president has been able to creep the line a little farther, lower the bar a little bit farther and, you know, condition the entire world to him taking this kind of, you know, interfering with the justice department in this kind of severely inappropriate way. >> or has he? ifrosenstein says yes, we'll look into this, but it's not a criminal inquiry, and if rosenstein said "take a hike," then it would only infuriate the president more, saying "i'm being roadblocked by them." >> i think he did the minimum he had to do to appease the president. he's tweeted half a dozen times by my count. i want to go back to the point you made at the top of the show, which is just how extraordinary all of the moves by the president has been to intervene