immigration, health reform and if they can work in a bipartisan manner, i think 2020 will be interesting. if they focus only on these investigations and i think everyone s going to be very upset in the next two years are going to be a waste of everyone s lives. juan: lawrence, what do you see it? what you hear from nancy pelosi, it s not going to scattershot. they have specific targets. lawrence: what are they requesting? it s traditional that people give up their taxes but there s no legal right for a candidate to give it up. it s political. juan: no, i don t think it s political. lawrence: there s no investigation that needs to happen. he has the right to withhold his taxes. colluding with the russians, where they getting involved in this and they told us they were wanting mueller to finish the investigation. juan: i think they do want mueller.
of americans support mueller s investigation. something like 65%, 64%, want mueller to investigate the finances. what do you think about hatch saying what he said full stop? the chairman of the judiciary coming out saying it would be suicidal. lindsey graham has. do you sense that some republicans are starting to do that? and do you think that your ads will give strength to more republicans to follow up on those examples? yes and yes. i think it s moved in the right direction belatedly. i just want to give them more of a sense of urgency and less of a sense, as mitch mcconnell continues to say i don t really think anything is going to happen so there is no need to consider legislation. jonathan turley may be right this legislation isn t exactly right. well, fine, let s have mark-ups and get good legislation that protects mueller around let s speak up what really would happen if rosenstein were fired, or mueller. let s not be so big about i
through with this ongoing, we re in the fundamentals of our democracy. are we going to be a country where the rule of law prevads? will the congress take up bipartisan legislation that was around last year that will protect the special prosecutor from these kind of arbitrary actions? supporters of the president say even if he did want mueller fired, even if he said that mueller should be fired, it never actually happened. mcgahn never actually carried it out so this cannot qualify as obstruction of justice and, therefore, is not all that significant. how do you respond? well, i respond, first of all, i ve tried to give the president the benefit of the doubt but, boy, you ve got a pattern here. you got a pattern that he wanted james comey to back off the investigation of general flynn. when he didn t, he fired him. you got a pattern where he got
and we ve heard the president kind of go down that road with people saying, i didn t know him that well or they weren t that big a part of the campaign. we all remember when he was the guy to go to. that s certainly, again, don t want to speculate too much. we ll see how the president reacts because he tends to react in realtime on social media. certainly possible as we ve all learned the hard way. what s your sense on where congressional republicans are on this? i go back and forth thinking they kind of want mueller to find something, take care of this for them. but some are trying to protect the president. this will be a big week for congressional republicans. they ll be folk ised cused on t reform. a very resolute, see no evil, speak no evil. keep one foot in front of the other doing the job they were sent there to do. brendan buck, now the spokesman for speaker ryan, one of the jobs used to hold for john boehner saying all he
election results? because very few people are saying that. are you saying that or just trying to put it out there because you guys are so invested? what is there? what constitutional crisis are we facing right now? i tell you what, i tell you what we do know i ll leave that to jeffrey toobin and the law expert. many people are afraid if this president fires robert mueller we will be in a constitutional crisis. why doesn t the president want mueller to prove that trump was right and isn t mr. mueller and his band of democratic donors doing that? brian, let s back up. i m asking you to please cover the issues that america are telling pollsters, including cnn s pollsters. you are not being honest to your own poll figure you look at the issues that people say are most important to them. you re not covering them. you just went right back to russia. i think people can care about multiple issues at the same time. certainly, folks that i talk to