for the president said, in the last 24 hours, that he had no plans or isn t even discussing doing it. of course the president must be aware that the last time that was tried was my richard nixon dealing with a special prosecutor and the consequences of that was that he got another special prosecutor in the investigation went on and led ultimately to where he was up on the verge of being impeached. i suspect he s aware that getting rid of this special prosecutor blood or the special counsel would only generate another one and he would be right where he started from. bret: this is not unprecedented. no, it s not unprecedented. it didn t turn out very well for the presidency to the firing. bret: rights. as far as the public talk of a special counsel, you covered a white house which did not, as well. we certainly the stuff we are hearing said, witch hunt, as kevin corke pointed out in his report, this appears to be right out of the clinton playbook, where you don t fire the s
a lot of developments overnight. the fbi informant now able to tell what he knows and there is a lot of it but you hear hillary clinton saying not me, i didn t know anything. the believer? this is right out of the clinton playbook, catch me if you can. bill clinton did with white house intern, the ninth of the evidence came out the was undeniable and had to admit it. hillary clinton on email, deny until she could deny no further and had to admit she had a private server. this is part of the clinton lie and obstruct and it is up to congress now because the justice department under the obama administration left us down. they should have been looking out for america, they did not, they protected the clintons and it is up to congress to make it right. do you believe james comey has been compromised in all of this because we now know the fbi knew about it, the doj knew about it and a lot of people involved involve now in the investigation into the trump administration were involved in t
earlier today that weinstein sexually harassed them. other actresses are telling the new york times that weinstein was making unwanted advances. heather graham is also speaking out. she told variety that weinstein said if she had with him, he would get a movie deal in the movie role. and weinstein s wife georgina chapman told people magazine she is now finally leaving her husband. according to the daily mail, weinstein is taking a page out of the clinton playbook. he s hiring a top hollywood lawyer in an attempt if you read it to discredit his victims. only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to allegations against harvey weinstein. with even more disturbing is the fact that people, many of them in hollywood knew what weinstein was doing and they knew it for decades and they did nothing about it. some in hollywood are even being accused of helping to cover this up. according to a former new york times reporter, there
would do that violated the law. preventing that what happening by firing mueller and presumably congress would try to get another special prosecutor appointed would slow down that training. jon: you seem to be suggesting that the president should let robert mueller just do his job. that would be my advice. i think allies of the president will always criticize the prosecutor, that is straight out of the clinton playbook, the clinton administration spent years demonizing ken starr and it pretty effective. i m just saying that legally, i would tell the president to simply let the investigation go forward and let his allies do whatever criticism they want to do. jon: what about the fact that robert mueller is staffing with a lot of lawyers who have made significant contributions to democratic politicians? again, i think allies of the
particular impervious to this kind of a smear campaign and it is a bad hand the trump people are playing if they think the way to take down robert mueller is take him down in this way or try to take him down at all. we have seen presidents in the past go after special prosecutors. that s part of a clinton playbook. we ve seen that happen before. but the reality is right now there s not a receptive audience for that and if you go too far playing this card against mueller, they re going to lose the support of republicans in congress and once that happens, donald trump s done. i think also let me let jen because nothing s made me laugh all hour except jen saying we took down our special prosecutor well. elaborate. special prosecutor and the republicans that were impeaching bill clinton were doing it for partisan reasons and it was a partisan act. it was republicans getting behind ken starr and impeaching bill clinton for something that he did not deserve to be impeached over. th