strategy to discredit mueller and try to paint him as a democrat as the president like to say. >> this has been the republican strategy from jump street. it didn't take the president very long to start tweeting about mueller being horribly conflicted and 17 angry democrats. that entire message. what's interesting when it comes to this question of mueller testifying and why this particular reporting is so important, is that if chairman nadler, the house judiciary committee issues a subpoena to order mueller to come in, mueller is going to go to bill barr who even though he doesn't work at doj bill barr is still over him in terms of rank and bill barr says mueller is allowed to testify if he wants to. if bill barr tells mueller i've changed my mind, you don't want to comply with the subpoena. if they put together some sort of legal analysis and they've had some creative legal analy s analysis. then we could have an interesting legal back and forth teed up and that's why having