were aa were you aware of the late breaking developments. we rnt certainly weren t given a heads up this warrant would be executed. that took everybody by surprise in congress and clearly within the white house. but i m not surprised that once again the president is contemplating firing rod rosenstein or bob mueller. both of those would be acts of obstruction of justice and to see him float in his tweet and otherwise the idea that he could somehow give a justification for it by pointing to rod rosenstein signing a fisa application or bizarrely claim that because rod rosenstein wrote a memo that the president used as a pretext to fire james comey, that gives him a pretempt to fire rod rosenstein. it is bizarre. plainly either of those actions are designed to interfere with an investigation that may implicate the president. that is obstruction of justice. and if the president goes forward with either one of these firings, he is only making the
our government or those affiliated with the president are engaged in criminal activity. so just to be precise on the issue of shelving or holding a report that robert mueller might may come up with and not letting it go to congress, not letting it be made public for example, your fear is that if rod rosenstein is fired by the president, someone new coming in could do what the president wants and just kill the whole thing and never know what the conclusions are? is that your fear. that is my fear. people need to understand it is not bob mueller s job to tell the country what happens. it is his job to decide who should be prosecuted and who has violated the law. but if the special counsel decides that the president has violated the law, and that it is not appropriate for him to seek an indictment of a sitting president, bob mueller would make a report to rod rosenstein and rod rosenstein would decide what to do with it. is that report made public? is that report provided to congres