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Respected. i don't think that democrats in bloc will not support his nomination. you'll get all the republicans there anyway. he is the longest serving u.s. attorney at the justice department right now. as you said, he's also very well respected. he's really become a proxy in this battle right now with the trump administration. >> and clearly they're not there yet, alex, in terms of the justice department is not there to say, they are going towards a special prosecutor. do you get a sense where the tipping point would be that there would be outcry or enough pressure from capitol hill that the ...

Softened his testimony about whether he confided about will he used hgh. they are trying to avoid a mistrial. >> when you have big high profile cases and a jury doesn't convict or a judge throws it out for some reason, it really raises questions about whether the government is putting its resources in the right location and whether they really have a good sense of what is worth prosecuting and what isn't. >> reporter: this time around the justice department has more than double the number of prosecutors on the case. though the government is still fielding a smaller than the defense team. >> th...

Putting its resources in the right location and whether they really have a good sense of what is worth prosecuting and what isn't worth prosecuting. >> reporter: clemens is accused of lying to congress under oath about using performance-enhancing drugs. a mistrial was delareed in the original case because of a mistake by the justice department, but attorney general eric holder says this is a case worth retrying. >> the charges there are serious ones. it's about testifying falsely before congress. on that basis, i think it was a justified use of our resources to bring the case. >> reporter: the...