this is the first time though with chris wallace that he has actually acknowledged as much publicly. trump has always dangle out the carrot i want to do it if only they would be fair to me i may do it, et cetera, et cetera. his legal team has been unanimously of the view it s a terrible idea. doesn t matter whether you are talking about the early team of ty cobb or john dowd or current legal team nobody thinks this is a good idea. first time the president has acknowledged as much publicly. it should be said though that his legal team, it s an important i wouldn t call it a victory but at least a small victory, maybe, that they managed to not answer anything according to them on obstruction by limiting their answers to what happened before he joined the white house. i mean, that s sort of concession from the mueller team. bret: mollie? we should be reminded that the special counsel was set up to investigate treasonous collusion with
members vote on it. i don t understand why they are refusing to do that. shannon: he says he s convinced the president will not get rid of mueller and he is safe so he s not bringing it to the floor. politico has a headline preparing for the worst, mueller indicted half a dozen people in contact with the white house and other trump officials, a deep anxiety has started to set in that mueller is about to pounce after self-imposed quiet. go and any number of trump s allies and family members may soon be staring down the barrel of an indictment. we don t have names for those half a dozen people but what do you make of that speculation? remember even though we don t know a lot about the special counsel s scope or what the limits of his investigation are. it would be great if the senate or house were able to get that information and share it with the american people that would be more important than protecting the special counsel. we have this, we have seen for a while, the special counse
the special counsel investigation is ongoing. mueller s team turned to 30 people and got guilty pleas from some people including four former trump campaign aides. heather: interesting to see what happens on this today. donald trump has repeatedly said he has no plans to fire robert mueller. molly hemingway points out so far the investigation failed to serve its original purpose revealing any evidence of collusion between the trump campaign and russia. you have seen for a while the special counsel which was set up to investigate treasonous collusion with russia to steal an election hasn t gotten anything of that nature at all but found a couple russian trolls doing facebook means and wrapped up a ton of trump associates on process crimes, things hillary clinton and her people when they were caught up in similar things, like to the fbi, didn t even bother prosecuting them.
i don t understand why they are refusing. shannon: he says he s convinced the president is not going to get rid of mueller any face so he s not bringing it to the floor. politico says preparing for the worst. mueller anxiety pervades trump world. have a dozen people in contact with the white house and other top officials they are deep anxiety has started decided that mueller is about to pounce after a self imposed quite period and that any number of trump s allies and family members may soon be staring down the barrel of an indictment. we don t have names for those half a dozen people. what do you make of it? it s good to remember that even though we don t know a lot about the special counsel s scope. we don t know what the limits of the investigation are. it would be great if the senator house were able to get that information and share it. that would be more important than somehow protecting the special counsel. we do have this, we ve seen for a while now that while the special c
think one of the things that made this press conference so distressing to some people is that it came on the heels of these difficult, the difficult nato summit in the castigation of angela merkel and the disparagement of theresa may. i think it left the impression that president trump was dissing our allies with whom we share democratic traditions in favor of embracing someone who does not have a democracy. bret: i will say to president sometimes, he was as a candidate, but he does sometimes live in the moment now and that was then, this is now. this is what i think i said and this is what we should use going forward. it s particularly challenging for him because he s been sort of all over the place. he will concede that russians meddled in the election and then when he feels that other people are conflating that meddling with collusion, treasonous collusion that he will dismiss the whole enchilada and he needs to be understanding that just because other people play that game does