robert: yes.ll i can say to you is, it will take this long. i am not going to change the way i do it. just because i'm getting older, i don't know what the point would be. brian: on the vietnam stuff, you were going to go and live in vietnam. like you did in the hill country. are you still going to do that? robert: yes. as it happens, when i finished the section i am working on now, which is within johnson's passing and this incredible verse in 1965, he passes the voting rights act, medicare, medicaid, i think 16 separate education bills. whenever poor people get paid to go to college now, it's lyndon johnson. he passes headstart, he does this all in a few months. so it's quite a study, one of the formative moments in american history. the moment is three or four months. he wins this landslide election in november 1964 against barry goldwater. and rams through so much of what has been made america so good today. what it is today. -- when you are old today, what did you do before when you knew doct

robert: you have done a lot of homework. >> [laughter] robert: no. we were a newlywed couple, and i was passionate about football. i loved it. we had four young sons, and it was something i loved to do with them. megan: flash forward to 1994, and the owner at the time wanted to move the team. and you already owned the rights to the stadium, and you fly to st. louis and you say before you go, and this audience might not know this, you said before you went you thought the team was worth $115 million. robert: i was passionate about buying the patriots. you have a greater chance of being a starting quarterback in the nfl because there are 32 than owning the team in your hometown. and so knowing that if i ever had a chance, i wanted to control the venue. in 1985, i got an option on the land, 300 acres of land for people who did the parking. it was owned by 12 different people, and i controlled that for 10 years. then in 1988, as we discussed, the sullivan family that owned the team sponsored the michael jackson tour. megan: the victory tour. robert: the v

robert handa: hello, and welcome to "asian pacific america." ♪ i'm robert handa, your host for our showere on nbc bay area and cozi tv. today, we start with a new summer initiative by nbc bay area and telemundo 48, supporting our schools, a way to help students get the necessary tools they need to learn. then a health issue in the asian america and pacific islander communities, hepatitis b, and how to make them hep b free. next, a big event for the filipino community, the 24th annual pistahan parade and festival. it just keeps getting bigger. and finally, we finish with our traditional artistic and cultural performers by tenelle, an artist of samoan heritage with a new album and a live performance here in our studio. well, supporting our schools is a project by nbc bay area and telemundo 48. today, we feature two of our community partners joining us in the effort to help provide families and their students with essential school supplies. joining me is ena yasuhara li the vice president of community impact for united way bay area, who helps oversee the agency's services designed to reduc

robert: the healthcare debate under the microscope. i'm robert costa. we examine what's inside the senate republican's rewrite of the affordable care act tonight on "washington week." >> we agreed on the need to free americans from obamacare's mandates. we'll repeal the individual mandate so americans are no longer forced to buy insurance they don't need or can't afford. robert: senate republicans rolled out their healthcare plan after weeks of closely guarded discussions. democrats argue the bill is even worse than the version that came out of the house. >> simply put, this bill will result in higher costs, less care, and millions of americans will lose their health insurance. robert: but a revolt by a handful of republicans could put this newest bill in jeopardy. >> we need common-sense reforms in the bill that lower the cost of premiums. >> we also need to negotiate over what's good, what's bad and what we can get in the bill to make it better. robert: president trump remains optimistic, there is room for compromise. president trump: we will hopefull

robert: days later robert mueller was appointed special counsel. top republicans are standing by the president. >> he's new at government and so therefore i think that he is learning as he goes. robert: plus, bombshell revelations about former attorney general loretta lynch and her attempt to redefine the investigation into former secretary of state hillary clinton. we explore it all with dan balz of "the washington post" and julie hirschfeld davis of the "new york times," pete williams of nbc news, and kimberly atkins of "the boston herald." [captioning performed by the national captioning institute which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] announcer: once again live from washington, moderator robert costa. robert: good evening. a remarkable week in washington where scrutiny of president trump's conduct came to the fore. in policy debates, they took a back seat. today during a rose garden news conference, president trump responded to the stunning testimony of former f.b.i. director james comey. it was a memorable

so this was the first time i spoke with robert. so when he told me that another inmate had written the letter it seemed like a plausible situation. >> authorities say wolford had a motivation for changing his story and claiming he had nothing to do with the letter. their unsuccessful search resulted in a new criminal charge for him. >> they say i obstructed the fbi's and cleveland police investigations. >> wolford was charged with obstruction of justice. he pled not guilty but would remain in the jail until the case was resolved. if found guilty he could have several more years added to the 26 he's already serving. >> i got a saying for them. if the glove don't fit, you must >>> knowled the missing girl named amm d friend dis >> w w talk her best friend was two down. i used to hang out at her house all the time. >> do you think amanda's alive? >> yes. >> you really think she's alive? >> i think if she was dead they would have found her body. >> if there was something you could say to amanda's family, what would you say? >> that we

robert: yeah. one thing about rashomon though, all the events were sort of the same and it was your point of view that was different. somebody's lying in one of these, right? tina: well, yeah. i mean, the evidence would suggest that. robert: yeah. tell me something, though. how does this film fit into this film festival? tina: yeah, great question. so, i've made a lot of films that are about the queer experience, and i'm specifically interested in what the lgbtq experience of adult japanese-americans during the war time era would've been like. when i first started this project, i intended to make it a sort of queer in spirit, meaning that it was an experimental film, it's a mashup film, it includes popular music, but i didn't actually know if james wakasa was gay or not until i started doing the research, and then realize that he was 63 years old, single, and his most significant intimate relationship was with a man named-- who he met in 1915. and they traveled around the country for 3 decades work

>> robert: yes.nis left-handed to which everybody say -- [ cheers and applause ] >> robert: bring it. to which everybody said don't do that. it doesn't matter. you're wasting too many takes. >> jimmy: it worked out fine, but don't do that. okay. >> robert: yeah. >> jimmy: all right. congratulations on the movie. >> robert: thanks. >> jimmy: robert downey, jr. and tom holland. we'll see you at our regular time tomorrow night. thanks for watching. ♪

tonight -- robert downey jr. and tom holland, andre drummond, caron butler, jalen rose, and glenn robinson iii. presented by flonase sensimist allergy relief. and now, in top form, here's jimmy kimmel! [ cheers and applause ] >> i'm jimmy kimmel thank you for watching. thank you for coming to our special sunday show. it is basketball night in america. a battle of the southwest airlines regional hubs. teams alternate between cities. game five would be in oakland. game six they go back to cleveland and back to oakland for game seven. if there's a game eight something has gone wrong. this is our tenth year doing game night specials. we have an all star super powerful show to celebrate from spiderman homecoming robert downey, jr. we have the real ones not the dirty ones from outside. thinking about this today if super heros were real they definitely would have endorsement deals. spiderman would have a monster energy drink logo. thor would be doing commercials for pennsylvania johns. here's someone who should have one

once again, live from washington, moderator robert costa. robert: good evening. president frump's decision to exit the paris climate accord has sparked an international detective, in particular among allies, who would like the u.s., the world's second greatest carbon polluter to share the burden of reform by in his rose garden remarks, the president talked less about global warming and more about his america-first zenled agenda. president trump: i was elected to represent the citizens of pittsburgh, not paris. our withdrawal from the agreement represents a reassertion of america's sovereignty. we don't want other leaders and other countries laughing at us anymore and they won't be. robert: they may not be laughing anymore. they're paying attention. but you were born and ratesed in pittsburgh. you know the area and strip places like it. what's the economic and violate arl effect on a place like pittsburgh because of this decision? indira: my ears really perked up when i heard the president say he was elected to represent pittsburgh and not paris. as the mayor of p

so this was the first time i spoke with robert. so when he told me that another inmate had written the letter, it seemed like a plausible situation. >> authorities say wolford had a motivation for changing his story and claiming he had nothing to do with the letter. their unsuccessful search resulted in a new criminal charge for him. >> they say i obstructed the fbi's and cleveland police investigations. >> wolford was charged with obstruction of justice. he pled not guilty but would remain in the jail until the case was resolved. if found guilty he could have several more years added to the 26 he's already serving. >> i got a saying for them. if the glove don't fit, you must acquit. going to trial. going to trial. that's o.j. >> i think we all know it's o.j. >> that's o.j. let's go to trial. >> while wolford denied any knowledge of what happened to the missing girl named amanda he did say they were friends prior to her disappearance nine years earlier. >> we knew each other since we were little kids. i used to go to her work and t

when it comes to robert kennedy's position, i'm just going to talk about that and how robert kennedy came to his beliefs. he was a pragmatist, and whether -- if that requiredgm government intervention which he spoke very favorably of in december of 1963 he writes that government is where our problems get solved. so it's favorable, it's fashionable to look down on it, but this is what we do, choose to do together. but then again he also understood we needed to build political consensus. so when he desized his program for -- devised his program for eradicating and rebuilding the t slums in these three sets of speeches in 1966, the third speech was how do we bring along the people who feel left behind by the great society, and why should government help them. and we're talking about the middle-aged middle class. and he was, he said that in 1955 if you chose not to go to college, in 1965 you were you were 27 or 28 years old, and you have 30 years of working life ahead of you. and, therefore, we need to be able to do something for them. if they want to contribute to society, then we shoul

that was robert kennedy's reputation especially at the end of jfk blank life. he was opportunist and would do anything for votes. that was part of it that he didn't have this kind of guiding set of principles. it was a political liability for him and in some ways it showed i think political courage to stand by a person he had been previously had feelings for. he also blamed one of the political mentors for a lot of failings as well so that brings it back a little bit. >> what makes the books nicely paired together as both are about kennedys brothers trying to become something better than they had ever been. they are involved and looking at their lives trying to decide what can they do to truly fulfill the family's goal for public service. bobby was coming along in a certain way and throughout the story in my book that is basically what john was trying to do. from the lopez when they came into the presidency he wasn't a civil rights advocate but as we know. they announced the civil rights legislation and spoke about civil rights in a way that had never been spok

and we have robert muller to thank. coursecare -- of course cair, the council on american islamic relations who is always there to rush in and have a press conference after violence to say, we don't support this kind of violence, though clearly, when the evidence is reviewed, the council on american islamic relations individuals involved in cair, they ultimately want to see sharia law as the law of the land. that should have been prosecuted as supporting terrorism. there were scores of people that were listed as co-conspirators in upporting terrorism and and the holy land trial convicted the principals involved, over 100 counts of supporting terrorism, instead of being alerted and being more on s guard, the f.b.i. director mueller, bent overrule backwards more and more to accommodate those who want to see shari'a law be the law of the land scrapping our constitution. at one time, it was considered treason to want to scrap the constitution and replace it with anything. ut in bob mueller's america, people that wouldn't mi

robert: and welcome back.pressed by the artist and her artistry. here's anh tran on the zither. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ robert: the very talented and charming anh tran. well, coming up to close our show, one of my all-time favorites, the pounding rhythms of san jose taiko are coming up, so stay with us. of san jose taiko from its very early years. i did a special report on a group trying to preserve and enrich the traditional form of japanese drums. it didn't take long before the group was getting local, national, and international attention for its ever-evolving music. here's a segment we taped with an ensemble from san jose taiko. franco imperial: hi, my name is franco imperial. i'm artistic director for san jose taiko. we have here meg suzuki and jeff nun, who are also on staff at san jose taiko. we're going to be playing an encore piece that we perform many times when we're in japantown or on theatre in a concert. and we hope you enjoy it. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ honda: and to get more in

in some way, it probably helped robert e. lee in terms of his esteem among the overall officer corps because he did not clear up that stuff. the infighting about what happened and what actually transpired. excellent question. >> you are doing a great job about talking about the power of lee and the army of north virginia. the gallagher says lee and army are like washington and the continental army in terms of importance. how paul for was that impact in the west? mr. meyers: what do you mean by the impact of that in the west? >> you talk about his leadership, his inspiration, his bravery, his motivation for the almost and there are idolizing of him, and i'm wondering what the western ,roops felt or did they feel that charisma, i guess? mr. meyers: the instability makes it very difficult for those armies, even if they had had an equivalent commander, and equipment bow to a robert e. lee, it made it difficult to have that relationship that lee develops over 1040 days that lee commands the army of northern virginia. there is a cl

after all this, he does more than that and i asked him to speak about robert e. lee. robert e. lee on the front lines of battle. let us welcome barton myers. [applause] mr. myers: i want to thank dr. carmichael for letting me speak about one of the greatest battlefield commanders and one of her most controversial american historical figures, robert edward lee of virginia. for the last five years i have been a professor at washington and lee university where robert e lee is very. has become a bit of a cottage industry over the last years for folks. i have dealt with a lot of issues related to lee an historical memory over the last few years. career intarted my the academy i was at the national park service ranger. i live in chancellorsville on the battlefield. i spent a lot of time thinking about robert e. lee. today i want to talk a little bit about lee, one slice of his military career. the moments when he was in the greatest personal danger on the battlefield. had beenobert e. lee commander of the confederate army of northern virginia for precisely 1041 41 days when he of a o

robert: a big one.: all of the foreign policy that you describe, secretary mattis and so forth, were they not there, i suspect you and the rest of the world would be much more worried about right direction u.s. foreign-policy, even more worried about what direction you was foreign policy takes. the grown-ups are not in the room. charlie: can anybody change? let's assume the president has all the flaws that are attributed to him. is there likely anything that can change him? roger: no. no. he is 70 years old. donald trump will not change. zanny: i'm not sure he can change. i suspect someone can take away his phone, take away his twitter feed. >> we keep reading these articles about how he is going to be restrained, nothing is going to go on his twitter account without it going to lawyers. it never actually happens because his bottom line is that he wants to communicate directly with his base. the fake "new york times," and everyone else. the failing "new york times" full of fake news. if he were not able

should robert mueller feel safe in his job? >> the day before muler was appointed special council, he met with the president that was speaking with the man who made him fbi director. it seems he should have disclosed that immediately to see, i think there is a real conflict and the public needs to see this as a agenda getting the president -- nobody in the white house has ever he needsed -- needed. it s a constant strain about the white house missing something. >> i about robert mueller is secure in his job? >> i don't want to make a judgment, but he was appointed special council without any legal basis. it says there has to be an underlying probe. i do think it is a good point, but i think the public needs to have a full disclosure of the facts here. what is the evidence of it? they keep saying the investigative agencies are saying there is no collusion, but you have to ask yourself why do they keep hiring prosecutors. >> let's get to the investigation, the focus today, i know based on my reporting that the president was very

chief justice roberts: sure. mr. tseytlin: we believe that most of the work under takings law should be done at that second step, usually penn central. we believe the first step, the parcel question, should be determined in a straightforward way so the court can move on to doing the hard work of penn central. thank you, your honors. chief justice roberts: thank you, counsel. mr. lazarus. mr. lazarus: mr. chief justice, and may it please the court, just like cities and counties in at least 33 states have done for decades, for more than 40 years, st. croix county has excluded from its grandfather clause for preexisting lots commonly owned substandard adjacent lots. during all those decades, no court at any time in any jurisdiction in the united states has held that exclusion amounts to a taking and for good reason, it's fair and it's just. and the same reason -- chief justice roberts: well, that's -- and it gets to the questions i was asking early, fairness and justness. and if -- actually the -- the point is -- last m

after all this, he does more than that and i asked him to speak about robert e. lee. robert e. lee on the front lines of battle. let us welcome barton myers. [applause] mr. myers: i want to thank dr. carmichael for letting me speak about one of the greatest battlefield commanders and one of her most controversial american historical figures, robert edward lee of virginia. for the last five years i have been a professor at washington and lee university where robert e lee is very. has become a bit of a cottage industry over the last years for folks. i have dealt with a lot of issues related to lee an historical memory over the last few years. career intarted my the academy i was at the national park service ranger. i live in chancellorsville on the battlefield. i spent a lot of time thinking about robert e. lee. today i want to talk a little bit about lee, one slice of his military career. the moments when he was in the greatest personal danger on the battlefield. had beenobert e. lee commander of the confederate army of northern virginia for precisely 1041 41 days when he of a o

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that's another robert hill. there's a lot of robert hills in the system. >> robert hill has a puzzling session with the jail psychiatrist. and -- >> socks, boxers, bras, panties, all underwear is dyed. >> the reason tulsa inmates have their underwear dyed orange. >> due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. >>> tulsa is the second largest city in oklahoma. but the tulsa county jail is a city within the city. along with numerous security concerns that come with temporarily housing some 1800 men and women, facing a huge array of criminal charges, it contains its own versions of the local post office, a hospital, and busier restaurant than just about any other in the city. it also contains a gigantic laundry facility. >> we usually do anywhere from 10 to 12 loads. each load, each washer, the big washers are 125 pounds. the small washers are 75 pounds. if that can kind of give you an idea. >> the various colored uniforms coincide with each inmate's classification. >> all county clothing is generall

all right, robert.ood luck to you. >> mm-hmm. >> and, you know, i hope it works the way you want it. >> okay. >> all right. good luck to you. >> appreciate it. >> okay. >> the parole hearing for robert was interesting in that, robert believed every time he might have a chance. he felt very hopeful. he'd been turned down many times before, so he obviously carried that realism with him. but i think that there was a piece of him that thought maybe this could be the time i get set free. so what are your thoughts, feelings about the whole thing? >> well, the way he was talking, he may give a good report. so things may go my way this time. >> what's your main goal, robert? >> going back on the street. getting back to work. letting my wife sit back for a while. >> i'm hoping this time that it will go through because things are going a little bit different than it has in the past times. i've done got everything prepared to where we can have a little time together and everything whenever he does get out because

john roberts has our report. reporter: the president returned home a short while ago from miami to make good on a campaign pledge to get a better deal from cuba. >> effective immediately i'm canceling the last administration's completely one-sided deal with cuba. reporter: before a jubilant crowd, president trump moved to tighten the screws on the castro regime. rolling back obama era easing of policies with the castro regime. the new policy reinstates the tourism ban on cuba, maintains the embargo and prohibits americans from doing business with the cuban military and government-owned businesses. he stopped short of full repeal. announce some provisions on ex 40s, immigration and diplomacy will remain in place. >> we hope our countries can forge a much better and stronger path. reporter: president trump has stayed on message with his agenda. but he's still using the twitter-verse as a rhetorical weapon against his detractors. he tweeted, i'm being investigated for firing the f.b.i. director by the man who told m

john roberts has our report. reporter: the president returned home a short while ago from miami to make good on a campaign pledge to get a better deal from cuba. >> effective immediately i'm canceling the last administration's completely one-sided deal with cuba. reporter: before jubilant crowd, president tru moved to tighten the screws on the castro regime. rolling back obama era easing of policies with the castro regime. the new policy reinstates the tourism ban on cuba, maintains the embargo and prohibits americans from doing business with the cuban military and government-owned businesses. he stopped short of full repeal. announce some provisions on ex 40s, immigration and diplomacy will remain in place. >> we hope our countries can forge a much better and stronger path. reporter: president trump has stayed on message with his agenda. but he's still using the twitter-verse as a rhetorical weapon against his detractors. he tweeted, i'm being investigated for firing the f.b.i. director by the man who told me to

is robert mueller next. a close confident of donald trump drops this bombshell. >> i think he's considering perhaps terminating the special counsel. i think he's weighing that option. >> you got to be kidding me. will he do it? can he do it? it's tough questions. the attorney general set to testify today in an open hearing about his undisclosed meetings with the russian ambassador and the trump/comey meeting that led to the fbi director's firing. >> my sense was the attorney general knew he shouldn't be leaving which is why he was lingering. >> no, this is not reality tv. a strange, strange trip, basketball hall of famer dennis rodman is in north korea, the former "apprentice" contestant knows president trump and kim jong-un. is he an emissary for the president? >> i'm pretty sure he's pretty much happy of the fact that i'm over here trying to accomplish something that we both need. >> extraordinary. all right. we're going to begin this morning with word that president trump is toying with the idea of firing

robert serves as a volunteer captain for the rental fire department. he was a small business owner for 30 years, but there obama care premiums doubled. sarah was forced to leave retirement to find a part-time job just to pay the bills. when she did so, making matters worse, they were no longer robert eligible for the tax credit they once received and the federal government actually forced them to repay thousands of dollars. i agree. as it happened to you also? yeah, it has. these are sad, but familiar stories in wisconsin where obamacare premiums have doubled. obamacare is one of the greatest catastrophes that our country has signed into law and the victims are innocent, hard-working americans like michael and tammy, robert and sarah. these citizens deserve so much better. the house of representatives has senate, and the senate is getting ready to do something. hopefully, it will get done, where we will come senate, up wa solution and a really good one for health care. the matter how good it is, we will get no of structuralist -- obstructionist democra

is they want to lay the foundation to discredit whatever robert mueller comes up with.y are essentially engaging in a scorched earth litigation strategy and trying to discredit the prosecutor. >> jon: joining me now, former justice department official robert driscoll. is there any question if the president has the power to fire robert mueller he wants to? >> he can fire him through the chain of command just like any other employee of the department of justice. clearly he could do it, whether or not to do it would be much more debatable question. >> jon: it seems like the guy hasn't even really begun his investigation yet, there wouldn't be a good cause for it at this point, with there? >> theoretically he wouldn't need good cause. the political blowback from firing him would presumably be great. and at the end of the day, what serves the president most is to have an investigation that vindicates him. presuming he didn't do anything wrong, he would prefer to have an investigation of his conduct and someone conclude that he would do that violated the law. preventing that

for "matter of fact," i'm diane roberts.oledad: garrett epps is a writer, lawyer, and teacher who grew up in richmond, virginia. he says the veneration of the confederacy marked his youth and it is time to take the statues down. soledad: nice to see you, sir. garrett epps: great to be here. soledad: so richmond, virginia, the second capitol of the confederacy. what was your childhood like in terms of those statues? were they pointed out? was it a big deal or something people did not notice? garrett epps: you have to understand that, for most of my childhood, i lived a block and a half from the equestrian statue of lee that is the center of monument avenue. everywhere we went, we were going past confederate generals -- gen. steward, gen. lee, gen. jackson. the school i went to, you were divided into two teams. you were either one of the lees or you were one of the jacksons. our school colors were red and gray, the two colors of the confederate army. so, the confederacy was in the room with us. soledad: when i, as a north-east

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robert mueller's an honorable man.ly he'll come up with an honorable solution. >> president trump blasting mueller even as he calls him an honorable man. sean spicer was asked about that today. >> is he still ruling out the firing of special counsel? >> nothing's changed on that in terms of his position. >> and his position is? >> while he retains the authority, anyone who serves, i believe stooeeve and ahave a healthy exchange. he has no intention on doing that. >> good evening, sir. >> good to be with you. >> do you know if robert mueller is a good friend of james comey? >> i don't, but it should be clear that the president doesn't have the authority to fire robert mueller. he's appointed by the attorney general and in this case the assistant attorney general since jeff sessions recused himself. the president would have to direct rod rosenstein to do it. if he declined, he would have to fire him and hire someone else to follow his order. >> rod rosenstein has the decision. if mueller and comey are friends -- you're a

and then robert bourque obeyed the president's order. and that was remembered when robert bourque 14 years later was nominated by president reagan to fill a supreme court vacancy and his nomination was defeated by a vote of 58-42. what happens in the firing of robert mueller be remembered for the rest of the lives of anyone who participates in that firing. technically, the president does not have the direct power to fire the special prosecutor. only the attorney general has that power. but since attorney general jeff sessions has recused himself from matters involving the special prosecutor's investigation of the trump administration's russian connections, the prosecutor to fire the special prosecutor now rests with deputy attorney general rod rosenstein, the man who appointed the special prosecutor. this evening we have been hearing many, many commentators say they just cannot imagine that president trump would have the special prosecutor fired. everyone who has said that is a very slow learner about the capacities of the trump administ

how a special counsel robert mueller's investigation?peak of the relationship between special counsel robert moeller and the fire fbi director james comey has really been under the microscope since may when mueller took over the investigation. this video from 2013 shows coming when he was nominated by the fbi director taking over from mueller who had held the job for 12 years, to more than the traditional 10-year term, at the request of president obama. president trump telling fox news this morning that he is kind of thinking he wait and see attitude over mueller should recuse himself over the russian case. >> he's very, very good friends with comey, which is very bothersome. >> the president has continued to dispute comey's characterization of the private conversation, specifically over the former national security advisor mike flynn. sandra. >> sandra: thank you, catherine. so much news coming in the saffron. thank you for the update on all that. at the white house press precinct event briefing is now underway. but we are making it ver

i've got to say, these attacks on robert mueller are ridiculous. he was a bush appointee in the fbi. i was in the bush white house when he was at the fbi. he was an excellent fbi director. and the idea that he is a partisan liberal is ridiculous. some of the people he's hiring may have given money to democrats, but we have a lot of people appointed, united states attorneys who have given money to the president's political party and they then have the power to prosecute anybody in the united states. so, yeah, we want to clean up our campaign finance system and get rid of the big donors. i'm all for it. but then to turn around and say, well, someone gave a few thousand dollars to a political campaign, and that makes them unable to be an impartial prosecutor and do their job professionally, that is a utterly ridiculous argument. what's more, bob mueller is a class act and he's going to do a good job. if the president were to choose to fire him, i think we'd have to be looking for a new president very quickly. it's not going to work that way. >> i want