he's trying to do both at once. >> let's talk about these tweets. this is one of two tweets. i'm being investigated for firing the fbi director by the man who told me to fire the fbi director. he calls it a witch hunt. is he contradicting himself? in the interview with lester holt he says i was going to do it anyway, it doesn't matter what rosenstein said. >> he's not contradicting himself in terms of strategy. once again, let's get rosenstein out of this thing. that's his objective. rosenstein will recuse and let's stop the investigation at all costs because he does not want any more penetration of the facts of this matter involving his own finances, those of his family, whatever contacts there are with russians. he wants it to stop. and once it -- if he can do that, then he needs to stave off impeachment with republicans joining in a move for impeachment. he thinks he can do that and