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Happened politically, if he did lie, and by the way, opr, i have done opr investigations. for them to believe he misled them intentionally, they really had to -- they know what it was going to cost him. they empathized but they went after him and they are not the president. >> peter, one other question to you, talking about mccabe who has been a lightning rod for the president on the mueller investigation, the president tweeting about mccabe several times, one tweet asking why sessions didn't replace mccabe sooner, as in this example. why didn't sessions replace andrew mccabe, comey friend but...

>> we are hearing more from mccabe saying he was a target by the trump administration and says the president's tweets have amplified and exasperated it all. he called for my firing. he called for me to be stripped of my pension after 20 years of service. all along, we have said nothing, never wanting to distract from the fbi for the lies told about us. >> he went on to say this, every time it becomes clear i will play a significant role in the special counsel efforts, immediately after that, i get targeted and atacted by the president and his twitter account. a lot to talk about. let's break i...

Has pled guilty. he's got paul manafort. he's got so many people on the inside. now hope hicks is being drawn in. perhaps he has questioned her in detail what she knew and she's been at the president's side many years. she could spill the beans as well. >> and with all of these things going on, robert mueller continues on his path with the investigation. peter mathews, thank you so much for your analysis. we appreciate it. >> my pleasure. thank you so much, rosemary. >> thank you. >> all right. now to one of the biggest sporting events in the world, the nfl super bowl. did you watch the super ...

Summer. as that hangs over his head, a lot rides then on this speech. we saw him stick to the speech at davos and get good response. do you expect he'll do the same coming up here? >> that is very difficult to predict. because you know mr. trump. if he sticks to teleprompter he's generally okay as far as the form goes. but he doesn't just stick to the teleprompter. he likes to go off script. and in davos he was on script for sure. this time you've got 48 million people people watching, natalie. that is a huge audience and what happens once the speech is over? even if he sticks to the script, w...

About this is peter mathews, a political analyst and professor of political science at cypress college. thanks so much for being with us. >> good to be with you, rosemary. >> so, president trump says the recently released nunes memo totally vindicates him on the russia probe, but not all republicans agree with him on that point. trey gowdy says it has no impact on the russia probe and he thinks mueller's investigation should continue unimpeded. so, what's mr. trump talking about? and what was achieved by releasing this memo? >> i think that he's trying to use false bravado to act like nothing ...