MoveOn’s Jean-Pierre: Majority of Americans Will Not Allow Mueller to Be Fired

TAPPER: What do you think?

KARINE JEAN-PIERRE, SENIOR ADVISER, MOVEON.ORG: I think it’s just ridiculous. It really is a big joke what the transition lawyers are trying to do.

I mean, first of all there’s no privilege because he wasn’t a president at the time, he was a president-elect and anybody who’s working in the transition team would know that and understand that. And this is a PR.

This has nothing to do with a legal argument, this is a pr argument. If they truly believed that there was an issue here with Mueller, they would go to the courts, they would go to the judge, they wouldn’t go to Congress.

But, I mean, this is what they’re doing is setting up the ground game to fire Mueller. And let me tell you, the majority of the American people will not allow this.

Moveon has had more than 80,000 people sign up for a protest if in case Mueller is indeed fired. Over 500 events across the country. People are not going to take this.

CAPUTO: Except the Harvard Harris poll released recently said 54 percent of Americans of all parties see the investigators as biased against Trump.

JEAN-PIERRE: OK.

CAPUTO: So you may see it on your end, but polling shows different. 

JEAN-PIERRE: That’s one poll. There are many polls out there.

CAPUTO: That’s Harvard Harris not exactly —