membmemo itself raises doubts about the leadership of the justice department and the fbi. so, it seems quite possible that with this memo, the white house has planted those seeds, those seeds it will later harvest if it decides to move against rod rosenstein who, of course, is the only figure in the department of justice who has oversight and say over where bob mueller goes and what he does with his investigation. the course of democrats critical of this decision has been loud. paul rosenswag i want to read from house democrats a letter they sent to president trump shortly after the release of this document. quote we write to inform you we would consider such an unwarranted action as an attempt to obstruct justice in the russia investigation. firing rod rosenstein, doj leadership or bob mueller could result in a constitutional crisis of the kind not seen since the saturday night massacre. how sound does that seem to you, paul? in terms of politics we may be getting to that point. i
nunes knows what thin rule he has put forward here. if he stood by his memo, he would be pointing to its contents, to its substance, holding it up and saying this is an indictment this is the indictment of law enforcement and the fbi that i have long promised. instead, what he s saying is essentially, no, wait, really, there s more. i promise. and, clearly, i think he is beginning the chorus of doubt, even from republicans is starting to get to him. i think he is trying to buck up support from his troops by promising more, realizing there isn t a whole lot of there there when it comes to this memo. paul rosenswag you ve taken this memo and shave away from it all the political noise surrounding it, trying to answer the question of what it tells us or the importance of that memo r exclusive of the political noise. you wrote about that for politico magazine today. give me a sense of what conclusion you came to when you tried to do that. taken on its substantive