I'm John Batchler. I welcome my colleague and friend Craig Unger, journalist and author of several books that are pertinent to the moment with the passing of Robert Mueller.

The Politico headline in these last days. Robert Mueller, former FBI director who led Trump investigation, dies at 81.

Subhead, he had a long record of public service before becoming a special counsel for the

Justice Department in 2017. Indeed, he had a long record. Princeton 66, Marine Corps four years

in combat, and then many years at Justice Department, concluding with his service as director of the FBI

for 12 years.

He was the choice of President Trump in the first term to lead the investigation, questions

raised about the campaign of 2016 and the connection of the Trump administration with the Russian Federation.

Craig, a very good evening to you.

Who was Robert Miller that we now noticed passing, but also

have unanswered questions of the investigation he led? Good evening, Craig. Well, thanks

for having me, John. It's great to be back. Mueller was very much an institutionalist. He

believed in serving institutions, and he was just a few years older than we are, but he graduated Princeton at a time when it was very easy to get out of serving your country in Vietnam, and he made a point of wanting to do that.

And he ultimately became, ultimately became director of the FBI before James Comey. And it was,

people forget, there was actually Donald Trump who picked him to do what became the Mueller

report. I mean, it's hard to remember that Trump did that when you see

Trump's remarks on his death, which I thought were sort of repulsive but not surprising, saying,

I'm glad he's dead. I mean, it was sort of astonishing what he tweeted out there. But Mueller was

put in charge of the Mueller report to investigate allegations that Trump

had colluded with Russia, and he found out an awful lot of information that I think was woefully

misrepresented by then Attorney General William Barr. The mission that Mueller was given in the spring of 2017 followed the firing of James Comey,

the director of the FBI, and the questions raised about Russia, as you say correctly.

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