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Fred, because technically the president is the head, the boss of the justice department. so he can order certain investigations. now, customarily presidents don't do this, they kind of stay back and let justice do what it's supposed to do. and if he orders such an investigation, it's opening pandora's box, in my view, because first of all, the investigation wouldn't necessarily involve an investigation of what mueller was doing and whether mueller's investigation was due in part to an illegal infiltration of the trump campaign. so i think what would have to happen mechanically is you would nee...

Potential implications? sdp >> i don't see the implication that it's going to help the president in the long run. i see it as possible additional counterobstruction of justice. remember, the big problem is proving obstruction of justice, if he was running this organization to negate things later found out by mueller, it sounds like he was trying to kill the investigation by doing this. i think it's a dangerous move by the president. >> interesting. you heard congressman fred lieu of california said any kind of infiltration, or if there was an informant having dialogue with any kind of aide of ...

President cannot, should not be indicted because the because has things of national security other pressing issues that he has to deal with and he is in a unique position. that was reaffirmed by the clinton administration. their justice department. but erin, that has never been challenged. it has never been challenged in court and it has never been attempted. therefore that's why it hasn't been challenged. so it was an open question. whether mueller, depending on what he found, whether he finds anything worthy of indict iing e president of the united states, would try to challenge that. what g...

Questions. we'll see what we get from the president and his lawyers. >> white house has some explaining to do. there was no white house press briefing today so they couldn't explain much. >> i think it's worth going back to the very top of the show where the news was broke here from dana bash about the fact we're not going to see an indictment from mueller. here is why that's important. we talk about the strategy from the trump campaign. let's look beyond the legalities of that. could you imagine a sitting president in an election year under indictment from the deep state. that would tear the ...

Lines after 9/11 when he was leading the fbi was even under all of that stress, he would say i'm still getting more sleep than i ever did in vietnam. >> you also point out in your interview just how different the paths are that mueller and president trump have taken throughout their lives, which is quite obvious. >> yeah, and this is sort of one of the almost shakespearean aspects of this tale. you mentioned thursday is a one-year anniversary of mueller's appointment. their lives started in sort of similar ways and their paths diverged when mueller went into vietnam. mueller medaling and trump...