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Hey everybody, Tim Miller from the Bullwork here.

We have some sad breaking news.

The former FBI director for more than a decade, Robert Mueller, who also is a special counsel in the Russian investigation died today.

He has had a battle with Parkinson's disease for a while now.

You'll not be surprised to learn that our current president's response to that was as despicable and deplorable as you might imagine,

even maybe worse than you might imagine if that's possible.

So, we'll get to that.

But rather than start with him and give him what he wants, why don't we start with Bob Mueller, Bill?

And some you've fought a square for a long time now, Vietnam vet, FBI director, and then the Mueller probe.

Yeah, you hate to, I mean, I agree with you.

The contrast with Trump is so startling and striking though that maybe one has to just note that.

And that Trump's beyond despicable relishing of Mueller's death at age 81 is of a peace with Trump's life.

And Robert Mueller going serving his country for decades, ending up accepting the job as special counsel when he knew that wasn't going to be easy and doing, I think, a diligent and honorable job and effort there to hold Donald Trump accountable from 2017 to, I guess 2019.

It was a peace with his work today, you met your dues, but he went to Princeton.

He graduated, many Princeton graduates and many others, many, many others in that era.

I found ways to avoid serving a Vietnam, Donald Trump famously being one of them.

Robert Mueller volunteered for the Marine Corps.

If I think I have this right, he had some medical, actual legit medical issue injury or something which they wouldn't take him at first.

Yeah, so he worked on that and got, got it resolved or whatever and then joined a year later.

Yeah, it was an injury.

So he had us get out of jail free cards at a speak.

You get out of Vietnam free card if you wanted to, but he chose.

Yeah.

And he fell into the Marine Corps immediately, which is not, you know, not the, that was a, that was a ticket to combat.

It was not a ticket to where you could hope to, I don't think, you know, serving, you know, offshore or back in the US and stuff.

So, uh, serve very honorably there.

Of course, really distinguished career, genuine public service.

People use that term so much public service. We're all kind of in Europe to it.

You know, I've wanted to serve.

And I can, every hack who's in Congress, it's been, it's a great honor to have public service.

But Robert Mueller.

I always make fun of spokespeople who say, you know, it was, uh, it was an honor to serve for the senator.

I was like, you were at press releases. Okay. You weren't so, that's okay to that.

He really was a public servant.

He had a very successful legal career and stepped away from that to take, you know, difficult jobs.

And jobs where you get, I mean, they're rewarding. I think if you do them well for you personally and for people who know you,

but not their jobs, but there's a lot of, you know, what criticism that comes with it, both its FBI direction,

that obviously, a special counsel, really an admirable man.

Yeah, and served under both, you know, presidents of both parties, really just in service of the country is in the FBI director slot.

And just to sit on the Russian investigation thing that, as you mentioned, he was asked to be a special investigator,

special prosecutor knew that that was going to be a hell of a job.

That there's going to be tons of criticism, tons of heat on him, you know, did not have to do that.

You know, this was not, this is not like, not that it would be any better for Trump to dishonor him and death,

but this is not a case of like someone like us, you know, somebody who chose to like oppose

down Trump politically and have that be the center of their life. That was not what problem I was doing.

He was trying to get to the truth of what happened when, you know, one of our greatest geopolitical foes did interfere in the election

and trying to figure out the extent to which they did and the extent to which it was coordinated.

And they uncovered a lot of people that did real crimes under undermining our elections.

Yeah, and real undermining even if it didn't quite make the level of provable criminality.

No, he had retired from the FBI. I guess it would have been around age, close to age 70, maybe just in the very, very late 60s.

I've been retired. I think three or four years was in private practice in the early 70s.

He was asked to do this by the Republican, by the Trump administration.

I run a control justice department, right under under sessions.

I can say she's accused himself. So it would have been roses.

And he thought he should do this for the sake of the country. He was 72ish.

So I'm going to guess 70. So if I got the math right, he didn't surely didn't have to do this.

And certainly could have honorably passed and said, you know, get someone a little younger or someone or whatever, you know.

Instead, he thought, you know, this is important for the country.

So we got a report, did it by the book, you know, uncovered that there was a lot of cheering, you know, and Republicans desiring to want Russia to cheat on their behalf, attempts for that to happen.

Meetings were made.

Ferd of outreach was made, you know, then they obviously, you know, some of the lesser known names.

You know, they identified people in foreign national that have committed crimes.

He puts out a detailed report. He gets kind of sandbagged by Bill Barr, who front runs it.

But he put out a report that even the current Secretary of State, Marco Rubio at the time, you know, said was credible and important, you know, document as far as accountability was concerned.

You know, but also in a historic document.

I did it by the book, wherever some of our friends were a little annoyed because he didn't quite say he should therefore be and be should therefore be indicted.

He said it's up to the Congress. This is a report of the facts that we have determined, you know.

So a real by the book rule of law, man.

All right.

Who was the Donald Trump said about post to this entry social Robert Mueller just died.

Good. I'm glad he's dead.

He can no longer hurt innocent people, President Donald J. Trump.

Obviously, there was a Ruhaha when Rob Reiner was murdered.

A couple of months ago now where Trump made like a joke about how it was a TDS that led to it, really inappropriate joke and wrong.

And not this is even far beyond that.

I mean, just to extreme, we bluntly say I'm glad he's dead 81 year old career public servant veteran who had Parkinson's disease.

It's like unimaginable that you would say that about anyone.

It is actually, I mean, nothing's unimaginable.

Obviously in the era of Trump and in the character of Trump, but it is on the edge of, you know, the worst things he said in the most grotesque.

He didn't even say this is such a good one.

We've said this so many times, but will any of his supporters will any of the Republican member senators who voted to confirm Robert Mueller?

I guess whether one's right and who knew him and with others who served in the Trump Justice Department to build people like Bill Barr.

Will they say will they praise Mueller?

Will they chastise Trump for what he has said?

Will there be anyone who attempts to preserve any sense of dignity?

And respect for people who served that country in public life?

I don't know. Maybe somebody will.

They'll disappoint us.

You know, to me, the thing that I was looking at when you see this type of behavior, because it's like.

How many times have we talked about how Trump has dishonored himself in the country in the office?

It starts to lose its, you know, its power and its own.

But, you know, this is the type of thing that's like.

In any other type of field, you know, a person had said that, you know, post something about this.

And we saw, frankly, we saw this with Charlie Kirk, which is just an example.

I mean, that was like a crazy kind of right wing witch hunt for people that were saying things about Charlie Kirk.

But there are also people like legitimately lost their jobs and probably shut up because they posted really grotesque things.

And if you're a teacher at a school, you know, the principal or the board, it's going to look at this and say,

you can't be posting on social media, cheering on people's deaths.

Not to compare Charlie Kirk to Robert Mueller, but just like the principal of the matter.

If you saw this from someone in your life, a friend, you know, a family member, you know, like posting on social media,

I'm glad they're dead about people.

You know, I would think that you'd want to have a talk with them, at least say, put it down.

But, you know, it's, it's just not the type of thing that would be acceptable in any kind of public position.

And it's the type of thing that unfortunately our president has engaged in over and over again now with maybe being this, this being the worst example possibly.

You know what I, when I saw the news for his death, just a little bit ago.

And then, and then a little bit later, what Trump had said, I would you, so okay, if I read four or five lines from Yates, this wonderful.

Well, that's not just okay.

I would, I would not have invited you to do this video with me if we're not for some Yates.

Because that's not something I can bring to the table.

So, you know, that's what you normally believe me.

I'm, I don't normally bring it to the table, but this is at one point.

I've just been struck by for a long time.

It's, I think it's called to a friend whose work has come to nothing.

It's very should be reasonably short, prone by Yates and here are just a few lines, which I've used a couple of few times.

In my time in Washington, when things have not, things that were admirable and I thought done with good intentions and by honorable people, can't to not.

And that's, I suppose the case with the Mueller report.

Here's Yates.

For how can you compete being honor bread with one who would prove to you lies, would need to shame in his own, nor in his neighbor's eyes?

It's extremely apt.

Isn't it kind of remarkable?

Yeah.

It is. I'm just like looking at it now.

That's, that's kind of a sad place to leave it.

Bill, I don't want to leave it at that because it is, is there not a counter?

Does Yates offer us a counter?

Is there not a way to compete with being honor bread with those who are refused to be shamed by their own lies and behavior?

Well, I think there are others who have been behaved honorably and, and many of them perhaps inspired by the example of, of Robert Baller.

To happen to ever discuss Mueller with Liz Cheney out of things, someone like that or the people who, uh, sacrifice, you know, their careers that are sort of trekking along at a very high level.

To say what they thought was the truth and what was important to be said about Donald Trump and not just Liz Cheney, but many others obviously, many of them much less well known, many of the people who worked for Mueller had worked for Mueller at the FBI, many younger people who served on different investigations at the Justice Department and then got fired and now they're trying to blackball them from getting hired by firms and stuff.

So, no, no, I, you've got to believe what, what, the, someone like Mueller dying and Trump being president does make someone like me wonder about whether the, what's the great Martin Luther King line at the Ark of the Moral Universe, uh, Ben storage justice sign.

Yes, I don't know.

It feels like it's been, it feels like it's taking a backwards turn for a lot, you know.

It's got a, one, one trust that will bend back in the right way and the most importantly, people will see to it that it bends back in the right way.

And nearly people, I, I would encourage younger people who, I mean, once we guessed for us, the moment thing was so important.

It was one of the reasons Sarah and I and you were involved to it to begin, and they're beginning at least and started various efforts to Republicans for the rule of law to try to defend the Mueller investigation, look like Trump was going to fire him.

I mean, I actually did bars, you say front ran, if I'm sorry, we're to report the ways it was helped mute its significance.

But, you know, this is so, so it's only nine years ago, right?

So, younger people who didn't know about Mueller and from whom it's just a vague memory should just go read the biography of him.

So, in that respect, I think he can't have, yes, there's the one has to trust that he will have an effect positive effect.

And, you know, to steal from the, from your tribe, I do think his memory will be a blessing as well, which may not be true for current president of Mueller, he's behind two daughters and three grandchildren.

I just pulled this up. It's interesting. He also was had known bar for a long time, and Mueller had attended the weddings of bars, daughters, and their wives attend Bible study together.

Yeah, bar relations about Bill Barr.

I'm told that people close to Mueller, I mean, it's such a, it's such a dignity.

He never, it's my knowledge of tack bar, he testified for Congress, maybe.

I can't remember him implicitly criticizing, he certainly didn't go around getting speeches as good as the last few years before his health took a real turn for the worse.

You know, make, you know, you know, being a leader of the criticism of Trump, or he thought he had done his job, he had returned to public service for that one last thing.

And he really was quiet, and no, no book, no, no, so that, you know, again, shows the kind of impressive dignity.

I just said one, maybe personally, I didn't, I had a few times in Washington, I didn't really know him.

I spoke at St. John's Church, which is the church right at Lafayette Square, which, you know, might, you know, near the White House.

So Trump held the Bible upside down in front of the church?

Yeah, what Trump held by. So I spoke a little before that, I guess.

After that, I came, or they had some guests speaker series of, you know, just at the end of the service they had someone come in and speak about public events.

And obviously I wasn't partisan. I tried not to be political. I don't think I mentioned Trump's name.

I talked about the, you know, just that something like the eighth theme, I mean, that honor is important.

And we underrate how important character is and how much the American system works on the honor system and the honor code.

And, you know, whenever it's utterly, honestly, pretty conventional remarks, very brief short.

And it turned out I hadn't been aware that was the church to which Robert Mueller and his wife belong and they were there.

And it came up afterwards. So we had a very nice, you know, very pleasant to a 90 second talk.

But I, I felt somewhat, I don't know, gratified that he knew, I mean, I didn't mention his name, I didn't mention Trump's name, but I hope he felt that I did justice to what the kind of

life he had left, the kind of public service he had engaged in, and the kind of country that he believed in.

For how can you compete being on a bread with one who were approved, he lies were neither shamed in his own nor his neighbor's eyes.

That's a tough one. All right. RIP Robert Mueller bill. Thanks for that. And for jumping on with us.

Everybody else, Bill will be back tomorrow. You have a lot of bill coming. Bill will be back tomorrow. He's a Sunday live.

Right. I sort of think you're on until Monday, but then I thought, oh, yes, I have that. Oh, show tomorrow.

Yeah, with Catherine and Pell.

Catherine and Pell on the economic consequences of the Iran war and where we might be going in the economy.

One o'clock in the east and then Bill and I'll be back on Monday. So we'll see you all then subscribe to the feed. Have a great weekend.

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