bob tenses up. he considers a call from the president urgent and he asks george to return to the bay immediately. george reverses our court. the boat heels and we're doused with salt water. bob's fingers drum on the deck while larry's right leg nervously jiggles. when we enter the protective cove of the bay the wind dies. drifting 100 yards offshore, becomes frustrated and decides there's a faster way to make it to land. he thanks the bells, walks to the bow of the boat and dives into the water. larry follows. swimming as hard as they can, they finally reach the boat where they run for their parked jeep. they speed away and disappear into a grove of trees leaving a billowy cloud of dust. kathleen and george are speechless. i am often asked how we learned about the watergate break-in, which brings me to june 1972. this chapter is "the watergate break-in." on june 16, 1972, the first lady leaves for a three-day campaign swing through texas, california and south dakota. while she's out of town the pres

"bob" haldeman. after the nixon administration larry worked for pepsico, unical and the times mirror company. when he retired in 2008, he was chief operating officer of the apria health care group. in his retirement, although i think his wife dee might quarrel with the word, larry has been busy serving on boards, working on non-profits and keeping up with kids and grandchildren. under his chairmanship, the splendid new orange county performing arts center was built and opened. larry has been a board member and a chair of the new majority, a republican nonprofit think tank. among many notable honors, he's a recipient of the horatio alger award. as a member of the nixon foundation board, larry has played a prominent and generous part in opening up our new nixon library. it's my pleasure to introduce the honorable larry higby. [ applause ] >> thank you very much, bill. and good morning. let me add my welcome to everyone here in the east room of the new nixon library. and a special welcome to our c-span

but by 2014, bob's health is in steep decline. he's diagnosed with advanced emphysema and confined to quarters -- with his troops. >> how important were "the guys" at the end? >> very important. he would sit in that room seven days a week, surrounded by his soldiers. that made him happy. >> maybe so, but bob doesn't want his wife to have to figure out what to do with them once he's gone. did he tell you what to do? >> he did not want to leave me with the soldiers. >> bob wanted to sell off the collection so carole wouldn't have to deal with it. >> meet the man bob drafts to decommission his army. >> when i first walked into this room, i was just kind of in awe. 'cause there's some die-hard collectors that would really just die to have some of these sets. >> that's next. >> but first, our "strange inheritance" quiz question. the answer after the break. ♪ >> so, which toy soldier was the single most expensive one ever sold? it's "a." a rare 1934 prototype marching guard was sold at a christie's auction in 1994 for $4,370. >> it's

but by 2014, bob's health is in steep decline. he's diagnosed with advanced emphysema and confined to quarters -- with his troops. >> how important were "the guys" at the end? >> very important. he would sit in that room seven days a week, surrounded by his soldiers. that made him happy. >> maybe so, but bob doesn't want his wife to have to figure out what to do with them once he's gone. did he tell you what to do? >> he did not want to leave me with the soldiers. >> bob wanted to sell off the collection so carole wouldn't have to deal with it. >> meet the man bob drafts to decommission his army. >> when i first walked into this room, i was just kind of in awe. 'cause there's some die-hard collectors that would really just die to have some of these sets. >> that's next. >> but first, our "strange inheritance" quiz question. the answer after the break. ♪ it's a highly contagious disease that can be really serious... especially for my precious new grandchild. it's whooping cough. every family member, including those around new bab

bob: it is tough. what we are looking at is sort of like comparing the chinese consumer economy versus the u.s. consumer economy. each of these companies are highly associated with the regions within which they play. they are compared because there are similarities. large e-commerce companies. they have made investments in entertainment platforms and services. there are interesting similarities. there are a lot of regional specificity each has. and there are unique characteristics on both sides. the other big point selina made that is critical is alibaba is making money now. amazon is investing a ton of money now. that is a big difference. alibaba is investing but not to the same degree. the bottom line looks much smaller for amazon. emily: we traveled to beijing a couple of years ago to speak with jack ma. there was some concern around that time that alibaba might be a lot of hype. what has changed when it comes to investor sentiment? >> investor sentiment has come almost a full 360 degrees over the l

should looking into finances be off limits for bob mueller? >> one thing that is important to note is the scope of mueller's investigation is that of which comey testified about. we don't know the full scope of the investigation. we know it includes looking into ties between trump campaign and russian officials, but we know it's been reported it involved investigations into financial crimes. so, it is a little difficult to draw red lines and say, well, looking into trump finances would be a red line or the trump organization would be a red line because we don't know the full scope. that said, there is a point where he would exceed his jurisdiction. we need to go to deputy rosenstein. he said there's no issue here and is happy with the scope of the investigation. mueller hasn't come close to exceeding by looking into the financial issues. >> michael, whether he's supposed to go there or not, what does it tell you that finances are somewhat of a focus in the investigation? >> i said for a long time, i thought following the money was going to be

because he had been solicited by bob and bob had told him about all these different things that they had done and they were doing, and it was martinez that basically introduced us to the book "the turner diaries." it's a fictional account of a group of people just like we're talking about that ultimately manage to overthrow the united states government. >> september 16, 1991. today it finally begins. after all these years of talking and nothing but talking, we have finally taken our first action. we're at war with the system, and it's no longer a war of words. in the books, they're not talking about overthrowing the government. they're overthrowing it. >> and bob mathews took this book as his bible, and he followed it. so in "the turner diaries," the characters did counterfeiting, armored car robbys, executions. and that's what the order did. so martinez was a wealth of information. you might say we had a lot of little pieces and he was able to move them around for us and show us where they fit. once we had the agreement made with tom martinez that he would help us, we knew we had to

[cheers and applause] >> all right, bob. what is it? >> i was an inkeeper in this crazy little town in vermont. [ laughter ] >> that was one of the best endings ever. >> and my wife's idea. >> your wife's idea. >> she came up with it. yeah. yeah. we were in the sixth year. the show went eight years, that's the eighth year. in the sixth year i was kind of unhappy with cbs. they were moving us around and putting in shows in front of us and behind us. and we were at a christmas party. and we were waiting, you had your picture taken with the guests, the people's home we at. and i said, you know, honey, i said i think this is going to be the last year of the show. and she said, she said you ought to end it in a dream sequence, because everything was so crazy. it was so surreal. the maid was an heiress. and larry, daryl and daryl who i thought were straight out of deliv deliverance. what were they doing in vermont? so i said that's a great idea. so suzy. we told her. she says, if i'm in timbuktu, i'll be back in a new york minute. >> yeah. >>

is bob, my book of books, that recorded what i wanted to remember. which is what i remembered when all the other stuff was going on. >> so it state, title, author. >> guest: yes. there's no review. i guess that a lot. whicwhat's interesting is even e entries are as brief as can be, just having that listed what came before and after brings me back immediately to that moment. i might not remember everything that's in the book, often i don't. people remember the name of the main character but i remember why joseph book aware was a nice renewed. i can see the cover my head and i remember how i felt when i read it. in a way, it's become this incredible memoir in a diary that permits more complete than another diary would've been. >> guest: your three children. >> guest: i do. >> guest: have they ever seen bob? >> guest: no. very few people have access to bob. my husband has seen it but he doesn't read through it. he keeps a big list of books on his computer which he started once we met. >> guest: from, my life with bob, not all books are as fun as expecte

against bob mueller himself and he team. >> no doubt. look, the investigation will run its course. bob mueller will find out everything that happened here by the time that he gets to the -- by the time he gets to the end of it. in a week, where the president's poll numbers are hitting record lows, where its looks like the -- it looks like the white house is in chaos and cratering, the insanity of last week, all of it continues to put downward pressure on this administration. no doubt it will have our allies, it will have the effect of increasing anxiety as they see the chaos out of 1600 avenue. >> you and i were both former communicator, you were my counterpart in the vice president's office and the first thing i saw this story at 3:25 was thank god scaramucci was not there. on a serious point this is deadly serious stuff. when we worked in the white house that was under investigation for the leaking of valerie plame's name and i can't describe the precision with which every call from your paper, from every paper was handled. we consulte

we are joined by caroline hyde and bob o'donnell. bob, let's start with you. ambitious as ever. he has made investments in these other ride-hailing companies. there was talking might be trying to create some anti-alliance. we heard he was interested in getting uber shares. what the make of this. bob: he is doing the dealmaking public. he is trying to build these core technology pieces. piece he was to deal with is the notion of autonomous driving which we believe will affect fleets of car sharing companies. if he can develop technology and leverage it across the different companies, he has a big opportunity to influence that market in a much bigger way than people may realize at first. softbank had reported was interested in potentially acquiring secondary shares of uber. there were reports that deal was not happening. what do we know about the status of softbank's investment or talk of investing in these companies? caroline: it is so convoluted because we had understood it was uber he was initially after. perhaps buying from the secondary market. softbank also wanted to get in

emily: bob, is this a smart deal? bob: i think it is. you mentioned netflix as a media company. that is different than netflix as a streaming company. to become a media company, they have to buy and create original content. if you want to create stickiness in your service, that is the kind of move you have to make. we see amazon and netflix doing this. i expect we will see more of this. this is a challenge for apple because it is not clear what their commitment is yet. emily: when i spoke with tim cook after earnings last week, i asked him about their video and original content efforts. he said it is very experimental. what do you think this means for other big media players and unconventional players like apple? >> i think the traditional guys, disney, fox, cbs, viacom, are intrigued by this. they are not sure what to make of this. i had a couple of people i spoke with asked me to explain it. netflix has never bought anything before. this seems like an outlier. it does not mean they will be buying a bunch of libraries but it opens the door to that possibility and reinforces net

so bob matthews was committed to fight to the end. but so were we. >> they were staying in two different houses. the houses were approached. people in one house all surrendered. when they approached matthews' house, he was given an opportunity to surrender, refused to do so. >> come out with your hands up. >> we did everything we could to try to get him out of there. and when we decided that bob wouldn't come out, we made a plan to do in and get him. >> dozens of fbi agents armed with automatic weapons and dressed in full combat fatigues have been bussed to the scene. >> bob was upstairs and he had multiple weapons and lots of ammunition. so we moved in, and we used sound grenades and blew the glass out and then i heard the gunfire. he began to shoot indiscriminately through the building. i remember i was standing by the window with a weapon, and somebody yells from the woodline, look out, he's in the window above you. i crouched down and i looked up and i realized the bullets came out over my head and hit the ground next to me, but w

if i was 13 and angry and it leads to the discussion of bob dylan. if you can get a back story to introduce a song that we are going to hear how you've got to the first song we are going to do. i was furious and general and they kept saying what are you mad about and i would say everything. that's not useful. it's just true. i can't help that i am and at some point in the future when i was 13 that a rolling stone came on the radio and this guy understands. he knows why i'm angry. he's telling the truth.i co i could barely understand the words as is often the case. it was the sound of the thing. he ha had maybe three or four f records by then to figure out who he was and when i got to the first record, there was a song called song to woody which was a song to woody guthrie and ioo thought i'm in the search here. there's some connection and i knew who he was and he'd written this land is your land and i had have no idea if he was alive or dead so the song seems to me to be revealing about the man. with that what's here and only sing a song. i am going

and the first question they ask is where's bob? is bob here? and then they flock to him like a mother hen. maybe that's not the best example, but it certainly shows the pride and the desire of our veterans to meet the man who did so much for their memorial. i'm also proud that he serves today as the finance chairman of the campaign for the national eisenhower memorial, leading the private fund-raising effort to memorialize president dwight david eisenhower, our favorite son in kansas, here in washington, something near and dear to both of us. i'm privileged to be the chairman of the eisenhower commission. it is abundantly clear that throughout his long service to our country, bob dole has embodied the american spirit of leadership, determination and serves as one of the most prolific role models both in and outside of politics. i'm reminded of the time when i was stationed at quantico as a young marine and my dad wes roberts who was a friend and advisor to bob, said i want to take you up to the hill and meet congressman bob dole. i consider him

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if i had been he i would have taken it out with the attorney general in private rather than public bob levey reasons our guest stay right there we'll have more politicking right after the break. about your sudden passing i have only just learned you worry yourself and taken your last term. we all knew it would i tell you i'm sorry. so i write these last words in hopes to put to rest these things that i never got off my chest. i remember when we first met my life turned on each time. but then my feeling started to change you talked about more like it was again still some marshawn to view those that didn't like to question our arc. and i secretly promised to never be like it's one does not leave the funeral the same as one enters the mind gets consumed with this one to. speak to you. never know what they take. to claim that mainstream media has met its make. here's what people have been saying about redacted in the night to us it actually does belong awesome the only show i go out of my way to launch you know what it is that really packs a punch oh yeah it is the john oliver of r t ameri

>> the president is not thinking about firing bob mueller. so this is -- speculation out there is incorrect. >> neil: would you advise him regardless of a grand jury that that would be a bad idea? >> look, my job is to -- my job is to deal with what? i have to deal with the facts as we have them and the case as we have it. the decisions the president were to make on bob mueller is a decision that i'm not involved in and would not be involved in and frankly the president has not raised with me, with our legal team, the dismissal of bob mueller. so that's speculation, a lot of people are talking about that, the whole story a couple weeks back about the jeff sessions situation and does that relate to bob mueller being removed. that may not be the case at all. >> neil: as a lawyer, would you advise him that would be a mistake, if he was even entertaining it especially with the grand jury and everything else. >> i won't do anything on bob mueller at this point. i don't see any reason that there's -- that doesn't mean -- look, i'm not in the positi

i don't see bob mueller's going to be fired. i was also pretty vocal saying i would have preferred the congressional committees, house and senate intel committees finish their work, issue their work before we even begin thinking about special counsel. let's face with it be history of special counsel and special prosecutors sometimes start going off the rails, going on witch hunts. we have enormous challenges facing this nation. we really don't need that kind of distraction. >> all right. senator ron johnson of wisconsin, breappreciate it, si. hope you have a good district work period. >>> president trump says republicans are not getting the job done and he blames congress for the all-time low relationship with russia. is he about to go his own way on russia? that's next. so being cool comes naturally. hmm. i can't decide if this place is swag or bling. it's pretzels. word. ladies, you know when you switch, you get my bomb-diggity discounts automatically. ♪ no duh, right? [ chuckles ] sir, you forgot -- keep it. you're gonna ne

. >> when the war started bob hope became the voice of america. people turned to him to make jokes about what was going on. he was not the first topical comedian. what bob did was take that topical monologue and add to it the rhythms, the joke telling rhythms. >> howdy do fell last this is bob telling each crimea in russia today that it doesn't pay. >> it was a dark time generally but bob could always shrug his shoulders and say let's tackle this. already, let's talk about it. in somewhere in talking about it he'd find a laugh, and boy that helps. >> a marilyn monroe calendar isn't a luxury it's a necessity. >> that topical kind of monologue was something brand new. it seems like a surch l thing but that's what bob hope innovated. >> it takes a lot to mown a big show. long hours deep into the night consistently revising the schizotypal. >> revisions made necessary by last-minute changes. >> bob hope was the first one to use writers. >> the comedian about head writing and having a butch of writers. >> the tradition of stand-up comedy in the '50s ar

emily: what is your take bob? is it a smart deal? bob: i think it is. you mentioned netflix as a media company. that is different than netflix as a streaming company. for them to become a media company they have to buy and create original content. if you want to create stickiness in your service, that is the kind of move you have to make. we see this with amazon doing that for their prime video service, netflix is doing this, i expect we will see more of this. i expect this is a challenge for a company like apple who has talked about doing it, because it is not clear whether commitment there is. emily: i spoke with tim cook about that. he said it was very experimental. what do you think this means, lucas, for other big media players and unconventional players like a tech giant like apple? >> the traditional guys, disney, fox, time warner, viacom, they are intrigued by this. they are not quite sure what to make of it. there were some people i spoke with today who asked me to explain it today. netflix has never bought anything before. as you said, this se

>> yeah. >> bob corker speaks out two days later. mitt romney posts this lengthy statement on facebook three days later. at the very least, it shows the president has not been able to turn the corner on this with his own party. >> no, he hasn't. he's not going to be able to certainly in the near term, kate, because he won't apologize or admit he was wrong. he will say i was right, try to change the subject by making the debate over the removal of confederate soldier statues when really it's about his, i think advocation of moral leadership as president during and after charlottesville. so, the question is, what else comes up? he's clearly hoping something else comes up to change the subject. donald trump was never a republican prior to running for office. he chose to run as a republican. he -- the republican party did lineup behind him, eventually, but now, i do think there needs to be some level of reckoning. i think republicans would be whistling past the political graveyard if they said, well, maybe people will forget about this a

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bob: i think it does. in the context of fed policy, the fed would have to allow for some kind of fiscal policy taking effect. the more likely that is, probably the more likely the fed is to hike. the less likely that is, the fan can sit back and look at the data. i also think it affects this kind of on shoring thing. investment into the u.s. i think all of this stuff really arms that. francine: do you agree? it is difficult to see the real impact. you have an america divided in turmoil. for investors, what does it mean when councils dismantle? ralf: to stephanie's point, given those councils haven't done very much, i don't think it is that big a deal. where tax reform is concerned, to me, it is down to congress more than the white house. i guess the risk we face is at some point the republican party will have to decide whether they want to go into the midterm elections with the white house or against the white house, and that is going to determine the success and likelihood of tax reform this year. careful

this morning bob kelly on top of the detours and commute. it seems like things will be back to normal here at 69th street station while this investigation is underway. we want to make a quick mention to you guys there is a different situation happening, waiting for this live shot we can hear screeching brakes, thomas and karen a car involved in an accident, driver of that car jumped out, takes off running. police swarming this area. i'm in the sure if you can hear but chopper is here searching for that driver, completely different, separate situation but over there near septa trolley tracks. that is latees from 69th street station we will have an update in about 30 minutes. >> what a busy scene, so many developing situations there. thank you. >>> 4:06. >>> also happening today bill cosby wil be back in court, set to appear for a pretrial hearing on sexual assault charges, defending him a whole new legal team that has represented other big name celebrities. our jenny joyce joining are joining us from the montgomery county courthouse with the

justice department under bob mueller. those attorneys with a mandate to look at any matter that might arise in this investigation. pay attention to the look on those people doing the investigating. compare them to those west virginia folks hooting and hollering and cheering up a storm at the trump event last night. caught up themselves in the hooplah. now look at the folks coming at trump right now. ties tightened, suits buttoned. game faces on. not a hint of a smile, of any emotion. neutrally unsympathetic. look out, donald. i have a sense that these are not just professionals, but the best of the breed. if they can find a case, they're going to make it and make it solid. they didn't take up the matter to see it dribble off into the last paragraphs of the history books. trump can tell his people this is all fake, but this is not a phony war. it's the real thing. he can drop all the confetti he can buy, hold rally after rally from west virginia to wyoming, and in the end what will count is not the cleverness of his name-c

bob mueller knows it. he will follow the money. >> there is reporting about those money trails and significant pushback from the white house on that. the president in an interview with "the new york times" saying a pursuit of financial deals prior to his campaign would be out of bounds. i would violate the portfolio of the special counsel. jay sekulow repeating that same notion that he would object and the lawyers for the president would object to following the trail of say, real estate deals from six or seven years ago. what is your response? >> they have no legal power and no moral case to try to constrain a grand jury. the grand jury has an authorize that is part of the rule of law. and as a prosecutor, as the united states attorney for connecticut for four and a half years, i've seen grand juries often develop their own questions and want to know about financial transactions. they are composed of ordinary citizens who often have very good questions. the other reason this grand jury will be important to

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i think by trying to undermine bob mueller's investigation, he is trying to make bob mueller worried that he may be fired or try to do everything he can to undermine and, i guess, you know, cast doubt upon anything that bob mueller finds. i think the american people are behind bob mueller and they will probably accept whatever he finds or doesn't find. >> so where do you see this heading in the short term? are we close to getting some answers? >> on our house investigation we made more progress in the last three weeks with the witnesses brought in than we'd made in the prior five months. we're steadily going forward. we're a interviewing witnesses reviewing documents and hope to report back to the american people soon, and we just want to make sure that bob mueller has all the resources and you all the runway necessary to also report back to the american people and clear the president, if these were all just coincidences, but hold people accountable if something more. >> what's the definition of "soon"? >> well, i hope before the midterm elections, wolf, for the house investigation,

isning us to discuss this pop michael -- bob might -- bob michele. talkto see you put it lets about politics and how you are thinking at the moment and whether you think it -- it is as combative as ray dalio thinks it is and what it means for markets. extreme ofhave as you he does. coming into this year, there was a lot of expectation we were going to see some sort of tax reform, maybe regulatory reform and that would be an impulse to the u.s. and the global economy. all of that seems to have faded free to the market has shaken it all off. we are in the midst of a bull market and bond yields are at very low levels. gdp environment looks very solid to us. corporate earnings look great across the board and central banks, we hear more on friday, but it feels like they are pretty positive about what is going on. jonathan: all those things feel ok, but the politics is not ok. the consents is building about building about government paralysis and they are putting more into gold. what are your thoughts on that? bod: i think it is a bit -- bob: -- i think it

give me -- disney chairman and ceo bob iger. back to you. emily: david westin there was disney ceo bob iger. we will talk more about this tomorrow. that's it for this edition of "bloomberg technology." don't miss sheryl sandberg joining me tomorrow on bloomberg's "studio 1.0." ♪ announcer: from our studios in new york city, this is "early rose. -- charlie rose." charlie: kurt andersen is here. his new article traces the history of today's assault on theh and fact, looking to 1960's. he writes that the election of donald trump revealed a critical mass of americans untethered from reality. your article was adapted from the upcoming book, "fantasyland, how american went haywire."

what does this say about the potential for bob brady? >> i think brady's still in a pretty good position, and here's why. those are citywide races. bob brady is in the first congressional district, which he benefited very much when republicans were in control of redistricting in the last census because they made his district more favorable. it's more caucasian, and it's more looks like the type of issues that he supports are the ones that his constituents support, and i just think what's going on -- it's depressing saying this -- is people don't follow the intricacies of was it illegal what he did, was his campaign finance -- it's ugly, it's terrible, but i don't know if it's gonna break through. >> look, i've written often about the perils of the democratic party machine, right, and how we don't have true democracy often. that said -- and i know omar woodard, and we've written about him at the citizen. he's an up-and-coming young rising star, but running against bob brady in congress does nothing to fix the problems in philadelphia in t

you mean bob odenkirk, jr.? >> stephen: yeah. he is a high-quality boy. >> stephen: well the video shows him taking a me shouldn't have.ng hee you know what? let's just watch it. >> yeah, i would like to see this, yes! let me see it! >> stephen:im? hey! comrades! all right! how you doing? good to see ya! thanks for coming by the odenkirk tower. i'm bobby i'm my daddy's emmy campaign strategist. he's a good man, my bad. oh, there he is! gotta kiss the picture! now, we're here to talk about what you can do for me to help my daddy win at the emmys. maybe we could do a little collusion here, maybe a few major crimes, if you don't mind. ( laughter ) first off, you guys got any dirt on my daddy's emmy competition? >> emmys? why you talk to us about this? >> have yourself ane or onerkdei balls in this building right now at this point. tell me you don't have some dirt on this guy, kevin spacey, huh? he hasn't deleted any e-mlsai g? >> we were told this would be about the russian adoption. >> okay, adoption -- hey, how about an odenkirk p

we don't have the detailed investigative staff and the resoshsz that bob mueller has. so just for the nature of the resources and the law, he has a decidedly more effective and he fisht way to proand find the facts and that's what he's doing. >> there's been some movement on this idea of codifying bob mueller's ability to continue this investigation if for some reason the justice department decides they don't want him any more. how likely is that legislation going to pass? >> i think it expresses a strong sentiment on a bipartisan basis that bob mueller should be allowed to proin his investigation. that's the only way we're going to resolve this to the satisfaction of the american public. and i think that sentiment is very strongly held. getting legislation through is complicated in any case, and i don't think that will happen immediately. i think what it does, though, is send a very strong signal that on behalf of the american people, this investigation has to go forward, has to reach a conclusion, and i'm confident i think many people are that pob mueller is the righ

and the only reason it took this long is that bob corker is a republican. that's the only thing that held him back from telling the truth about republican donald trump's instability and incompetence. when republican senators take a step like this, it may be that the best thing to do, the most encouraging thing to do is to just praise them for speaking the truth and encourage them to continue to tell the truth about this president. but some of us always have to wonder would we be here tonight, would donald trump be president if otherwise reasonable people like bob corker had not enabled the trump candidacy, the trump nomination? would we be here tonight if republicans like senator bob corker had not allowed their party's apparatus to deliver donald trump to the white house? politically the smartest thing for democrats to do when bob corker says something like this is to just privately thank him for speaking his mind and encourage him to continue to do so and never, ever remind him that he was part of the party that allowed this to happen to this country and

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he's attacking the investigation and he's attacking bob mueller. they're trying to undermine who he is, his friend ship with comey and all of that. >> correct. >> talk to me about that. because this is sort of a two-pronged attack. >> that also could be an obstruction of justice. the president's comments here i believe are an abuse of power. he has no reason to think that this investigation which was set up by the attorney general. the special prosecutor, the deputy attorn deputy attorney general, he has no basis for saying that this is a fraud or a hoax or an effort to steel the election. so his statements really undermine mueller's ability to do his job and can be seen as obstruction of justice and can be seen as abuse of power if we ever get to an impeachment process because he's using the power of his office, the bully pulpit to undermine the independent investigation, which is completely -- >> does that matter, the fact that he's in west virginia talking to this cheering crowd, insulting the investigation? does that count for anything legally?

glad you got here on time, bob kelly, what you got? >> why don't you just take the rest of the morning off? >> just re ♪ >> rerun from yesterday. >> good idea. >> good morning, can we mix it up a little bit. let's get her working. 4:02, working on the schuylkill this morning, traffic moving again, i just got stuck in one of those brief ten minute stoppages that makes you think like oh, what's going on? you know, and my traffic guy, i had to call my personal traffic person here. but eastbound, down to one lane from 476, all the way into belmont avenue. there is no blockages, just they're moving the construction around, be out there until about 5:00 this morning, so just be ready for that, here is construction everywhere, especially on the overnights. the vine expressway still closed here, between the schuylkill and broad until 5:00. nice and quiet on the talcony palmyra bridge. no problems at all into or out of talcony or palmyra. they are also working out here along 422 again, this is westbound, between first avenue and trooper road.

the most part, even republicans say leave bob mueller a alone. dana bash sat down with people not afraid to stand up and get in the president's face at times. susan collins. >> i believe the special counsel has a very broad mandate and should follow the leads wherever they may be, and thus i do not think his investigation should be constrained beyond the mandate that he was given when he was -- >> the president called that a red line. >> the president can't set red lines for bob mueller. >> senator murkowski went on to say well put or well said. to that point, they have to understand that at the white house. the president can go to west virginia, complain about this. but they're not going to get help in congress, any real help, serious help from people if they start complaining about the scope of the investigation. >> right. >> beyond that, congress also does very practical things to prevent a situation in which bob mueller could be fired. already said they're not confirm another attorney general nominee. if trump tried to sort of change the head

think starr is bob mueller, number one. number two, i think we have a real question here about how rosenstein -- he's in a very peculiar position. he wrote the memo that just field the firi -- just field t justified the firing of comey, but i think he thought the president would say, no, i fired him because he was investigating the russian matter. i think he is in a peculiar position and conflict as well. if they came to him and said, fire comey he would probably end up being resign or fired himself. that would -- that probably could only happen if we changed the attorney general. i think it would be an american catastrophe, a failure of the system seen not just nationally, around the world, and people like senator lindsay graham have put down their marker, that ain't going to happen. there will be hell to pay if that happens. >> the most loaded words in the business, we will see. john flannery, mathew whitaker,

and i want to bring in nbc military analyst, major general bob scales who wrote the bob scales on war. the future of america's military at risk. it's good to see you. and. >> hi, chris. >> been a huge advocate of watch what they do, not what they say. >> right. >> because we have been focused very much on what these two men have been saying and obviously in particular the rhetoric that we have not heard from a u.s. president before, certainly not with the regulator we've heard it over the last several days from president trump. so what do you see that tells you where we could be heading next? >> well, right now i see very, very little action in the theater, both on the north side and on the south side, chris. for instance, there's no evidence that the north koreans have started to move into any of their forward positions. there's no evidence that they are going to conduct any civilian drills in pyongyang, which is another early indicator. on the south side, there's no evidence that the south korean army has gone to a higher deaf con. there's no evidence that the u.s. command there is

there would be a huge outcry if donald trump did anything with bob mueller. that doesn't mean he won't. this is donald trump we're talking about, but i think he'd have huge problems in the senate. even within his own party and even among many republican senators we're not talking about. not the lindsey grahams, susan collins, john mccains of the world but others rank and file down the line republicans i think would object to this. so does that mean donald trump won't do it? no. but i think he is at least aware it would face significant opposition among republicans in the senate and in the house, if he did something like this, to penalize bob mueller for violating what he called the red line. >> and dan, i also want to ask you about the russia sanctions bill as well that we've recently talked about in which the senators and house members, republicans and democrats, passed bipartisanship and essentially tied the president's hands when it um cans to negotiating with russia. it seems they may be emboldened now as a branch of government to really dig into their ro

talking about bob muler's team and the lawyers he attemptabled. they have various exper cease and various areas of expertise. 37 years of experience coo cumulatively. there is also one lawyer who has experienced in fraud and white collar crime and foreign broo bribery. what do you make of it? >> it is a sophisticated and good group group of of layers. a big's of this is that so much happens outside of the united states. there is allegations about this analitica providing data to the russians. they have allegations about documented hacked under the hillary clinton campaign that were provided to wiki leaks and possibly the trump campaign. he has the right people in place, no question about that. >> they may be trying to ma nip lace our election, it may come up with money launder rg. the financial ties are extremely important. anyone involved in the trump campaign or the united states government may to be explored. all of that needs to be investigated to find out where the financial dependencies are. so there is a lot on the table for the russians co

i don't see that bob mueller will be fired. i was very vocal, saying i would have preferred the congressional committees, shous and senate intel committees finish their work, issue their report before we begin thinking about special counsel. the history of special counsel, special prosecutors sometimes go off the rails, go on witch hunts. we have enormous challenges facing this nation. we don't really need that kind of distraction. >> senator ron johnson of wisconsin, appreciate it sir. hope you have a good district work period. >> have a great day. >>> president trump says republicans are not getting the job done. he blames congress for the all-time low relationship with russia. is he about to go his own way on russia? that's next. (burke) at farmers, we've seen almost everything so we know how to cover almost anything. even a swing set standoff. and we covered it, july first, twenty-fifteen. talk to farmers. we know a thing or two because we've seen a thing or two. ♪ we are farmers. bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum ♪ >>> we kn