. >> with respect i do respect to a lot and the fact mueller dr. but to believe we just said he would have to first reject the findings of the cbo that the house bill froze -- throw 23 million in entries 23 billion warda does not have insurance you have to believe that ended 25 percent cuts to medicaid and it's a pile will magically sit. >> breakage tell you refuse set out to design a bill but to their critics, to republican critics you could not live by a dave bill less responsive. my hope is in the senate be will not do this in a partisan way bet come together to address the health care system. >> bed justice not believable in ntb specs. not deceiving of democrats or independents. >> your the last one. i don't think that's accurate there is no significant changes until 2019 with the financing standpoint bed is the point where in the majority of changes come into play is for real be happy to read view of the genesis of those numbers to see if they're accurate and how we can address that. >> have you had an opportunity to do research? we had a numb

mueller should be discharged. dr chris, one wonder who's would discharge him. i would imagine it would have to be the deputy attorney general, and i would imagine the deputy attorney general would not do that given his testimony recently here on the hill. >> yeah. of course that's correct. it would be the deputy attorney general. he said he wanted -- in nixon's case, he fired people until he got someone who would. i want to turn now to what happened today. it was horrifying. i think everyone feels shaken having worked on capitol hill as a reporter there, i know how much everyone is sort of in each other's space all the time. how are you feeling, congressman lance, about what happened today, and what has the atmosphere been like in that building today? >> it's been very somber, very sad. of course we were all horrified in a bipartisan capacity on the events this morning. i know steve scalise. i know him relatively well, and i thought that the remarks at the lunch hour by speaker ryan and democratic leader pelosi were eloquent. i thought the speaker was particula

mueller. >> i'm not answering for dr. g director rogers and director coats. i'm answering for director mccabe and myself. >> are you confident that the fbi is fully cooperating with special counsel for any requests in communication and setting you want coordination between officers for documents, work products, insights, anything the special counsel as they're trying to get organized and get prepared for the investigation as they're taking on, is everyone in the fbi fully cooperating with special counsel? >> absolutely, sir. i'm absolutely confident of that. we have a robust relationship with the special counsel's office. we're supporting them with personnel and resources in any way they request. >> thank you. admiral rogers, this spring nsa decided to stop doing about queries. that was a long conversation that's happened there. it's now come out in the public about that conversation, that that was identified as a problem. the court agreed with that. and that has been stopped. what i need to ask you is, who first identified that as a problem? >> the national

dr. richard mueller, call me a converted skeptic. this is in 2013 or 14. last year, following intensive research effort involving a dozen scientists, i could conclude that global warming was real and that the prior estimates of the rate of warming were correct. i'm not now going to step further, humans are entirely the cause. if you say this is caused by the warming of the oceans, the ocean -- the reason the ocean is warming is because they absorb water -- water absorb the heat. that is why sea level is rising. because when -- when the water heats it expands. and also because of the melting of the ice caps. this is not -- there is no peer reviewed study that doesn't say this is happening. and the biggest proponent of this is our military. and they and in their quadrennial review say this is the biggest threat to our world, the time for red team -- i'm sorry, that is what we do every day. that is what scientists do every day. and 100% of peer reviewed scientists have a consensus. and that is that this is happening. >> senator, you said something that caught

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dr. miller's decisions under specified situations. it also says you may fire or remove director mueller is that correct? >> yes. >> you indicated in your statement that you chose a person who exercises a degree of independence, not full independence from the normal change of command. my question is this. in december 2003, the acting attorney general at the time was jim comey. he appointed a special counsel patrick fitzgerald to take over the matter. in a letter dated december 30th, 2003, he wrote the following. i direct you to exercise the authority of special counsel independent of the supervision or control of any officer of the department. in a subsequent letter dated february 6th, 2004, -- he said my conferral on you and special counsel in this matter should not be misunderstood to suggest that your position and authorities are defined or limited by 28 cfr part 600. those of the special counsel regulations we discussed. would you agree to provide a letter to director mueller similarly providing that director mueller has the authority of special counsel independent of the supervision

dr. rivera. and ben carson and a breaking news store tore about loretta lynch and james comey. and mueller's investigation turned into a witch hunt and needs to be shut down immediately. monologue. ♪ >> all right, we have been telling you something t we toldha you something how the fbi director is nothing more than a calulating partison hack that thrived in the dc swamp. we exposed relationship that he leaked to the to "the new york times," that is with robert mueller, and we will explain why this investigation is nothing more than a witch hunt that is aimed to take down the president of the united states. there is also a massive double standard that is being completely ignored here. it is something that the mainstream media won't tell you about, we will do their job. during his testimony last night, the former fbi director, comey, he revealed that president trump was never under investigation, that there was no obstruction of justice, and that the media was lying to you about the russian collusion conspiracy theories, that they have been pushing out for almost ten months. comey also admitte

dr. -- admiral jackson is intimately involved in the president's care and provides him, you know, feedback and whatever medical issues he has. >> does president trump think special counsel robert mueller is partisan? >> i think his comments this morning speak for themselves as to his views on robert mueller. >> two brief questions. first, it was reported on one of the networks that the president referred to the american health care act as a mean bill and he wanted more money that was coming in. did he actually say that? or can you confirm or deny whether he used that term to describe it and call for greater funding for parts of it? >> i would tell you that i don't comment on private conversations that the president has. >> all right. and the other thing i do want to know was, on tuesday night, in a public conversation, his speech that he delivered in cedar rapids, the president called for legislation that would deny welfare benefits to illegal immigrants for five years. it has been widely reported that that has been on the books for 21 years going back to when president clinton signed the omnibus welfare reform legislation in 1996. was that a misstatement on the president's part? or w

dr. . >> woodruff: you don't think there is a justification -- >> for a special counsel in this case, but also -- i mean, robert muellerre are real conflicts. he comes from a law firm that represent members of the trump family. h he interviewed the day before, a few days before he was appointed special counsel with the president who was looking at him potentially to become the next f.b.i. director. that hasn't been accomplished but it's true. i think it would be strange that he would have a confidential conversation and then, a few days later, become the prosecutor over the person e-- prosecutor of the person he may be investigating. i think mueller should not have taken the position if he had a private meeting with the president and had thoughts about that investigation or other matters before the bureau. >> woodruff: you know for a fact robert mueller was offered another position before he became special counsel? >> i know for fact he was under consideration and the president did talk with him in the days before he was named special counsel. i think there's a conflict there. my position is mueller is a man of integri

mueller is looking into ties with russia. its cyber attacks and any possible connection to the trump campaign. let's bring in dr.hael font roy, political science professor at howard university. we were just talking about the fact that people may not realize the scope and size of this will, would you be able to change as we've already seen from strictly into that russian collusion, now into this idea of a potential obstruction of justice. and also, that this thing could take years. >> well, it's the white water investigation during the clinton administration, we all know the name monica lou within ski. about her name came to the public forefront that started on a real estate deal in arkansas, four years $40 million alert, we get to monica. the public patient if they want to a thorough investigation >> it's amazing that you have to go back in far, because it certainly doesn't -- this isn't the type of thing we see, some people are drawing this connection, form former fbi director james comey admitted he leaked the memos because he was hoping for the appointment of a special counsel. then that happened. now, muelle