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Unclear. for many republicans, none of this is relevant to the president or matters. >> i'm absolutely against it. i think it's a miscarriage of justice and we should not have special prosecutors going after one person. >> reporter: others, like senator marco rubio, defending mueller against calls for him to be fired. >> i've said repeatedly, i believe that mr. mueller's probe should continue and move forward unimpeded. both findings will be there before the american public. we'll see what it shows when put together and we'll move on from there and see what needs to be done. >> and jake, the f...

So in an ordinary criminal case, i would have been in orbit if that had happened. but in this particular case, i came at the end of literally four investigations, which was why i'm so clear that mueller was not involved in the case involving the four men wrongfully accused because his name was literally in not a single report. so everything had already been leaked and was out virtually by the time i got the case. it wasn't an issue. but i mean i take chuck's point that you don't -- you know, you don't leak in the middle of an investigation, and you certainly don't leak in the middle of an inve...

Someone on the hill subpoenaed a bunch of investigative documents about the case? >> well, by the time i got to the case, everything had already been out. so in an ordinary criminal case, i would have been in orbit if that had happened. but in this particular case, i came at the end of literally four investigations, which was why i'm so clear that mueller was not involved in the case involving the four men wrongfully accused because his name was literally in not a single report. so everything had already been leaked and was out virtually by the time i got the case. it wasn't an issue. but i me...

Like my own father, are they allowed to do that? i gave some quotes to "the national review." they took a snippet of that. i was describing the book tour and said it looked self serving and narcissistic. if i'm speaking about the book tour, i do believe that james comey's making a colossal mistake. i don't think it looks good on him and i think it is continuing to keep the fbi on the front page of "the new york times" above the fold where we don't need to be. in regards to the rnc, you know, raising campaign money off of that, that's up to them. obviously saying something in the public arena t...

Issues involving that probe. and he's been pushing back very strongly. do you want to recap it? >> he's generally been, without getting into specifics, defending mueller's investigation. he says he's seen no good cause to fire mueller, that he's not aware of any impropriety in the special counsel's investigation. he also said he's had no orders from president trump or anyone else to fire mueller. and he says there's been no indication that trump has asked him to remove mueller or to initiate any specific investigations. a lot of the questions today, andrea, are about previously known but not k...