Jim VandeHei: The Anti-Mueller Brigade Is Made Up of Fox News, Mark Penn, Dershowitz, GOPers in Congress

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VANDEHEI: "Think about this as a public debate. You have Mueller doing what he should do, which he's saying nothing. And so he's not in the debate. Occasionally he'll offer an indictment and some clues, but he's not really backing up sort of his case. And won't until the final argument. On the other side, you do have that vacuum being increasingly filled by this brigade of people who are trying to undermine not just Mueller now, but sort of the origins of this investigation in the beginning. And it's sort of two squads. You got this motley crew of 1990s figures, Rudy Giulianis, your Alan Dershowitz, Mark Penn who was with the Clintons then now is pro-Trump at least on the arguments about this case. And then you've got these members of Congress. Not all members. But we have 19 or whatever it was, standing up there, saying that we want to find out information about this informant. Echoing a lot of, there's a mole in the campaign, type rhetoric. That stuff is successful, because you look at the polls and you see Republicans are deeply skeptical of Mueller, are deeply skeptical of this investigation."