him. which would you prefer? i don t have a preference. to me, it s more about whether or not the department of justice can be trusted to execute their mission. with rosenstein, it s the guy who hired mueller the day after trump said he wasn t going to hire mueller to be the fbi director. it s the guy who signed the fisa warrant. it s the guy that many in congress believe improperly redacting information that we have a right to see the guy trump picked. el wiwell, yeah, no, true. fair point. but i think the president has illuminated his thinking on that, it was the beginning of the administration, it was who jeff sessions wanted, and now you see jeff sessions, barely the attorney general, on the most important investigation in the country. there is a practical consideration here, though here, and a political one, obviously. if he resigns, legally, the president replaces the two positions, deputy attorney general, attorney general in charge of the russia investigation, he has
but i think the president has illuminated his thinking on that, it was the beginning of the administration, it was who jeff sessions wanted, and now you see jeff sessions, barely the attorney general, on the most important investigation in the country. there is a practical consideration here, though here, and a political one, obviously. if he resigns, legally, the president replaces the two positions, deputy attorney general, attorney general in charge of the russia investigation, he has both hats. he can do it. replacing them. if he fires rosenstein, then he can t. then he s got to put up a nominee, go to the senate for confirmation. there s a process. so it matters from a practicality standpoint. yeah, it s just not something that a member of congress has any impact or influence over. to me, the bigger question is, are you going to allow this activity to occur within the administration? we know that there are people inside the trump administration that are actively working agains
you because you say it is not normal to start a monday morning wondering if we re having a constitutional crisis and a confirmation crisis. i happen to think we re already in a constitutional crisis. so talk to us about today s incredible developments. well, first of all, don, i think you re right that in many ways the crisis every day, people say is this it? is this the crisis? if trump does x, if trump does y, if he fires rosenstein, this is the constitutional crisis. but arguably it s been going on ever since january of 2017 in the sense you have a president who is willing to challenge any number of norms. and so it s left us guessing much of the time. but even by those standards today was a pretty crazy day. we can all agree upon that. i think it took two hour and 40 minutes. that s what the post reported between the initial reports that rosenstein was preparing to offer his resignation or did offer his resignation to the white house chief of staff. and when sarah sanders put
a price for the bargain they made with president trump? let s discuss now. cnn s white house correspondent kaitlan collins is here as well as cnn global affairs analyst susan glasser and mark mckinnon, a former adviser to george w. bush and john mccain, who is now executive producer of the circus on showtime sunday nights. good evening to one and all. good to have you on the program tonight. susan, i m going to start with you because you say it is not normal to start a monday morning wondering if we re having a constitutional crisis and a confirmation crisis. i happen to think we re already in a constitutional crisis. so talk to us about today s incredible developments. well, first of all, don, i think you re right that in many ways the crisis every day, people say is this it? is this the crisis? well, if trump does x, if trump does y, if he fires rosenstein, this is the constitutional crisis. but arguably it s been going on ever since january of 2017 in
with rod rosenstein the president of the united states is here in new york for the u.n. so we did not anticipate other than by miracle that he would be there but we are covering this of course and we will bring you the news as it happens. let s bring it now fox news senior judicial analyst judge entered a model andrew napolit. i really want to pick your brain with his first question and i ve been talking about the differences between rosenstein weather is today or later date actually resigning for the president firing him. can you drill down farther? of the president fires rosenstein, he will be disregarding the advice of many republicans, not the least of whom was mitch mcconnell who last week said please dial back on the tweets about conductor christine blasey for it and please don t disrupt the justice department because don t do any of this before the midterms because either of those things are going to make our job