chris, one of the issues here is that if he now has his eye on firing rod rosenstein which apparently he does, that s almost a bigger challenge than firing mueller because the deputy attorney general so long as jeff sessions is there has the ability to curtail this investigation. and i think that s what we should keep our eye on. he fires rosenstein, then he can put in whoever and that person can say you re not going to look at michael cohen, you re not going to look at all of these business deals. all you re going to look for is direct evidence of collusion. if trump didn t pick up the phone and call putin, i guess we re done with that. that is something congress had better be wise, too. if anybody s interested in doing any oversight, call mr. rosenstein up to testify, ask him whether the president has the authority to fire mr. mueller directly.
week showing that is a red line. if donald trump fires mueller or fires rosenstein to meddle with mueller, those are impeachable offenses and i believe people would stake to the streets and massive obstruction of justice. your colleagues, when you ve had discussions with them, do they agree with you, it s impeachable? you know, it turns out when republican members retire, they tend to show morp courage. so we have seen some courage coming out from retiring republicans. senator jeff flake has already said it would be impeachable offense if mueller got fired by trumtd. and also trey gowdy saying he needs to finish doing his job. mccab wrote an op-ed for washington post. he said not in my worst fears
attorney general. if he fires rosenstein, his responsibilities for the mueller investigation would go from deputy attorney general, which is what he is, to the associate attorney general, which is what rachel brand is. so she s the next person in line to assusupervise the mueller investigation. if she s gone and mueller is fired, then it gets confusing about who is the supervisor of the mueller office. there would have to be new people nominated. i would have to check the statute about how far down in the justice department hierarchy it would go to who controls rod rosenstein. everyone had assumed that she would stay in the administration for longer than barely a year. she s only been on the job nine months. quite curious.
whether they will refuse to let the memo come out at the same time, or let that see the light of day and even if they vote to do it, president trump would have to sign off or not object and will he let it see the light of day. it will be a telling political moment for the people who rallied around the phrase release the memo because there is another memo they might not like as much that might be released. memo two might be the hashtag there. and we have a copy of jerry nadler s six-page response. just his response. but given that here, robert, and happen tip to chris matthews here, is this a slow motion saturday night massacre because jerry nadler was bringing up rosenstein again. well i don t know about that. what i do know about rosenstein is he is the last man standing between he and mueller. if the president fires
by michael flynn. all of that information through a joint group shows that they are talking when they shouldn t be talking. the drumbeat keeps pounding away. donald trump knows what michael flynn knows and he is not telling his lawyers and donald trump being the warrior and chief is frying to coordinate the entire obstruction of is this investigation. the only way he can undercut the investigation is to get rid of the people that are doing it. one key piece of that is rod rosenstein. richard painter, what happens if donald trump does it? we haven t seen republicans react thus far to anything? what if he fires rosenstein, what do you see happening? well, i would want to see the united states house of representatives and senate judiciary committees meet and begin hearings on obstruction of justice. we have had a consistent pattern of obstruction of justice. they have an obligation to investigate just as they did in