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Connection question. a lot of news over the last 24 hours or so from nbc news and other reputable news agencies. and all said it may show the white house has notably notched up efforts in response to special counsel robert mueller. it starts with bloomberg's greg feral that they are investigating tax returns potentially included and the same day "the washington post" reported that the president told aides he was disturbed after learning mueller would be able to access several years of his tax returns. in short, by moving into the president's financial dealings, mueller is undergoing an audit o...

Important point. people shouldn't be quick to rush to judgment and condemn the behavior that they see here. your tax records will give a picture of who you deal with and what kind of dealings you have, and many of those business dealings may be legitimate. there's also the possibility that some of these business dealings, even those that occurred decades ago, may begin to put together a story and lay a backdrop for events that occurred more recently. so prosecutors will look through that entire network of transactions. i'm not very impressed by these complaints that special counsel is beyond t...

You mentioned what is congress going to react? how is the court going to react? i think a bigger question, how is the court of public opinion going to react? >> a legal team spokesman resigned. there is a story there. we dent know it yet, but there's a story there. >> and saying the president is disturbed after learning mueller would be able to access several years of tax returns. does that tell you anything? >> yeah. basically, this is the story for the last two months in terms of hirings and where the investigation is going. where the tax returns do not simply show that donald trump is not a...

Glad to have you here. i want you to listen to something we heard yesterday from sarah huckabee sanders. about the special counsel and the scope of the investigation in particular. >> i think that the president -- the point he's trying to make is that, um -- the clear purpose of the russia investigation is to review russia's meddling in the election. and that that should be the focus of the investigation. nothing beyond that. the president is making it clear that the special counsel should not move outside the scope of the investigation. >> i want to quote something in "the washington post." t...

The president. >> one line in your long and well-reported piece i'll put it on the screen. what you just said but certainly jumped off the page to us. "trump has told aides he was especially disturbed after learning mueller would be able to access several years of his tax returns." and ashley there seems to be a bit of a learning curve here to find out exactly the broad powers that someone in mueller's position enjoys. >> that's exactly right. so in terms of asking about his pardons, the president seems to be asking just how powers the powers of the presidency go. and the other thing he is try...