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Intelligence committee seems to have gone up a notch in their seriousness? >> yes. i think mr. mueller is a perfect choice. but mr. mueller serves at the pleasure of the president. remember, the president could fire him at any time. i want an independent commission that the president cannot touch. congress has to do that. but right now, the republicans have prevented us from getting this bill forward. we now have it on what's called a discharge petition. i have signed on to that to try to get it to have floor -- out of committee, off the floor and before the house. we are fighting a uphill bat...

Intelligence committee seems to have gone up a notch in their seriousness? >> yes. i think mr. mueller is a perfect choice. but mr. mueller serves at the pleasure of the president. remember, the president could fire him at any time. i want an independent commission that the president cannot touch. congress has to do that. but right now, the republicans have prevented us from getting this bill forward. we now have it on what's called a discharge petition. i have signed on to that to try to get it to have floor -- out of committee, off the floor and before the house. we are fighting a uphill bat...

>> yet are you a bit satisfy that mr. muller is running thing mueller . >> yes i think mr. mueller is a perfect choice but he serves at the pleasure of the president, remember the president could fire him at any time. i warn a independent commission president cannot touch, congress has to do that but right now republicans have prevented us from getting this bill forward we have it on what's called a discharge petition, i've signed on to that to try to get it off the floor, out of committee off the floor and before the house, but we're still fighting an uphill battle for that. i hope the republ...

Russia. it is not this kind of silly back and forth that we've been focused on capitol hill. >> okay. so that's a gad point for the future. in terms of the fbi investigation and the senate and house intelligence committee's investigation in looking into the role that russia played and whether there was any collusion in the words -- pardon me, or coordination in the words of the fbi director, what do you make as an intelligence expert of the fact that there were all of these meetings and contacts between trump campaign officials and associates such as jared kushner, then senator jeff sessions, ...

Administration have done. should they have been more aggressive. what would have been done? >> i'm not an intelligence expert. i think president obama had straddle a fine line. he has intelligence information that has to be remain confidenceal. i think i trust his judgment totally on how though dealt with it. i think it's a difficult situation now. i think it puts not just our country but other democracy as at risk. we have key elections with ally in europe coming this year. france, germany. is russian going to be meddling there. it's why people in the countries a couple of week as the the mun...