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President himself but never before from members of u.s. congress. their move was hailed by the president's associates on trump tv. >> this is a welcome change here in washington. it looks like members of congress are trying to finally bring to the american people the justice which they deserve. hopefully the justice department will look into jim comey lying under oath in front of congress. i don't understand why you've got a person gone for almost a year that has not been followed up with or prosecuted for that potential crime. >> democratic senator cory booker a member of the senate judiciary...

Congress. their move was hailed by the president's associates on trump tv. >> this is a welcome change here in washington. it looks like members of congress are trying to finally bring to the american people the justice which they deserve. hopefully the justice department will look into jim comey lying under oath in front of congress. i don't understand why you've got a person gone for almost a year that has not been followed up with or prosecuted for that potential crime. >> democratic senator cory booker a member of the senate judiciary committee and one of the sponsors of the bill to protec...

Office. it's simply not a problem for fox news, but there is something different about fox news. i want to go back and say one thing if i might about the president's potential response to this letter calling for the appointment of special counsel. this is -- we know from donald trump's tweets and everything else the way he thinks. he is just a tribalist. you are on his team or you're on the other team. you are a friend or you are an an enemy. so he doesn't understand that lawyers can compartmentalize. that first of all, just because your law partners have signed this letter, the heads of your ...

64 democrats signed a letter calling on the president to fire pruitt. do you think the letter will get any traction? >> reporter: no. no. the president does not usually cave to pressure from democrats. i mean, that's something that he's digging in his heels on issues. pruitt's job may become tenuous again. look, if another story drops, if another wave of headlines hits, the president a certain point may grow frustrated and say the distractions are not worth it. remember, he has a number of confirmation hearings that have to happen on capitol hill in the coming weeks. and adding pruitt to that ...

And why less than two hours later did we get this we need some promises here letter going out to the whole line of succession at the justice department. i don't know why both of those things happened tonight but i'm about to get to ask somebody who should probably know. joining us now is senator richard blumenthal who signed that letter calling for justice department officials to commit they won't interfere in the special counsel's investigation and he also co-wrote an op ed for slate tonight that calls out parallels for 1973 that does feel like quite a curtain opener. thank you for being with...