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Well, a good sunday morning, everybody. for nearly two months, we have heard little from special counsel robert mueller, nor have we heard much about mueller from president trump. they both went quiet. it is possible the silence has worked in mr. trump's favor. the midterm exit poll found that 46% of those polled disapproved of mueller's handling of the russia investigation. that's of course almost exactly equal to the president's job rating. and the republicans house vote share. just 41% approved of the mueller probe. but with the midterm elections over, the president unloaded this week on mu...

Hillary clinton. and even pressure the justice accident to name a second special counsel to investigate her. >> why in the world we would be so sanguine about this and allow it to happen is beyond me. >> and retiring republican senator jeff flake is making it clear he won't vote for any more judicial nominees from the until the senate votes on a bill to protect mueller's job. >> he suggested ways to diminish it, to starve it of funding, for example. >> and there is this threat from democrats. >> if whitaker does not recuse himself, we democrats are going to attempt to add legislation to the mu...

Capitol hill and democrats believe that mr. mueller should be allowed to do his job. and i have no indication he is going to be interfered with at all. >> i know you have said you would support this bill, this mueller, essentially, the mueller protection bill, i think you voted for it, in committee. >> yes. >> in the judiciary. democrats have talked about connecting it to the spending bill. and using their votes in the house that will be needed as leverage. do you support that move? >> not really. but i think mitch should bring it to the floor and let's vote on it. jeff flake says he is not go...

Questions at all from mueller which he acknowledged doing this week. whatever the reason the president is turning up the temperature on the special counsel, just as the prospect of a government shutdown gets linked to over whether we want to protect mueller from the president. >> what is your answer to the special counsel? >> we do it next week. they are all done. >> president trump revealing after nearly a year of negotiations, he has answered written questions from robert mueller. >> i wrote the answers. my answers don't write answers. i write answers. >> mr. trump accused prosecutors of set...

We don't know why he did the written answers. did he do it under threat of subpoena? did he do it because he knows a subpoena is coming, it is not coming? mueller hasn't spoken. that is a big reminder here. >> there has clearly been some back and forth of the questions. which you would expect of any special counsel. and any president. but i think the most under-discussed story is up to this point, despite trump pounding on mueller, constantly, the white house has cooperated with this probe, and i think it is really impossible to shutter the probe at this point because if you fire mueller he wi...