that investigator mueller and his team have moved at light speed and we ve already seen results. guilty pleas, indictments. and i suspect there are more doimts in the offing. so this really is it s not only not unusual, but i would suggest it s moving fairly rapidly for this kind of an investigation. all right, yamiche, i want to go through this. because he also says that mueller has a list of conflicts of interest and here s the moment that was brought up. they keep talking about the 13 angry democrats that are running the investigation. congressman, i m trying to do this job apolitically. and i consider myself i do not consider myself an angry democrat. you can be quite confident of that. are you a democrat? no, i am not. mr. rosenstein are you a democrat? i m not a democrat and i m
not angry. donald trump, our president, tweeted, when is bob mueller going to list his conflicts of interest? mr. rozenstein, does bob mueller have any conflicts of interest? chairman, if there were any conflicts of interest that were brought to our attention, i would discuss with mr. mueller and there could be review within the department if there were a credible allegation of a conflict of interest. i m not aware of any qualifying conflict of interest. okay, yamiche, if he s not aware of any qualifying conflicts of interest, if rod rosenstein is not a democrat, if christopher wray, who his a republican, who s appointed by the president, if we re still going through this, president trump s base will listen to the lie that he is putting out there and believe it. so we can sit here all day long and say this is an absolute nonsensical lie. but it s also super impactful and working. well, two things. the first i was just in duluth minnesota talking to trump
institutional crisis. i think that their attempt to try to shut down the investigation would only shed additional light that they re really afraid of the effectiveness of the investigation and where bob mueller is heading, too. so, look, this is still this is just the beginning of this investigation. i think much more needs to happen. let s allow mueller to conduct the investigation with the least amount of hurdles and impediments. let s make sure that the american people regain the confidence that the russians did not really impede or influence our electoral process, which is really great. and so let s let him do his job. and i think they re reacting, because the heat is beginning to mount up and they re very afraid that it s getting closer to the white house. some of your republican, or i should say, actually, your democratic colleagues are worried that mueller could be fired by president trump. do you worry about that? i do worry about that. i said that mueller, as i ve said b
committees that will undoubtedly pick up steam next year in the heat of mid-term lerelections. manu raju, thank you so much for this report. i want to get more on this with congressman adriano espiat. i want to get your reaction to the president s tweet this morning who claims the dossier is a pile of garbage. and he suggests it s really the entire basis for the russia investigation. what is your reaction? this is, again, an ill-advised attempt by the president to discredit the investigator mueller, who we all know is a person that s beyond reproach, well-respected among all circles from both sides of the aisle. and as the investigation deepens, you will see a greater attempt by the white house and their supporters to try to muddy it up and to try to discredit mueller. i think it s ill advised.
this could be a problem for republicans in swing districts, where there are democrats and those persuadable people who are less likely to see this investigation as bogus. and that might factor into the election. but the president is trying to do politics and hold off a legal investigation at the same time. phil mudd, mueller has been pretty quiet through all of this. yes. what do you think what do you think about that? maybe it s not surprising, but it certainly stands in contrast. he was that way i served with him for four and a half years. the man would not speak in public unless he was forced to. his view was, we have investigations to conduct. if we have something to say to the american people about investigations, we ll speak. i think there are a couple of conclusions, though, we can draw both from who he is, and from what we ve seen so far. the investigations, again, get closer and closer to the core. we have papadopoulos, paul manafort at the beginning, then we have