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Current justice department doctrine. if mueller believes that trump is obstructing justice and presents a report to congress, there's very little that barr did can do about that. and there is a legal argument to be made that trump had an absolute right to fire the fbi director and, therefore, mueller can't question that. i think that's a minority view but appears to be mr. barr's view. it's not clear that it will affect what robert mueller ultimately does. >> let me come back to you to wrap up final thoughts. you started this conversation with carol's reporting in the washington post. what doe...