attorney general. matt mueller, you said yesterday that matt whitaker would need to or would likely be counselled to recuse himself from the russian probe. would chris christie have a similar set of circumstances that would let you to make a similar assessment? i think more black and white in chris christie s case. matt whitaker will be a little gray area based on public statements and the fact he has close association with sam clovis. rod rosenstein is one of those that can tell the ethics officials whether clovis is an important part of this investigation. rod rosenstein may still have a card yet to play. but with chris christie, it would be black and white. under the same doj regulations that caused sessions to have to recuse himself. he had a role on the campaign that was that is now under investigation. it would be just as clear that chris christie would have to recuse himself as well, if he was nominated and eventually confirmed as attorney general. harry litman, chris ch
jake, that s right. officials over here at the justice department were all geared up, ready to go, believing that his departure was imminent. but, of course, it never happened. and then he returned to the justice department yesterday afternoon, carried on with his day as if nothing happened. but, of course, his longer-term status here as the number two in command still very much in limbo. the future of russia probe leader rod rosenstein may still be in peril. with lawmakers now pressing for the justice department s number two to testify on political. the president in new york today trying to redirect attention to the work at the u.n. i m meeting with rod rosenstein on thursday. today i m doing other things. reporter: white house officials caution, rosenstein may not be out of the job, as white house press secretary sarah sanders added to the ambiguity. obviously, the president has been disappointed by a number of actions that have taken place at the department of justice.
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whomever he wants if the person is already senate confirmed. this would be the second senior law enforcement official fired by this president, although it appears rod rosenstein may have walked out on his own before, expecting to be fired. fired by this president with the russia probe, at least as part of the justification, certainly in recent days with this news of rod rosenstein considering the 25th amendment, et cetera, that adds another dimension, but for months and months, the president has attacked rod rosenstein and this president. shimon prokupecz, if i could bring you in, and shan wu, we have you standing by. you talk of a saturday night massacre playing out over time, right? in the nixon administration, that might have taken place on a saturday, but over the course of months, you have a president removing people overseeing an investigation that he, one, is a party to, but two, strongly
anti-u.s. campaign in 2014, long before i announced that i would run for president. the results of the election were not impacted. the trump campaign did nothing wrong. no collusion. david chalian, no surprise, i guess, with that response. certainly no surprise. this panel predicted almost each sentence in that tweet. to the point about this the indictment going back to 2014, the president should make that a point. i think it underline s sara s point that she s been making earlier, it s been such for quite some period of time that it would be good to hear from the president about everything he s doing to prevent that from ever happening again and to take that so seriously. you see why we don t get that in the second half of the tweet. he wants to make sure it s not clouded with him doing anything wrong, or his campaign. i would say while rod rosenstein