set something around him that can protect him because he was let down by sessions. so schumer said given his previous comments imposing limitations on the mueller investigation, mr. whitaker should recan you himself from his oversight for the duration of his time as acting attorney general. clearly donald trump has made enough to know that he s not going to have whitaker recuse himself. the whole idea is to get rid of the recuse russia attorney general so there s zero chance. i m not going to say what the chance is but that s the plan. chris sees the godfather. i see the joker in dark knight who had a dark view of people s actual moral courage and said you re only as good as you re allowed to be. and donald trump does have a very dark view of people. so i agree completely with what chris said. he tortured rod rosenstein. he razzled him, he bullied him, and he put him in this car to the white house making him think he was going to be fired. what are you really going to do
the timetable of what they were intending to do. and to that point of money being cut, whitaker was asked about this in july of 2017. i m going to ask my control room if we ve got what he said about possibly cutting bob mueller s budget. all right. he said i think ultimately the president is going to start doing is putting pressure on rod rosenstein, who s in charge of this investigation, is acting attorney general listen, we ve got it. let s play it for you. i think what ultimately the president is going to start doing is putting pressure on rod rosenste rosenstein, who is in charge of this investigation, is acting attorney general, and really try to get rod to maybe even cut the budget of bob mueller and do something a little more stage crafty than the blunt instrument of firing the attorney general and trying to replace him. to know that the guy who is
but he s serious enough about it to make phone calls and scream at people if he s angry. yes. they were trying to break through to him, get the old new york city real estate buddies down to the white house to tell him to take this seriously. he can t just be going on twitter. he can t fire sessions or rod rosenste rosenstein. some of these would be a trip wire that some republicans would say would trigger the talk of impeachment, even outside of democratic circles. that is what i m hear iing. the day of the cohen plea, people were briefed on his mood on the flight and said he was very subdued. he was subdued at the event. yes, we saw that on live television. this was a blow to him. i think a few things shocked donald trump. i think donald trump is an unusual character. he lashes out at these moments that are surprising. then he goes quiet at other
before the worst of watergate happened. now another memo, about 27 years later, reinforced the original argument stating the indictment of a sit iting president called for extraordinary circumstances. that means in theory that rod rosenstein has been asked to go against the official policy and to indict president. that barring something truly earth-shaking is unlikely, but consider this, those memos and guidelines according to the olc website are to provide legal advice to the president and all executive branch agencies. all executive branch agencies. so outside the federal government, there might be another way to do this, like perhaps a state office that has the power to bring an indictment. and an office like a state attorney general. for example, this woman, new york attorney general barbara
information. in a few minutes i think the house of representatives is going to say something different. i don t agree with you congress i don t know why you won t give us what we ve asked for. i certainly hope your colleagues are not under that impression. that is not accurate, sir. it is accurate, we mr. chairman can we allow the witness to answer? let me make this one point. sir statement that i am personally keeping information from you. you re the boss, mr. rosenstein. that s correct. and my job is to make sure we respond to your concerns. we have, sir. my understanding is the production is going very well. but our. point of order, may the witness be permitted. it s not personal. we just want the information. i appreciate your saying it isn t personal. sometimes it feels that way.