importantly. article two allows me to do whatever i want. that would have allowed me to fire him. i wasn t going to fire him because i watched richard nixon go around firing everybody. that didn t work out very well. your position is that you can hire and fire anybody. that is the position of some of the greatest lawyers. you have to have a position like that because you are the president. without even bringing up article two, which gives you every right. so a president can t obstruct justice? the president runs the country. i run the country and i run it well. a new wall street journal poll calls for a rise in support of impeachment proceedings with 27% saying there is enough evidence to begin, up ten
assuming i did all of the things i said i want to fire him, number one, i didn t. he wasn t fired. okay. number one, very importantly, but more importantly, article 2 allows me to do whatever i want. article 2 would have allowed me to fire him but i wasn t going to fire, you know why, because i watched richard nixon go around firing everybody and that didn t work out too well. so your position is you can hire or fire anybody, stop or start that investigation of a lot of great lawyers. that s the position of some of the most talented lawyers, and you have to have a position like that because you re the president and without even bringing up article 2 which absolutely gives you every right. so a president can t obstruct justice? a president can run the country and that s what happened, george, i run the country and run it well. when the president does it, it s not illegal. the president under article 2 is very strong, read it. a new nbc news wall street journal report s
i watched richard nixon going around firing everybody and that didn t work out too well. so very simply, article ii would allow me to do it. important to point out that in the mueller report there are at least ten instances of president trump trying to interfere or intervene in the russia investigation. perhaps most glaringly when he told former white house counsel don mcgahn to fire robert mueller. mcgahn declined. he essentially threatened to resign. the president ultimately relenting. so in this accounting of the president s story, he s clearly indulging in some revisionist history. boris sanchez, cnn, at the white house. well, president trump s campaign several pollsters after unflattering internal poll numbers were leaked to the media. the data showed mr. trump lagging behind democratic presidential candidates in key states. continued press coverage of the numbers in recent days is said to have angered the president and led to the firings.
believes the constitution gave him the power to fire former special counsel robert mueller. article two would have allowed me to fire him but i wasn t going to fire him. you know why? because i watched richard nixon go around firing everybody and that didn t work out too well. so your position is you could hire or fire anybody and start and that is the position of great lawyers. reporter: he repeatedly cited article two of the constitution but dodging questions about whether he believes the president is above the law. so a president can t obstruct justice. a president can run the country and that is what happened, georgia. i run the country and i do it well. if the president does it, it is not illegal. i m saying the president under article two is strong. read it. reporter: and offering a window into his fixation on optics. trump snapping at his acting chief of staff mick mulvaney who interrupted him in the middle of an answer in which he claimed he might one day re
bad news? and it s clear he can t handle it. people in the campaign are going to try to shield him from bad news which is not going to help at all. in your wheel house, richard nixon obviously, an expert. and this interview with george stephanopoulos was talking about whether or not he wanted mueller fired. listen to how he framed his answer. i wasn t going to fire. you know why? because i watched richard nixon go around firing everybody and that didn t work out too well. that s true. that is acute historical understanding. what i don t believe is that he actually believes that. because if you look at the mueller report, this president was fuming all the time about getting rid of mueller. i think that, yes, indeed, what starts the engine of impeachment in 1973 is when richard nixon fires cox and tries to shut down