The idea of possibliy resigning. Whats unclear is how serious that was. Whether he said Something Like i am willing to resign if the president wants me to or whether he said i intend to resign and im going to do it on monday. We dont know the exact nature of those conversations. Eli, i want to hear about your reporting. I want to show our viewers what phil rucker is talking about. Lets watch. I have a message for the president tonight. Under zero circumstances should the president fire anybody. If you are laying a trap for donald trump, this might be exactly how youd do it. Okay, professor, what will President Trump do now . Well, if hes smart, hell take advantage of this and not fire either any of these people, not mueller, not rosenstein, and not sessions. So this is important point because i think a lot of people are really scared after the
rosensteins people to come out and say, he expects to be fired. His people were putting that out to what end, we dont know at this point but cer
rosenstein will be ousted. you said, and i want to put this up on the screen, if the president fires rod rosenstein for the purpose of protecting himself from the russia investigation, that would represent high crimes and misdemeanor. how would you prove it is for the purposes of protecting himself? could he be firing rod rosenstein becau rosenstein? you would be looking at all the evidence. that is our job. and here is the bottom line. the president has day in and day out been looking for a path to fire bob mueller. that has been the end game and he knows that we are reaching a crucial time. bob mueller has gotten something like 12 guilty pleas to various kinds of financial crimes, money laundering, tax evasion. this is getting very close to what the president fears most,
arian carmon, talou and john avalon. good morning. talou, when did brett kavanaugh resort to a national televised interview where he talked about really personal awkward things, when so many of the republicans have said, you know, this woman is making her case in the court of public opinion, she has gone to the media, you know, this isn t fair, and why do you think he took that tactic? i think the new yorker article that came out really sort of changed the game, it made brett kavanaugh and his team specifically his team at the white house want to try to gain the narrative back, take control of the narrative. we know the president likes to watch fox news, we know that when people go on fox news had has outside influence on the president so there was the audience of one factor, but also creating a narrative of brett
thursday. after a day of confusion over his fate, which could have major repercussions on special counsel robert mueller s investigation. sources tell cnn that rosenstein offered to resign last friday in a conversation with white house chief of staff john kelly. after the new york times reported that rosenstein suggested secretly recording trump and invoking the 25th amendment to oust him from office after the president fired fbi director james comey. rosenstein denies the report, but a senior official says he overestimated how angry the president would be, and another source tells cnn he expected to be fired on monday, instead, after two chaotic hours inside the white house and a phone call with mr. trump, the white house delaying a decision on his future until the president and rosenstein can meet in person on thursday. sources tell cnn that president trump and his allies are concerned that the new york times story was leaked to
that s one of the first times that someone has mused chum by the way. it s breakfast. despite all of that, despite trying to create a new spectacle, paul, it also sounds, if you listen to the president on geraldo s radio show yesterday, that even he does not know what he will reveal and what will happen on thursday. let me play this moment for you. will you fire rod rosenstein based on i don t want to comment on it. i don t want to comment on it until i ve gotten all the facts. i haven t gotten all the facts, but certainly it s being looked at in terms of what took place, if anything took place, and i will make a determination sometime later, but i don t have the facts. paul. i mean, first of all, the news is the president isn t going to comment until he gets all the facts. that is a departure, but what do you think given if there are any clues hidden in there?