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Drummed out of the government, and in many cases turned into household name villains by the president and his supporters. now under william barr, this attack on all of those people -- everybody involved in the russia investigation from the very beginning -- apparently has risen to the level that it is a criminal inquiry. the justice department again, headline tonight in "the new york times," has said to open a criminal inquiry into its own a russia investigation raising the prospect that president bush -- excuse me, president trump's justice department under william barr will seek to criminall...

Sentenced, even though the cooperation does not seem to be complete, so he can put this behind him, can get on with his life, if there is a prison sentence term to be served. he serves it and can be done more quickly. ordinarily, based on part of what the spirit of your question was, you wait until a cooperating witness has not only done all of his cooperation with the office against whom he's fighting, but also if the agreement requires cooperation with other entities, like a state attorney general's office, or in this case, the special counsel's office. you wait to see how all of that goes o...

What guy petrillo wrote. so the bottom line, clearly the prosecutors in my old office, all of whom i know, made a determination that in the interest of justice, the sentencing guideline range that was put forward by the probation department should basically be followed. other than language that you just read to me, which is not commonly used to the extent they said there should be a modest variance from the bottom end of the range, which is 51 months. sometimes when people decide to cooperate, they do it too late. sometimes when they decide to cooperate, they do it after having a lot of hiccup...

Cares deeply about the integrity of the justice department. so i'm sure he'll use the standard career resources he has to judge what he should and shouldn't be involved in. but bill barr is a talented person who is a good attorney general. i think he'll serve the justice department well. and i'm sure he'll talk to the career officials. >> how extensively have you cooperated with the mueller investigation at this point? >> i can't talk about that. >> how many times have you spoken? >> i can't talk about that. i could, but i won't. sorry. >> the republicans came out and said the government lawye...

>> well, the fbi, for understandable reasons, doesn't want me talking about the details of the investigation that is still ongoing. it began when i was fbi director. and so it makes sense that they don't want me going into those details. but that's a very teeny part of what we talked about today. a whole lot of hillary clinton's e-mails, which will bore you. >> so you're -- >> the next time the hearing will be public? is there any talk of that? >> there wasn't any talk of it. i think they want to do it the same way. i wish it were going to be public, but i think we're going to have to do it th...