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Talk about conflicts. he was interviewing for the job. >> so, robert, this is about the fact that president trump spoke to bob mueller about the job of leading the fbi. a job he's had in the past. he is now suggesting to the new york times that that presents a conflict in his investigation into russian interference in the election and any relationship the trump campaign to that. in your mind, can you figure out where that conflict would lie? >> no. there is no conflict. the conflict traditionally involve family members, monetary conflicts and so forth. this idea would get nowhere with anybody....

Government to help tip the election is not very america first. the idea that a 39-year-old businessman who is grew up in manhattan, traveled the world, doesn't understand that taking help from a russian government in a u.s. election is just wrong? maybe he doesn't know its potentially illegal but just doesn't know it's wrong that it's not the right thing to do. that doesn't pass the smell test. if it gets to the point bob mueller wants to bring a case that won't look compelling to the jury what i would imagine. >> what we have is whether it's more than wrong. we'd love it if the president woul...

That i have seen. >> okay. well afterwards he clarified telling nbc news the vice president had no meetings with any individuals associated with the russian government during the campaign or transition. it's a little vague that could open the door to meeting someone not associated with the russian government or someone in that other meeting. >> my son a wonderful young man. he took a meeting with a russian lawyer. not a government lawyer, but a russian lawyer. >> robert deets is a former senior counsel to the cia director and a form interest general at the n. is flt a matthew mill era spoke pe...

Second, we have a special counsel that's doing an investigation over at justice department. we have an investigation here in the house. we have an investigation in the senate. i think it's very important that these professionals in these committees do their jobs so that we can get to the bottom of all of this. casey. >> mr. speaker, would you accept a meeting with a representative -- >> i'm not going to go into hypotheticals. >> would you accept a meeting with somebody who said i information from a foreign adversary who would help you beat your campaign opponent. >> i'm not going to go into hy...

Criminal law the way that everyone else is. so to the extent that there are statutes that he broke, then he could be held responsible for them. i don't think in this case that this meeting and the e-mails leading up to it in and of themselves are enough for criminal charges or i should just say i don't think the department of adjust would bring such charges, but certainly to the extent that this is kind of the opening salvo in a conspiracy that he joined to help the are russians in meddling the election, he'll be are responsible the way that any person can be responsible. >> robert, you've giv...