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Scurriless and false attacks today and the series of tweets really ramped up, and this is as one republican so far and one republican has stood up to demand floor action on the bipartisan protection bill that jeff flake and, you know, senator coons have cohf -author and gotten nowhere, and mitch mcconnell says no need for action on the floor, and do you sense that any of the republican colleagues, and the colleague in maine, and susan collins is certainly in the line of fire here, and anybody is going to join jeff flake with any successful effort that is going to need bipartisan support. >> i ...

Capable of handling them, i would have to look them in the eye and say thank you for your service and i regret that our president is using you as a political stunt. >> i want to ask about a different topic and that is the mueller investigation, the dynamics of which seems to have changed after the midterm elections with the democrats taking over the house. what is your view of protecting bob mueller right now? again, even since the midterm elections the majority leader mitch mcconnell has said it's not necessary, we have asked for many months now what gives him the confidence to say that donal...

Dig into a story if she thinks there's a chance it will be false or uncorroborated. a lot of questions there. why not take a look? do you want to eight or ten months, fine. the white house controls the process. but why say no all the together. >> the senate does. >> no, the senate does not. the white house decides whether or not the fbi looks into this not the senate. >> the senate decide whether they proceed taking floor action. >> the white house has to ask the fbi. >> if the senate said they wouldn't or the senate said they aren't going to proceed until the fbi issues a report, that can hap...

Why if she wanted to come out and say something untrue, why would she ask for the feds to dig into a story if she thinks there's a chance it will be false or uncorroborated. in any possible way. why would she set herself up for that. why not take a look? do you want to eight or ten months, you say no. fine. the white house controls the process. but why say no altogether. >> the senate does. >> no, the senate does not. the white house decides whether or not the fbi looks into this not the senate. >> the senate decides whether they proceed taking floor action. >> the white house has to ask the f...

The president can find himself on an unobstructed path to fire willing robert mueller or taking other actions to end that legislation. one of the co sponsors of the bill, senator chris coons joins me now. i know there are sponsors, co sponsors on both sides of the aisle, it doesn't seem to be a real priority for mitch mcconnell. >> i'll disagree with your characterization of my bipartisan bill to protect the special council. you said it hasn't gone anywhere, when we first introduced it a year ago, that's exactly what we were told. this will never got a hearing, then it got a hearing last fall....