Interests requires me to place this investigation to a person who exercises a degree of independence from the normal chain of command. Mueller served under two president s with an extension under obama. Hes described as very disciplined. He will not answer to Rod Rosenstein on a daily basis. But he does have to report to the a. G. He can pick his own staff. After serving so long in the political armpit he must have some faiths. Hes harder to fire than comey and doesnt serve at the pleasure of the president , and can only be fired by rosenstein with good cause. Reaction has been pretty good from both side. Jason chaffetz tweeted quote, mueller is a great selection. With great credentials. Adam schiff add this. I think there is a far greater chance with a truly independent crown that the public is more likely to accept the result. Kennedy well have to wait and see who cries foul and if mueller has the guts to knock it out of the park. Im kennedy. There was never a special counsel appointed in the Obama Administration with all the illegal acts that took place in the clinton and Obama Administration. They are on a course correction. This stuff was getting way out of hand. And i would say that the arrival of rosenstein and now the addition of mueller as the special counsel tells us they are ready to get this cleaned up and gets over with and get on with it. Kennedy is there concern about the closeness of the relationship between comey and mueller . Both men have been he fusive about one another in the past. Mueller challenges then president george w. Bush about mass surveillance with comey at his side as the Deputy Attorney general. And they obviously have a working relationship. Is there some concern mueller if not be compromised, mr. Likely see facts in comeys favor when he gets to the point of reading the memos he authored. No one could have been in public life as long as robber muter in public life and have a more pristine record. To be f. B. I. Director for 12 years and have both sides say he tells it like it is and plays it fair. Thats about as high praise as you can get. He had a long working relationship with comey, to say hes on a vendetta against trump flies in the face of everything we know about him. So we have to take his word for it. Kennedy there are people with great concern that because he worked for a law firm that represented paul manafort, and jared curber in the fast, that that could be a conflict of interest. Paul manafort needs a lot of lawyers. If you shut out all the people who worked at firms associated with him. Mueller is too old to care. I think one of the great things he has going for him, at 72 with his public life behind him, hes too old to care, it doesnt matter anymore. Im going to assume it comes from a sense of duty and patriotism. And getting the government on with its own business. Not much can happen if everybody says maybe one day there will be an impeachment. Kennedy have you heard anything about the white house curtailing the president s use of social media in regards to the Ongoing Investigation . I dont think its realistic to convince him to get off twitter. But i think he will probably be better served by not reacting to and commenting on every development in this case. Who would want to work for this president . They issued a statement under the name of the president that according to reports he helped draft. They did it together and it was the right statement. The president and his staff are innocent and we are going see this to a swift conclusion and look forward to that. Period. Then nothing else should ever be said. Then you leave the investigation alone. He has the special prosecutor, a special counsel base had to talk about it and brag about firing james koasmy because of the russia vest nation. Thats what got him his result. They have a good answer last night its going to be owe kay. Then he under cuts the work his staff did the night before. Blows it up, complaining, casting himself as the victim. It makes these peoples jobs impossible. Kennedy its distracting calling the whole thing and witch hunts. It may be ande may be completely exonerated throughout the investigation. If thats the kyle is, the best thing for him to do is comments about it when the whole thing is done so people can get back to work, not just the people on capitol hill who are paid to do our bidding, and people in this country who voted for this president hoping he would bring about change and not so much chaos. Its a waste of time, effort and energy. He could have avoid this by limiting the things he said. Its not about what he did its about what he said. Until he can be more temperate and disciplined he will continue to have this misery visited upon his administration. Kennedy its a Young Administration and there is still a lot to learn. I have faith this administration can turn around. Chris stirewalt, i love every moment with you, thank you very much. The pentagon reportedly launched airstrikes against proassad forces in syria and the eve of the president s trip abroad. They are hoping it will reset the drama at home. President trump leaves tomorrow on an 8day trip to audi arabia, rael, italy, and the vatican. It will be enough to put his domestic crises on the back burner. Lets bring in my stainresistant party panel with matt welch, jimmy failla, and w. W. Superstar dolf ziggler. What has to happen to calm the murky watter what waters in ame. Hes supposed to give a speech in saudi arabia about islam. Its hard to see it as a super lowkey affair. Ken there are no one needs an exposition from you on islam. In theory this should be the moment when he goes away and things calm down. Mueller is taking over the investigation. We are going to slow these things down. But hes not comfortable in Foreign Policy settings generally speaking. Healthcare he doesnt know. And says funny things. Foreign policy hes actively uncomfortable and he feels like people are trying to trip up every one of his words. He just had the russia thing in the white house. So there will be pressure on him. Kennedy remember mark sanford and he said the president suffers from a pattern casualness. If he repiece that pattern on this trip overseas what will we see. He wont get arrested from the scrutiny. This will be the most watched foreign trip ever. The potential for disaster. We dont know whats coming. Ratings are about to explode. Kennedy who would want to be president at this point . I dont think he wants to be. I dont think so. Kennedy hes trying to sabotage his own presidency. I can tell you you are champing at the bit. Meantime democrats are mulling whether its wise to start calling for impeachment. Like maxine waters, a few already have. I rights today, mr. Speaker, to call for the impeachment of the president of the United States of america. I think this will put us a little bit further on our way to what i have been calling for for so long, and that is impeachment. Kennedy democratic strategists will likely conduct polls on impeachment. And democrats might be making a mistake for even calling for impeachment. Its a funny parlor gag when you have people on the stump. Whatever misstep he makes on twitter they call for impeachment. They might have grounds to do it. Kennedy i think they should be a lot more serious. This is weak on the democrats part. If you want to do it, you go do it. You dont polltest it. It tells it their ownselfinterests is what they are concerned about. They are tot not doing this as a way of improving the country. They are trying to help out themselves. I think it gutless to be poll testing. Kennedy do you think it ends in impeachment . Odds makers say 5050. If the sky is falling every dane they are calling for it every day, and now let it play out its a great point. Dont poilt. You want to know, is this thing we are supposed to do so you will like us more . No, do whats right. When they do and trump should say this is a witch hunt, but let this happen because im going to be fine. After this we have got to get to work. Kennedy let the investigation plate self out. Chris stirewalt was right that the president should reserve comments until after the investigation. Hes going to rally his own supporters here because they are look at the media and democrats as picking up any available blunt object to hit the president over the head with. The only way you get impeachment in this country is if you convince 15 republicans in the u. S. Senate. They need to be speaking to their concerns, not trying to fundraise in South Los Angeles off make an impeachment speech. Kennedy does she live in a giants mansion in Beverly Hills and not her district . I cant say for sure. What we learned from trump is when the adversity is at its highest he usually responds. The access Hollywood Tape resulted in his best performance ever. Kennedy can republicans on the hill shift their focus away from the white house, russia, f. B. I. , james comey merry go ronald long enough to get work done and tackle tax reform . Why do some cash back cards make earning bonus cash back so complicated . They limit where you can earn bonus cash back to a few places and those places keep changing every few months. The quicksilver card from capital one doesnt do any of that. With quicksilver you earn unlimited 1. 5 cash back on every purchase, everywhere. Leave complicated behind. Whats in your wallet . We cut the price of trades to give investors even more value. And at 4. 95, you can trade with a clear advantage. Fidelity, where smarter investors will always be. Kennedy its been a crazy few weeks or months in washington and it got crazier today. Jason chaffetz announced hes going to be resigning. But House Speaker paul ryan said the goes up still focused on passion their agenda. I realize there is a lot in the media these days. That doesnt stop us from doing our jobs. We can walk and chew gum at the same time. Drama is not helpful in getting things done. But we are still getting things done. Kennedy are you . Drama, drama. The house ways and Means Committee held a hearing on tax reform. With the Koch Brothers throwing their weight behind the tax plan could they pass a major tax overhaul by the end of this year . Republican congressman jim jordan, also freedom caucus. Lets talk about this. What does congressman chaffetzs resignation do for the tenor within your party, congress and the russian investigation. Hes been an outstanding leader of the oversight committee. He will be there for a while yet. Well keep doing our work. Lord knows, the federal government needs reform. It needs streamlining. Well continue to do that, and there will be a new chairman determined later this summer i assume. Kennedy who decides that . The Steering Committee. The Steering Committee makes that determination and well see what happens at that point. It seems like democrats are more enthusiastic than republicans about the appointment of special counsel robert mueller. How do you feel about it . He had an outstanding career serving our country. One major interaction i had with former director knewer was disappointing. It was four years ago when the irs targeting scandal broke, it had been in the news for several weeks. I asked him a series of questions and he couldnt answer anything about the investigation it was at that time the most important story in the country. You had an agency with the power and might of the irs targeting people for exercising their free speech rights. He couldnt tell me who the agents were on the case. The president at the time said it was critically important. Attorney general holder said we would get to the bottom of it. Kennedy do you think that is obstruction or incompetence . I dont know. The one interaction i had was very disappointing. So well see. What i do know is, i want to get all the information. I want to get the full comey memo. Not just that memo, i would like to know, did mr. Comey also memorialize conversations he had with Key Department officials maybe it day after Loretta Lynch meets with bill clinton on the tarmac. The day thee decide to give cheryl mills immunity deals. Kennedy do you think they will turn over some of those memoranda to congress and do you think he will testify . Lets hope so. And we had better get context and consistency are important. Did mr. Comey only memorialize conversations in and about president obama or did he memorialize conversations about big important issues like the clinton investigation. How about the facts when they made the decision not to prosecute lois lerner or anyone in the irs targeting scandal. Were there memorializations of those conversations . Because if there werent and it was only with President Trump. That would tell us something. Kennedy there are people on the democratic side who would be hard pssed to say comes a total democratic operative hack. He did enough damage to both parties. And his own personal grandstanding, i dont necessarily i think you would be hard pressed to make a case that he was a total leftist. But i want to ask you about something one of your republican colleagues in the congress, i asked congressman massie about this yesterday. He said if the contents of that memo are in fact true, the one where President Trump reportedly asked then f. B. I. Director comey to back off the flynn investigation, is that i am peachable . Justin is a good friend and member of the freedom caucus. But no one is talking about that. What we are talking about is getting the facts, getting the full context, finding out if this was consistent with how mr. Comey conducted his appears all along. Thats what we are focused on doing and for democrats to be suggesting impeachment makes no sense to me. We need to get the facts. I want to know what conversations he may have memorialized as well. Kennedy it has the potential to tear the country apart. Its important for both parties to be as unemotional and an lit i can as they can and an lit andanalytic as they can. Consistency is important. Remember the name Barbara Bosserman . She was a maxed out contributor to presiden to president obas campaign. Consistency and context mean a lot. Thats what we need to find out both on the congressional side and the special counsel side of mr. Mueller. Kennedy coming up. Washington, d. C. Appears to be a town in chaos. Do those inside the beltway feel the same way . 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All these stories are coming out at 5 30 p. M. During happy hour. In terms of the mood. Reporters are working 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to try to keep up with the latest leaks coming out of the white house. In terms of the morale from the staff in the white house. You can feel the tension and the problems we heard about when you are sitting in that room and listening to them talk about the issues of the day. Kennedy one of the reasons the story keeps going on and on is the white house extend to have a few different reactions to stories. Then the president will Say Something that runs contrary to what one of the press secretaries has said. Has there been any talk about changing the system at all there . There was a report by media and ad week saying sean spicer may not participate in daily briefings. I dont have solid information about who will be doing the press briefings. The president said he wanted to cancel the briefings and i dont think thats going to happen. But in terms of what people are feeling. Leaks they have seen have been demoralizing on two levels it creates a culture of toxicity in the sense nobody trusts anyone. Whether its a colleague in the white house or someone in an agency. Kennedy do you rely on leaks . Katie i dont rely so much on leaks. Kennedy are they being well fed . Katie yes, they are. Their job as reporters are to take information thats given to them, and if the public has a right to know, produce the information. Its up to the white house to stop those leaks. Its incumbent on the people in the administration to stop giving the information. Thats something of a disconnect. But one more thing i wanted to get out here. You mentioned there is a problem with the president with messaging with his staff. His staff has looked incompetent and not credible because he has said things completely opposite of what they have gone out to talk to the media about. Lets switch gears here just a little bit. 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