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Reporters and guests, ken delanieian, washington post ashley park erk ear associate press white house reporter jonathan la mere, also barbara mcwade, u.s. attorney. i spoke to a justice department official. i was with him, i showed him my phone and said, have you ever seen this before? he said, no, never. have you ever seen anything like this before, such a public and a public relations battle between the fbi and a sitting president and a republican chairman of the committee who is known to have gotten himself into some shenanigans with fisa material? >> no, it's absolutely unprecedented. and ...

Robbery cases and i worry that their reputation is being poisoned and they're not going to get the cooperation they need to resolve those cases. >> so, would you put the stakes, barbara, at life and death stakes for the fbi in terms of the importance of protecting the integrity and respect for the nation's top cops? >> it could be. i guess we don't know exactly what's in that memo. but they said it would be extraordinarily reckless to release it. the things that the fbi cares about most in these situations is protecting either sources or methods. sources means, you know, a person who borough v...

Or through tweets or other public statements is actually going to have an impact, i think he has badly misjudged his man. this is someone who was fbi director for more than a decade. this is someone who has been around the block more than a few times. if the goal is to actually knock bob mueller off his game, it's a pretty silly way to try tow do it. >> do you think, barbara, when you think about obstruction and you think about that framework, i imagine it's something you've dealt with as a federal prosecutor. do you feel like it makes sense, it scans to you as plausible, the facts in evidence...

There was almost a third, but president nixon resigned. i think the real question at the end of the day is not how much this actually how much this criminally implicates president trump. the real question is as the special counsel investigation unfolds, at what point do the politics become so toxic for the president that republicans in congress begin turning against him and start talking about impeachment. >> barbara, did you get an opportunity to see some of the comments preet bharara made about his interactions with the president? >> i did. >> you know, you were in that cohort of people that...