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Lot of the investigations are extraordinarily personal in nature and confined to just we want to get trump and maybe not as focused on a larger question which is where we started. did russia meddle in the election? how did they do it? what is the extent of it? who is involved and most importantly houshgs important importantly, how do we stop them in the future? there is the trump stuff. i get it. but then will is the forward looking, how do we keep russia from interfering in our democracy. >> i believe they did interfear. this is where i trust mueller more than anyone else. i want to know what...

Administration. the house judiciary committee will be grilling the acting attorney general matthew whitaker this friday. when we saw whitaker at his press conference last week, he was sweating profusely claiming the mueller investigation is close to wrapping up. will he be questioned about the comments on friday? >> i have no doubt about it. you know, i ran into a former very senior official who of the justice department who, you know, reaffirm to me the other day just how extraordinary and unusual it was of the acting attorney general to commend on an on going investigation in that manner. th...

Won't come out of the remaining mueller investigation. let's take a breath here and remember that whitaker is right now the acting attorney general because the president of the united states fired the attorney general largely because of a disagreement stemming from the attorney general's allowing this investigation of trump to go forward. that is so serious. and i think we tend to lose sight of that, number one. in untwo, i just want to respond quickly to this idea that these other investigations of trump and his finances and his business are somehow not worthy of our attention because they do...

Press conference last week, he was sweating profusely claiming the mueller investigation is close to wrapping up. will he be questioned about the comments on friday? >> i have no doubt about it. you know, i ran into a former very senior official who of the justice department who, you know, reaffirm to me the other day just how extraordinary and unusual it was of the acting attorney general to commend on an on going investigation in that manner. that is just something that is simply not done. and for it to involve the president of the united states after he fired the attorney general because of...

Devin nunes, who will clearly need to get lawyers, as well, given what we kind of know to be the case, that he was playing fast and funky to assist the trump white house in the previous congress's investigations. >> i wonder, how will a change at the top of the justice department, harry, how will that impact the president? because he went from sessions to whitaker and possibly to barr? >> i think it's largely going to shut down -- as juliet says, you've had the kind of giuliani circus and the pr front. now it's time for some real lawyering. and the white house counsel has brought on some prett...