and robert mueller can have them. we have a congress that spent millions of dollars going through hillary clinton's e-mails. that's my taxpayer money. they are arguing that robert mueller can't take a look at e-mails from the trump transition team. that argument makes absolutely no sense. and what he is investigating is collaboration with the russians. this is critically important to our national security. robert mueller stays in place or donald trump is going to have to go. it's that simple. >> two things, then, on the issue of mueller being removed. that would be a really big problem. there are lots of rumors floating around. and then the e-mails. richard says it's not illegal and that it's not private property as the transition team alleges. you do see a problem in which it may have been obtained. >> i am critical of how the special counsel handled getting the e-mails. i think the gsa, government owns the e-mails. i don't think there is an expectation of privacy. >> the transition team says there was an understandi

mott he said robert mueller must be able to continue his investigation without interference from the white house. this is ten minutes. >> arrives today concerned about the threats of the special counsel's critical investigation of russian interference in the election. the last several weeks a growing course of irresponsible and reckless voices have called for president trump to said tone the investigation. have first, these calls came from the fringes of our political discourse, those who would refuse to put our country and security for base political instincts. earlier many of my colleagues on both sides of the aisle were right to push back on these misdirected calls and urge the special counsel to his job without interference. however, in recent weeks those voices seem to be growing. just this weekend one major news organization suggested special counsel mueller could be involved in a coup against the president. one senior advisor at the white house has no alleged that it was -- against donald trump at the beginning. the statements are reckless and inappropriate and extremely worry

the fact is robert mueller has impeccable credentials as a man of the law. he has assembled a team that includes somebe of the nation's best investigators, and is leading the investigation with the professionalism it deserves. mr. mueller is a dedicated vietnam war veteran, and a lifelong republican. appointed to his current role by deputy attorney general rod rosenstein, also republican. in fact, all of the major players to date inn this investigation, former director comey, current fbi director wray, rod rosenstein and even attorney general sessions was had to recuse himself are all republicans. the charges, the charges some have made that summer democratic political bias have crept into this investigation are baseless given the makeup of the leadership team. in recent weeks much has been made of some political opinions expressed by an fbi agent during the election last year. this argumentco conveniently ignores the fact that as soon as mr. mueller learned about these comments, he immediately removed that agent in question from the investigation. if anythi

and robert mueller would not have given him that deal, zero to six months, likely only serving probation unless he knew he had valuable information in exchange for that. and you don't give that deal until you sit down and proffer with the attorney and debrief with the defendant to understands what they have to offer. he likely has had a lot of information. and one of those questions, those 18 days are probably critically important because we at the end of that period the request for president trump to jim comey, can't you see your way clear to letting this go, i hope you can see your way clear to letting this go. and that corrupt intent, that is so important, what did he know at that time? did he know that flynn had lied to the fbi at that moment because he already had, did trump know that? if he did, that means he knew he was asking comey to let a crime go when he was asking him to let that thing go against flynn. did he further know about the underlying conversations with the russian ambassador that was the basis of those false statements. and did he further know who else might be impl

robert mueller is a loyal american. he's a republican, and it's a lie being perpetrated by president trump and his supporters in congress. nobody who knows robert mueller buys into any of it. it's just fox news and the president's twitter feed. >> but it's clear what they're trying to do here, not maybe say okay, robert mueller himself, you know, has some agenda, but perhaps it's his judgment. he brings on people who donated to the democratic parties. peter strzok, who he took out of the investigation, was texting anti-trump bias texts. do you see that kind of -- do you see that play, richard? >> no, i think he took him out as soon as he found out about the texts. he got rid of him. of course, you're going to have people who contributed to the campaigns who work at the justice department and elsewhere. every u.s. attorney is going to be a supporter of president trump, and would have been active in his campaign, and the u.s. attorneys under president obama were supportive of democratic campaigns and mepamericans are inve

as most people might remember, robert mueller is a republican. it's interesting to see republicans say he's so partisan because he's not a democrat. i think what people are starting to feel is that the president is coming to the end of being reserved on robert mueller. his lawyers have been telling him for months now that this investigation was going to be wrapped up by the end of the year. there's only four or five more days left. it's clear this is going to continue. donald trump has said over and over again he wanted this to be narrowly focused but most investigations as people know can go into finances. look at mike flynn and others and it's essentially you can see that finances are definitely getting mixed into this. you can understand that the president's worried whether or not his children will be implicated. there's something to be said when you have republicans starting to pick apart robert mueller before the president said anything formally. >> yamiche, i want to ask you about your colleagues reporting on the incendiary comments the pre

robert mueller is a republican. he has been applauded by republicans on both sides of the aisle and he was appointed by president bush. those who serve in high places, the fbi director and a republican made many contributions to republican candidates. there is an effort under way to besmerch this. we are politicians. we smell rats. we smell a rat and are speaking up about it. >> the argument i heard about people plugged in is this effort by republicans and critics of the mueller investigation is that yes, besmerch them and press a charge of collusion. that's against the president raising questions about his integrity. sort of similar. i'm old enough to remember during the ken star investigation of then president clinton. he was investigating and there was a lot of efforts by supporters to besmerch ken star and go after him in case he came up with charges, they would be weakened and the political ramifications would be reduced. what's your reaction? >> that's a historical reference. we have only one independent couns

get rid of robert mueller. >> he's not. i talked to the president, he's not. >> reporter: and now when i asked the house chairman bob goodlet about the criticisms focussing on the mueller, the clinton e-mail issue, he said look, this is something we announced a couple months ago. this is the investigation we're going to do looking into fbi interference, possible fbi bias and that's why we're looking into this right now. he said it's the first of several witnesses they want to interview, wolf. >> all right, manu, thank you very much. >>> joining us now, democratic congressman eric squallwell of washington. he's a member of intelligence and judiciary committees. thanks for joining us. >> of course wolf, thanks for having me back. >> you heard your chairman and the house intelligence committee chairman devin nunez tells cnn, it's not a secret his words that we have an investigation into the justice department. you serve on that committee. so who is participating in this nunez effort? >> we don't know, wolf. but what we do know

if special counsel robert mueller feels that this agreement is not broad enough. if he feels he needs to expand his remit, if he wants clause 2 to manage directly or indirectly, can he request an expansion and who does he request it from? also, what resorts will he have. we're told already that robert mueller is bringing with him to had this job, his chief paragraph at a asasharyu from that school with him. how many people does he get to hire? and who and we're funding both research why is will the special council make a publi. he says, i'll do my best, and then he disappears for months and years, while we the public and congress are kept in the dark as to whatever it is that he is doing. i believe these are all answerable questions. we're going to try to answer as many of them as we can over the course of this hour. joining me now is sari whorowit. >> very happy to have you here. >> thank you for having me, andrea. >> do you know how it's, whether or not this is a properly investigated investigation. >> yes. huge news. the attorney rod rosenstein was so you asked

but robert mueller has been very smart. only charged michael flynn with one count. meaning that state prosecutors could go after michael flynn for other alleged crimes michael flynn engaged in and the president cannot pardon him for those crimes. >> why do you think it would be obstruction of justice if the president pardons michael flynn? he has the authority to issue pardons? >> he does unless the reason is to prevent negative information from coming to the president. then in that case you are trying to use the pardon power to effect investigations against your self. now, it's clear that no one knows what's going to happen. this will be a constitutional crisis. it's a gray air yachlt i can say the president is doing a lot of things in constitutional gray area but in my view it would be obstruction of justice. >> they asked the chairman to issue subpoena toss the trump campaign to get information from those data analysts to see if they have any contacts who are working with data analysts work with the trump campaign, any contacts with wikileaks or any foreign actor

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do you get the sense that his opinion of robert mueller's fairness is contingent on robert mueller not finding anything damaging with him? >> well, it's hard to say. i think that he was sending a signal that okay, i'm going to quit criticizing this investigation and let the chips fall where they may. as you know, this has been going on previous to robert mueller being appointed. so after 16 months, we don't have a single thread of evidence that even suggests there was collusion. we have some people who lied to the fbi. we have some people who broke some campaign finance disclosure laws, but nothing that indicates there was collusion. i think the president at this point, he's realizing what the american people are realizing, this investigation is leading to nowhere, and it probably should be wrapped up soon. >> one of the issues here is that collusion as a criminal charge doesn't exist. there may not be proof of conspiracy yet. collusion, small c, was there collusion, was donald trump, jr. colluding with people on the basis of the promise of dirt on the hillary clinton campaign. i under

and i commend to your attention these are actually the issues robert mueller is grappling with. but i made an effort to boil it down for you, particularly now that i only have 3 1/2 minutes left. if an individual, any individual including the president of the united states because in our system no person is above the law. if any individual attempts to interfere with, block, frustrate or otherwise impede a criminal investigation with corrupt intent, then that is obstruction of justice in a nutshell. the most critical question is what is corrupt intent? and the case law, it's been ruled on by all of our u.s. circuits. the case law is very interesting because it goes right to the heart of ethical, of moral questions that lay just underneath the criminal law. just underneath all those lengthy provisions in 18 united states code are a set of moral questions. obstruction of justice, corrupt intent is addressed by the courts as there's no cookie cutter. there's no simple test. it is evil or wrongful intent in taking an action. so if a president fires an fbi director because the preside

but i think it's very clear that robert mueller and his team are doing very serious work. they are not, i think, anywhere near done. i think what we have to ensure is that they have the resources the they need to do this job completely and thoroughly, and that they're protected, most importantly, from my political interference or anyone attempting to impede or in any way influence the outcome of this investigation. >> your fellow democrat in congress, jackie spear said over the weekend, these are her words, on december 22nd, on friday, when we are out of d.c., he, being the president, was going to fire bob mueller. she says that. you hear this line a lot from democrats. and the president, himself, is asked, are you going to fire bob mueller yesterday, he said no. rod rosenstein was asked, have you got any indication that the president will try to fire mueller through you? he said no. you know, what about those that say this is democrats just playing politics here? >> well, look, i don't know the basis of jackie speier's assertion, but the reality is that bob mueller and th

steps to get rid of robert mueller? >> he's not. i talked to the president. he's not. >> reporter: so some confidence there he's not going to take steps to fire robert mueller even as democrats are sounding the alarms that he very much could. but clearly though, brooke, interesting that this hearing today focusing on the clinton email investigation, the republicans concerns that it was not handled properly by the fbi, and we are told that this is probably the beginning of this new investigation looking into the clinton email inquiry. the first witness andy mccabe behind closed doors. there will be others as republicans look to go down this route come 2018. brooke? >> manu, thank you. more on that warning, senate intelligence committee, senator mark warren, he is calling on congress to draw a line in the sand in the president even attempts to oust robert mueller. >> i believe it is up to every member of this institution, republican or democrat, to make a clear and unambiguous statement that any attempt by this president

-- special counsel robert mueller has to go. here's what congressman francis rooney told us last year. >> the unfortunate thing is that mr. mueller has had such a distinguished career and he got into this thing, it's become so hopelessly partisan and compromised the way he picked -- the kind of staff that he picked and some of the horrible things coming out of the fbi, the department of justice. he picked a team that has given 12 times as much money to democrats as republicans so it's hardly a balanced team. it's just inevitable that sooner or later some things will come out of those people who were so highly partisan. one of them worked for hillary clinton. one worked for the hillary clinton foundation and eric holder. that's not a balanced investigative team. >>> also new today, insight into the partisan divide in the russia investigations in the congress. here's what mike quigley said earlier on msnbc on what's driving this tension and why he thinks republicans have turned on special counsel robert mueller. >> i feel on a con

not about robert mueller. this is the american criminal justice system at work. as it goes forward during an investigation it's largely behind closed doors to protect the privacy of the people we investigate, but after cases are brought, there is no process that's more transparent or accountable than an actual criminal prosecution. so the public will see what's happening, and so i think putting all of this sort of focus on mueller misses the point, that this is actually how our system works and there is a mechanism of accountability and transparency in the courts and with lawyers. >> are you worried about the credibility? i was talking about this with senator cardin. when you have an agent and find out there are text messages where they are calling the person that they're investigating an idiot and saying derogatory things about him. stakes are so high right now. we are living in very partisan times. very angry times where anyone's looking for any opening. does it concern you that there has been an opening giv

all of those things i think make him a person of great interest for robert mueller. no doubt they're looking at him. maybe he's done nothing wrong and no doubt he's somebody when's a subject of this investigation. >> let's listen what house democrat jackie spear said about this feeling, this rumor out there about the special prosecutor being fired. obviously, this is part of what pushed mark warner to go to the senate floor to make that statement today. let's listen to this. >> so, it was rumor i had heard last week and i was troubled by it because it all sort of fit in to pieces like a jigsaw puzzle. it sort of made sense to me in that we would probably be out of session. it would be the kind of thing that was very similar to what happened when then president nixon had the saturday night massacre. >> david, you can understand why the democrats are concerned. >> you can certainly understand it. you can see the affect of this on republican opinion. just over the past four months, bob mueller's negatives driven up, nearly doubled among republicans in the country but do

we have yet to hear from robert mueller and the team what's going on. jen, you also worked a transition. jason miller told us he had no expectation of privacy. assume you didn't have any expectation of privacy in the campaign you worked on, why make this argument if you're part of the trump transition team, is this just politics to muddy the waters? >>, of course, it's politics. i remember our lawyers saying, all of your e-mails are going to go to a dot gof server. they're neither private or privileg privileged. i would guess that's what every team has been told since there was e-mail. there was there was an orchestrated attack to firing mueller. yes, president trump said he wasn't going to do that now, one thing we've learned is not to believe what he said, what everybody should be worried about is if he takeszxr+ steps fire mueller when congress is out of session. members of congress won't be here, the judiciary won't be here. >> one thing i don't understand is the democrats saying the president is going to fire robert mueller. jackie spear and adam

it is interesting sort of how robert mueller has played this, right. certainly there was a proffer agreement in which he explains, you know, lots -- michael flynn explained lots and lots of facts. now he's pled guilty. imagine the president pardons him. mueller's team could still hold him to the agreement. if he has been pardoned he no longer has a fifth amendment right to not talk. if he pardons flynn, he could still use the sworn grand jury or proffered testimony to get him to testify against all of the facts he has already revealed. this is sort of an interesting and pretty clever position they've now put flynn in the larger trump -- >> so the president could pardon flynn but still use flynn to potentially prosecute others is what you are saying? >> right. because as part of the plea agreements, you know, you proffer very, very detailed sets of facts, you know, in order to show exactly what your cooperation might look like. >> what your value is. >> oftentimes those are offered before a grand jury, so it is actually sworn statements. >> wow. so, of

president, please don't say anything controversy about robert mueller. he was just sitting at his golf club and managed to refrain from saying what could get him in hot water, and he took an opportunity, no staff or handlers around him, and still -- >> and he talked to a reporter. >> and the positivity towards mueller made me think he must have shot well on the golf course. >> he also potentially, you know, kind of dismantled this case that republicans on talk radio, on another cable network, on capitol hill have been making to try and chip away at the credibility of robert mueller. >> i think we are giving him way too much credit. i don't think he was a bad guy because he didn't have to be the bad guy. you are right, fox news is doing it and republicans are doing it and he can take the high road on this case and wait it out. >> i want to show aquo quote he gave about relationships with republicans on the hill. i have great relationships with 97% of the republican congressmen, and first of all, i love the 97% stat, and i am interested who he considers th

that's why we have people like robert mueller, the cia. and they're going to be doing their job, and members of congress better understand they've got to back off and let our fbi, our cia find out what's been going on so this never happens again. >> richard painter, good to see you again. a former ethics lawyer for president george bush. >>> coming up president trump has denied or down-played russian hacking at every opportunity. but the problem didn't begin with with president trump. one of our next guests says we should expect more and right now the russians are winning when "the 11th hour" continues. >>> if putin likes donald trump, i consider that an asset not a liability because we have a horrible relationship with russia. if putin likes donald trump, guess what, folks? that's called an asset not a liability. now, i don't know that i'm going to get along with vladimir putin. i hope i do. yesterday i received a call from president putin of russia thanking our country for the intelligence that our cia was able to provide them concerning

is on recess to either undermine the investigation or fire robert mueller. he says that he wanted to make this speech today to raise concerns, put this on lawmakers' radar before they go home for recess. particularly republican lawmakers who may not be focussing on this as they've been focussing on their tax bill instead. so mark warner just moments ago, wolf, saying very clearly that he wants republicans also to speak out if president trump takes this action and fires robert mueller. this is what he said. >> i believe it is up to every member of this institution, republican or democrat, to make a clear and unambiguous statement that any attempt by this president to remove special counsel mueller from his position or to pardon key witnesses in any effort to shield them from accountability or shut down the investigation would be a gross abuse of power and a flagrant violation of executive branch responsibilities and authorities. >> reporter: now, earlier this week, wolf, i did ask senate intelligence chairman richard burr if he shared concerns that robert mue

robert mueller investigation. at the same time, there are people who believe that if the president firing robert mueller, that it will set into motion a political chain of events that will be even more damaging to the white house than when the president fired former fbi director james comey. it's a thought that perhaps instead of firing robert mueller there will be this consistent effort to try to discredit every aspect of this investigation in the same way that we've seen that these claims that the e-mails were obtained illegally. i think lawyers would know that e-mails that are served by a third party don't have the same protections as other e-mails. they would also know that someone like robert mueller who has done this for a long time and is a pro would not go and seeing in evidence a way that he couldn't use it in court. and you can tell, they didn't go to a judge, they didn't go to the deputy attorney general, they went to congress with this complaint. it seems more of a messaging and discrediting campaign t

i asked christopher wray, did robert mueller only hire people who hate the president? every day we are firing more and more people who expressed their dislike of the president. but hillary clinton never faced a serious investigation it seems as though hillaries folks were the ones making the decisions about her outcomes. and it's still hillaries folks persecuting the president. lou: i think the american people are awaken together reality about the claims against robert mueller. not a single republican on the team anywhere at least that we could find. >> it's not like there is not enough prosecutors in our system. we have a bevy of highly qualified people. they just don't happen to be the people investigating our president. mueller was praising people who were actively defying the president of the united states. this is ludicrous. the american people cannot accept a rigged system where you have got people biased against the president. the fact that today christopher wray wouldn't tell us whether the fbi paid for the dossier against the president with taxpayer money. he

to me, a strategy of just turning over hundreds of -- relying on the innate fairness of robert mueller is a foolish strategy. i think we have to see what comes out of general flynn's plea deal. general flynn has said a senior member of the president's transition team directed him to contact the russian ambassador to set up a meeting. a perfectly legal action on general flynn's part. muellermr. comey -- mr. is preparing an indictment of others. it's interesting to me that if mr. mueller should proceed against the president, it appears it would be some kind of process related indictment, perjury, obstruction, nothing related specifically to collusion with the russians to affect the outcome of the elections host:. do you think there's anything in the president's tax returns the kavitha charges? stone: i do not. i have long fought that perhaps the president is not putting tax returns out because the total income law would be extraordinary for the rest of us , perhaps not as large as some people might expect. to the campaign, i've long thought the president should put his tax returns out to

cnn learns president trump's lawyers will be sitting down with special counsel robert mueller as soon as next week. where is mueller's investigation headed now? >>> blaming the bureau. president trump renews his attacks on the fbi while on his way to speak to a graduating class of law enforcement trainees. the president tells reporters it's a shame what happened under previous leaders and insists people are very, very angry about what happened. why is he attacking the bureau at the same time his own people are under investigation? >>> and kim's missing man. a top north korean general believed to be second only to the leader kim jong-un hasn't been seen for months. did he offend his notoriously fickle leader? i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> this is cnn breaking news. >>> we're following multiple breaking stories. this hour, congressional republicans are set to release the final version of their tax cut plan. among the last-minute compromises, an increase to the child tax credit, fulfilling a demand by senator marco rubio. rubio and another key republican, tennesse

mueller. there's no question that republicans are weaponizing those questions, but it's important that observers of this not conflate questions about conduct of agents far below robert mueller with efforts to impugn the special counsel himself because i think that's when you start to see this get a little problematic. >> problematic, let's stay with congressman quigley here when he says the investigation is getting too hot for the gop, bob, does he mean the oval office when witnesses as close to the president as we were just describing earlier are being questioned? >> yeah. certainly it's interesting that mueller has gone after, obviously, michael flynn and manafort and flynn seems to have flipped. so there's a lot we don't know. but at the same time i don't think mueller can continue this probe deep into 2018. i think he can go until the spring, but if it goes too close to the summer or the fall, then it's going to look political. i agree with sarah, mueller has a great reputation, but at the

he is very good friends with robert mueller. after years of working in similar roles while some have even described the duo as brothers in arms. it is that so cute? comey also tweeting tonight, "he is meeting with his book publisher. i can't wait for that to come out. when is he going to start working for fake news cnn or conspiracy theory tv msnbc? a lot more on that later. back to mueller. his conflicts of interest did not end here. while serving as the fbini director and the obama administration, mueller stood by and did nothing while the controversial sale of uranium was approved by hillary clinton and others in 2010 to that state owned russian energy company. keep in mind, and you are in the house before, the fbi had serious evidence of russian bribery linked to the uranium one sale, and a confidential informant was providing them further proof for six years of a potentially illicit deal. 20% of america's uranium was at stake. we don't have enough uranium. another important mueller conflict. from president trump. he reporte

you picked robert mueller. you are the guy in charge. you can disband the moeller special prosecutor knew what we have called for for the second special counsel to look into peter struck, bruce or anything else we've learned in the last couple weeksst. >> yes, congressman and i can assure you that i consider it important to make sure a thorough review is done and our inspector general is doing a thorough review and that's how we found those messages. >> you have given that answer like 15 times. this is what a lot of americans believe right now and i do that that james comey fbi and obama justice department worked with one campaign to go after the other campaign. that's what everything points to. think of what we learned about in the last several weeks. we've learned who paid for the dossier and then peter struck and then bruce's wife. unbelievable. so, what's it going to take to get a second special counselel o find out what is peter struck up to what i think he was? >> it's important to understand we have inspector general has 500 emplo

and robert mueller has subpoena add bank on president trump's bank records. the latest record, that is wrong. the white house will explain. let's get to it. waiting to hear from the white house now. sarah sanders set to take questions from reporters at any moment. this comes as water hearing the special counsel leading the russia investigation is demanding information on president trump's business dealings from a german bank. that is according to the reporting of multiple news outlets, including a german newspaper where it began and now confirmed by the "wall street journal" with which fox news shares common ownership. that said, a source who is said to be familiar with the investigation is disputing this report. that's according to the reporting of our own john roberts. so there's a lot in the mix here and we'll get to it. the journal is reporting, the "wall street journal," that robert mueller's office issued a subpoena to deutsche bank. they also requested information on people close to the president according to the "wall street journal." the bank reports

and special counsel robert mueller might actually do that. we will see what the narrative is from the people defending the president if that happens. >> when i read this transcript of the interview with the "new york times," the thing that bothers the president about the implication there was russian collusion, democrats are saying russia won the president the election. that's what bothers him so much. he said i i was the better candidate and i had the better campaign. that's why he is pushing back so hard. >> yes. he said 15 times no collusion. >> i think like 60 times. >> he should. stick to that script. i think he will be fair. he said i think they will be fair. there was no collusion. he is doing programming as he always does. he is brilliant at that. it's great. this is where he does the best free wheeling introduce. did you see the reaction online. it's insane.erviews. did you see the reaction online. it's insane. >> let's say president obama was on vacation in hawaii and the writer from the washington "times" said could i do a sit down

republicans start saying robert mueller should be fired. hosts on the fox news channel start saying that fbi is a criminal investigation, not only fired but arrested and marched out in handcuffs. and everybody laughs about the extremity of that and say what is becoming of fox news? they're getting a little loose in the gators, but then republicans in washington start secretly working on a plan to accuse the fbi of criminal behavior and assessing the intelligence about connections between donald trump and russia. it sounds nuts but they really are working on it. and you know, think it's worth saying and remarking on humbly, that really have been seeing red flags pop all over the place in recent days. increasingly since mike flynn pled guilty and we learned he was cooperating with mueller's investigators two and a half weeks ago, a lot of red flags flowing, increasingly anti-fbi, anti-robert mueller fever pitch white house officials saying things like "the fix is in" against the president when it comes to the special counsel investigation. we

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not only robert mueller but also the fbi. and i think that is such a short-sighted and selfish perspective because not only is this investigation going on but all over the country the fbi's investigating thousands of cases. bank robbery, extortion, kidnapping, human trafficking, and all of those cases are going to end up in court where jurors, members of the public are going to be asked to assess the credibility of the fbi agents who collected the evidence in that case. and it worries me that they're going to be hearing in their head the words of the president that the fbi is in tatters or these concerns that they're unfair in some way. and i worry about the effect it's going to have on the fair administration of justice all over this country. >> i think he has contempt for the government. house republican jim jordan from ohio is also an outspoken critic of robert mueller, indicated that he had spoken to the white house about the mueller investigation. let's watch him in action. >> have you had conversations with the white ho

he says he has no plans to fire robert mueller. here is david wright with the latest. >> this weekend, a new land of attack on robert mueller's russianation into meddling and possible collusion by trump associates. this seven-page letter sent to key committee leaders claims mueller's team illegally obtained emails from 13 members of the presidential transition team. the letter says the general services administration, which provides office supplies and bureaucratic support to the federal government, should not have handed the material over to the special counsel. >> i think republicans should end their efforts to undermine the muellerity of ve says it followed standard procedures. gsa officials say they followed standard procedures. after aaccusations, drumbeat of criticism about the russia probe. >> they are spending millions of dollars. there is no collusion. >> the president calls the investigation a witch hunt, questioning the integrity of the special counsel's investigators. >> it appears some of the president's allies are lay

these attacks on the fbi, on robert mueller, make absolutely no sense. what robert mueller is doing is investigating infiltration of the united states election. computer hacking. espionage by russia. a country that has been an adversary for the united states since the 1918 communist revolution in russia. and the soviet union. a lot of the cold war mentality hasn't stopped. so -- you know this is a -- a really, a reaction from the far right-wing of the republican party. most republican congressmen are keeping their head low trying to duck this thing hoping they can make it through 2018 without getting creamed in the elections. but i think we need people standing up for the fbi, standing up for the rule of law, and that includes christopher ray the director of the fbi he needs to take a stand, for the fbi, he need to take a stand or he needs to stand down. and resign. he has got to choose. because he cannot continue to allow president trump and fox news and a couple of extreists in congress and congressman, rooney, mouth off and attack, the fbi and this de

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stone let me begin with the issue of robert mueller. that he isect preparing charges against the president? inquiry ise that his politically motivated. i think that we've seen in thedinary evidence last couple of weeks that tweets records the contributions to democrats that is a partisanhis head squad. i think this is a political proceeding rather than a legal proceeding. i have said that i believe that lawyers aret's mr. mueller's intentions. i think they misunderstand the politicaly that the establishment both party have for the president. on their resolve to remove any pretext. to me a strategy of turning over of thousands of documents waving executive relying on the is foolishler strategy. i think that we have to see what of general flynn's plea deal. general flynn said that a senior of the president's transition team directed him to contact the russian ambassador to set up a meeting. onerfectly legal, action general flynn's part. ishaps, mr. mueller preparing an indictment of others. to me that ifng mr. mueller should proceed, any

the plan is to remove robert mueller. i think that the white house learns or potentially learns a really important lesson when they decided to fire the former director james comey. they really miscalculated that moment and had overwhelming push back. if they have learned anything over the past year it's that doing something dramatic like firing the special counsel might lead to the consequences that they are most afraid of. >> thanks to both of you. appreciate it. coming up, robert mueller now under attack again from president trump's lawyers and conservative media and some republican lawmakers worrying democrats about the future of the russia investigation. we will talk more about what we just talked about except this time with a congress congressman and what and who is behind the attacks and california's third largest wildfire consumes another 1500 acres as firefighters lay to rest one of their own killed battling that very fire. the latest from the frontlines, next. when you really want to save big on a hotel just go t

though, they are speculating that the president is now planning to fire robert mueller. two democrats, both on the house intelligence committee, made the case this weekend that that was the case. first, adam schiff, who was on twitter, saying that he believed that the firing of robert mueller would happen before the end of the year. the other, jackie spear, also made the case to a san francisco tv station that robert mueller's firing was eminent. cnn reached out to white house attorney ty cobb for a statement on these remarks and he gave us a statement writing, in part, quote. so you have the white house denying that there is any kind of plan to remove robert mueller as the head of the special counsel. you have some democrats that are saying that that is the case, that his firing is eminent and certain republicans saying the special counsel is tainted and that robert mueller should, indeed, resign. a complicated situation and one that likely will receive greater focus because, as early as this week, you have white house legal team meeting with robert mueller one-on-one,

the he referring to robert mueller. do his counterparts feel the same way. robert pittinger from north carolina. we do appreciate it. >> happy friday to you. hope you are well. >> happy friday. congressman, when mueller was first appointed, republicans praised his credentials. he is a republican and served the bush administration and the bush tenure. recently we have been hearing republicans raising questions about his investigation taking aim at the doj and the fbi. you are calling for a purge of the fbi and the doj. where do you stand on robert mueller and his investigation. do you trust him? >> well, i don't think that mr. mueller served himself well in keeping on some folks inside the department of the investigation that he frankly should have been aware of and should have let go of sometime back. i think that affected him and discredited him. i think it's important that -- >> do you mean peter struck. i want to understand what you are saying. do you mean peter struck and bruce orr? >> by the folks you associate yourself with you are considered to be par