during the midterm elections. so now he can say, i didn t fire mueller. i didn t touch mueller. i also didn t touch rod rosenstein. i have no issue with him following the new york times revelation that maybe the 25th amendment being talked about or him wearing a wire. i m just going to replace the person who made it possible that rod rosenstein would have his position and mueller would have oversight by that person. and so by putting matthew whitaker in the position, which by the way is not in line of succession. it would naturally go to the deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein, then to a solicitor general. the chief of staff or the a.g. is not the person who is supposed to be in line. so one has to first wonder by what authority he s going to put him there. but the president s already told us he s temporary. he ll have a more permanent placement put there in the long run. so i m wondering if in many ways this is the president s attempt to gain information about the investigation.
i also didn t touch rod rosenstein. i have no issue with him following the new york times revelation that maybe the 25th amendment being talked about or him wearing a wire. i m just going to replace the person who made it possible that rod rosenstein would have his position and mueller would have oversight by that person. and so by putting mathew whitaker in the position, which by the way is not in line of succession. it would naturally go to the deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein, then to a solicitor general. the chief of staff or the a.g. is not the person who is supposed to be in line. so one has to first wonder by what authority he s going to put him there. but the president s already told us he s temporary. he ll have a more permanent placement put there in the long run. so i m wondering if in many ways this is the president s attempt to gain information about the investigation. so once he s downloaded everything and debriefed from robert mueller and then he walks away to h