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>> do you think mitch mcconnell should bring that bill to the floor? >> he certainly should. it's a bipartisan bill and just passed out of committee. it's exactly the type of legislation we should be voting on. >> i'm going to ask you a question, it may be something in your bailiwick about the southern district of new york which is obviously new york state. it's often referred to as the most important district in the entire nation, the sovereign district of new york. u.s. attorney is a guy by the name of jeffrey berman who was appointed by jeff sessions, never formally nominated now appointed ...

Your bailiwick about the southern district of new york which is obviously new york state. it's often referred to as the most important district in the entire nation, the sovereign district of new york. u.s. attorney is a guy by the name of jeffrey berman who was appointed by jeff sessions, never formally nominated now appointed by the court itself. it seems like the person running the most important law office in the country that oversees the case hasn't gone through advice and consent. what do you think of that? >> have i huge concerns. i wasn't going to return the blue slip for him because h...

Not announce that you were investigating trump for the russia coordination collusion with the campaign and, of course, the big answer and i think this is the big news of the comey book is he thought hillary was going to win. so, why is politics all of a sudden in your bailiwick, mr. comey? why are you suddenly judge and jury for the american people and essentially put trump in the white house? >> kimberly: once the ig report is released, we will see if in fact that comey and mccabe are going to be prosecuted and it's not clear cut that it was unclassified, totally false and he used it for his ...

They were also looking for information about karen mcdougal, the 1998 "playboy" playmate of the year, with whom president trump also allegedly had an affair. you had concerns about this. this was outside the scope of the mueller investigation. >> mueller shouldn't be involved at all. nor should he have been in manafort and rick gates. thee have absolutely nothing to do with potential for involvement of russians in the election. to the extent rosenstein didn't completely remove those from his bailiwick, it was a tremendous mistake. gloria talked about some lines of argument you're hearing comin...

This investigation, if new matters come to light, mr. mueller can go to rod rosenstein and say, hey, do you want me to cover this, do you want to do it or do you want me to send it to someone else? and mr. rosenstein would have made the decision to send it to the southern district of new york. alternatively, the southern district could have already had an investigation going on mr. cohen or affiliates of mr. cohen and the decision was made under traditional guidelines that, listen, the southern district has more interest in this, they have more expertise because this is kind of their turf, the...