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For some reason, probably because it was a holiday and the pickings of talk show guests were extremely slim, NBC's Meet the Press had arguably the dimmest bulb in the box Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) on to talk about stuff. Particularly Trump-Russia stuff and special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation. Johnson might have pulled off a "deep state" argument against Mueller, but he's just not all that good at this stuff. The making arguments that make sense stuff.
"What I've always said about it was—the special counsel was named far too soon. I would've much rather had the Senate and House Intelligence Committees complete their report." […]
Pressed by moderator Chuck Todd, Johnson said that Mueller, a former FBI director, should be kept in place and allowed to finish his inquiry.
“Again, I just thought he was appointed too soon. I would've rather had the process play out," he said. "Because I think public disclosure, the public's right to know, is—trumps everything else.” […]
"I've been conducting a three-year investigation on the FBI's investigation of Hillary Clinton. I think we're starting to see some real problems there," Johnson said. "And I just didn't think somebody so close, like Director Mueller, former Director Mueller, would be the, the right type of person to investigate that."
The full quote there is "My concern with Special Counsel Mueller is he is so close to the FBI, I have been conducting a three year investigation into the FBI's investigation into Hillary Clinton."
Right. This is the same Ron Johnson who declared a few months ago that there was secret FBI cabal plotting against Trump. "I have heard," he said, "from someone who has talked to our committee, that there is a group of individuals within the FBI that were holding secret off-site meetings. […] I'm just connecting the dots."
By the way, that's pretty much the only thing that has been disclosed to the public from Johnson's three-year old "investigation" into the FBI. So, yeah, there's that.