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Counsel. >> peter, all of those points so interesting. joining us by phone is former acting solicitor general of the yi united states who helped write the original legislation that enabled this investigation. neil, your take away. >> i think two things. it was classic mueller. just by the book. exactly sticking to what the report said but number two, what he chose to pull out of the report and emphasize. the idea if he could clear the president, he would. that the office of special counsel has folks of the highest integrity and the like he couldn't charge the president under doj guidelines. al...

>> right. >> they also don't have to allow him to have a lawyer or tell him that -- they did, in fact say you can bring white house counsel, but the fbi agents didn't do anything wrong here by fbi policy or law. i think that's important because there are a lot of sort of conspiracy theories going on out there. >> yeah. >> i think that the fact that mueller responded to set the factual record straight is classic mueller, but the fact that he didn't take away the recommendation that he had made about no jail time is also classic mueller, because he is being a professional. he is not getting upse...

Mueller responded to set the factual record straight is classic mueller, but the fact that he didn't take away the recommendation that he had made about no jail time is also classic mueller, because he is being a professional. he is not getting upset about this. he is just saying, look, you did what you did, and the god and the bad, and we're still going to leave it at that. so i think once again, it shows the professionalism of the mueller team. >> and, you know, elliott, it strikes me just in looking at the way that the mueller team has operated, they're not handing out huge draconian senten...

>> they also don't have to allow him to have a lawyer or tell him that -- they did, in fact say you can bring white house counsel, but the fbi agents didn't do anything wrong here by fbi policy or law. i think that's important because there are a lot of sort of conspiracy theories going on out there. >> yeah. >> i think that the fact that mueller responded to set the factual record straight is classic mueller, but the fact that he didn't take away the recommendation that he had made about no jail time is also classic mueller, because he is being a professional. he is not getting upset about th...

>> mueller is not going to produce a neutral report. he is not going to be fair. he is going to produce what he believes is going to be a devastating attack. he is going to put together everything. he is going to use information from manafort and others without necessarily disclosing that there they are liars. the president's team has to be ready. >> sean: this is exactly what i have been saying on this program from the get-go. our own gregg jarrett has explained, what we are witnessing is the classic mueller, andrew weissmann pitbull tactics, using threats, coercion to get people to what we c...