the special counsel s officer, the legal team at the white house learned more and more about what bob mueller has. i think that s one the day to convince the president to not respond to questions regarding obstruction. to stick to his guns about only written responses. he does this at his own peril. i find it mildly amusing the president announced we are finished. it doesn t matter if the president thinks we re finished. it matters if bob mueller thinks they re finished. mob mueller s not finished. if you refuse to answer questions about obstruction, you re refusing to simply state i didn t intend to obstruct. if you can t say i didn t intend to, you re losing a softball question. he does this at his own peril. announcing he s finished is at his own peril.
reciprocal events are costing yours. and what president trump has done, ailelienated our closest allies in japan, china and the world. that s going to hurt our workers and frankly won t lead other countries to be calling president trump. they re going to call each other to make deals around us. that s ultimately very bad for americans. ben rhodes. we covered a lot of ground today, my friend. thank you for joining us. appreciate it. reporter: thanks, kristen. house republicans engaged in a war of words with rod rosenstein during an explosive judiciary hearing on thursday, but the deputy attorney general proved he could handle the barrage of attacks and defended the autonomy of special counsel robert mueller s investigation. look. donald trump, our president, tweeted, when is bob mueller going to list his conflicts of interest? mr. rosenstein, does mob mueller
poorly. so you asked that question, that line of questioning of president clinton. has bob hmueller been taken out of the prospect of questioning trum trump himself because of the revelation that trump did give an order to fire mueller? oh, not at all. i would expect that mueller will be there. unlike ken starr, mueller who really had very little involvement in the actual questioning, he asked some questions related to constitutional issues, but mob mueller has spent his whole life in law enforcement and prosecution and with the fbi. so he is certainly capable ofmo life in law enforcement and prosecution and with the fbi. so he is certainly capable of participating substantively 37 but i think the bulk of the questioning will be handled by his top lieutenants. but i don t think this would prohibit him at all from asking questions. greg, if you were representing this president in anticipation of some kind of an
out what happened. they re not just in the united states. they re everywhere that we are at war. they are going to war in the same way that are troops do and i think that it s ridiculous that these so-called conservative news outlets are denigrating people who are putting their lives at risk for our country. in afghanistan, iraq, across the globe. every day their sons and daughters don t know whether they re going to come home at night. they do it to protect us. they ve done it to protect us. bob mueller has done it to protect us. you have problems with mob mueller, that s fine. don t say he s launching a coup on the united states of america. don t compare him to the kgb. don t inspire hatred that will lead to the killings of americans. i want to make sure we post this entire conversation online. this will be the most important conversation probably so far