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Point here, he's saying he's a strong defender of robert mueller. he always tries to appear that way. but he no longer defends the position of jeff segs as attorney general. so he's advocating a new boss for robert mueller knowing that that new boss can without our knowledge limit robert mueller's investigation in very severe ways. >> it's potentially a dangerous position for mueller because as you accurately point out someone new could come in and could limit without firing mueller, limit the scope of the investigation. one hopes that perhaps senator graham realizes it will be virtually impos...

So he's talking about you there, david. >> i know. i cannot get him to use my name in a tweet. it just makes such a difference. >> i miss it myself. he used to attack me all the time. he hasn't done it in a long time and i miss it. there is a lot of speculation he's worried about a book coming out on september 11th that is an inside the trump white house book and he seems to be possibly ramping up for some kind of defense of that. >> right. that seems so right. i like john harwood's description of this. it is like golum in lord of the rings, constantly reassuring himself and reminding himself ...

There wasn't a logic to a lot of the things he was saying and i think, you know, the country is watching this play out in real-time. it is not pretty. >> david, the president is trying a new impeachment defense, and that is you cannot impeach a president if he's doing a good job. >> what is so striking about that defense is that the president is grappling with a political reality. and i think to echo what john said, what the president is recognizing is not only is he facing tougher law enforcement challenges, but it's now almost the first of september, the election campaign is coming to an end...

>> joyce, to lindsey graham's point here, he's saying he's a strong defender of robert mueller. he always tries to appear that way. but he no longer defends the position of jeff segs as attorney general. so he's advocating a new boss for robert mueller knowing that that new boss can without our knowledge limit robert mueller's investigation in very severe ways. >> it's potentially a dangerous position for mueller because as you accurately point out someone new could come in and could limit without firing mueller, limit the scope of the investigation. one hopes that perhaps senator graham reali...

Not be doing it again. interesting, in light of what the president said just an hour ago or so. but you saw republicans who are normally extremely cautious begin to use stronger language. i think you also saw republicans who tend to always come to the barricades for the president like newt gingrich say this is a terrible mistake and you need to clarify it right way. so i think in the category of outside voices, those are the voices he was probably responding to. >> here is the thing. he tried to change a word yesterday, david, to mitigate the damage that was done in that news conference and to...