it was true, this notion that rosenstein raised the idea of wearing a wire. rosenstein denied it. i think this pushed all of this into the back burner. the two were originally supposed to meet sooner. that got delayed because of the kavanaugh fight. now they seem to be, at least for now, on pretty solid ground. it might be a little bit tenuous, but at least they seem to have reached this kind of agreement. the president says he doesn t want to fire rod rosenstein, and rosenstein seems willing to sit pretty, at least for now. but he s not necessarily completely out of the woods yet. is anyone ever completely out of the woods, though, wolf, when it comes to the trump administration? for rosenstein, it s especially sticky. look, this week, there are a number of house republicans who have been very critical, who look for any opportunity to get rid of rod rosenstein. he s agreed to go talk to them. you know, you can bet he will be asked about the notion of the 25th amendment, about wear
certainly do. jim acosta at the white house, thanks very much. david chalian, what do you think. the president basically making it clear that the deputy attorney general of the united states is here to stay. no doubt about that. for now. meaning i think rod rosenstein is safe, perhaps, until the mueller investigation is wrapped up, and then we ll see what happens with the replacement of jeff sessions, and how the line in the doj sorts itself out, wolf. i think what you saw there, and what you can see in the president is somebody who is really excited to get this victory lap going tonight in the white house with justice kavanaugh. i mean, he said it s going to be this great celebration. he was eager to make sure all the reporters would be there to cover it. this is a real feather in his cap. and i would also take a guess that perhaps marsha blackburn would rather have the victory with justice kavanaugh rather than worry about the taylor
acosta just said about thin ice and the previous story about global climate change and the arctic ice melting. it s not a good situation for rosenstein. and the mueller investigation is at the heart of the matter, and the president has been very, very clear about what he wants to do about that. and that is terminate it. why do you think he s kept rosenstein so far? he must have been furious at that new york times report. well, of course. but there is something just ahe had had of us. it s called the midterm elections. and if nothing else, the president is calculating. he is a very calculating person. he s looking out there. he wants to make sure that the congress does not flip. and by the way, i ll tell you what s going on outside of the beltway. outside of the beltway, there is deep, deep determination, really building off the million women march the day after the inaugural. we had an event here in
attorney general, rod rosenstein. even though president trump says they had a very good talk today aboard air force one, rosenstein still oversees robert mueller s russia investigation, which is always a very sore point for the president. let s bring in our political correspondent, sara murray. how did rosenstein go from expecting to be fired to being kept on, in spite of what he reportedly said about the president? wolf, such an awkward position that rosenstein has been in. there was that the new york times broke this story initially that rod rosenstein had brought up the idea of wearing a wire, that he had talked about, you know, the 25th amendment process of removing the president from office. and in the wake of this, rosenstein, of course, assumed the president would be furious. he expected that he would be fired. and i think a couple things transpired after that. i mean, first, it became very clear that the kavanaugh confirmation process was going to be a lot messier than th
things like policing and using the policy more broughtly. i m not sure they have one issue, but rosenstein helped trump on a big thing. helped trump and i still want to be in that room. it s a big place. the president said they would talk. they will have a hello, how are you? he has a cabin up front where you can sit and never know the president is on the same plane. we shall see. mitch mcconnell moves the goal post for supreme court vacancies and talks about justice and brett kavanaugh. we had big fights over other things and the country will be just fine. if you re a veteran paying