the white house, this direct warning from the top democrat on intelligence, don t do this thing. don t fire mueller? reporter: right, especially given how vocal senator warner was about it and how public he was about it. here s the deal. right? there are folks i know who are close to the president, folks who are talking a lot with his white house who know what a bad idea it would be for the president to actually do this, to go through and set a directive or figure out a way to get bob mueller off the job. there is a real understanding of the political fallout that that would that that would have, right? there s an understanding of what would happen over on the hill just down pennsylvania avenue with members of the president s own party. so there are those forces that are acting almost as a brake in this instance. you point out rightly that the president has said repeatedly now that he does has no plans to fire bob mueller, isn t considering firing the special counsel, but as you
juries and subpoenas looking into his financial dealings over the years long before he even started considering running for president of the united states. no doubt about it. so, there is this question, is this going to be the red line for donald trump. he suggested in his interview a few weeks ago with the new york times that this would be a line if robert mueller were to cross it for donald trump. now, he wouldn t say at that time whether that meant firing mueller potentially, and jay sekulow, the president s lawyer, one of his legal team dealing with this case, said in an interview this week that it doesn t mean he s going to, and in fact, the president isn t considering firing robert mueller, at least not right now. but clearly there is some concern on capitol hill that that s exactly where this could be headed because you now have two bipartisan proposals trying to create a layer of protection for robert mueller from the president. so, clearly that s a big concern in washingto