certain the president will not fire him. do you share mitch mcconnell s certainty that he won t fire muleer? i absolutely do. i think this is a little bit of crying fire, when there is no fire there. the president has made it clear, as recently as three weeks ago, he has no intention of firing mr. mueller, and he shouldn t. if you think there s evidence of collusion, it just hasn t materialized. i think the president sees that. he s considered it in the past, sir. do you discount that? i don t know that he has considered it in the past. at least not seriously. i don t know, i m not in on those private conversations obviously. but he has said recently he s not going to fire him. we have no indications that he s thinking of doing that now. i think this is a way once again to generate a little bit of emotion. but it s over an issue that i don t think is realistic. congressman, we appreciate your time. congressman chris stewart joining us from a rather busy
retirement, more shoes to drop in the mueller investigation, a lot will happen, it make its tough to hang on if you are paul ryan. dana: speaking to the mueller investigation, here is what nadler said earlier today. the president is subject to law and should know he would be held accountable to the law. statements like these, reports that the president considered numerous times over the last year firing mr. mueller and threats from congressional republicans to impeach doj officials, department of justice officials who refuse to cooperate in conspiracy theories are clear threats to the rule of law. dana: terry, do you think democrats would like for the president to fire bob mueller, special counsel, because it would create all these problems for him? absolutely. the people who are looking at this with the greatest anticipation are democrats that wish that donald trump would just pull the trigger on robert mueller and go for it because
order or request expressed or implied to interfere in the investigation including but not limited to firing mr. mueller, cutting off funding or resources, limiting staffing or inhibiting his ability to follow the facts wherever they may lead. so again, that letter is being sent out tonight from democrats on the senate judiciary committee and they are saying they want a response right away. so far there is no word prom from these five officials whether they will make that kind of promise. it is worth noting that the man above them in d.o.j. in the oversight position now, rod rosenstein, made that promise. so it wouldn t be weird if other officials followed in his stoot ste foot steps and did so as well. we ll have to wait over the next few days to see if they think they ought to make this kind of promise. very interesting. imagine being in their shoes right now knowing the history and the way the president talked about special counsel and railed against the attorney general for recr
francisco, higdon, cox. we have significant concerns he could order the authority to interfere with the probe or shut it down. you fall in the line of succession at the department of justice if the deputy attorney general were resigned or removed. we request you provide a written and publicment m meddling. as such, we ask that you publ publicly commit to refuse any order or request expressed or implied to interfere in the investigation including but not limited to firing mr. mueller, cutting off funding or resources, limiting staffing or inhibiting his ability to follow
including but not limited to firing mr. mueller, in other words, trying to avoid a saturday night massacre. two other senators, chris coons of delaware, and tom telis of north carolina, co sponsors of a bill to protect mueller s job called on this white house to allow the special council to complete his work without impediment. an interesting conversation we have planned for you tonight. here with us to do that. bob bower, former white house council to president obama, and back with us is phillip rucker. welcome to you gentlemen, and as we say in the business, i ve just been handed some news tonight. this is from the reuters news kags, i need to get you both to react. a little known former prosecutor, with a dock tore it in med evil history will play a central role on donald trump s legal team as many top tier lawyers shy away from representing him.