listen to here. >> the mueller report and the conclusions weren't from robert mueller. they were written by what a lot of people believe was hillary clinton's de facto legal team. people that supported her and even represented some of her aides. >> reporter: as you know, bob mueller pushed back against that and said politics played no role in his choice of the many deputies and lawyers on the investigative team that he chose for competence. and another point, the dni was created after 9/11 to help coordinate intelligence sharing among the agencies but also to help prevent politicizing intelligence or at least concerns about it. of course there were all of those concerns bts use of intelligence in the run up to the iraq war. politics have very much been separated from this position by design. and that is why you're hearing reservations not just from democrats but from republican lawmakers. >> what does this tell us, jim,