the state's star witness, robert mullens. witness i call the jailhouse snitch, and you call a jailhouse informant. >> no, he's a snitch, no question about that. but at the end of the day, what we learned from robert mullens is that he's been given a fairly detailed account by gagnon of what occurred that evening and what the crime scene looked like. >> in fact, he said mullens was the first to tell police this piece of bombshell news. gagnon had mentioned an accomplice in the killings. >> the only way he can have that information is from someone who knew the crime scene, participated in the crime. >> then the prosecutor tried to spin an inconvenient fact in his favor. those mystery blood drops found at the murder scene had been tested. the dna was not a match to rick, but to an unidentified male. that, said the prosecutor, actually supported what mullens said, that rick had an accomplice. humphries believed the evidence was enough to put the defendant away. he only wished he could make the same case against rick's old girlfri

matt getz, both are on the house judiciary committee and both have called for the resignation of robert mullenn this investigation. gentlemen, good to have you here tonight. >> thank you. >> martha: let me start with you congressman getz. your thoughts on what transpired in there today. it's a classified briefing. >> we have to remember this is the very same andrew mccabe who sent the emails designating the hillary clinton investigation as special and different than what applied to any other american and then as you correctly noted, the very scheme that was hatched by peter strzok and his mistress lisa page seems to have been hatched in andy mccabe's presence. so this is a very critical witness for us to be able to get to the bottom of this information. i don't want this testimony to just occur behind closed doors. one of the things congressman bigs and i are fighting for are subpoenas so that before the judiciary committee and all of the american people we can get answers to these questions, expose the bias that we know exists and ensure that we have a roughly law that we can rely on in this

of efforts by republican lawmakers this week to discredit special counsel robert mueller and his investigators even before mullen has a chance to present his findings why and what effect might this have on the russia investigation for that i'm joined by richard painter a professor of law university of minnesota he was the chief white house ethics lawyer during the administration of george w. bush and is currently the vice chair of citizens for responsibility and ethics in washington he joins us from minneapolis which is. republican lawmakers some conservative media outlets a slamming the russian investigation accusing robert mullahs frog of being rigged riddled with liberal and deeds from bias what do you make of this but are a lot of words i can pick out to describe robert muller. a brave courageous man. loyal american liberalism want i know how. they are and i was in the bush white house and he was i very professional director of the f.b.i. no politicization over at the up a on to robert muller even though he was a republican hey why. kept on by president obama he is an experienced prosecutor and he does not t