acquiescence to republicans saying this is the only way out of the national emergency. i said cold and dark. cold and dark plis, maace. ma matt miller joins me. we know, most people know this shutdown was stupid. they were ready to pass a bill and send it to his desk right before the end of the year that would have solved this entire problem, funded the government going forward. there s another way out for them. they can pass legislation in the senate the house democrats are passing, override the president s veto and move on but they re acquiescing to him in this kind of political death wish he has for nothing other than party loyalty. it is, i think, every bit as dangerous as john makes it out to be. the party loyalty, the party is dead, it s trump loyalty. when we come back, is he the human guardrail of the mueller investigation. today a deeply concerning breaking news about rod rosenstein s future. plus, if it looks like collusion and talks like collusion and acts like collusi
edge working to preserve the integrity of the investigations into russian collusion by the special counsel and those out of the southern district of new york over the nearly daily complaints and harassment from this president. his departure was feared in september. the new york times reported he offered to wear a wire to record the president and discuss rallying support among the president s cabinet for invoking the 25th amendment. joining us now, the former director of counterintelligence and jeremy bash, matt miller and everyone at the table are still here. let me start with you, frank, your thoughts. i don t like it, nicolle. i tried and tried again to go through the options why rod would be announcing it this way. we ve all heard the options. he feels he s very confident about this case being almost wrapped up. i don t buy that because the case what case is wrapped up? the kaz that s going to have to be filed in a report that s going to go to who?
for the members of the senate judiciary committee, particularly democrats there, to ensure the attorney general nominee, mr. barr, is resolutely committed to preserving the integrity of the special counsel investigation. if barr indicates in any way a bias, like the bias he s shown in his writings saying basically i don t think the president can be held for obstruction of justice to fire the fbi director to shut down an investigation into his own national security violations, if are b.bar articu those concerns, obviously, rosenstein would have to stay in place. matt miller, rod rosenstein in his office oversee the mueller problem. they know everything. probably not everything but they know more than anybody else outside of mueller s investigators and prosecutors. they ve also been on the receiving end, that s the office that interfaces with the white house counsel s office. as a witness, what does rod rosenstein know? he knows every bit of pressure the president has put on him, eve
around donald trump to include financial inpropriety, finance violations, deputy chairman, national security adviser, we can cgo down the list. both the special counsel s effort as well as u.s. attorney in new york, you will see quite a bit of aggressive oversight and criminal prosecution of the president s circle. and that s i think a testament to rod rosenstein s independence and hopefully that s a legacy that will continue even after his departure. high bar for his successor. we re losing matt miller. matt miller, thank you so much for spending so much of the hour with us. when we come back, it sure looks like robert mueller s case took a big step towards proving collusion. new details about what paul manafort was allegedly up to during the campaign. ng the camp. searching for a way to help stop your cold sore?
in addition the entire riff about drugs, which is not true, the majority of the drugs come through legal ports of entry. there s no proof the state department said the terrorist groups have tried to bring people in through mexico. all of this happening, as you said, on the backs of people who are nonviolent, law-abiding, productive members of this society. for those of us who come from immigrant communities, we recognize that there is a real day-to-day price that is paid by people for those lies. matt miller, i want to bring you in on some of the big lies and ask you to pick up on this thread. i mentioned yesterday in the show to a former senior intelligence official who says it was his job to know where all of the terrorists well, all of the cells and actual of the terrorists. there were none on the southern border. today there were stories in the paper about how the counterterror folks, the experts, we are basically corroborating that. last night s address emphasized drugs. drugs a