a knee-jerk reaction in a lot of instances, but he's also a man who feels that his base is with him. he is not the establishment. he is pushing the envelope. and this might just push it too far, if he does indeed fire robert mueller as special counsel in this probe into the russia investigation, that's dealing with issues of obstruction of justice possibly as well as collusion. >> it seems like that all of this is making the president's own making, these problems. because he's the one who started tweeting about these things. rod rosenstein chose to, i guess, fire him. but to hire mueller after the president fired comey. this is the president's own making, correct? >> right, it is. but the thing that i think we need to understand is that some of this continues to be within his power. the attorney general can, you know, and the deputy attorney general still report to the president.