The New York Times reports this afternoon, was approved by Trump Appointee Rod Rosenstein. Quote, in addition to mr. Rosenstein, all of the top Law Enforcement officials involved in the raid are republicans. The times also offering more details this afternoon about what the fbi was looking for in that raid. Quote, the search arent carried out by The Public Corruption Unit of the manhattan federal Attorneys Office seeks information about Karen Mcdougal an ex Playboy Model. She was paid 150,000 by American Media inc. , the enquirers parent company, whose Chief Executive is a friend of mr. Trumps. Our friend joyce vance described the raid as a, quote, bomb, on trumps front porch. Been in agreement that if the president wanted to Fire Bob Mueller, if he wanted to change course here, then he had to essentially get somebody to do it for him. That somebody would have had to have been Rod Rosenstein, the Deputy Attorney general and for all intents and purposes, the Acting Attorney General in t
this morning, questions swirling about the fate of deputy attorney general rod rosenstein, the man who s overseeing the mueller investigation. for now, he still has a job, but his hold on it is tenuous at best. around this time yesterday, there was speculation he would learn his fate. be fire order resign as he met with chief of staff john kelly at the white house. but rosenstein emerged from that meeting with a public handshake and his job intact. all this uncertainty comes after a report in the new york times that rosenstein suggested secretly recording the president and discussed invoking the 25th amendment to remove him from office. here s the president announcing that the two will meet thursday. will you fire rod rosenstein? i m meeting with rod rosenstein on thursday when i get back from all of these meetings. we ll be meeting at the white house. we ll be determining what s
but the evidence would remain. i ve said this before. trump would have to fire the entire justice department and the fbi to kill the mueller investigation. if he resigns or is fired, what would this mean for the special counsel s election? or investigation? so it depens who takes over rosenstein s position. it s critical that rosenstein is he s the supervisor. so there s all kinds of questions. would a new appointee potentially fire mueller? that s a possibility. even more insidious, limit funding, restrict access to witnesses. all kinds of things that whoever s in that position can do to control the mueller investigation. that s why it s so important to have somebody in there who is independented ed aand will supe continuing investigation of the trump campaign and of collusion potential collusion with russia. if he does depart, the
transpired with all of these statements and all these allegations going back to this, and basically a time-out on this inquiry. so he says take a time-out. but we also know that top democrats have made it clear that they believe firing rosenstein would provoke a constitutional crisis. i mean, jennifer, is that where we re at potentially? certainly, if, in fact, rosenstein were fired and if, in fact, there were some way that the mueller investigation were limited, impeded or ended, that absolutely would be a constitutional crisis. and the parallels to watergate are just quite stunning in that situation. jennifer, thank you very much. appreciate that. as always. coming up, increased scrutiny of the caption in brett kavanaugh s high school yearbook and why nine members of georgetown prep football team called themselves ronata alumni. first, last week marked the one year anniversary of hurricane maria s landfall in puerto rico. since the devastation and slow recovery, there s been
going on. we want to have transparency. we want to have openness. i look forward to meeting with rod at that time. here to weigh in, nbc national security only intelligence reporter ken dilanian. jennifer dasco is a law professor at american university. ken, i don t remember seeing it, certainly rare to see the chief of staff actually come out to say good-bye to somebody like that. what s going on? do we know what to expect on thursday? my interpretation was john kelly was trying to tamp down some of the speculation about rod rozenstein and signal that his job is safe because even the president s closest allies like sean hannity on the fox news channel have been saying please don t fire rod rosenstein before the midterms. that s been hannity and kelly know that most americans support the mueller investigation. and firing of rod rozenstein would look like an attempt to obstruct it and that s not good for donald trump. by the way, chris, while contrary to some reporting, pete william