republicans are telling the president look, maybe at some point rosenstein has to go, at least from their perspective, but to do it before the election, to do it at this heightened stage of special counsel mueller s investigation would be dicey for the president. on one hand, the president will say rosenstein is not conducting things based on this reporting, he can twist it to say look, he is not doing this in a fair and balanced manner. on the other hand, it may make the president look guilty or look like he is trying to hide something if at this critical stage he gets rid of rosenstein who ultimately is who will receive any report from special counsel mueller. and james, we know the president has been openly critical of rosenstein, of his ag, sessions, of the entire department of justice, and then last night president trump appeared to allude to the report about rosenstein at a rally in
you are kind of tied to their narrative and the independent public cannot check the narrative of the sources you re using. it s a tricky journalism ethics 101 thing, which would be a real issue if the overarching story wasn t that the president is crazy and probably should be removed because he s unfit for law. in a normal timeline this is a really good example of like why people go to journalism school and what they think about. but we can t really get to that point because overall, we re in a situation where this is not rosenstein even if he didn t think it, we know from the other anonymous source thing that the times did with mr. deep pen, that the 25th amendment seems to be coming up with shocking regularity within the trump white house. rosenstein sathey had a hash we do have a governmental institution that has been torn apart by politics and that really is coming up in all of
whose former friend ousted producer bill shine is running communications inside the white house. you cannot make this up. no hollywood studio would buy your script because they would think it s a lie. a piece by the new york times about deputy attorney general rod rosenstein, the times reports after trump fired james comey, rosenstein suggested that he secretly record the president omarosa style inside the white house and he also discussed with cabinet members to invoke the 25th amendment to remove mr. trump from office for being unfit. the times cited people briefed on the events themselves or on memos written by fbi officials, not anyone who was in the room. but nbc news reports that among those who were in the room with rosenstein when he made his comments about the wire, there s disagreements about whether his comments were sarcastic or serious and whether he brought up the 25th amendment at all. rosenstein has issued not one
oval office, russian journalists, excludes american journalists, and then reveals confidential information. at the same time rosenstein is vexed because the president has had him make this memo about firing comey without telling him the real reason why. finally, when the times asked rosenstein, did this actually happen, did you say that we need to invoke the 25th amendment in order to get rid of president trump, rosenstein has this weird nondenial denial. he says, well, i just saw the president a couple days ago and he looked okay to me then. here s one of his dis putts, rod rosenstein, from the new york times is inaccurate and i will not further comment on a story based on anonymous stories who are obviously bias against the department in advancing their own personal agenda. let me be clear based on my personal dealings with the president there is no basis to
invoke the 25th amendment. is, right. not at this moment. if you wanted to read the new york times piece and the sourcing of it as an attempt really to go after rod rosenstein, part of this piece where the idea of sort of baker act, for lack of a better term, the president with the 25th amendment wept nowhere, but according to the new york times the people who heard him saying this more than one time called mr. rosenstein s comments an example of how erratically he was behaving while he was taking part in the interviews for replacing the fbi director considering the appointment of a special counsel and otherwise running the day-to-day operations of the justice department. sounds like whoever is retelling the story is not just saying that trump s behavior was erratic, but is going after rosenstein. this is the problem with anonymous sources. i use anonymous sources, there are stories you can only get out via anonymous sources, but your problem with that is that now