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Comey isn't the target but he is the victim, to the extent that the crime of obstruction of justice, as jeffrey argued, includes the firing of comey by the president. one can easily understand how upset mueller would be by the way his friend was treated, understandably. his friend was treated terribly. so the perception of bias can affect at least the way the public sees this investigation. he can avoid this if he simply does the right thing and says that the firing by the president of comey is not a crime. it is not part of this investigation. then the issue is done. >> well, i mean, this goe...

Investigation. then the issue is done. >> well, i mean, this goes back to the argument allwe've been having. >> sure. >> at a minimum, mueller has to determine what the facts are and not throw up his hands and say, this is not a crime. that will involve interviewing comey. i don't think he is going to bend over backwards to help his friend. but it does provide an avenue of attack, which the president will use. but, you know, if it is not that, it'll be something else. and there's nothing that can be done about it now. i really think it is a non-issue. i don't blame the president for pointing i...

This as they start a new week. according to a new nbc news/"wall street journal" poll, 29% of the decision to remove comey and 38% disapprove and 32% at the moment, no opinion. when asked my president trump fired james comey they're saying that 46% agree that the president did it to slow down the russia investigation. 38% saying it's because of comey's handling of the clinton e-mail investigation. which is what the president has been saying. but has it hurt the president's approval rating? it now stands at 39%. that's one percentage lower than last month's poll. well within the poll's margin o...

Director. the president's mentioning russia in that interview including the firing, but what defines a constitutional crisis? fivethirtyeight.com says five ways that a scandal can reach being called that. number one if the constitution does not say what to do. if the constitution's meaning is in question. third, if it says what to do but that's not politically feasible. or finally, if the institutions themselves fail along the way. it says comey's firing can fall loosely into three of those four categories. the civil war it notes easily became a constitutional crisis. by their definition. but ...

Richard nixon acted either at the beginning, middle or end of watergate and what we know about donald trump's state of mind? >> i do see similarities in the personality. it is complex. the similarity they're both authoritarian personalities. nixon much more so in private. and trump very open and clearly ran on his autocratic instirvegts and powerful strong man stances. the differences is and what frightens me most about trumpcy was frightened about nixon. i always thought he would obey the law. i'm not so sure about trump. they don't have anywhere near the competence to be president. nixon was...