transpired with all of these statements and all these allegations going back to this, and basically a time-out on this inquiry. so he says take a time-out. but we also know that top democrats have made it clear that they believe firing rosenstein would provoke a constitutional crisis. i mean, jennifer, is that where we re at potentially? certainly, if, in fact, rosenstein were fired and if, in fact, there were some way that the mueller investigation were limited, impeded or ended, that absolutely would be a constitutional crisis. and the parallels to watergate are just quite stunning in that situation. jennifer, thank you very much. appreciate that. as always. coming up, increased scrutiny of the caption in brett kavanaugh s high school yearbook and why nine members of georgetown prep football team called themselves ronata alumni. first, last week marked the one year anniversary of hurricane maria s landfall in puerto rico. since the devastation and slow recovery, there s been
going on. we want to have transparency. we want to have openness. i look forward to meeting with rod at that time. here to weigh in, nbc national security only intelligence reporter ken dilanian. jennifer dasco is a law professor at american university. ken, i don t remember seeing it, certainly rare to see the chief of staff actually come out to say good-bye to somebody like that. what s going on? do we know what to expect on thursday? my interpretation was john kelly was trying to tamp down some of the speculation about rod rozenstein and signal that his job is safe because even the president s closest allies like sean hannity on the fox news channel have been saying please don t fire rod rosenstein before the midterms. that s been hannity and kelly know that most americans support the mueller investigation. and firing of rod rozenstein would look like an attempt to obstruct it and that s not good for donald trump. by the way, chris, while contrary to some reporting, pete william