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The i hope you can interpret whether or not that means you better do this and how to phrase it, but if he had said at the end of the day, your job is to do your job, i don't think we would be having this discussion today. i have never seen another presidency do that. in clinton white house when april and i were covering that white house, they walled off the lewinsky investigation from the policy side. >> david, you wanted to get in. >> i would say, your latter point, second point, i'm in favor, i believe they should wall off this investigation and never speak about it again and talk infrastruc...

Republicans and democrats think highly of mueller, is also not going to aqueous to this further interference in the russia investigation. >> he appointed the -- got the special counsel just recently. you said congress would just step in if this was done, congress would re-establish the independent counsel statute. are you confident republicans would go along with that? >> i think the pressure on republicans would be even too much for them to resist. i hope it doesn't come to that, we're tested this way. i hope i'm not wrong about this. at some point, republicans have to stand up and speak and ...

I think you are right. i would hope you are right that jeff sessions would tell the president, number one, this is a bad idea, number two, i recused myself and number three, if you make me do this, i will quit. it would fall to rod rosenstein. having spoken so highly of mueller and republicans and democrats think highly of mueller, is also not going to acquiesce to this further interference in the russia investigation. >> he appointed the -- got the special counsel just recently. you said congress would just step in if this was done, congress would re-establish the independent counsel statute....

Mueller -- he is a decorated combat veteran from vietnam. a marine corps officer. i don't think he is the type that wilts easily. i will go back to a point that was raised earlier by jeffrey toobin there on the panel about conflicts, whether or not director mueller has conflicts in his law firm or whether he has conflicts because of his close personal relationship with director comey. they have been friends for over 15 years. comey is a star witness here. they have been very, very close allies, battle buddies. i don't know what the terminology has been used in the past. there may be a conflict...

You see it? >> there was an interesting line in donald trump junior's phraseology there that had the president said it, he might be in less trouble today. it was that line, but you have to go off and do your job. had he offered that -- had comey said that he heard that, had the president said, but i added that, then i think it might have relieved a bit of the pressure. the question isn't really just the i hope you can interpret whether or not that means you better do this and how to phrase it, but if he had said at the end of the day, your job is to do your job, i don't think we would be havin...