>> i don't know. the republicans did a very good job at undercutting him publicly at the end of the year. they took the text message issue where the top agent expressed anti-trump views with an fbi official. they used that to raise questions about mueller's credibility. mueller had really good standing in washington. someone on both sides of the aisles, but republican, even main stream republicans were really going after him. now, if you are a republican do you look at this and say wow, maybe mueller has really good cards? do i need to back off? i don't think so. there are so many revelations that came out about this president. republicans have continued to stand by him. i think they saw the success. if you look on fox, there is a constant drum beat against mueller and about his prosecutors being democrats and such. so i'm not sure this will really change anything. >> all right. we'll see. michael schmidt. thank you so much. we greatly appreciate it. just one note, yeah, there are