only ones who deserve to have theirs scrutinized and taken away are vocal public opponents of donald j. trump. that cannot be the case. so if you do something you have a legal right to do, but if you do it for vindictive reasons, political reasons, you know, that may not fly. >> i think john brennan conceded that conspiracy is off the table. rudy seized on that. when he does this, he just wants to talk to chuck todd about the fact that john brennan just took conspiracy off the table. yesterday richard burr, the chairman of the senate intelligence committee, about whom there's wide spread evidence he's worked well with warner, said there is no factual basis for conspiracy or collusion that has yet been introduced to his committee. and the news in that interview with rudy is we are not going to fire mueller. we are just going to keep pointing out he has nothing and we are giving him nothing more because 30 hours with don mcgahn is an unprecedented level of cooperation. my former boss fred fielding still needs smelling salts.