strategy to discredit mueller and try to paint him as a democrat as the president like to say. this has been the republican strategy from jump street. it didn t take the president very long to start tweeting about mueller being horribly conflicted and 17 angry democrats. that entire message. what s interesting when it comes to this question of mueller testifying and why this particular reporting is so important, is that if chairman nadler, the house judiciary committee issues a subpoena to order mueller to come in, mueller is going to go to bill barr who even though he doesn t work at doj bill barr is still over him in terms of rank and bill barr says mueller is allowed to testify if he wants to. if bill barr tells mueller i ve changed my mind, you don t want to comply with the subpoena. if they put together some sort of legal analysis and they ve had some creative legal analy s analysis. then we could have an interesting legal back and forth teed up and that s why having
interference in the 016 election. in the order mueller is authorized to conduct an investigation generated by director of the fbi james comey s house intelligence test money. isn t it curious that it was rod rosenstein who wrote the 2017 memo saying jim comey should be fired, saying quote the fbi s reputation and credibility are suffered substantial damage affecting the entire department of justice. rosenstein adding, he doesn t understand comey s refusal to accept the almost universal judgment that he made serious mistakes in the handling of hillary clinton s email investigation. that comey was according to rosenstein, a textbook example of what prosecutors and agents are taught not to do.
interference in the 016 election. in the order mueller is authorized to conduct an investigation generated by director of the fbi james comey s house intelligence test money. isn t it curious that it was rod rosenstein who wrote the 2017 memo saying jim comey should be fired, saying quote the fbi s reputation and credibility are suffered substantial damage affecting the entire department of justice. rosenstein adding, he doesn t understand comey s refusal to accept the almost universal judgment that he made serious mistakes in the handling of hillary clinton s email investigation. that comey was according to rosenstein, a textbook example of what prosecutors and agents are taught not to do.
conversations privately. i m at the white house for most of the day. i have some of these conversations privately, too. i want your take right now on what you hear from the people in and around the president, not just in the west wing but in his orbit about the depth of their concern about what he s doing vis-a-vis the russia investigation right now. hiring a guy who s claiming who spouts off conspiracy theories, some fear that he might be interested in getting rid of rod rosenstein who we ve read that he believes is sort of engaged in mischief as well. what do you hear? well, i think the concern is less that he s actually preparing right now to, you know, order mueller s firing, or fire rosenstein or fire sessions or taking some drastic action and more that he s really trying to push buttons and test the boundaries and see how far he can go with his public statements and what the resistance might look like among the republican leadership on capitol hill and so far there hasn t bee
umpyou haven t asked barack obama barack obama why doesn t president trump say that? why didn t barack obama barack obama he took some steps, he should have done more. i agree with you. i think he regrets that. okay, good. can i ask you about robert mueller? you were in the news recently for this interview you had on pbs last june. you were on pbs with judy woodruff. you mentioned this about robert mueller. let s check let s watch the tape. i think he s considering perhaps terminating the special counsel. i think he s weighing that option. so back then, some white house aides sort of suggested that you were wrong, then it came out recently in the new york times that trump did order mueller fired, by his lawyer threatened to quit, so he backed down. looking back now, have you been proven right? are you happy you were proven right? well, i don t know if i was proven right or wrong. i knew what the information that i was saying on pbs that