monday. he asked them to put that recommendation in writing, but they came to him on his own they came to the president is what the white house is saying. that rod rose stein is the person who started this, initiated this, put it in paper and asked the president to fire jim comey. defense lawyer, former state and federal prosecutor has known rod rosen stein 15 years. look, rosenstein is at the center of this. his name is on this memo. in it, he writes, as his first reason to recommend the firing of jim comey. he says i cannot defend the director s handling of the conclusion of the investigation of secretary clinton s e-mails and i do not understand his refusing to accept the nearly universal judgment that he was mistaken. now, one of the former deputy attorneys general quotes in that says that that is a sham in terms of a reason.
produce sort of a puffy celebrity piece professionally. yes, but on the same hand, and i know this is a powerful person, i don t want to go after him, but on the other hand, this is a powerful person, that would be a heck of a story, a heck of a trophy to bring somebody like that down. but also, steven, very importantly, we do know that 43% of his employees and his business endeavors are women, yet the majority of his executive officers are women. so the minority of the employees are just a narrow minority, 43%, but still most of his people. recently we ve had statements by his executive vp, a woman named miss sunshine, i can t remember the last name. one named rosen, his hr director, one of his deputy attorneys all say he s been great. so maybe he doesn t do it to everybody, but you ve got multiple women out there now, multiple women out there putting their names on this and saying he did it to me. i think if he really had the