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You're watching "morning joe." we'll be right back. >> a lot of people now in congress and certainly in the conservative echo chamber are attacking mueller all the time. is that a smart play politically? >> i don't think so. i think it's a reactive play. i think they think if we discredit him, anything that happens will be discredited. this could turn out that mueller exonerates the president. you don't want to discredit the guy that exonerates. it's born out of ignorance. it's ignorant. it's your last chance of the year to get our best offer of the year: zero percent financing for seventy-two...

Investigation, looking into white-collar crime or some of these things that the president isn't really excited about, you're now going to meet pushback. and it's also about putting a wedge, at times, between federal and state law enforcement. they work very well together for the most part out in the field. despite what you hear in the news. and this is also playing to a base, state and local law enforcement, while wedging the feds against them. and so this is consistent with the fbi. we saw it with the cia where he also discredits their intelligence assessment about the russia meddling in the ...

This could turn out that mueller exonerates the president and don't want to discredit the guy who might, in fact, exonerate you. >> how much of a political risk is president trump taking by essentially allowing his allies to publicly discredit robert mueller and institutions like the fbi, to name one, and by taking part of -- part in all of it, himself? with us now, two journalists you just saw joining our nicolle wallace when she spoke to governor chris christie today, eli stokols, white house reporter for the "wall street journal." msnbc political analyst. john heilemann agreed to stick an f...

Terms of this investigation, you know, if he can damage the investigation or make it, discredit it. ultimately it hurts the fbi. if you're an fbi agent in trump country and you're going out and running a lead, doing an investigation, looking into white-collar crime or some of these things that the president isn't really excited about, you're now going to meet pushback. and it's also about putting a wedge, at times, between federal and state law enforcement. they work very well together for the most part out in the field. despite what you hear in the news. and this is also playing to a base, st...

I think they think, well, if we discredit him, anything that happens could be discredited. this could turn out that mueller exonerates the president and don't want to discredit the guy who might, in fact, exonerate you. >> how much of a political risk is president trump taking by essentially allowing his allies to publicly discredit robert mueller and institutions like the fbi, to name one, and by taking part of -- part in all of it, himself? with us now, two journalists you just saw joining our nicolle wallace when she spoke to governor chris christie today, eli stokols, white house reporter ...