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Bulger case in boston. he's got a sterling reputation. nonetheless, he's been going around the world interviewing people in countries and the only template i can find for what they're doing is it's the george papadopoulos conspiracy tour. i spoke to western intelligence official who said there's no secrets here. they're talking about exactly the things you've been reading in right wing media which is george pop apadopoulos saying h was set up and it was a deep state plot. durham is interviewing fbi officials who are involved in the early stages of this investigation hunting for signs of bias. ...

Pleads and robert mueller indicts 12 intelligence officers and these are just the cliff notes. in all, 100 criminal charges against 32 individuals. dan goldman, i want to start with you. you wrote this piece before the election, talking about the attorney general a moment ago. i'll quote from a little of it, trump could still thwart the investigation and avoid significant backlash by stopping just short of firing mueller. instead he could install a new acting attorney general charged with overseeing the investigation either by replacing sessions or rosen ste rosenstein, or both, a loyalist or ...

Rosenstein has wisely done is he sent this investigation throughout the department of justice. there is some of it in the southern district. there is some of it in the treasury department. it is here, there and everywhere. it makes it hard for trump to get his hands around it. >> thank you. i appreciate your time. >> thank you. when we come back house renes grilliren s -- republicans grilling an official for eight hours. what did they learn?

Minority that is pushing for more oversight of nixon, they can still have an impact on the hearings and extract from a nominee more than you might think. >> you had more oversight of nixon or more of jeff sessions? >> more oversight of trump. >> what would that do to us? is that a constitutional crisis or would that throw us back to the beginning of the investigation? i don't think anyone is exactly sure of what would happen if he did fire the attorney general. >> what will happen is if you got a new attorney general in there is that rosenstein would no longer be in charge of the investigation...

Sessions. he is not going to fire rosen ste rosenstein or mueller. cnn reported the president openly fumed to lawyers that he should fire sessions. if he fired sessions because he wants to end the russian investigation could that be viewed as obstruction of justice? >> it could be. it depends on what he says and what his real motives are. don, one of the things he has to think about is how does he replace the attorney general? that is a position that has to be confirmed by the senate. that during the nixon years when nixon fired his attorney general he put elliot richardson right at the height...