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Affiliations with a party, it's the republican party. that's where he was rising as an appointee, at least when he had taken over fbi. i guess the opposition research is kicking around. you can't do the whole topic justice, but anything you want to say about the enron task force here because it's something that republicans seem to think is a kind of vulnerability for mueller. >> well, it's ironic, ari, because the enron task force was created at the instigation of the bush justice department. john ashcroft was the attorney general at the time. larry thompson was the deputy a.g., and they certa...

To begin. walter dellinger. sam buell is a professor of law at duke university, a former federal prosecutor. lead prosecutor in fact for that enron task force which has some overlap with some of what mueller is doing now. and michael isikoff, a chief investigative reporter for yahoo news. walter, folks are just digesting "the new york times" reportrepor folks at home my want to understand what does it mean when we say this is one of the first document requests that mueller has sent to the white house. >> well, it means a couple of things. one, i think, ari, in a later segment, we're going to w...

Wrongdoing. because companies act through people. and so i think one of the things that we did effectively with the enron task force and a number of other corporate fraud prosecutions during that era was showing we were willing to follow the facts and the law wherever they may lead, all the way to the very top of the house. and in the enron case in particular, as you know, as you commented on, we brought cases against essentially the entire c suite of the company. obviously, we have to have the facts and the evidence and the law to support it. we can't succumb to mob rule or anything like that...

Director held to the american people that donald trump was not under investigation. >> let's be very clear, he did not hold from people that he was under investigation. just because donald trump was not personally under investigation, everyone around him was under investigation. i think that is a distinction. >> the narrative has been that trump was colluding with russia -- >> julie: regarding the relationship between robert mueller and james comey, because this from the very beginning i have said just seems like it has conflict of interest written all over it. james comey, huge fan of robert ...

Donated almost exclusively to democrats. $56,000 donated, more than half of it came from one lawyer who's working on mueller now for this. can they be impartial? >> absolutely. remember the person making the decisions here is robert mueller who is obliged to nobody and is one of the best law enforcement figures in american history. he's the decision maker. i think it's fair to point out that mueller has hired some very distinguished people. mike dreebin is the most respected criminal law appellate specialist in the united states, a legendary figure in the solicitor general's office, andrew wei...