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Matter and who had been a great help to me over that week and told him what was happening. he said i will meet you at the hospital. >> they had to race administration officials to the bedside. >> director mueller instructed the fbi agents not to allow me to be removed from the room under any circumstances. >> in the end, ashcroft backed them. >> he enlisted bob mueller because he knew bob mueller had this incredible non-partisan reputation in washington, while comey might be able to be personally blamed for having political motives or thinking politics, no one was going to be able to attach th...

But you'll never hear about it from mueller. >> i mean this is someone who has turned down more press conferences and interviews than most people in washington ever get the chance to give. he doesn't really like talking about himself. he doesn't really like speaking with the press. >> reporter: at the start, mueller was a bipartisan favorite. >> he would have been on anybody's list of, let's say, the top five people in the country to have, you know, taken on this kind of a responsibility. >> we all need to let mr. mueller do his job. i think he's the right guy at the right time. >> reporter: w...

Interfering in the 2016 presidential election, and he has obtained guilty pleas from five people for various charges, including michael flynn, president trump's first national security adviser, and rick gates, the former deputy chairman of the trump campaign. what's more, there is no sign that mueller's investigation is coming to a close. here is cnn's gloria borger with the first of a two-part profile of a man who once headed the fbi. >> reporter: special counsel robert mueller is a mystery man, perhaps the most private public figure in washington. but as the leader of the russia investigatio...

De-escalation training is something that is part of police training in practical every city across the united states now. what these officers did of course is not an example of that. they did just the opposite. they actually caused a situation to elevate even higher. i think to keep it in perspective, though, you know, police officers have contact with citizens every single day. they arrest people every day. they take some very dangerous people off the street, including those that are armed, and there's no injury to the cop, no injury to the citizen. but when you have instances like this, you ...

Mueller has a long history in official washington, especially during one incident under john ashcroft. >> by 2004 mule are weller was the fbi. it was the first time mueller and comey would find themselves in a very controversial legal drama. >> i was very upset. i was angry. >> comey was worried the bush administration was determined to keep an eavesdropping program that they thought was illegal. a ashcroft was in the hospital leaving comey in charge. >> i was concerned that given how ill i knew the attorney general was that there might be an effort to ask him to overrule me when he was in no ...