the president have had this back and forth for months. and jeff sessions, even in the rough times has said, look, i m not going. and senate republicans have stood behind jeff sessions. and if rosenstein is fired and jeff sessions leaves, republicans are going to be forced to do some things that they don t want. and they have warned this president not to do anything to sessions. and if he fires rosenstein and sessions leaves, this signals something to senate republicans. just republicans on the hill. and you have to remember, there is a fine line for this white house and any other white house, you re not supposed to put your hand in the pot at the u.s. department of justice. well, that was that was then. this is now. and that could all change. it s still, supposedly, the fact. it s still policy. evan, you have some new reporting tonight on how exactly fresh firepower got added to trump s legal taeam. i m talking about rudy giuliani. trump personally pushed for him, did he not?
but, no, jeff sessions and the president have had this back and forth for months. and jeff sessions, even in the rough times has said, look, i m not going. and senate republicans have stood behind jeff sessions. and if rosenstein is fired and jeff sessions leaves, republicans are going to be forced to do some things that they don t want. and they have warned this president not to do anything to sessions. and if he fires rosenstein and sessions leaves, this signals something to senate republicans. just republicans on the hill. and you have to remember, there is a fine line for this white house and any other white house, you re not supposed to put your hand in the pot at the u.s. department of justice. well, that was that was then. this is now. and that could all change. it s still, supposedly, the fact. it s still policy. evan, you have some new reporting tonight on how exactly fresh firepower got added to trump s legal team. i m talking about rudy giuliani. trump personally p
make this move, i may be leaving too. yeah. do you think, josh, this was in some way a warning of a, of a you know what storm if trump pulled the trigger on axing rosenstein? well, it s a good question. i think it s hard to predict anything until things actually happen and you have people pulling out, but there s certainly a lot of consternation at doj with the president. his moosings about firing rosenstein, his several attempts to oust jeff sessions. that s part of the obstruction inquiry by the special counsel. and he s very frustrated with the fbi and doj. it s been a recurring theme of this presidency. that the president is not sim p psimpatco with doj and fbi. and more than anything else, as far as our reporting, don, the president expresses lots of frustration with the united states legal system and leaders who he think he should be investigating and charging andrew mccabe and jim comey and
phylicia moments, where you ve got to think that if the attorney general is literally thinking that he can threaten to resign if he gets rid of rod rosenstein, you ve got to think, the president is going to be like, what, really? it s going to be that easy to get rid of all of these people? he s been talking about getting rid of not only rod rosenstein, but talking about firing jeff sessions and getting rid of both at the same time. obviously, people around him keep telling him, that s not a good idea. it makes you scratch your head and think, what s going on here? yeah, that bye, felicia, i can t believe you said that. i know, it s friday, right? tgif. that would sort of outweigh the saturday night massacre that happened under nixon. but i want to get your take on this reporting. we saw jeff sessions dine with rod rosenstein back in february. the solicitor general was there, too. is this like the latest sign all of this the latest sign of solidarity, do you think? yeah, i do t
investigation into him is a witch hunt. and he sometimes does not seem to understand that he cannot interfere in these investigations and i think he s really frustrated. yeah. how was the warning received by the white house, josh? well, don mcgahn expressed to the attorney general, according to our reporting that, that there was no immediate plan to fire rosenstein rosenstein and he should not be correspond about that. we had reported earlier in the week, and i think cnn had as well, that the president was musing about firing rosenstein, was telling advisers and confidants around him that he was really tired of the deputy attorney general, mainly because rod rosenstein proved the raid of michael cohen s home and office and hotel room. and the president is, but that raid was intensely personal to the president. when he we learned that michael cohen s property was raided. and he really lashed out at rod rosenstein.