muller muller's argument in not wanting the courts to allow court members recovering you know to not allow them to view the evidence against them like they would in a normal criminal trial i'm sorry it is not good for in the face of our legal system well here's the deal you know robert muller and the prosecutors involved never in their wildest dreams expected that any of these thirteen russian nationals . or three russian companies including concord would ever show up with lawyers in court because none of them are in the country none of them are in custody it was kind of a no what they referred to in the legal system is name and shame indictments you know you're indicted they're indicted they did bad and more for it my view of publicity kind of thing not to say that there might be some you know legitimacy to some of the charges i don't know i haven't read the evidence i'm not a lawyer but having said all that concord one of the three companies comes to court says we want a trial we want to see the evidence we want disclosure we want the full you know mcgill here as they say we want bring it on and i think that caught muller and his team by complete surprise they fought the court back in may they had a couple of court appearances and now the latest is that the fourteen page

muller. if lieutenant muller does his job well and, he will have a private report to his platoon in all likelihood who was born after the 911 attacks. that's a pretty shocking fact. >> yes senator. >> so we've taken a lot of burden in afghanistan. we've taken it on for a long time. many americans rightfully question why we have spent so much money there, why would had so many sons and daughters killed there. is the simple answer to those questions that afghanistan is where the attack is from and if we were to withdraw they would simply try to start attacking us again. >> senator, i go back to that national interest. it's a vital national interest which is the security of our country and our citizens as well as other international partners. that's why we are in afghanista afghanistan. i wish that you and all those other lieutenants and captains who set in 2001 that they were there so the kids didn't have to be there had that prediction come true but it's simply not the case. the enemy is still there. the enemy still gets a vote. >> that's correct. >> a couple weeks ago an american soldier was killed. staff sergeant alex conrad was killed in a poor, troubled, war-torn country. it was in afghanistan, it was amalia. captain muller served in somalia 25 years ago. did you have the same ntent that you wished you were there in part so your children wouldn't have to be there 25 years later? >> senator, i think in 1993 a wasn't thinking in that direction, but to your point, yes. >> but it's the truth that although not a continuous presence for 25 years, we have had a pretty regular presence in small you for many of those 25 years. >> that's correct. what do small you and afghanistan have in common that has required us to have troops continually present since 2001 in afghanistan and presents in smalley athens 1993? >> senator, it's a violent extreme organizations that were speaking about al-shabaab and isis. >> we all wish they weren't there and that they didn't want to try to kill us in the united states, but they are there and that's why we have troops there and i commend you and your son and every other soldier, sailor, airman and marine who continue to carry on this fight for 17 years in afghanistan to keep this c

muller. it is in short a declaration war against robert muller. help me with one other thing. the media tends to focus on the narrative around the muller it would do under any other president? one way you could tell it is certainly a distraction in this town is that of republican politicians over the past day or two, have been asked nonstop whether they support this idea that the president can pardon himself. lots of republican senators are saying no, they don't believe that, but you have to look at this, lawyers, even donald trump's lawyers, even donald trump's lawyers, have an obligation to try to come up with every sort of defence that their client. but good politicians know that there is some argument you don't make because it is politically untenable. but in this case trump feels free to make these arguments, even if it is putting members of his own party in a difficult position. don't go anywhere. donald trump has had to fend off multiple allegations of sexually inappropriate behaviour. so has the former president, bill clinton, who has a new book out. while promoting that he has been asked about his affair with monica lewinsky b

muller in the first place but in another tweet he claims that if muller decides trump did anything wrong i have the absolute right to pardon myself certainly the constitution very clearly lays out the law and once again the president hasn't done anything wrong and we feel very comfortable in that front it's not certain that trump himself is under investigation but muller does want to talk to him trump has faced accusations of obstruction of justice ever since he fired the head of the f.b.i. james comey over the russia investigation his latest tweets raise serious concerns the president may now be preparing to fire moller as well but it also begs the question about whether the president can actually pardon himself no president has ever done it but internal department of justice memo for nine hundred seventy four just before president richard nixon resigned from office following similar accusations says the commander in chief cannot pardon himself still for some legal analysts the latest truck tweets suggest something else if he isn't worried about committing a crime then there's no need to have a pardon so it certainly suggests a guilty mindset and he's afraid that the walls are.

muller in the first place but in another tweet he claims that if muller decides trump did anything wrong i have the absolute right to pardon myself certainly the constitution very clearly lays out the law and once again the president hasn't done anything wrong and we feel very comfortable in that front it's not certain that trump himself is under investigation but muller does want to talk to him trump has faced accusations of obstruction of justice ever since he fired the head of the f.b.i. james comey over the russia investigation his latest tweets re serious concerns the president may now be preparing to fire moller as well but it also begs the question about whether the president can actually pardon himself no president has ever done it but internal department of justice memo for nine hundred seventy four just before president richard nixon resigned from office following similar accusations says the commander in chief cannot pardon himself still for some legal analysts the latest truck tweets suggest something else if he isn't worried about committing a crime then there's no need to have a pardon so it certainly suggests a guilty mindset and he's afraid that the walls are closing in a number of people have already been charged in the probe including trump's former campaign manager paul matter for michael flynn trump's former national security advis

muller in the first place but in another tweet he claims that if muller decides trump did anything wrong i have the absolute right to pardon myself certainly the constitution very clearly lays out the law and once again the president hasn't done anything wrong and we feel very comfortable in that front it's not certain that trump himself is under investigation but muller does want to talk to him trump has faced accusations of obstruction of justice ever since he fired the head of the f.b.i. james comey over the russia investigation his latest tweets raise serious concerns the president may now be preparing to fire moller as well but it also begs the question about whether the president can actually pardon himself no president has ever done it but an internal department of justice memo for nine hundred seventy four just before president richard nixon resigned from office following similar accusations says the commander in chief cannot pardon himself still for some legal analysts the latest truck tweets suggest something else if he isn't worried about committing a crime then there's no need to have a pardon so it certainly suggests a guilty mindset and he's afraid that the walls are closing in a number of people have already been charged to probe including trucks former campaign manager paul matter for michael flynn trump's former national security advi

muller has, but he needs to get it out there if he's got something. >> you believe now that any chance that the president could ever testify or talk to mr. muller this went out the window? >> say that again. neil: do you think the president should still consider testifying to bob muller his team or does that just go. >> i'm not.a substitute my judgment for the judgment of his own attorneys, but i would be very cautious about that, particularly where it's been made clear he's not a suspect and there's no evidence that some brought forward of any collusion between the trump campaign and russia. if there are other reasons to not do it, i'm not privy to those and i will leave that judgment to the president and his lawyers. neil: chairman, you had mentioned you would love the opportunity to subpoena and talk to peter strauch, the fbi worker who still has a job at the fbi. he and lisa page and all these who were disparaging mr. trump at the time. what you want to find out from him. >> first of all, we have thousands of texts conversations between he and lisa page that raise huge questions about what the meaning of those techs are. for example, he says to lisa page, we are not point to let that happen, were to stop it with regard to the election of donald trump as president

muller in the first place but in another tweet he claims that if muller decides trump did anything wrong i have the absolute right to pardon myself certainly the constitution very clearly lays out the law and once again the president hasn't done anything wrong and we feel very comfortable in that front it's not certain that trump himself is under investigation but muller does want to talk to him trump has faced accusations of obstruction of justice ever since he fired the head of the f.b.i. james comey over the russia investigation his latest tweets raise serious concerns the president may now be preparing to fire moller as well but it also begs the question about whether the president can actually pardon himself no president has ever done it but internal department of justice memo for nine hundred seventy four just before president richard nixon resigned from office following similar accusations says the commander in chief cannot pardon himself still for some legal analysts the latest truck tweets suggest something else if he isn't worried about committing a crime then there's no need to have a pardon so it certainly suggests a guilty mindset and he's afraid that the walls are closing in a number of people have already been charged to probe including trucks former campaign manager paul matter for michael flynn trump's former national security advisor

muller team. he said trump supporters are all poor to middle-class uneducated and he thank they think he will magically grant them jobs for doing nothing. he worked on the muller team. the clinton fbi department of justice investigation has actually bled over into the muller. >> not just lawyer number two who you're referencing, but also peter struck and also lisa. they hadn't animus toward president trump. they were all involved in the clinton investigation. they all three moved to the rush investigation. lawyer number two was the primary lawyer on the rush investigation. and imagine this. all three of them go on muller's team. obviously there removed from the team was discovered how much they district liked the president. i think it's interesting that they all go to the muller team. stuart: it's extraordinary. tell me about hillary clinton. as i read it secrets were on her private server and that private server was hacked by foreign agents, correct. >> this was thorough, this was as hard-hitting as it can be. i read the one when the irs was targeting. [inaudible] this is as hard-hitting as it gets. i think what we've gotten into , they'll be a hearing next week and we can ask all kinds of questions but this does not paint the fbi in a good picture. stua