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So the risk is that he will be forced to answer questions or take the fifth. and that is -- both of them are considerable risks. but there are risks to mueller as well. because a lengthy, lengthy fight while he is being accused by the president and others of a witch hunt is not a pleasant experience for him. >> i once spoke with robert wray into the to long ago and he said something i haven't forgotten, when a special counsel loses the public support, it is a real problem and that is what the president is trying to do with robert mueller and discredit him and his team and it is a political arg...

Russia collusion and bob mueller conducts his investigation? yes, i do. can congress walk and chew gum at the same time? i sure hope so. >> i did all those, for those watching "the beat" closely, i promised robert a rye buttebuttn earlier point, we'll get to that, neera tanden's with us, and i want to bring in a former ethics lawyer for george w. bush. you have been involved in many aspects of this. i mentioned robert's bona fidis. just so we're clear on who's coming from where, but your view legally and from a national security perspective about what we just learned about republicans in the h...

Attempted reconstruction for the consumption on the right. and the alternative narrative is the dnc funded this thing and sent some garble to russia and got some garbled stuff. and that went to the courts and that went to the fbi and that proves the russia investigation. that's what you see being eaten up on fox and on twitter. and they're hoping maybe this one narrow aspect of the russia application which is the fisa application for carter page will look so bad that it will unpack. it's unlikely that he is so important or central to the investigation that that will happen. but they want to ha...

>> reports are correct that president trump sought to have mueller fired, then his public denial would be false, so would that be grounds for impeachment? >> i think lying to the american people is a serious issue that has to be explored. i take lying to the american people very, very seriously. so absolutely. >> want to bring in robert wray who succeeded kenneth starr. robert, you look at this kind of point from ken starr, who had at once defended mueller, then seemed to turn on him. now seems to be striking this line. if donald trump ordered the white house counsel to get mueller fired, as t...

We appreciate it. joining us now, phil mudd, and robert wray, former independent counsel on the whitewater investigation. this release of just how cooperative they have been, i think that seems to be the message here, we put forward all these people, we turned over all these documents, what message are they sending and why is it important? >> i think the administration, the message they want to send and they're getting better at sending it is that they hope to wrap this investigation up sooner rather than later. the only way that that's possible, of course, is that they have to both appear t...