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During his confirmation hearings. daniel samuelson has spent 20 hours watching mueller testimony. darren, thank you for doing that for us. and you wrote this -- just fascinating piece. before we get into the substance, how is he on style, how is he on answering the tough questions? >> sure, i took one for the team, they're watching all that c-span footage. absolutely. glad to do it. he's a very serious man, obviously, no doubt running the fbi for that 12-year period right before 9/11, through the first years of the boston marathon bombing. the changing of the fbi after 9/11, to deal with the i...

The european allies agreeing with the iranians that the nuclear agreement needs to stay in place. we know that the trump administration has already exited the nuclear agreement very much so, alex. >> saying that they need to strike a new deal with iran but they are not ready to do that, nor is tehran. fred pleitgen, thanks very much. back here in washington, president trump has one major card to play when he tries to block congressional oversight and inquiries relating to the mueller probe. that is executive privilege. now, he has shown that he's not afraid to use executive privilege, invoki...

Clearly didn't do what i think the democrats would like to do. that's clearly the focus here, find star witnesses who would draw a lot of attention back to this investigation. >> to as you say bring that mueller alive and have them read alive from it rather than having people read the more than 400 pages of a very dense report. darren samuelson of politico, thanks very much. >> thank you. for more on that let's discuss with jerry connolly. congressman, good to speak with you today. now, your committee has tried this already. you wanted to interview chris kobach about the citizenship question...

>> let's put on the screen of everybody found diguilty in the mueller investigations. a lot of faces and indictments. darren, they already come up with quite a bit. >> that's correct. a lot of people would point to the indictments themselves that mueller produced over the course of the investigation whether you look at the indictments against the russian hackers. that one reads like a novel as you read through how they actually did pack into the democratic committee. it is well worth the read and a mueller report would not. there is other indictments as well. the paul manafort one that led to ...

Donald trump calls the investigation ridiculous and insisted robert mueller was conflicted. it is a remarkable comment from somebody tweeted days ago that robert mueller should not be appointed and there should be no mueller report. what question will be answered in mueller's report and a follow e follow-up, how will the president react once she sees it. >> pete williams is jonesing me now, ashley parker who's back from maternity leave and political senior white house, darren samuelson and chuck rosenberg is joining us as well. pete, first to you, rod rosenstein and barr was at the white house...