will you pledge, pledge, that you will not shut down the mueller investigation? i don t pledge anything. but i will tell you, i have no intention of doing that. i think it s a very unfair investigation because there was no collusion of any kind. but you won t pledge? i don t want to pledge. why should i pledge to you? if i pledge, i ll pledge, why should i pledge to you? but i have no intention of doing it. president trump saying he has no intention of shutting mueller down, at least for now. and today the co-author of the new book impeachment in american history. more on that in a moment. i want to throw down on that incredible interview by lesley stahl. but here on mueller, you know, and he s basically saying i m not going to talk about that,
forcing rod rosenstein out of office by meext, that s the one way republicans could end the mueller investigation. removing rod rosenstein would allow him to be replaced with somebody who would shut mueller down. it is a matter of timing. again, this is what they re saying behind closed doors. not in public. if this is the way they re manning to sequence their actions, this raises the possibility that congressional republicans know that could it represent a constitutional confrontation if not a crisis if the plan is to make sure that brett kavanaugh is on the supreme court when that happens for just such an occasion. well, that changes the meaning of the kavanaugh confirmation. right? that raises the stakes even further. it sort of changes them as to when and whether cavanagh will be confirmed.
direct way that republicans in congress could end the mueller investigation because removing rosenstein would allow him to be replaced with somebody who would shut mueller down. it s a matter of timing. again, this is what they re saying behind closed doors, not in public. if this is the way they re planning to sequence their actions this raises the possibility that congressional republicans know that are moving to end the mueller investigation by impeaching rod rosenstein, that could precipitate some kind of constitutional confrontation if not a constitutional crisis if their plan is to make sure that brett kavanaugh is on the supreme court when that happens for just such an occasion, well, that changes meaning of the kavanaugh confirmation. that raises the stakes even further and sort of changes them as to when and whether kavanaugh will be confirmed. i want to tell you we reached out to paul ryan about this news particularly because he has said that republicans in congress
dossier, ceiling records to get mueller appointed, the partnership of the prosecutors he has, and the justice department should protect president trump from this continued harassment and to shut mueller down. no other prosecutor would be allowed to harass the president with questions about issues that he can t be indicted on, this is crazy. janine: it so tom is right, the doj should protect the president and they are obviously not doing that. so the president should not sit down with mueller. what benefit does he get? from his standpoint, he feels like he is innocent and unfairly persecuted. he says i didn t talk to anyone, i didn t collude and if anyone in my campaign data, i didn t know about it. i represented a few innocent people and they wanted to scream
to get mueller appointed, the partisanship of the prosecutors that he has. and for what, is the president going to be questioned, the justice department should protect president trump from this continued harassmentt and shut mueller down. the prosecutor will be allowed to harass the president with questions about issues that he cannot be indicted on. this is crazy. judge jeanine: all right, gregg, so tom is right that the doj should protect the president. they are obviously doing that, okay, so the president should not sit down with mueller. what benefit does he get? from his standpoint, he feels like he is innocent and unfairly persecuted prayed he would tell you, i don t know any russians, i did not talk to anybody. i did not collude, if anybodyf did, i did not know about it. i represented a few innocent people that wanted to scream