republicans switched from being on the side of wanting to hear from somebody saying they re a victim to claiming this is all a big conspiracy? i think that there s a few issues at hand. i think that they wanted to have the hearing with dr. ford. but they felt that some of them felt that it kind of got moved around and they were kind of jumping through hoops for her. then you add the second accuser which no one really no one substantiated her comments. she s not even sure exactly what happened. and i think that also infuriated people. that this story came out. back to mueller, one last question to ben wittes. what is mueller thinking when he s seeing news that rosenstein might be fire, might resign, what is he thinking? is he thinking about a document dump? is he trying to protect the information he s been able to compile? what s going on with the mueller team? i don t know the answer to that question and if anyone claims to you shouldn t trust.
entire administration t fact of the matter is while he s been on this investigation republicans have been able to spend more time doing their jobs. and if mueller is not engaging this investigation, then that means the leaking starts again. then that means every sort of individual person with an ax to grind starts to investigate this administration again. it s cleaner with mueller doing his job than before hand. i think it s in their best interest to let this guy stay there because if they keep the senate he can t be impeached anyway. what do you think of that? that s a great job. let the guy finish his job. that s what the republicans have been saying the sane ones, let him do his job. why won t they pass legislation to protect him? because it would be an affront to the president, start a war with the president. just remember this party and this president have a lot they re working on together despite appearances sometimes. they re about to cement a conservative hold on the
rosenstein is not willingly leaving and that he has for now at least called their bluff and said if you re getting rid of me it s because you re firing me. so i think, you know, i think sekulow s comments are a part of a larger message that was kind of a white house spin that actually didn t work. for the record the white house has said that people are resigning when they have actually fired them. that s the scam. he caught them. he called their bluff. if you re going to fire me, you have to say it to my face. we know the president won t do that to him and that s what this was. i also think that the grand scheme of this is i think all of these guys jobs are probably at risk after the midterms that s the truth. i think there s probably going to be a clearinghouse anyway, but i think long term, this is the part that i don t think some republicans seem to understand about the mueller investigation. as much as mueller is a thorn in their side, and he s a slow moving sort of damocles o
democrat, should be concerned about what would happen if he were to fire rosenstein. you co-authored a bipartisan bill to protect mueller. have you spoken to any of the republicans who have signed on to that bill, maybe senator tillis or graham about where they stand now and whether or not they re willing to push mitch mcconnell to bring the bill to a floor vote? senator flake gave a floor speech i think just last week in which he called on mitch mcconnell to bring this bill up for a vote. i think it s striking that this bill that senator tillis and graham, senator booker and i introduced now well over a year ago when we were we were told initially when we introduced it, it would never get a hearing. it got a hearing. we were then told it wouldn t get a vote, it got a vote on the committee. and it came out with a strong 14-7. it s ready for action on the floor and i have spoken to the
this and going into the midterm, it is going to cause the kind of the firestorm that almost ensure s the blue wave that people are talking about, and it is also going to tie up po ten slal the supreme court nomination process which is really what republicans want to the focus on, and finally, back to mueller, the obstruction issue is front and center from what we are hearing, so this could play directly into that part of the investigation. so there is many reasons not to do it. i don t know if itt is going to stop president trump, but certainly, the rationals for not doing it are there. and already rlarry, they are talking about wrapping it up like giuliani was saying get it done by september, and is there a deadline or a rule or a custom that the special, you know, counsel would not make a decision or reveal anything to