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Pardon someone you do want public opinion behind you. the second is if any of this investigation should lead to impeachment charges, impeachment charges are ultimately led by elected representatives. >> julie: are you surprised president trump also said he thinks special counsel robert mueller is going to treat him fairly? that does sort of backfire for those in the media who want to hype on the fact that president trump has in his plan to fire him. does it appear that he's backing off criticism? do you think that's a good or bad thing? >> it certainly seems like he's backing off. with preside...

Fairly. timing wires, i can't tell you, i just don't know. but i think we'll be treated fairly. so the headline there is it makes the country look bad. also, michael, it seems reading the full transcript of your interview, he was relubtant to criticize fully bob mueller in ways others have. >> reporter: he sort of struck a different tone than he had before and certainly members of his party have more recently. i think that you know they've really had a concerted effort to go after mueller, to undercut mueller's credibility. the president said i think i'm being treated fairly by mueller, there ...

The fifth or anything. >> you can do whatever you want if congress is willing to let you get away with it. is and if the committee chair wants to let people get away with incomplete testimony, that's what he does. and that's what we're getting out of this congress is no effective oversight of the administration because they're afraid the president will come and support some primary challenger. so they're backing off, and they aren't exercising kbhae aggressive oversight. but that's congress' fault this is going on. and i'm not happy with the situation, where but i want to emphasize it could be...

Doing stuff that will relate and matter to average americans. then it's a no-win. so i get why nancy pelosi is backing off this one. i get why tom perez is backing off. they don't gain anything. we talk about bernie sanders, elizabeth warren, the splintered group, may want to push it but it will make it more challenging. >> i attended an event, the glamour women of the year awards. one of the recipients is maxine waters. she took her time on stage saying she wanted to impeach the president for part of her acceptance speech for her award. she has a lot of millennials that follow her and the dem...

Keith morrison (voiceover): out on the island, off polly point road, the trio of former cops instinctively reverted to long practiced standard procedure. we said, ok, let's just secure the crime scene, back out, wait for law enforcement to get here. keith morrison (voiceover): so far, so good. but what happened next was quite a surprise. the first officer was a charleston county deputy. and we said, we'll show you where the remains are. we took him out there and said, it's your crime scene now and we're backing off. and that's what we did. but that wasn't the end of it, was it? - no. - no. we ...