ethics and morality. he s caused damage to our political fabric that will be difficult and will require time to repair. close to my heart he has desm besmirched the intelligence community and incited americans to lose faith and confidence in him. i ve known james clapper for a long time in a professional context, interviewed him many times. he s been in the cross fire of a lot of disputes i ve never seen anything quite like. i think people like clapper know that when you work with people like mr. trump and you try to appease them as rod rosenstein is trying to do, it just doesn t work. you can t compromise with a
bully. on sunday rod immediately responded to the president s tweet by giving him a little bit. saying we re going to do that investigation that you wanted to do. again, rod rosenstein has got to know better than that. we started out together as public corruption prosecutors. you just don t get that kind of guidance from the president. that s not how the rule of law works. now we see even if he was trying to kind of tread water to make the president feel okay, it s not working because yesterday the president refused to answer the question about whether he had confidence in his own deputy attorney general. his own appointee. maybe he s laying the ground work to get rid of mr. rosenstein, get rid of mr. sessions. we really need rod rosenstein to do the right thing to uphold the values of the rule of law in our democratic process. it s not going to work if he
week who told me they believe the president is launching a concerted attack against their investigation. an attack against one investigation is not limited to that one probe. this is an attack on the integrity of the people who work at the doj. i was told one common refrain in main justice, the department of justice headquarters in downtown d.c., one thing people say all the time is, this is such a dark time for the fbi. people are really sad and hurting. people even paul butler earlier on this program pointedous yamiche, rod rosenstein by agreeing to this meeting tomorrow has already kind of given up the larger fight? and yet the president has not said publicly, i do still have confidence in rod rosenstein. went out today, talked for probably what s a lot of time today and goes to the roundtable more questions about the doj and refusing to say i actually have confidence these people can do their xrobs we sjobs well. the allies of the president are
he had the idea to put forward those tariffs. it s a bit like a doctor who made you sick who then takes credit for curing you. right now the markets are down just over a hundred. that s not a big deal. that s normal market fluctuation. always keep one eye on the big board. thank you for watching this hour of velshi & ruhle. i ll see you again tomorrow at 9:00 a.m. eastern. right now i hand you off to my friend and colleague, andrea mitchell. right now, taxi driver. could a plea deal by new york city so called taxi king spell trouble for the president s personal lawyer. a possible sign that robert mueller is getting closer to the president s inner circle. do you have confidence in rod
they re absolutely right. asked yesterday if he has confidence in his own deputy attorney general, rod rosenst n rosenstein, the president saying next question. declining to answer. it was a stunning moment because just a day earlier the president directed rod rosenstein to launch an investigation into the informant that had contacted this campaign. there s no evidence that s the case what so ever. we have learned there s going to be a briefing set up by john kelly. republican lawmakers will be briefed by intelligence officials about confidential documents related to a number of things including the informant. there s only going to be republican at the meeting tomorrow.