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An important point. they're going to control the process. the mandate to the special counsel only assumes that when they're done, they give a report to the attorney general or the acting attorney general, the deputy attorney general at that time -- >> whatever. >> -- who's overseeing the probe, but not to the american people. and if the president wants to put out a rebuttal, that's fine, but they'd better not taking out any of the things in the mueller report. >> i think it's important, and a lot of folks are questioning the attorney general. the attorney general owes it to the president and a...

That was about. the question is, why do so many people around this president feel the need to lie about russia? and why does he feel the need to be so sympathetic to vladimir putin's cause? are they connected? we may learn more on one or both this week. now, to be sure, mueller seems to have a method at play, all right? just look back to this past indictment in february against a russian troll farm, all right? and you'll see the pattern. so, what mueller does is he announces that three internet research agency employees travel to the u.s. in 2014, all right? so, two of them get indicted, but t...

Discussing was whether the president would tell someone to lie under oath. >> of course he would. >> and that is very different from all the things that we've accused of president of, sometimes justifiably, in the last couple of years. >> all right, fair enough. but here's what happens. so, this is the main concern, christine. i want to get a sense from both of you about this. this has been dismissed by the president and his supporters as not worthy of probity. there's no reason to be looking at this. >> i agree. >> but why do they keep lying about it, christine? that's what i don't get. to ri...

And then the president claims, without evidence, that mueller, a lifelong republican, respected by the party, is corrupt, and he only wants lies. first, messing with the man you're trying to negotiate with is never good. but second, if it's lies that mueller is looking for, well, it's certainly lies that he has exposed. if you take a look at this, all the fire and fury from the president is coming after the man at the center of his business and the man at the center of his campaign were both revealed as lying to the government. one definitely did so to cover for the president's double speak ab...

With the criminal probe. you heard jim schultz, former white house counsel, arguing that that's just him lauding, praising somebody who helped him. okay. remember the president who once said it takes a strong man to duck telling the truth to a prosecutor? me either, because no president has ever said anything like that until now. and then the president claims, without evidence, that mueller, a lifelong republican, respected by the party, is corrupt, and he only wants lies. first, messing with the man you're trying to negotiate with is never good. but second, if it's lies that mueller is lookin...