Whitehouse: Mueller Appointment Doesn’t Change the Senate Intel Investigation

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WHITEHOUSE: "It really doesn’t very much. You have a situation in which Congress would love to peer over the shoulder of Bob Mueller and see everything that he’s doing and Bob Mueller would love to have all of us just plain go away. The fact of the matter is that there’s going to have to be de-confliction between our legitimate oversight and legislative investigative efforts and his criminal investigative efforts and we’re going to need to get a system in place so that that de-confliction can take place through a responsible air traffic control. And while all that is going on, you have the other conflict between the secrecy, privacy and the independence of his criminal investigation and the fact that any intelligence information that comes out of it needs to be fed to the intelligence community so that we can be making appropriate national security decisions. It’s not going to be all that easy, but I think Mueller is a capable guy to sort his way through it."