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The attorney general were to in fact recuse himself. >> even so. >> even then it wouldn't need it. >> there was a preliminary fbi inquiry it's been widely reported into this matter. as you said, the hill newspaper has reported on what they call an fbi counter-intelligence investigation. i spoke to a former senior fbi official who would have been bereaved on this he said i have never heard of an counter-enter jens investigation. >> i said the sale was in 2001, the sale was actually 2010. just to bring this back to politics. the idea is to confuse this whole issue, get an investigation into hill...

Approach and hope to get mueller to doe clar that trump is not a target of the inquiry. your view of that goal? >> almost like -- there's that old image of jousting at windmills from "don kquixote" te old novel. trump is a subject of the investigation. mueller is investigating potential -- of justice for comey and wasn't a low-level staffer who made the order to fire mr. comey, it was president of the united states. until that gets wrapped up, question of whether or not the president is subject of the investigation will not be settled and number of paths to which the president might have poten...

Investigation since watergate? sessions refuses, rosenstein says, an appointee prior to donald trump's becoming president, says let's get mueller on the case. mueller is no friend of trump, i guess. throwing everything against the wall. >> jeanine: what they are looking at is beyond the mandate of the special counsel, beyond the statute of limitation. this is not part of mueller's charge for it what you left out is that mueller applied for the job as head of the fbi and doesn't get it and now he is overseeing everything the president is doing. >> eboni: kat, i was going to say. you talked abou...

Let me put up a tweet from newt gingrich, former house speaker. "republicans are delusional if they think the special counsel will be fair. look who he is hiring, check fec reports. time to rethink." this guy a few weeks ago john mccain said was a great choice for special counsel, jason chaffetz, impeccable credential, senator burr was complimentary. why go after mueller who served under bush and obama? >> different between trump partisans and republican leaders on the hill. i don't think you'll see anybody on the hill on the republican side. for a few fringe members go after robert mueller, b...