cohen s property was raided. and he really lashed out at rod rosenstein. and i think jeff sessions was feeling the reverberations of that and realizing how perilous a situation had come to be. and wanted to intervene. josh dawsey with the washington post. appreciate your reporting. hope that was helpful. absolutely. thank you so much. i want to bring in now evan perez, ryan lizza, and april ryan. goo good evening to all of you. before i ask you your take on this, evan, why do you think we re hearing this now? who is this a message to, do you think? i think the white house certainly wants to try to control some of this out there, because i think they know that there s a lot of concern at the justice department about the fact that the president has been musing about firing not only od rosenstein and jeff sessions, but also just trying to figure out ato control, as josh was jut saying, exactly what s happening with all of these investigations. this is one of those bye, phylicia
phylicia moments, where you ve got to think that if the attorney general is literally thinking that he can threaten to resign if he gets rid of rod rosenstein, you ve got to think, the president is going to be like, what, really? it s going to be that easy to get rid of all of these people? he s been talking about getting rid of not only rod rosenstein, but talking about firing jeff sessions and getting rid of both at the same time. obviously, people around him keep telling him, that s not a good idea. it makes you scratch your head and think, what s going on here? yeah, that bye, felicia, i can t believe you said that. i know, it s friday, right? tgif. that would sort of outweigh the saturday night massacre that happened under nixon. but i want to get your take on this reporting. we saw jeff sessions dine with rod rosenstein back in february. the solicitor general was there, too. is this like the latest sign all of this the latest sign of solidarity, do you think? yeah, i do t