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Issued a payment statement voicing support. mcconnell has stayed virtually quiet. do you think your fellow republicans, more of them, including leadership needs to say more? >> do i. i've been surprised more people haven't been willing to speak out in a stronger way. i was pleased to see both he john mccain and lindsey graham along with marco rubio and jeff flake all saying they had concerns about what was happening. people need to be very definitive. this is unacceptable. we are, as lindsey graham said, a nation of laws and we believe no one is above the law including the president. if there ...

Attacks andrew mccabe and attacks his own attorney general, jeff sessions who is clearly embattled in his career and looking to appease the president. when you look at the facts and then mccabe is fired two days before he's set to retire. i don't think it's a partisan issue. i don't think it's a democrat or a republican issue. it's a matter of we're taking resources away from looking at the investigation itself. that's not a republican or democrat -- >> the news cycle acts like this happened overnight. it did not. nobody is questioning that certain procedures weren't followed properly. this go...

Every day the functions of government basically kind of go on as normal. the governance sunrises in the east and sets in the west every day. so it's sort of hard to see an acute crisis moment, and that's why we all talk about it as kind of on the verge of a crisis if the president fires mueller or a crisis if he defies a court order. and this is why i think the term rot or the term we actually come up with at the end is constitutional infection, is kind of a better one because it sort of describes this process of degradation rather than focusing on the acute moment where it all falls apart. >>...

I want your prediction whether the president gets interviewed by bob mueller. joyce, you go first? >> absolutely he'll be interviewed. one way or another. there were reports that the special counsel team has sent a series of questions for the lawyer's to look. the president was alleging and the lawyers were alleging was that this was no more than a perjury trap. mueller has sent over a series of questions to say this is what the topic of the interview will be. he'll either appear voluntarily or he'll receive a subpoena to appear in front of the grand jury. >> what are the chances that the pres...

>> right. >> because as we know, sessions is recused from russia investigation. and if trump puts someone else in there and fires mueller, katy, bar the door. this thing is a nightmare. i never agreed with jeff sessions. we bed together for a long time in the senate. we were going toe to toe against each other on women's rights, gay rights, immigrants' rights. i have to applaud him for staying in there and hanging in there. if you're watching, jeff, stay in there. >> he watches every night. >> i'm sure he does. but barbara, it's also true that i think donald trump's picking a fight with the wr...