current circumstances called up bob mull and he said i am firing you bob mull everybody would not heed that. the reg ligzs trump the institution. an executeef, judicial and legislative branch. which branch does bob mueller reside? the executive branch. i think it would not be smart for the president to fire bob mueller. attempting as it may be it does not make sense. idea he can t do that weather politically smart. do you have reaction to that. this is how far we have gone over eight or nine years the courts activist courts and judges. the fact that doj and fbi think they are above the law. congress the legislative branch we created these agency theys have a responsibility to give us documents when we ask for them. we have the property clearances
concerns about foreign money laundering or that a foreign power could have some kind of leverage over the president. there are concerns that pardons were promised by the president or his lawyer leading mueller to potential obstruction of justice prosecution. new reports on the campaign s contacts with russian officials. that could be part of the collusion piece of the investigation. and, of course, there is the issue of hush money allegedly paid to women who say they had affairs with trump, a lot for bob mull tore mueller to ask about if and when he and the president meet. barbara mcquade former u.s. attorney, now an msnbc contributor. matt, let me start with you. the mueller investigation today was described to me by someone from law enforcement who admonished the iceberg analysis and said it isn t an iceberg. it is an underground civilization with little bees working in so many, you know, rooms and towns and part of the city. you have no idea what you have
of an audience like a grand jury. that i don t care who you are. that makes a defendant uncomfortable. and uncomfortableness can come across looking like dishonesty. you never want that if you re on the hot seat. don t jump out of your chair, john. what do you want to say. i m laughing. it sound like we re inviting him to a tea party. we don t want to be offensive. and bob mull is so concerned about how the dainty mr. bannon will feel about it. as a trial lawyer when someone gets on the stand you make a decision whether this person is a truth teller or a liar. we ll get the fire and fury guy or the beaten down intimidated bannon that s invoking executive privilege. this is to find out what kind of a witness he s going to be. and the reason they use the subpoena is because it is a judiciary act. if you go to the nixon case when he didn t want to talk and