i'm alex marquardt. >> nice to see you. i'm christine romans. stories from moscow shortly. first we begin here -- sources familiar with discussions in the white house tell cnn it looks like president trump is considering firing deputy attorney general rod rosenstein in the wake of the fbi raid on trump fixer and personal attorney michael cohen. rosenstein has been supervising special counsel mueller's russia investigation since jeff sessions recused himself. the president has talked about firing all three -- sessions, rosenstein, and mueller, at various points. the widespread assumption was that federal regulations barred president trump from firing mueller directly, but yesterday we learned the president does not share that assumption. listen -- >> does he believe he has the power to fire robert mueller? >> certainly believes he has the power to do so. >> press secretary sarah huckabee sanders did not suggest that the president -- that