trump into firing rosenstein? were they trying another maneuver? leading to thinking on the right, left, all over the place. look at the ways some of the hosts on fox news reacted. laura ingraham said trump needs to fire rosenstein today but he did the tweet. maybe she changed her mind. there has been a divide right away among some on fox but by the end of the day, when this story broke, tucker carlson said maybe this was a trap. watch. i have a message for the president tonight. under zero circumstances should the president fire anybody. maybe this is trap. they are trying to trap the president. this may be a political trap for the president. he needs not to fall into a trap. it s a setup they were saying and by saturday night, judge jeanine was throwing this out. is he looking to be fired? is he setting this up? was rosenstein the one
the idea of secretly recording the president and invoking the 25th amendment. advisers to the president are counseling against firing rosenstein. but the article says those close to the president consider the midterm elections to be key. and the message to the president is to wait until november to make any changes at the justice department. my panel is back with me. i want to get to each of you before the hour ends. before i go any further, i do want to make clear that rosenstein called the new york times report inaccurate and factually incorrect. but do you think midterms are the main reason why he still has a job this morning and that he will be out of a job in november? absolutely. i think it would be disastrous for the president to fire him now because i have seen narratives from the democrats that they should be there to be a check on the white house, to be a check against corruption that they believe is coming from republicans who are pretty much
have not denied these comments were made but they have told fox news and other outlets that the comments were made sarcastically. the new york times is standing by their reporting saying the story is based on months of reporting and the doj claimed that rosenstein was sarcastic when he suggested he would wear a wire on trump is not supported by our reporting. the president has not publicly really gone out and talked about this. we know rosenstein adamantly denies the reporting. but some have speculated that this report could be used to justify firing rosenstein the man who oversees the special counsel russia s investigation. a key republican in the house, says if the allegations are true, it would be reasonable for rosenstein to lose his job. congressman nunes chairman of the house intelligence committee, he says rosenstein should not be fired at least for now. the answer i think is no, for now because right now before an election, without knowing all the facts, until you could
if you don t believe in your principal, you need to move on. advisers are advising him against firing rosenstein. do you think the midterm s why he has a job today and he will be fired november 7th? i do think the midterms are why. the president was talking about the stench of corruption, the department of justice and fbi. he used it to rally up be base. i think his advisers are telling him not to fire him at this moment. hopefully because we re in the middle of the investigation, but politically, this helps base especially on the republican side get fired up before the midterms and i think there s a lot of political maneuvering behind it.
bait to g for the president t fire rod rosenstein. but we ve seen the president have highly classified, highly sensitive information about the russian probe, setting up a clash between the department of justice. we ve seen him ordering doj officials to go to the hill and brief them to get a name of a source behind this. so president trump for months now has been trying to establish the case for firing rosenstein. i think what happened here is that whoever was behind this new york times piece, they got ahead of the curve a little bit, not realizing the president couldn t take this action with judge kavanaugh pending before the senate, and i think in advance of the midterms. i think those around the president, those who were advising him know that if he were to follow through with his