he knows how investigations play out and how they take time. and he knows the rules and the process. here is chris christie telling the president you think you are helping yourself by making all these political arguments, but i disagree, sir. >> i told him many times that there is no way to make an investigation like this shorter, but lots of ways to make it longer. and he has executed on a number of those ways to make it longer. bob mueller himself is not part son. he is a hard working guy, he is smart. and you can't argue that the investigation hasn't been effective so far. a number of guilty pleas, a couple of indictments. in a year, pretty good work. and so i've said all along i don't yes bob mueller's honesty, never have. and having on worked with him for seven years, i still wouldn't. >> it hurt -- jumping back one second, it occurs that constitutional conservatives oppose special counsels because they result in these sort of