regulations for him to recuse himself. needs to exercise oversight over the investigation similar to what deputy attorney general rod rosen dean has done. he doesn t have to recuse himself. you simply let mr. muller proceed with this investigation. eric: do you feel comfortable he will do that and leave it alone, the investigation alone? cannot influence in any way. well, i m not comfortable. to troubling things about the memo. he spent the 19 page memo unsolicited which is unusual to the justice department and president trump s attorneys, where he made a strong case on aspects of the mueller probe shouldn t proceed. that s basically an effort to campaign for the job of attorney general by appealing to president trump racer instincts. so that is very troubling. on the substance of the memo he
concern for any of that. it s just short-term political gain, go into 2018 and sell tax cuts. and the ability of republicans on the hill to sort of not see some of these things, to look the other way or squint and see things in a way where they don t really see a problem with these things. i mean, for paul ryan yesterday to say the mueller probe shouldn t be messed with and yet to green light devin nunes sending this memo to the white house for release, knowing like any logical observer of this knows, that this is all a pretext to mess with that investigation. it s stunning. it s stunning to see playing out in plain sight. a lot of people never thought they d see this from a lot of republicans, including paul ryan. hardly a pleasurable conversation. always a pleasure to have you gentlemen on. we appreciate it. thanks very much. much obliged to jonathan lemire and eli stokols. the continuing insistence by the white house that americans don t care about the russia investigation. we h
so far are those not running for re-election. i mean, that is what we have seen. we have seen the politics of personal survival inside a republican party that is fluid and right now controlled by donald trump and his assumed base of voters. that is what is above perhaps speaking out, talking about the separation of powers, the basic tenets of american democracy. there is no concern for history. the fact that this is all playing out in public, in plain view, and that this will be written and people will be judged and their legacies may be tarnished by this, there s no concern for that, it s short-term political gain, go into 2018 and sell tax cuts. and the ability of republicans on the hill to sort of not see some of these things, to look the other way or squint and see things in a way where they don t really see a problem with these things, for paul ryan yesterday to say the mueller probe shouldn t be messed with and yet to green light devin nunes sending this memo to the white house f
written and people will be judged and their legacies may be tarnished by this, there s no concern for that, it s short-term political gain, go into 2018 and sell tax cuts. and the ability of republicans on the hill to sort of not see some of these things, to look the other way or squint and see things in a way where they don t really see a problem with these things, for paul ryan yesterday to say the mueller probe shouldn t be messed with and yet to green light devin nunes sending this memo to the white house for release, knowing like any logical observer of this knows that this is all pretext to mess with that investigation, it s stunning. it s stunning to see playing out in plain sight. a lot of people never thought they d see this from a lot of republicans, including paul ryan. hardly a pleasurable conversation. always a pleasure to have you gentlemen on. thanks very much. much obliged to jonathan la mere and eli stoke ankles. the continuing insistence by the white house that am