Disciplined or removed from office only by the personal action of the Attorney General. But according to the white house, the president has been advised he, he can terminate Robert Mueller all by himself. Does he believe he has the power to fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller . Certainly believes he has the power to do so. Most legal experts believe he would have to order Deputy Attorney general rosenstein to fire mueller and corefuse. I know a number of individuals in the Legal Community and including at the department of justice said he has the power to do so but i dont have any further announcements. They told me, ive asked. They said its rosenstein oversees is the Special Counsel and only he has the power to fire the Special Counsel. Again, weve been advised that the president certainly has the power to make that decision. I cant go anything beyond that. Weve been advised the president certainly has the power to make the decision. To be clear, the warrants that were executed agains
disciplined or removed from office only by the personal action of the attorney general. but according to the white house, the president has been advised he, he can terminate robert mueller all by himself. . does he believe he has the power to fire special counsel robert mueller? certainly believes he has the power to do so. most legal experts believe he would have to order deputy attorney general rosenstein to fire mueller and corefuse. i know a number of individuals in the legal community and including at the department of justice said he has the power to do so but i don t have any further announcements. they told me, i ve asked. they said it s rosenstein oversees is the special counsel and only he has the power to fire the special counsel. again, we ve been advised that the president certainly has the power to make that decision. i can t go anything beyond that. we ve been advised the president certainly has the power to make the decision. to be clear, the warrants that
you could say it was right after the won the nomination it started. that it s a disgrace. it s frankly a real disgrace. it s an attack on our country in a true sense. it s an attack on what we all stand for. do you think the raid was an attack on our country? absolutely not. what this president doesn t seem to understand is that there is no one that is above the law including the president of the united states. i would remind the president that mr. rosenstein who is his deputy attorney general long-term republican, mr. wray, the fbi director, a trump appointee, throughout this whole investigation, mr. mueller, a lifelong republican somehow the notion that it is being caused by political purposes, it is being caused because there are serious questions that need to be answered about trump campaign and affiliates, affiliation or collusion with russians and i think this investigation has to finish. i believe our senate
attorney general rosenstein. nobody asked. the president just brought him up. that was no coincidence. according to the new york times reporting the president s tirade last night copied in private at the white house as he fumed whether he should fire rosenstein before the times broke the news today it was rosenstein himself who was the one who personally signed off on the decision to raid cohen s office. mike the schmidt is one of the reporter who s broke that story as well as tonight s breaking news the president sought to fire mueller a second time in december. michael, i m trying to get a clearer sense of what exactly happened in december as your reporting indicates? into there were several reports at the time that a there was a mueller subpoena that had been sent to deutsche bank for records directly related to trump. now, if you remember, trump talked last summer about a so-called red line, an area that he said mueller should not be looking at. that s finances outside of russi
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. and what his attitude would be if he was told to go fire