efforts to stymie and interfere with the mueller investigation. and of course, that includes the comey firing. so for them to be setting the parameters for how and when they re going to have a chat with mueller is inappropriate. how significant is it, senator, that this close business associate of michael cohen in new york, the so-called taxi king freedman is now pleading guilty and now will cooperate with state and federal investigations? i think there will be more shoes to drop. and as we learn more on a daily basis that this whole investigation, and of course, michael cohen is one part of it. but let s get back to how important the mueller investigation is, and the fact that mitch mcconnell refuses to bring to the floor a bipartisan bill that came out of the judiciary committee that would protect special counsel from firing. that includes the special counsel mueller as well as any other future counsels.
sides that impeachment is on peoples minds. you had one of these foreign press agencies that you just showed a clip from, he s the teflon president. nothing sticks to him. nothing except a lot of indictments that we ve seen all this time. it s not partisan to talk about impeachment at this point. we re talking about criminal behavior for which there are indictments. that s what the mueller investigation is impeachment might be good for this country no matter what your partisan politics. all right. great to have both of you with us. appreciate your incites. still ahead, with a looming deadline for the iran nuclear deal, some new threats of what will happen if donald trump decides to rip it up. to my dad. i text in full sentences. i refer to every child as chief. this hat was free. what am i supposed to do, not wear it? next thing you know, i m telling strangers defense wins championships. -well, it does. -right? why is the door open? are we trying to air condition the whole n
giuliani then went on a rambling interview calling the mueller investigation a witch hunt, a perjury trap, using all of donald trump s own language about it. saying that the president could be trapped. not saying that the only way a perjury trap can work is if the president decides to commit the crime of perjury. giuliani also attacked what he called his old friend, attorney general jeff sessions and he attacked deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. everything rudy giuliani said tonight suggests that he will advise the president not to submit to an interview with robert mueller because the mueller investigation is, as giuliani calls it tonight, unfair and a witch hunt. and sean hannity kept that interview going longer than was safe for rudy giuliani. rudy giuliani then wandered into what i ve already referred to as these explosive revelations about the stormy daniels case,
this to happen at some point but now tonight it has. and i m cure i don t see as y c curious as to why it has tonight. nine democrats wrote to protect asked for the same kind of commitment to protect those in the mueller investigation did to protect the watergate matter back in 1973. the person at the justice department who oversees the mueller investigation is, of course, rod rosenstein. he s made this kind of public commitment. if you were ordered today to fire mr. mueller, what would you do? as i ve explained previously, i would follow the regulation. if there were good cause, i would act, if there were no good cause, i would not. if there were no good cause, i would not act. i would not follow that order.
so because we have that history, i think we should have expected this to happen at some point but tonight it hasn t. nine democrats wrote to protect the prosecutor back in 1973. the person at the justice department who oversees the mueller investigation is, of course, rod rosenstein. he s made this kind of public commitmen commitment. if you were ordered today to fire mr. mueller, what would you do? i would follow the regulation. if there were good cause, i would act, if there were no good cause, i would not. if there were no good cause, i would not act.