Sheldon Whitehouse: Trump Wants to ‘Amp Up’ Hostilities Between Himself and the FBI, DoJ, Mueller

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WHITEHOUSE: "Well, obviously, this is a signal that the president wants to amp up the hostilities between himself and the FBI and the department of justice and the special counsel. And I think some of the comments that Mr. Digenova have made are in a long tradition of semi-outrageous defense council statements that are made to try to bait the prosecution or the investigation into making errors. I think Chris WRAY and Bob Mueller have been around long enough not to be baited in that way, but we’ll see. I hope that they just keep their cool and do their jobs, but theatrics designed to provoke prosecutors and investigators are not an unheard-of technique for lawyers representing criminal defendants."