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Astonishing. >> is there any precedent you're aware of, this subpoenaing of records of members of congress? >> i've heard about subpoenaing members of congress who may be the subject of a specific corruption investigation, but i have not heard of one where the white house or executive branch investigates a co-equal branch of government without any predicate evidence or reason to do so other than potentially trying to gather dirt on them as leverage. in a fishing expedition and a political exercise. >> the doj won't say whether there were republicans involved in this, if there is an investigati...

Astonishing. >> is there any precedent you're aware of this subpoenaing of records of members of congress? >> i've heard about subpoenaing members of congress who may be the subject at a specific corruption investigation but i have not heard of one where you know, the white house or the executive branch investigates a coequal branch of government without any predicate evidence or reason to do so other than potentially try to gather dirt on them as leverage in a fishing expedition and a political exercise. >> the doj won't say whether there were republicans involved in this. if there is an inve...

And that's why you would enter into red line territory. >> it's relatively easy for a prosecutor to get a subpoena from a grand jury. but to your point, it gives you backup. this is not just some rogue prosecutor saying, i want everything. he went and presented some factual evidence, some predicate evidence to a grand jury saying we need to subpoena records because we think this. plus it's bob mueller who everything he does has to be run by the president's deputy attorney general rod rosenstein who quoted this week saying this in "usa today." remember, the subpoenas were issued in recent reewe...