this year, being called the swamp. you can look at the trump advertisements, d.c., i got to clean up this town. won t let me do what i m supposed to do. it s the victim narrative. this is the smart play by the senate republicans and i would, i m very curious, i saw some of the names thrown around as to who might be person to fire mueller. maybe we move pruitt over there. sending these people around the d.c. orbit to do what the president wants. it ultimately i think will fall back on the president and will hurt him in a devastating way. wow. still ahead, russia moves to block a u.n. resolution on syria. as president trump considers launching new military action in the wake of a chemical weapons attack. former secretary of state madeli madelima madelieine albright joins us.
less as direct orders, than as simply how the president talks. interesting. one former adviser said that people have become conditioned to wait until mr. trump had raised an issue at least three times before acting on it. he did say it out loud the other day. that, is that number one, two, or three, willie in. there was the same reaction we got from the white house when the new york times reported this in january. is that the president says a lot of things in the course of a day, we don t take them seriously all the time. new york times reporter michael schmidt joins us now. he contributed to this report. michael, there s a ton in here. we ve said time and again on the show, as people have said, he ll never fire bob mueller. if for nothing else, than for his own self-interest. as he knows this would lead to a crisis and could cost him his presidency. it appears time and again in your now second report that he is entertaining the idea of firing bob mueller and in fact sarah sand
according to interviews with eight anonymous people. including advisers, people close to the president and others. the second reported instance in which the president moved to push out the prosecutor charged with investigating russian interference in the 2016 elections. after reportedly ordering his white house counsel, don mcgann to ask the justice department to dismiss him last june. mcgann threatened to quit. the episode was in december was allegedly sparked by reports by bloomberg, reuters and the wall street journal, that mueller issued subpoenas involving trump business records. that report from the times comes as cnn reports that the president is once again weighing whether to fire rod rosenstein after earlier reports said trump had considered removing his deputy attorney general last year. however, white house staffers reportedly do not take trump s word seriously. quote the venting has usually been dismissed by his advisers. many of whom insist that they have come to see
him finish the job. jonathan turley on yesterday, he was actually defended the president at times throughout this process. said it would be the most foolish thing to do, it would be the end of his presidency. we have a poll out this morning that says seven in ten americans support bob mueller s investigation and say that he has to be able to finish it. the majority of republicans are saying the same thing. 69% say he should not be fired. the latest quinnipiac poll, 7 in 10 supporting the completion of this only 13% saying that bob mueller should be fired. these numbers have changed radically. is the president just blowing off steam from what you can tell? or is he really going to triple down on the mistake he made when he fired comey? i think you re right on the comey thing. that s the question. how big and bad is the comey skaska scar on trump?
robert mueller finishing his investigation. you had the chairman of the judiciary committee, no small thing. this would be where any hearings would be on an impeachment trial were that to ever happen, the chairman of the senate judiciary committee said for donald trump to fire robert mueller would be, quote, suicidal and the president s own golfing buddy and another senior member of the judiciary committee lindsey graham said it wouldn t be the end of the investigation, but it would be the beginning of the end of donald trump s presidency. again, not the first time that lindsey said that. and that is very significant. or as they would say, where lindsey s from in south carolina, beautiful area, that ain t nothing. that ain t nothing. that s significant. and bless his heart. something donald trump has to understand. he listened to jared if you believe reports to fire comey.