it didn t materialize, but it s the willingness to accept it many. i am joined by howard fineman who writes for nbc news and is a friend of the beat. things are changing, heads are swirling. anything else you want to add. let s start with the fact that rob goldstone made an important point. the people receiving the offer and participating and reacting to an offer to conspire. that conspiracy doesn t ever have to happen. and in a way it doesn t have to
read some other drips of it. that could be. and at the end of the day, either rosenstein was rattled and said a few things he didn t follow through on and were entirely speculative. and he knew he couldn t follow through on it. he knew he couldn t follow through on wearing a wiretap either. maybe he was being witty. he didn t do it, he s been deputy attorney general for a year and a half now. i believe almost every outside observe observer who doesn t have an axe to grind believes his conduct has been upstanding. doi think that if what you just said applies, then the times got played? look, it s possible. i think reporters can get
compliment i consider you an old school journalist. i m happy to hear that. but the new school appears to be helping women s testimony and perspective in the fact that the internet has been aplace where people can speak out. and even speak out anonymously, which is part of a first amendment right. and the president said something today that i ll read to you that has got an lot of pushback for women and men on the internet today. . he made this claim. the radical lawyers want the fbi to get involved now. why didn t someone call the fbi 36 years ago? and immediately, there have been reports and pushback and statements and really personal remarks from women and some men around the country saying there s a lot of good reasons why us people don t report things in realtime. we have heard this before. we heard it 26 years ago with anita hill who became a me too movement in 1991. because women then realized that they were suppress iing memorie of this. this would happen to them too. they
investigation? absolutely. he backed up robert mueller s investigation. he s not constrained it. and he s backed it up. and the president has made very clear he doesn t like that investigation. . et he calls it a witch hunt. he s done everything to sabotage it. and if he can get away it and if he thinks he can, he will fire rosenstein in order to sabotage the investigation, which is an essential investigation into the integrity of the elections and our democratic system. and into the president s obstruction of justice. this would be more evidence of an ongoing obstruction of justice. and everything would have to be on the table in january. i want to read to you breaking news via twitter. not to catch you off guard. things are moving quickly. this comes from your colleagues on the house judiciary committee. i intend to subpoena mccabe memos and all other documents that have been requested and not provided and links to this new
that s not going to happen. this amendment was designed for the situation where a president is really incapacitated like woodrow wilson was. stay with me. i want to add to our discussion. bill crystal kept an eye on all these things. you have been in white houses where everyone parses the leaks. and this one is quite interesting. i want to read more from the new york times piece because the new york times has come down on the idea that rosenstein said these things and it meant smog,s no that they are misconstrued quotes. although the article includes his denial. and want i want to read from the article where it says basically rosenstein made remarks about recording trump in meetings and conversations with these officials. several people describe the episodes insisting on anonymousty anonymous