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Arrogance, and he s just clearly personally unsuited for serious responsibility. but i hope we won t forget that there s a policy side to it too. this presidency has been a disaster not just in his cover-ups and his blustering but in his total inability to carry out the policies he s trying to carry out. and so i hope that as i said, the judgment and i think it is entirely appropriate to say this is the worst presidency in anybody s memory, but it s not simply because of trying to quash an investigation. it is because of the miserable way he governs across the board. that is a point that i think democrats, particularly democrats who are running in the special elections, democrats across the country would do well to listen too. former congressman barney frank, thanks for joining us. joining me now, former fbi special assistant for leadership development scott olson. scott, first let me get i imagine you worked with bob mueller, personal testimony if you think he s up to this. ....
Fired by in this case the deputy attorney general. and what happened with archibald cox was that nixon ordered people to fire the special counsel until he got to someone who was willing to do it. he had to go through a few. so he is not necessarily entirely protected. my question to you is are you confident, having worked at the bureau, that this investigation can be undertaken under these extraordinary circumstances? the actual ability of the president or the attorney general or the deputy attorney neral remove b eller from this role is something that i d have to agree with your very first guest. i d have to review the statute, and i m certainly not expert there. but i think the only way that we re going to get a good understanding of the facts is with someone like bob mueller driving this investigation. ....
They won t be able to claim that they love america. they won t be able to claim that they re patriots. they re going to have to get away from him, and they re going to have to join with those of us at that point who are calling for impeachment. i believe that. i don t think anyone disagrees that if the fact pattern that you are confident exists emerges, congresswoman, thank you for being with me. joining me now, congressman leonard nance of new jersey. are you glad to see bob mueller named to this position? i think it s a fine decision by the deputy attorney general, and i m sure that mr. mueller will do an excellent job, chris. are you troubled by the reporting of what comey apntly wrote in a memo about the president of the united states asking him to essentially stop pursuing an investigation of his fired national security adviser? that s why i think we need to have director comey come to capitol hill as soon as possible ....
Donald trump. i understand they face a politician s night mare, namely a split between the people who nominate you in the primaries as exacerbated by the redistri redistricting, and that s the issue that deals with it. as to the clinton impeachment, i will say it was important that this was investigated in an interesting way. kenneth starr, obviously unlike bob mueller and i think that was a wonderful appointment. i am very not only impressed by that, but bob mueller deserves a lot of credit. this is say man with a great career behind him, a great job that he s got in the private sector. he s put himself on the line. he knows as a result of this, he s going to get unfairly demonized by somebody or other. right. and i admire bob for willing to step up and do that. i also want to say people talk about prior experiences. i remember him as a man who helped deal with the whole question of fair treatment for lgbt fbi employees, and i spent ....
What do you think of that? so setting aside political opinions and with 35,000 people, you have the gamut of political opinions with bureau employees. but the one thing everybody agrees on is the fbi s job is to investigate. it s to find the facts, and that s what this team is going to be. i don t have to know the names of the investigators assigned to this thing to be absolutely certain that every single one of the men and women assigned to this thing care about finding the facts and making sure that bob mueller has what he needs to do his job as the leader of this investigation. it s my understanding that mueller and comey are actually fairly personally close. is that your understanding? it s my understanding that they ve known each other for a long time. i wouldn t be surprised to learn that they re personal friends, but i think they have great professional respect for each other as well. in that respect, it s sort of interesting that rosenstein making this announcement, if ....