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Probe. i will play two comments he made in december of 2017. the first one he seems to be trying to limit the scope of the probe. the second one, he seems to be supporting the mueller probe. listen to this. >> i can see a scenario where jeff sessions is replaced with a recess appointment and that attorney general doesn't fire bob mueller but just reduces the budget so low that his investigation grinds to almost a halt. i don't see a current reason or good reason that bob mueller shouldn't stay in this special counsel role. >> you decide. democrats will press him. toobin, let me begin with you....

What they said is we've been paying attention, everyone knows roger stone might get indicted. we got lucky. yet he allowed, someone who can pick up the phone and get an answer to the question about whether there were any leaks out of his shop, because it would have been a huge violation for that to have happened. with the sealed indictment and yet -- >> what i would say in maybe a little bit of pushback on maya. psychologists talk about framing effects, the idea that sometimes you show someone an extreme option and it makes the middle one look good. real estate agents will show you a dumpy hou...

This is what i'm doing now. >> the first rule of holes, stop digging and that's exactly what he was doing. if i'm sitting in bob mueller's office, and i'm one of the attorneys who have kept myself for this many months and i was listening to whitaker, i would be pretty upset, and pretty angry. and feel pretty pressured at this point to wrap up an investigation that you're not ready to wrap up and by the way, what is whitaker have to do with anything, it's going to be the new attorney general, bill barr. >> which is good news, frankly, because whatever else you can say about bill barr, this is a...

Process, who has been in situations like this before, who demonstrates real understanding of both the political and legal environment, who knows if we're going to agree or disagree with the decisions he makes, but clearly he's someone who understands the stakes and the issues here. you certainly can't say that about whitaker. >> gloria, there is this bipartisan bill being proposed in the senate, which is cosponsored by richard blumenthal and charles grassley, that would essentially mandate that mueller's report be given to congress and made public, which would be remarkable. it's pretty signif...

Filing happening the next day and not have informed whitaker. i believe he did and that whitaker in turn informed the president. and my surmise is that whitaker correct correctly calculated that he would really be in jeopardy, particularly up on the hill, if he did something precipitous and stood in the way of this. >> i mean, you guys say this, but you've heard what james comey, the former fbi director, said about whitaker, that he wasn't the sharpest knife in our drawer. that's a quote from him. but he doubts whitaker would derail the russia investigation. given that mueller seems to be plow...