obviously oversees the special counsel. the president could use the memo as grounds for either firing or forcing rosenstein to leave and now the president has a five-day period to ultimately decide whether the nunes memo will become public. today house speaker paul ryan backed those seeking to release the memo but insisted it has nothing to do with the mueller investigation. >> this is a completely separate matter from bob mueller's investigation. and his investigation should be allowed to take its course. there may have been malfeasance at the fbi by certain individuals. so it is our gualob conducting transparent oversight of the executive branch to get to the bottom of that. >> there's been some reporting the president wants to fire deputy ag rod rosenstein. do you think that would be a wise decision. >> i think rod rosenstein is doing a fine job. i have no reason to see why he should do that. >> joining me is eli stokols and joyce vance former u.s. attorney. this, i see this whole thing as