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Hey there it's the NPR Politics podcast here with our weekly roundup of political news. It looks like there's some movement on

legislation to protect special counsel Robert Mueller and his investigation into the Trump campaign.

Mark Zuckerberg spent a second day on Capitol Hill and got grilled about Diamond and Silk and if you don't know who they are,

worry not, we're about to introduce you. Also the latest on the landscape for the 2018 elections and of course

can't let it go. I'm Tamer Keith. I cover the White House for NPR. I'm Kelsey Snell. I cover Congress. I'm Tim Mack,

political reporter and I'm Ron Elbinga, editor correspondent and spring has sprung and it is springing especially in that

sauna where Kelsey Snell is trying to participate from the booth in the Capitol. My tiny tiny booth in the

Senate side of US Capitol. And by the way a message to Vivian in Las Vegas, we know you're coming after our jobs.

We welcome it. Bring the competition. Bring on the next generation. Okay, so earlier this week we did an

episode where we talked about the FBI raids on President Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen. The president called it a

witch hunt and when asked by a reporter why he doesn't just fire Mueller, he responded, we'll see what happens,

which is apparently both the president's favorite phrase and my favorite phrase now. Many of Republicans have said that it

would be a mistake for the president to fire Mueller. Here's Chris Christie. You can't you can't fire the

special counsel. You just can't. And Chuck Grassley, who is the Republican chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

I think it would be suicide for the president to fire him. I think the less the president says about this whole

thing, the better off he will be. Of course, since those two men said those two things, there have been multiple

tweets from the president and he has not been saying, yeah, totally. I'm totally happy. Well, and he's also, as we know,

watching a lot of Fox and on Fox, there is an absolute wave of people coming on to suggest very strongly that

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