Assert themselves. Well, and here we are. Guys, i dont even know where to begin. That is all we have for mtp daily tonight. In the midst of the Breaking News, the house is voting right now on the key vote that will apparently tell us more about whether there is a shut down coming and we have this National Security imploegsion. And our Breaking News continues with ari melber. I dont know if i dont know if Breaking News is enough to describe everything that is happening right now, but the Trump White House might be unraveling. I heard you say nightmare and unraveling. We have the language here, bry let you go, of general mattis say you have the right to have a Secretary Of Defense that whose views are better aligned with yours. Where do we go from here . And if you believe jeremy bash who said the president that secretary matt is was never going to resign and the president would have to fire him. So it is some form of resignation or protest or firing, but either way, major and one of the
he has put out word today this is also news today, he s going to oversee the mueller probe himself. his justice department saying there s no reason for him to recuse like jeff sessions but then swiftly today a scandal reports that it s only happening because whit taker s advisor rejected the formal counsel. we were just discussing how the senate will deal with this. tonight washington has been pouring over a secret memo that this man wrote to the trump administration outlining arguments against mueller s obstruction inquiry. what that means is we now know something we didn t know yesterday. the man trump picked to be mueller s boss was also privately serving as something like mueller s opposing counsel. he was arguing that his approach w was, quote, fatally miss conceived. bar was writing based on public information which means the kind of stuff you or i might know.
at the justice department that are trying to hang on to their jobs in the meantime. we have the deputy attorney general mueller s boss, rod rosenstein, expected to appear on capitol hill, and expected to face tough questions about secretly recording the president in the wake of the firing of james comey. he denies every pursuing that, but it could complicate his already delicate situation with the president. round 100. great to see you, laura. thanks so much. paul manafort is back in court this afternoon, this time in a prison jumpsuit, after being convicted on tax fraud and banking crimes. his lawyers will be in court to discussion his sentencing. we re outside the courthouse. kara, what are we expecting to see happen today? kate, about 90 minutes from
rosenstein proponents and friends of the president say this is an inopportune time to do anything with rod rosenstein. the studying and even if there is nothing nepharious, delaying this for weeks and months now that carries it into a new year with the possibility of democrats taking the house and possibly the senate. what happens to robert mueller with something already in the stream or something he wants to do and francisco said you know what, i disagree and i don t like that and that s upon beyond perview. he would be mueller s boss. he has an obligation to report back to the new acting attorney general and it could really be a big problem. i think, you know, what s complicating this above all, i think is this new york times report which we started out with earlier in the week that rod rosenstein had suggested invo invoking the 25th amendment to
rod rosenstein, who would go on to be mueller s boss. well, he was looking at rosenstein from the very beginning back when he was just a nominee for deputy attorney general. memos show that trump was asking comey about how republicans were holding up rosenstein s nomination. the memos also depict trump as very curious about barack obama s two attorneys general, eric holder and loretta lynch, asking comey to even compare the two. the comey/lynch relationship generates questions to this day. it seems to me like with loretta lynch, you worried very much about what misinformed people were going to say about her, that there was no true reason to have concerns about loretta lynch s integrity with that investigation, but misinformed people would get the wrong idea, and you took action to account for that rather than the truth. well, maybe in a slight sense. that was one of the bricks in the load that led me to believe that if i do the announcement next to loretta, it won t have