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>> jeanine: welcome back to "hannity." ♪ >> jeanine: welcome back to "hannity." joining us now with reaction to the latest controversy swirling around robert mueller's team is the author of the book "trumped up: how criminalization of endangers democracy," alan dershowitz. it's good to have you here tonight. >> thank you. >> jeanine: you wrote a fascinating article saying that trump doesn't need to fire mueller and you say that there are certain tactics that can be used that are almost better than actually firing him, talk to us. >> i learned about this from the great coach of the boston cel...

So if he ever brings charges that are close to the white house, then you go attack mueller and say we told you all along, this is a witch-hunt, the charges are a witch-hunt and the charges mueller brought have no validity because mueller himself has no validity. they're fronting for the president because the president can't take out mueller. >> everybody stand by. there is more breaking news we're following. we're also learning about a secretive military program. why did american taxpayers fund research into ufos to the tune of $22 million?

These inappropriately a lly im r improperly, even unlawfully. there was nothing wrong here that they obtained them through the normal course of thin investigation but a flashpoint between the trump organization if it were, and the mueller team. there's been a campaign, a loud campaign, a growing campaign on the right among trump allies to try to discredit this investigation and attack mueller directly. >> interesting. because trump's legal team has not been antagonistic towards the special counsel whatsoever. quickly -- >> that's right. >> phil what i don't understand, if they say it's unlawfu...

Layer above ty cobb and john dowd, two leaders of trump's outside legal team, who bannon thinks are remarkably incompetent. >> we should say that cobb appears to me to be someone right now that is standing between the impulses of the president to attack mueller and, you know, his actual behavior. he always is saying we're cooperating, we're confident that we'll be found innocent. is that the case? is he kind of the fulcrum for the white house's response? >> sort of. but it's also a matter of the fact that the president and the white house do not actually have a choice at this point to cooperat...

>> your reporting is that bannon is trying to urge him to bring in new lawyers and go harder at mueller. >> correct. >> what strikes me as so reckless about that, they're also under investigation for obstruction of justice. the fact that they're telling reporters or whoever is telling reporters we're going to go after mueller, that could itself be part of a case against the president of the united states for obstruction. >> right. still, steve bannon has no problem urging president donald trump to really go to the mattresses on this when it comes to mueller and his investigative team. as we re...