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System, think about it's being a prosecutor is always tough. that's not an easy job. and you do it and it's not like you're getting pid millions of dollars. it's always tough to take an unpopular case, that the law says should be brought but you know you're going to get personal condemnation for. now you have the president putting his thumb on the scale and saying if you take a prosecution that i don't agree with, then i'm going to come after you personally, prosecutor. and i can't think of something more dangerous to our military justice system and the security of all of our military folks an...

>> braving news tonight. we can report moments ago a new call for impeachment from pete agi calf saying mueller's testimony has convinced him to join the caucus that support impeachment proceedings which takes you up to 117 house democrats who now back some kind of impeachment inquiry meaning according to the nbc count, if one more democrat comes out in favor it's half the caucus. today ted deutch declared an impeachment level inquiry in his view has begun. and forming something called impeach august driving constituents to rally public pressure on representatives including presumably speaker ...

Flannery, special counsel to three congressional investigations. >> good to be here. >> what do you think of this basic chorus coming out a little post-mueller and during recess but at the pel looking at half her caucus backing impeachment? >> two things. one is that everybody underestimated the effect of mueller. there have been 25 members with aguilar today who have joined the impeachment roster, if you will. and i think it puts enormous pressure on pelosi to act and i think the numbers will only increase. if she wants to still remain ahead of her caucus, i think she's going to have to chang...

Important thing to cop out of mueller? >> i thought the most important thing was his manner. despite the fact that everybody wanted him to be the caped crusader, he was this steady as you go, firm, careful speaker who said very dramatic things. that finally got through and was the antidote for the toxin that came from barr's lips in writings and the intervening months before mueller came to the hill. >> as you say, there were things mule irdidn't say that the democrats clearly wanted. but the numbers keep going up. that is one thing we can measure since wednesday. john, thank you as always, si...