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It to be productive for the prosecution and afford, by the way, the target of the investigation an opportunity to explain himself, you want to be able to sit in a room like way are now, face-to-face, be able to ask follow-up questions, to be able to nail people down on the specifics of things. >> because a written question would be written by the attorneys? >> i suppose. look, sometimes defense lawyers will submit documents and say would you please consider this stuff. and we wouldn't throw it in the garbage. but it wasn't necessary and relevant to the investigation as actually having the pers...

Written question and answer that answers can be reviewed. putting the president in a room with experienced prosecutors, i think that's fraud material. >> michael zeldon is joining us, one of robert mueller's former aides, legal analyst for us here at cnn. michael zeldon, to you, now knowing that comey sat and was interviewed by the mueller team at some point last year -- and we have talked many, many times about those memos and how he says that trump was asking for comey's loyalty and how the president was pressuring him not to -- you know, to drop the flynn investigation, take us behind those...

Is the blackmail issue. and it's maybe easier to understand in a different context. just imagine if the head of the fbi, for instance, had had an affair, was trying to keep it out of the public eye, was subject to blackmail, we would all think that that's a problem. it's the same problem when you've got either a presidential candidate or the president of the united states. and then the risk that this is not the only incident that he's blackmailable on. there's more, really has to call into question the entire integrity of the administration. it's deeply troubling. don't know why that aspect is...

I think that they are unfortunately in this beltway mentality and starting to hear the volume raised by the republicans and get nervous. and i don't think there has been enough pressure from progressive forces saying they'll be a backlash against you no matter how marginal they may think in their states, there is an active backlash and there must be a price and schumer is caught between that. i think the volume has to be louder among progressives if you get out of line, you will have a lot of consequences in terms of the election in your state. because we're talking about very fundamental basi...

Reviewed both by the fbi and inside of the justice department, by career committed people. prosecutors don't have any interest in pulling a fast one on the court. the probable cause standard clearly makes it appropriate to incorporate information from something like the steele dossier along with other sources. this is a lot of hull a ba loo about nothing at the end of the day. although congress does have a legitimate oversight function to perform here, it shouldn't be a politicized one. >> and, evan, it very clearly is and has been, i want to ask you a serious question. so, during the bush yea...