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Their stories mattered. we are in a different place now in 2018 than we were in 2016 when it first came in. >> right. and to end on the same song we began with from liz, wait for the kicker. maybe we'll keep waiting for the kicker. thank you both. jess mcintosh and liz plank. coming up, donald trump is threatening the justice department directly with new calls for rod rosenstein to step aside. what's the gop doing about it? former senator russ fine gold joins me. also, will all of this lead to a mueller face to face? i am going to speak to two lawyers who have been on both sides of a presi...

Body to go down there. >> i am a recovering lawyer, but it doesn't take lawyer the know that the central lesson on watergate is that no one is above the law, not the president. not anybody else. and there is nothing in the constitution that says the president needs to be treated differently when it comes to routine things like interviews with a prosecutor. and also keep in mind that deputy attorney general rod rosenstein and robert mueller are very aware that the president might fire them. yet they have very strong statements with rosenstein saying the justice department would not be extorted....

So even if it doesn't become law, today was a very significant day. we're going to continue to push forward to have this become law, because ultimately, i think in this country, we want special counsel to be largely protected from interference by the president. >> you mentioned that it's important even if it doesn't become law. if it does not get passed by both houses and signed by the president, do you currently take the position that a special counsel, any special counsel, including mueller, would have the right to challenge an unlawful firing in court anyway? >> he may well have. it would b...

Where you know what you see on top but you don't know what's underneath. i suspect that mueller has a lot more evidence and information than has been -- has been reported. so i think he's pretty far down the line on a lot of issues. that's not to say i think this is coming to a quick close. >> well, let me ask you to speculate on another front and that is what form this will take. do you think the special counsel will emerge and lay his findings at the feet of americans and congress and say here it all is, deal with it? >> well, i don't think he has the authority to do that. but i think he wil...

Issue a subpoena to you and as long as it's a proper subpoena, which this one is, you can't just flat out reject it. but you can ask your lawyer to work with prosecutors perhaps to give you a little bit more time to come -- comply if you're being asked to go through a lot of documents. but having thrown down the gauntlet saying he wouldn't show up and it would be funny if he put him in jail, i think sam nunberg has not put himself in a good bargaining position with mueller in terms of getting any type of favorable treatment. >> from all reviews, mueller is not a petty man, but mr. nunberg said...