it is good to be back. reaction so far has been swift as you might think it to be, with republicans and democrats alike insisting this would be a very bad move for the president. you heard some of that in the open to the segment. democrats i think are going to be increasing the pressure along with some republicans to try to get mitch mcconnell to move forward with some legislation to protect bob mueller. but really what this is going to come down to immediately is that there s supposed to be a dinner at the white house this evening with mcconnell, paul ryan, speaker of the house and other top republicans with trump, and i think that may be really what we re waiting for now. you bring up the idea of legislation that would protect the firing of robert mueller or protect the president from being able to fire robert mueller.
intimidated your client? i think we re close. we learned during the raid of michael cohen s office, investigators were not only looking for information on the $130,000 payment to keep stormy daniels silent, also 150 pay off to former playboy model you see here, karen macdougal made by publisher of the national enquirer. she claims she had a yearlong affair with donald trump shortly after the birth of his youngest son in 2006. thanks for joining us. a busy morning already. as we have been talking about and covering, president trump is furious about special counsel bob mueller and his raid of michael cohen s office and residence and hotel room. what has been the reaction so far on capitol hill to talk the trump possibly firing mueller?
yes. have you or anyone at facebook been interviewed by special counsel s office? yes. have you been interviewed? i have not. i want to make sure you have been contacted, you have had subpoenas. actually, let me clarify that, i am actually not aware of a subpoena. i believe there may be, i know we re working with them. would you be comfortable sharing the name of the hotel you stayed in last night? no. if you messaged anybody this week, would you share with us names of people you messaged? senator, no. i would probably not choose to do that publicly here. i think that might be what this is all about. your right to privacy. the limits of your right to privacy. and how much you give away in modern america in the name of, quote, connecting people around the world. as we said, he will be back
nbc news correspondent kristin well ter has more. reporter: the white house says president trump has the authority to fire mueller. he has the power to do so. reporter: that seems to contradict justice department regulations that give rod rosenstein the authority to fire mueller. we have been advise the td t president has power to do so. he believes mueller crossed a line when they raided offices and residence of michael cohen, the case referred by mueller. rosenstein signing off on search warrants, saying they re interested in payments to two women who say they were paid off to stay silent about alleged affairs with president trump. stormy daniels and karen macdougal. those payments could lead to election fraud or bank fraud charges. the white house denies both women s accusations.
as we reported, he did that without one single substantive policy discussion. not one, they didn t sit down and discuss the pros and cons, they just threatened $100 billion. just came up with it i hear you that you re saying he s past the breaking point when it comes to bob mueller. that s what people in there are worried about. that the raid on michael cohen s office, his personal attorney, did cross that red line that he drew in the interview with the new york times last year and now they re genuinely worried that he s going to fire rod rosenstein and bob mueller. they haven t seen him as angry as he was the other day. you bring up the subject of tariffs, there s a lot of senators that are worried about the major tariffs, how it s going to affect their farmer constituents. mitch mcconnell giving advice to fellow republicans worried about some of the tariffs, what s he telling them? on axios a.m. this morning we re going to take you inside the room yesterday at the senate re