week reads for attacking mueller, i would not be surprised if that ended up in a courtroom that the judge would dismiss it as a frivolous. the worst thing the judge can say to a lawyer is you made an argument that's frivolous. >> one of the stunning things about the story, joy, is we're talking about june. this is months after the firing of james comey, when all of these arguments hav...

Trump's g.o.p. >> i don't know that any democrat could say it better. >> republicans are also dealing with a lack of enthusiasm in their party. we're seeing high numbers of enthusiasm with democrats and lower numbers with republicans. you need to put things out there to the base, the red meat, the going after -- attacking the fbi, attacking mueller, this memo. you need to do that to try to stoke them to get them going. and otherwise this is a big selection. >> they're not exciting, they're mortified, i thought the nunez memo and the months of getting to know mueller after 9/11, and the fbi was...

That he did it because of the russia investigation. donald trump in essence was in a way admitting to obstruction of justice on national television. now the question is whether that will be politically muddied by the effort to discredit comey. that's what the white house's strategy to get out of trump's own ignorance is all about. >> right. and the other point, maya and nick, that comes up so often is oh, donald trump won't criticize putin. he'll criticize everyone but putin. i think this year amends that. he'll criticize everyone but putin and bob mueller. which is extraordinary when you thin...

We know, in the republican party. some republicans say stop attacking mueller. this guy has an impeccable record. other republicans say this is a witch hunt. this is a hoax, et cetera, et cetera. but the analysis that struck me is the argument that this could recast democrats as the true friends of law enforcement, not republicans, for a long time to come. how risky is this for the republican party right now to continue these sustained attacks on mueller? >> i think it's risky for congressional republicans and potential candidates for the presidency down the line. the republicans have really t...