those kooky conspiracy theories, certainly they ll seize on this as they ll seize on anything else, and they may very well be pushed out there by people thinking it s a useful way to defend the president. if rosenstein is fired, what happens then? if rosenstein were to be fired, it would be another clear demonstration of obstruction of justice by the president. in the immediate aftermath, we d have to consider, you know, what does that mean in terms of our system of checks and balances? what is the response of congress? and probably most importantly, will there be any republicans who are willing to defend the institutions of our government? sadly, they have been very few in number. i would hope if there s any effort to obstruct the investigation like the firing of rod rosenstein, that congress would pass a bill in stating the independent counsel law that would protect bob mueller. congressman, i appreciate your time. thank you. thank you.
and that revision does not address the present tensish. he may have thought at one point there was reason to invoem the 25th amendment. that new stamtd suggests he never advocated for the roovl of the president from the office, but the mere fact that the attorney general might discuss it, gee, is the president out of his mind, think that is in and of itself pretty remarkable even if he didn t advocate for it. jeff, if you were donald trump, would you want rod rosenstein working there? no. and i think he s gone. i think the day after the election if not the hour after the polls close both sessions and rosenstein are gone and we ll have an extraordinary fight over who the replacement is and whether that person can be confirmed because that person or those people will be the people deciding robert mueller s fate. senator santorum, if you were still in congress, would you want to get to the bottom of
rosenstein, have to contemplate whether the constitution applies when the president is incapacitated. i mean that is alarming. for those that are ready to believe there is a deep state, those kooky conspiracy theories, certainly they ll seize on this as they ll seize on anything else, and they may very well be pushed out there thinking it s a useful way to defend the president. if rosenstein is fired, what happens then? if rosenstein were to be fired, it would be another clear demonstration of obstruction of justice by the president. in the immediate aftermath, we d have to consider, you know, what does that mean in terms of our system of checks and balances? what is the response of congress? and probably most importantly l there be any republicans who are willing to defend the institutions of our government? sadly they have been very few in number. i would hope if there s any effort to obstruct the investigation like the firing of
little confidence in the congress of the united states by almost anyone, and the one element of the system that s working, the press, the first amendment, the fake news s of e new york times as the president would have it has broken this story. cnn has confirmed elements of it. all of the kritzhe critics, thes doing its job. i want to get to john dean, but we need to take a quick break. coming up next, the president has just weighed in on this. used a new word stench when describing the justice department. and later, a new deadline for the woman who says supreme court nominee brets kavanaugh sexually assaulted her. details tonight. worst symptoms including nasal congestion, which most pills don t. flonase helps block 6 key inflammatory substances. most pills only block one. flonase. so let s promote our falle a homecomingtravel dealame,
the president s lie, and now he joins a long list of people in this presidency who fear that the president of the united states is not fit to be the president, is a danger to the national security, does not understand what the proper use and function of the justice department is. so, all of these things are converging, and they re converging at the time of a midterm election in which the president is going to throw all of this meat to his base and see what can be chewed up to somehow keep a majority in congress. but meanwhile, we have the spectacle of little confidence in the president of the united states by those around him, little confidence in the congress of the united states by almost anyone, and the one element of the system that s working, the press, the first amendment, the fake news of the