Because that way you give it less oxygen to continue the news cycle. I think the other way you might want to talk about this is maybe just knock it down forcefully. Dismiss it out of hand as no merit. As i mentioned, it looks like the white house has decided to do the second option. That is simply ignore this. Dont give this as much oxygen perhaps as it would like to have in the news cycle. Although we did hear this from the president himself. Did you want to fire Robert Muleer . Fake news, folks. Typical New York Times fake stories. Did you ever want to fire Robert Mueller . Reporter there you go. Fake news. For the record, white house sources remind us that if the president wanted to fire bob mueller, he could. He has the right. The white house counsels, they do come and go, for that matter. They also point out he didnt fire mueller. Even if it was a conversation, it never happened so this is a nonstory being drummed up by the times about a conversation that happened seven months ago
Prosecutor . And they probably told him look, you cant fire him because it will be a disaster for you. And the president said hey, no problem. Harris democratic senator jeff merkley says reports that the president wanted mueller gone point to a larger problem in his presidency. It really reflects the fact that the president has been obstructing justice all throughout his first year in office. He took on manipulation of three fbi directors, now he we find t that he ordered his special counsel to fire the special prosecutor. What we see on every information is the president is absolutely panicked over the truth coming out about his collaboration with the russians. Harris lets go to john roberts now, john, you are traveling with the president in davos and this is the topic. Its interesting, the president woke up this morning expecting to do nothing except focus on a couple of bilateral meetings he had, one with the president of rwanda, and another with the president of switzerland and giv
Toobin is here, so who is Daniel Goldman and why is he seen as the right person for hire in this role . He was a decade long prosecutor in the Southern District of new york, the distinguished u. S. Attorneys office here in manhattan and he had a specialty in organized crime but specifically he supervised and tried himself cases involving russian organized crime. So the way the congressional committees are dividing up the investigations is the schiffs Intelligence Committee is really dealing with russia. All of the preelection stuff either dealing with the issue of collusion and the trump tower moscow, thats all under his pursue so you want someone that knows something about russia. That gives us a sense into his play book, obviously. It also is yet another signal that democrats are not waiting for mueller. And yesterday we saw the House Judiciary Committee ask 81 people and entities for both documents and testimony and thats all related to issues since trump became president. Intellige