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Agents to be able to know that this was still the agency that they had signed up to join. >> reporter: his dress code as unforgiving as his work ethic. >> he was in the office been 6:00 and 6:30 every morning, and he would always plop his briefcase down on the chair while i was sitting at my desk and not shoot the breeze. immediately what's happening, what's going on? >> reporter: what if you're not a good briefer? >> then you're done. the boss likes a good briefer. they would study for two hours before briefing the boss. >> there wasn't a lot of back and forth. very quickly you're going to go...

Nervousness ever. >> reporter: the pressure is intense but he's seen worse. >> this is man in his early 20s fought in vietnam. >> reporter: mueller grew up in the wealthy philadelphia suburbs and attended an elite boarding school, a classmate of john carrie. then to princeton. >> he was wounded in combat, shot through the leg, received bronze star with valor, purple heart and goes right back in the fight a couple of weeks later. >> i always consider myself fortunate to have lived through the war in vietnam, and there were many men such as david hacket who did not. and in some sense you feel yo...

Were many men such as david hachac hacket who did not. and in some sense you feel you've been given a second lease on life and you want to make the most of it it to contribute in some way. >> reporter: mueller soon found his way to the department of justice and remained there for most of the four decades. >> my colleagues here at the department of justice -- >> reporter: with two short breaks to give private practice a try. >> bob mueller has been notoriously unhappy every time he has tried to be in private practice. you just can't defend guilty plea. they'll meet with a client, they'll explai...

Some way. >> reporter: mueller soon found his way to the department of justice and remained there for most of the four decades. >> my colleagues here at the department of justice -- >> reporter: with two short breaks to give private practice a try. >> bob mueller has been notoriously unhappy every time he has tried to be in private practice. you just can't defend guilty plea. they'll meet with a client, they'll explain his problem, and he'll say, well, it sounds like you should go to jail then. >> reporter: so he'll tell his client -- >> sounds like you're guilty. bob mueller is someone who se...

>> reporter: and in the sights of a president who wanted him fire. >> last week the president back down after the white house counsel threatened to quit. >> reporter: putting mueller in a bizarre position of investigating whether the president tried to fire him. but you'll never hear about it from mueller. >> i mean this is someone who has turned down more press conferences and interviews than most people in washington ever get the chance to give. he doesn't really live talking about himself. he doesn't really like speaking with the press. >> reporter: at the start mueller was a bipartisan fav...