you can sense a tension as we get more activity out of the special counsel s office, tension in the white house. the president s rhetoric on the investigation puts folks like christopher wray in a tough spot. he has tons of thousands of agents that he s responsible for that don t see it as a witch hunt. the president he can t really publicly sharply disagree with the president eernl because the president can fire him. there you saw him trying to walk the line without repudiating the president and saying here s what i think the facts are, right? when the president s messaging exercise on this probe is actually pretty successful. he has lots of people convinced it is a witch hunt. you ve seen a profl numbers go down for robert mueller s probe and some of the charges not true about this investigation, and then you have folks who are playing it out, rod roysenstein chris mueller, because when he s president of the united states, he tweets these sorts of things, it s hard to go against
was said to them, what their impression was and what the president s intent was. the interesting twist here is rod roysenstein becomes a potential fact witness while he s overseeing the investigation of obstruction. so, this becomes very, very complicated. my gut tells me that rosenstein s trying to do the right thing. he is literally between the proverbial rock and hard place. i think he s trying to eke out the end of the special counsel investigation, keep it alive, and trying to keep lots of people happy at the same time. but this is an interesting twist today, nicolle, and wloehether not rosenstein took russia out of the firing reasons for comey because he thought trump would get in trouble or whether he truly believed there was other valid reason to fire comey, we don t know yet. fil phil rucker, i want your