Executive privilege will not extend back to the transition and to the campaign.

I just don't think you can sweep this away as objectionable as the leaks may be. I mean, the fact is, we have rarely in the last 40 years had criminal investigations that go right into the heart of the White House.

If things are bogged down, you can't blame Mueller and the investigation, nor even the leaks, frankly.

He bears some responsibility as president for making this happen.

President Trump is going to be very furious at this news. First of all, he thinks there's nothing to it, of course, but secondly, the fact that it was leaked out there.

He could invoke executive privilege.

It's about more than collusion. It is increasingly about follow the money.

I think it's indisputable that the president wanted this investigation to go away, that he's found it very burdensome.

I don't think the obstruction issue is going to be settled in the court, it's much more likely to be settled in the court of public opinion especially in the elections of 2018.

I think that it suggests -- I argued here the other night, we're in impeachment territory and now we know that the White House lawyers are investigating how impeachments take place even though they think it's down the road.

The pattern here is the president goes to Comey, the FBI director and says I need your loyalty. Comey refuses to give it to him. Then a subsequent meeting according to these reports from Comey, the president pressures him to let the Flynn…