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I think he just chokes a lot. [laughter] oh, my god! ed: someone who always brings it, no matter what, is mike huckabee, former governor of arkansas. you never choke under pressure, governor. >> boy, i hope i don't today. pete, i'm so disappointed in you. this is not like you, pete, you can do better. pete: i know, i know. ed: we wanted to talk about the news, and we've got some tweets from the president where this weekend with as you can tell he's still frustrated with the mueller investigation, and one of the his real frustrations, the media likes to attack him and say, oh, he's out there at...

Introduced a resolution of impeachment against rod rosenstein. that failed. they were doing that to take the pressure to not be criticizing bob mueller directly to try to discredit the special council investigation. that effort failed, and now we see the president going directly after the special council. >> i think that is important, there are two audiences. his biggest supporters that will make it a bullet point for a sean hannity monologue about why you can't trust mueller and rosenstein, but those in leadership understand they have impeccable reputations and they have not signed on to the ...

To that. mueller, because he can't respond, that's why you see the numbers go down. the president is ratcheting it up, going from a witch hunt to a bob mueller-rigged witch hunt. he is being more direct in his attacks. >> you couldn't see my friend john, but when he said, a bob mueller-rigged witch hunt, went like this. it was a few months ago the president started naming bob mueller and now directly attacking mueller and doing it more and more. >> the president focuses on branding and creating earworm insults. by bringing to the the robert mueller witch hunt, he is trying to create a new phas...

His whole presidency, whether it's in terms of policy or politics has been about mobilizing and satisfying his base and that's what -- and that's what he's done with regard to mueller and attacking mueller publicly and attacking the fbi are means to that end. >> in this case, i don't see him satisfying his base as much as leading his base to a helpful conclusion. you can limit the political fallout from what a negative finding from mueller would mean in political terms and potentially if mueller does arrive at the conclusion that there was wrongdoing, prevent yourself from being impeached. if ...

Back to what joe is saying, the inappropriateness of the vice president saying it's time to tend investigation. if you were vice president of the united states and the justice department is investigating someone or a set of people and some people have been indicted or pled guilty you say "i'm not commenting on an ongoing investigation." period. that's what you say. it's utterly inappropriate for pence to say this and it's part of a strategy to be -- to keep building the pressure and legitimizing the notion this that this has gone on too long to get the republicans on the bill and conservative ...