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Mueller would look at obstruction with the president. if that were true, why would mueller, the guy who has to be the main witness go out in the senate and get slapped around and have credibility called into question? >> mueller understands that consequen congress has a role here. think about the scandals in history. watergate. iran contra. they both had independent counsel investigations and congressional investigations and the same witnesses testified in both. the special counsel does not have the right to say to all of the witnesses, don't say anything. also, james comey has testified many ...

System should play out as the congress as the interest. >> chris. >> just quickly i would add to jeff's point. comey and mueller know each other and have for a long time. i think comey wanted this. every indication is he wanted this opportunity. he quite clearly believed that donald trump had run him down politically. he wanted this chance to defend his reputation. you saw that repeatedly when he talked about the fbi and what trump said and that was not accurate. >> i wonder if some of the sticking with the president isn't just political tribalism, but function of comey's behavior. the guy did...

>> how is that different? asking him to state it differently. asked him to characterize it. the same thing they are looking at now. >> alisyn, that's ridiculous. where is the action? president trump fired the director of the fbi. the guy leading the russia investigation. you know, i thought that was an interesting piece of testimony. the senate intel committee wants to look at it. basically with director comey, the president took an action that had an affect on the investigation. he fired the guy heading the vehicl investigation. what is his intent in taking that action? yesterday's testimony ...

Lawyer cnot prosecutor cannot investigate people who are employees of their former law firms. in fact mueller's former law firm represents jared kushner and paul manafort, two people reportedly part of this investigation, reportedly being looked at for their contacts with russia. would mueller have the ability to investigate them? we'll see. certainly the white house is going to fight this as much as they can. >> i think if that were to happen, it would be a big problem and would turn something already really big into something way bigger. thank you both for joining us. up next, a boxing mat...

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