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Your own case against you neil, given what he was asked to do, he's not just a general fact finder, although that's the way i determine the first line of rosens terks rosenstein's memo. but even if you want to fold that into ultimately he is a prosecutor and looking for prosecutable items then this report could be thin, neil and in that case, they'll be left with a lot of unanswered questions for congress, i guess they have to subpoena mueller, have him come in and tell him the parts of the story that he didn't put in the report and proceed. >> i think that's exactly right, chris and in an op-...

Control. so what we have seen mueller do throughout is that every indictment he has brought, every court filing is more detailed, more inciteful and better informed and more narrative than we need for the underlying criminal charges. it's why we refer to these as speaking inindictmedictments. they have a role beyond proving the criminal case. one of the things that i would imagine mueller is thinking at this moment and his team is thinking is further indictments, if they can bring them, further court filings if they can make them, that's the only way that mueller controls what is made public a...

Investigation, and by these other offices taking this up, we can make sure that those who are responsible for breaking the law are brought to justice. >> an effort to shut down the mueller investigation different from what we've seen before? is there something new you've referred to? >> well, no. we've seen pressure from the white house all along to shut down mueller. we saw recently matt whitaker, this hand-picked acting attorney general, talked about how he could privately cripple the mueller investigation, saying publicly that it was coming to an end now. he shouldn't be speaking for the mu...

General recently said this thing is almost over. were they working together, do you think? we had a guest on today who thought they were working together, the president and whitaker, to squeeze down mueller. >> right. well, first of all, mueller's investigation is not partisan. he happens to be a republican who is investigating the republican president. and this friday the house judiciary committee, on which i sit, we're going to call in matt whitaker and question him under oath. i don't think he knew what he was really talking about. >> okay. >> when he said the mueller investigation was goin...

For the other. >> did you tie together the idea what the president said tonight, in other words let's kill these investigations, especially the mueller one with the idea of whitaker, the acting attorney general recently said this thing is almost over. were they working together, do you think? we had a guest on today who thought they were working together, the president and whitaker, to squeeze down mueller. >> right. well, first of all, mueller's investigation is not partisan. he happens to be a republican who is investigating the republican president. and this friday the house judiciary commi...