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Number of times by former director comey that the fbi was conducting an investigation of the trump campaign for coordinating in russia's cyberespionage -- mark: wasn't trey gowdy among those members of congress on the committee listening to the testimony firsthand to mr. comey? >> he certainly was. in fact, the best known temperature is the testimony comey gave on march 20 of 2017, which is important because it's the jumping off point as it turns out for mueller's -- special counsel mueller's investigation. this is what mueller took over and what comey described is counterintelligence investig...

Impeached. so let's go to the subpoena issue. how far can they take a subpoena, if, in fact, they conclude, as the department of justice did, you cannot indict a sitting president? how does the subpoena process work? >> see, i think this goes back to david's point, mark, you know, these guys are not an independent fourth branch of government, right? mueller technically is an inferior executive officer. i don't know on what authority, if the president doesn't want to be subpoenaed, how does the inferior executive officer tell the chief executive, we're going to subpoena you anyway? and i think ...

. mark: andy mccarthy, david limbaugh. january 5, 2017, a big meeting in the oval office. the president, joe biden, sally yates, who's the deputy attorney general, becomes acting attorney general at some point. jim comey and susan rice, national security adviser. what do we know about that meeting? >> well, we know, mark, that about two weeks after the fact, as she was packing up her office after president trump had been inaugurated, susan rice, the national security adviser for obama, wrote a memo to the file to cover that meeting and cover in the sense of cia. mark: minutes after trump is in...

Director comey that the fbi was conducting an investigation of the trump campaign for coordinating in russia's cyberespionage -- mark: wasn't trey gowdy among those members of congress on the committee listening to the testimony firsthand to mr. comey? >> he certainly was. in fact, the best known temperature is the testimony comey gave on march 20 of 2017, which is important because it's the jumping off point as it turns out for mueller's -- special counsel mueller's investigation. this is what mueller took over and what comey described is counterintelligence investigation aimed at russia's in...

Mark: david limbaugh, he had several staffers with bill of appointments with the power of sifting united states attorneys, not just assistant special counsel, giving broader authority from the eastern district of virginia we've now learned. so this is a very, very broad-based investigation where the prosecutor has enormous power. >> you made that point that may well not be constitutional to give them that kind of authority. and that's great work that you did on that. but i want to -- mark: that's calabrese, but go ahead. >> the appointment memo was so odd, it leads me to believe that they were...