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Member of congress was a democrat or a republican. but wray came prepared to defend the integrity and independence of both the fbi and special counsel bob mueller and his handling of the russia investigation. there appears to be a full-on campaign waged by some house republicans and conservative media against mueller. the strategy isn't new. democrats tried similar tactics to discredit ken starr during this investigation of clinton in the '90s. as this investigation revs up and people in the president's inner circle face questions on capitol hill, will the political tactics end up working and ...

Potentially, a president, a city councilman that they're going to fight back very publicly. it can have an impact on the prosecutors. how much so? >> so probably not much at all on bob mueller, and many career prosecutors ascribe to the view if you're making people angry, you're doing your job. if your friends are as mad at you as your enemies are you're probably hitting the sweet spot. >> what do you make of the criticism, a lot of house republicans picked up on the dismissed fbi agent from the mueller case also involved in the hillary clinton case. >> right. >> and obviously, there is some i...

The cause. i think this would be great tv. >> a recovering -- >> and besides, do we think donald trump would have the self-discipline not to attack her every day? you want to make the election about this issue? >> so it sounds like she's making the case -- >> i think it will be a crowded field. a very crowded field. >> i don't think it is totally out of the question. al franken runs again. just throwing it out there. stick around. you're not sticking around. i have to kick you off. strangely enough, another senator is leaving the hill today and he also announced that he's doing that. that's ne...

Members of the conference. been here since 2002. at some points he's contemplated running for the senate. thought about it in 2012. again, we'll see what the details of this turn out to be, but potentially another member of congress stepping down. >> by the way, i think a lot of folks were expecting after given what happened yesterday with senate democrats and al franken, there would be increased calls among house republicans for blake farenthold to resign. have there been among republicans and where's the speaker on this today? >> reporter: so, chuck, so far where i know the speaker to be and...

John conjures? >> reporter: i think that's right. the cases are pretty analogous. the money settled from his office. in this case, office of compliance, which i had never heard of until all of this started and i think a lot of women on capitol hill hasn't heard of it either, clearly a lot of reforms focused on that process. i do expect the speaker, as you rightly point out, will come under more pressure about this. >> absolutely. kasie hunt, breaking news. another day, another member of congress. thank you very much. bring in tonight's panel. democratic pollster and "washington post" columni...