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On the recordJune 11, 2017
This would increase the level of this crisis by like 100 fold, because every single member of Congress, Republican and Democrat, said at the time of Mueller's appointment, 'This is what we need. This is the impartial guy.'
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David Axelrod
Democratic · Illinois

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Axelrod warns that firing Mueller would escalate the political crisis significantly.

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