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Gloria borger, takes an in-depth look at the man behind one of the most important and polarizing investigations in modern political history. >> special counsel robert mueller is a mystery man. perhaps the most private public figure in washington. but as the leader of the russia investigation, he's also a political ground zero. >> i think the public trust in this whole thing is gone. >> reporter: and in the sights of a president who wanted him fire. >> last june, the president ordered the firing of special counsel robert mueller, backed down after the white house counsel threatened to quit. >> ...

The breaking news tonight is yet more evidence that special counsel robert mueller has been busy indicting 22 people and companies over the last nine months. secured five guilty pleas and just today getting the cooperation of former trump campaign deputy chair rick gates. so who is this virtually silent special counsel, a man of few words but clearly lots of action? gloria borger reports. >> reporter: special counsel robert mueller is a mystery man. perhaps the most private public figure in washington. but as the leader of the russia investigation he's also a political ground zero. >> i think ...

>> reporter: and in the sights of a president who wanted him fire. >> last week the president back down after the white house counsel threatened to quit. >> reporter: putting mueller in a bizarre position of investigating whether the president tried to fire him. but you'll never hear about it from mueller. >> i mean this is someone who has turned down more press conferences and interviews than most people in washington ever get the chance to give. he doesn't really live talking about himself. he doesn't really like speaking with the press. >> reporter: at the start mueller was a bipartisan fav...

Themselves from making mistakes. so it has not been easy, despite the fact that they have seen enough that should make them at least curious enough to get to the bottom of this. you know, any politician, democrat or republican, seeing this president fire comey, seeing him fire sally yates, seeing him fire preet bharara up in new york should wonder why is he firing all of these people who appear to have some role in these investigations that may implicate me. they should also be concerned about this president who just shared with russians, the russian ambassador and the russian foreign minister...

This president fire comey, seeing him fire sally yates, seeing him fire preet bharara up in new york should wonder why is he firing all of these people who appear to have some role in these investigations that may implicate me. they should also be concerned about this president who just shared with russians, the russian ambassador and the russian foreign minister, classified information. they should also understand that mr. flynn, who got caught lying, didn't want to tell the truth about him discussing sanctions with the russian ambassador -- all of this should make them really want to know if...