when he was with me. i don t believe he made memos to help his own agenda, probably at a later date. same with lying james comey. can we call them fake memos? unquote. joining me now is jeff flake of arizona, a member of the judiciary committee. senator, thanks for joining us. the president also just tweeted this. quote, why does the mueller team have 13 hardened democrats, some big crooked hillary supporters, and zero republicans? another dem recently added. does anyone think this is fair? and yet there is no collusion. obviously, the description he has of the mueller team is much disputed. he doesn t mention, for instance, that mueller is a republican. but beyond that, do you think that the president is laying the groundwork to fire mueller? well, when the president said it was a great day for democracy yesterday, i think it was a horrible day for democracy.
collusion. so to suggest that mueller should shut down and all that he is looking at is collusion, if you have an innocent client, mr. russia attacked our country. let special counsel mueller figure that out. if you believe, as we found, there s no evidence of collusion, you should want special counsel mueller to take all the time and have all the independence he needs to do his job. chris: congressman, it does not onot appear that john dowd s freelancing, going off by himself here. the president has been on a tweet storm this morning. i want to put up one of his latest tweets and for the first time he s going after mueller by name. here it is. why does the mueller team have 13 hardened democrats, some big, crooked hillary supporters and zero republicans? another dem recently added, does anyone think this is fair and yet there is no collusion. question, sir. do you think the gloves are off,
about it? reporter: hey, there, alex. the president is now saying that robert mueller s special counsel russia investigation never should have been started. and he s also attacking the credibility of two witnesses that are likely crucial to mueller s obstruction of justice investigation of the president. you ve got former fbi director, james comey and newly fired deputy director, andrew mccabe. so to illustrate the point, here s one tweet the president sent this morning. the president says this, why does the mueller team have 13 hardened democrats, some big crooked hillary supporters and zero republicans? another dem recently added, does anyone think that this is fair? and yet there is no collusion. now, look, the president, until now, had kept his criticism of mueller s special counsel probe to a minimum, sticking to a legal strategy that the public appearance of cooperation with mueller was the right way to go. but wave seen that shift dramatically, following the news that mueller
so they would be like, here they come, turn off your lights! those three young ladies were teaching the whole school about energy efficiency. we actually saved $50,000. and that s just one school, two semesters, three girls. together, we re building a better california. i don t know what mueller has found. and i ve been really clear, leave him alone. let him do his job. i can tell you within the universe of folks we ve interviewed, there is no evidence of collusion. that s the best i can do. i can t tell you what people i haven t talked to would say. the intelligence committee s trey gowdy on the frustration now surrounding the russia investigation. all of this as we re getting some new feedback from the president today, who s been tweeting. why does the mueller team have 13 hardened democrats, some big crooked hillary supporters and zero republicans? another dem recently added, does anyone think this is fair? and yet there is no collusion.
hey, there, alex, the preside president s most direct attacks yesterday on the special counsel russia investigation certainly indicate a shift in strategy, which to this point had been pointed at cooperating with robert mueller and indicated that showdown might be brewing over the president s potential next steps. you asked about what he said. take a look at what he posted on twitter earlier this morning. the president writing, why does the mueller team have 13 hardened democrats, some big crooked hillary supporters and zero republicans? another dem recently added, does anyone think this is fair? and yet there is no collusion! now, we should point out that robert mueller himself is a republican and was nominated to be fbi director by a republican president, george w. bush. but in other tweets, alex, the president questioned the integrity of former fbi director james comey and of former deputy fbi director, andrew mccabe. now, at this hour, the president is at his private golf club