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Impartially? >> i don't know about the reports and have no basis to -- >> i'm asking -- >> the validity. i have known mr. mueller over the years and he served 12 years as fbi director. i knew him before that. i have confidence in mr. mueller. >> you have confidence he will do the job? >> i will not discuss hypotheticals or what might be a factual situation in the future that i'm not aware of today. i know nothing about the investigation. i fully recuse myself. >> i have a series of questions, sir. do you believe the president has confidence? >> i have not talked to him about it. >> if we commi...

Those arguments are not -- historically we have seen they shouldn't be revealed. >> i hope you agree since you recused yourself that if the president or others would pardon someone during the midst of this investigation while our investigation or mr. muller's investigation, that would be problematic. one of the comments you made in d in your testimony is you reached a conclusion about then director comey's ability to lead the fbi and you agreed with deputy attorney general rosenstein's memo. the fact that you worked with comey for sometime, did you ever have a conversation as a superior of dir...

Was fired because of the president's displeasure with the way he was running the russia investigation. it comes amid the backdrop of jeff sessions having recused himself, something we know from great reporting from "the new york times" and "washington post" and our own network, is sorts of viewed by the president as maybe an error in judgment. the president is not happy that jeff sessions recused himself from the russia probe. but jeff sessions who was once among the senate decided that once he had had that blunder, once he had appeared before the senate for his own confirmation hearings and h...

>> senator, i will commit to appear before the committees and others as appropriate. i don't think it's good policy to bring cabinet members or the attorney general before multiple committees going-over the same things over and over. >> the a proppropriations commi raised that issue. >> i just gave you my answer. >> can we get your commitment since there will be questions about the meetings that took place or not, access to documents or memoranda or your day book or something? >> we will be glad to provide appropriate responses to your questions and review them carefully. >> yesterday a friend...

Counsel, but hauled into criminal court because another crime is withholding information on a security clearance form. maybe michael flynn just forgot about it, maybe jared kushner just forgot about meeting with the russians, maybe sessions just forgot about meeting with the russians. but it gets kind of weird when all of these people do this meeting with the russians -- which by itself is not a crime. they're asked about it and it just staeps theescapes their mi. >> i met one russian. i never forgot it because i was old enough to remember when russians weren't our friends. i mean you don't fo...