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From last week's explosive testimony by the fired fbi director james comey, his role in the decision to fire comey and his meetings with russian officials. jake? >> wolf, i want to continue the conversation with my panel here. we were talking, before the break, about the fact that when bill clinton was being investigated by then independent counsel ken starr, there were efforts to discredit ken starr by democrats. newt gingrich has been saying that there's no way bob mueller, the special counsel looking into the special investigation will be fair in criticizing him. here's what newt gingrich h...

But at the same time, there is no honest person that sits in the world of politics and in the world of law that can find anything wrong with bob mueller. i mean, if something is wrong with bob mueller as we sit here today and it's based on his public reputation and what we all know about him, i think our republic is in more trouble. >> in terms of donations to democrats, you can't beat donald trump? >> that's right. >> chuck schumer's biggest support. >> and also, this business of criticizing the independent counsel, the special prosecutor who was investigating the president, this is part of t...

Demeaning and destructive to have the white house cy systematically undermine the department of justice. and when i watch these paid hacks on television, to be quite honest, i am sickened by how unpatriot cl unpatriotically they undermine. >> interesting words, in retrospect. gloria, we have seen this play out with democrats attacking the independent prosecutor, in this case, even a counsel. and now we see paid hacks on the other side going after bob mueller. >> yeah. in fact, it was newt gingrich who said they probably could and should fire bob mueller. so this act is complicated and it was c...

Give someone too much independence, there's no accountability. and there has to be a way for someone to be accountable to someone after ken starr. so they came up with this compromised solution, which is that the president can actually fire mueller and ken starr could not be fired at that point so i think they were looking for a middle ground here. the question is, that nobody can answer, nothing is perfect here. would it be a great solution for the president of the united states to ask rod rosenstein, who would then resign, so ask somebody else, to fire the independent counsel? no. but can he...

Totally independent and could not be fired by the president and that law took effect, i believe, as a result of ken star starr. >> well, as a result of the saturday night massacre. >> so that if congress were outraged enough by it in a bipartisan way, they could always pass a law about it. >> matthew, i've been hearing a lot of conservatives casting aspersions on the integrity of robert mueller and saying he could be fired or he's biased or whatever. you worked with him presumably when -- >> he worked with me when i was fbi director and i agree with rod. i don't see any current reason or good ...