98% of fbi agents are honest, patriotic americans trying to enforce the law, but they are tainted by the people at the very top who clearly were corrupt. and were clearly violating the law. this will lead to a criminal investigation but frankly, i don t understand why the attorney general has not taken steps. laura: great, great question. the question is with rod rosenstein and the deputy ag, could there be a special counsel appointed to explore any of this? or will it be up to congress to find all of the relevant documents and force his hand? whatever happens, there is no doubt about the following. after all their years of claiming to be advocates for fairness, civil liberties, the dams dems the dams have been outed by
98% of fbi agents are honest, patriotic americans trying to enforce the law, but they are tainted by the people at the very top who clearly were corrupt. and were clearly violating the law. this will lead to a criminal investigation but frankly, i don t understand why the attorney general has not taken steps. laura: great, great question. the question is with rod rosenstein and the deputy ag, could there be a special counsel appointed to explore any of this? or will it be up to congress to find all of the relevant documents and force his hand? whatever happens, there is no doubt about the following. after all their years of claiming to be advocates for fairness, civil liberties, the dams dems the dams have been outed by
the russian investigation and maybe even fire deputy ag rod rosenstein, setting up a. [whispering] constitutional crisis. could that if the president uses this fake, horrible release of distorted intelligence as an excuse to fire deputy acting general rosenstein or mueller, it could lead to a constitutional crisis. i will just tell you, this could participate in in a constitutional crisis. i know there would be h minutes outcry, there would be a constitutional crisis. laura: this redefines echo chamber, takes it to the new level. they pass around mmo in the morning, we will say cherry picked one day, we will go take it easy, there s no evidence that donald trump is
matter from bob mueller s investigation. and his investigation should be allowed to take its course. there may have been malfeasance at the fbi by certain individuals. so it is our job conducting transparent oversight of the executive branch to get to the bottom of that. the president wants to fire deputy ag rod rosenstein, do you think that would be a wise decision. i think rod rosenstein is doing a fine job. i have no reason to see why he should do that. remember george zimmer the stand your ground guy from florida who obviously killed somebody in florida because he said he had the right to fight anybody who obviously approached hip. i know it s a crude reference but why is the president saying everything i m doing here in terms of obstruction of justice which would look like obstruction of justice is just depending myself ? here he is building the case that the fbi and the rest of them are all doing stuff that s just going after them. they re sort of jumping him. he has a rig
obviously oversees the special counsel. the president could use the memo as grounds for either firing or forcing rosenstein to leave and now the president has a five-day period to ultimately decide whether the nunes memo will become public. today house speaker paul ryan backed those seeking to release the memo but insisted it has nothing to do with the mueller investigation. this is a completely separate matter from bob mueller s investigation. and his investigation should be allowed to take its course. there may have been malfeasance at the fbi by certain individuals. so it is our gualob conducting transparent oversight of the executive branch to get to the bottom of that. there s been some reporting the president wants to fire deputy ag rod rosenstein. do you think that would be a wise decision. i think rod rosenstein is doing a fine job. i have no reason to see why he should do that. joining me is eli stokols and joyce vance former u.s. attorney. this, i see this whole thing