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To what julia just mentioned, though, the people who go to work every day, how does any of this affect what you know about the mueller people and the mueller investigation? well, the investigation, brian, is to protect our country. it s not to go after any one person in any political party. it s really to protect against russian intrusion in our democratic process. and notwithstanding whether the russian aggression in this particular campaign favored a republican or undermined a democrat, it undermined our democracy and undermined democracy itself. and so i think the way the professionals at doj and frankly throughout our national security establishment view this is that they view themselves on the front lines of protecting our country. they re not looking at this through the political lens of who it favors or who it hurts in our political system. they want to protect our country. ashley, is this a strategy or a shiny object or that rare animal that is both? i think it can be bot ....
Behavior we d expect in a banana republic, not a mature democracy. by now we should all recognize that president trump s latest demand is just another example of a relentless campaign to distract from the serious wrongdoing being uncovered by the russia probe. now, among republicans on the hill, there was a range of reactions. senator jeff flake, an outspoken and almost out of town trump opponent, was cautious. for the president to order the doj to investigate someone or something is simply not appropriate. i have my own questions whether that s constitutional. all the remedies, the real remedies, are on the back side, and we don t want to get there. so we d just encourage the president not to do this and for the doj to stand up and say, no, this isn t appropriate. over in the house, republican mark meadows, who heads the freedom caucus, welcomed the ....