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Investigation, and by these other offices taking this up, we can make sure that those who are responsible for breaking the law are brought to justice. >> an effort to shut down the mueller investigation different from what we've seen before? is there something new you've referred to? >> well, no. we've seen pressure from the white house all along to shut down mueller. we saw recently matt whitaker, this hand-picked acting attorney general, talked about how he could privately cripple the mueller investigation, saying publicly that it was coming to an end now. he shouldn't be speaking for the mu...

Appointment he received. >> what do you make of whitaker's comment, that mueller could be almost done? >> let's say he got a little much over his skis. it seemed to me, people commenting on the investigations particularly when they are not the investigations they are conducting. all kinds of questions get raised about this. the question is, was he trying to please donald trump? >> who wants it to be over. >> -- who wants it to be over? was he trying to pressure mueller to get it done? and the thing that sort of worried everybody, particularly democrats, was when whitaker said i'm comfortable t...

That's not his job. i mean, his job is to supervise the distribution of the report but reviewing decisions, i don't know if that was just a brain freeze on his part, and he was just sort of saying words. >> right. and that's certainly what some democrats at the very least found chilling, concerning. >> it is chilling. now, in his defense, he may not know what he's talking about. but i don't think that's, i think, the best you can say. >> that's always a great defense. >> it is -- ignorance of the law sometimes is an excuse. >> gloria, what's the sense in washington about what whitaker said? be...

>> that's always a great defense. >> ignorance of the law is sometimes an excuse. >> gloria, what's the sense in washington about what whitaker said, does anyone know what's going to happen to that report? >> no one knows what he meant. he got out over his skis, but no one knows what he was trying to say. when you listen to him, you have to think, look, is he trying to pressure mueller to end this quickly? was he sending a message to the president, don't worry, all of these decisions that mueller made are going to be, you know, reviewed? who knows. >> let's play what he said again just because...

There has to be something of substance. there would've been no deal cut either way. anybody tell mike lawyer knows that. with regard to your point, this is a three-pronged responsibility that mueller is tasked with. one of it is the russian meddling in our election. that could be where he's going with this. he has pressured and use this tactic to pressure mueller to come to this point right now. the big thing is being done was not in the room, but manafort was. that's where he'll have more information to know, frankly, if there was any collusion or conspiracy. not about the president, but perh...