Former Attorney General Eric Holder said that Robert Mueller's Russia probe is a "classic case" that he always viewed as a "two-year" investigation.
Further, Holder said in MSNBC's "All In" with Chris Hayes on Tuesday night that Mueller's team has moved with "light speed" in its first year.
"This is a classic case," Holder told Hayes.
Mueller is "building from the bottom up. People have to understand that this is going to take some time," Holder said. "From my view of this, I always thought this was a two-year case. But I think they've been moving at light speed with what they have done in that first year."
Holder went on to criticize Attorney General Jeff Sessions for not standing up against the pressure levied by President Donald Trump. Citing the "norms" that have always maintained the Justice Department's independence from the White House, Holder said he doesn't have faith in Sessions to uphold those norms.
"I worry a great deal," Holder told Hayes. "I'm not at all certain that he's got the steel that an attorney general has to have. … At some point, an attorney general has got to say 'no' to a president. And maybe you're going to lose your job as a result of that.
"I don't have faith that Jeff Sessions" would follow that advice, if it were given to him.
"Our systems are holding, but they're being pressure tested," Holder said about the integrity of the Justice Department.
"There's not a huge line between a system that works correctly and one that works incorrectly. The more of this little stuff that you do, that line disappears," Holder said.
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