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were worried about the stability of the department at that point if somebody couldn t step up and do the job. so that bourque has always while he s very conservative and much more conservative than many in the republican party, he s kind of gotten a bad rap over the years. so john, is it worse than i mean, in nixon s case, he had to get someone to get the job done. in trump s case, the white house believes he has the power to fire mueller himself. what do you think? well, i think that s a new theory of executive power that s really come since watergate. it s called the unitary executive theory, that the president has unlimited powers in the executive branch, that he cannot only fire anybody in the justice department, not with standing regulations, he can go over to the s.e.c. and tell them how to decide a case or tell the s.e.c. how to decide a case. it really does it places the president above the law.

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department that is deputy attorney general rosenstein to fire mueller. if rosenstein resigned rather than do it, the next person in line, the associate attorney general that person would then have to decide whether to do. that is the pattern that went on in the saturday night massacre. you had the attorney general elliott richardson refuse to do. and finally the solicitor general did it. basically, the president would have to work his way through the hierarchy in the justice department until he found someone to do it but he couldn t do it directly himself. big picture, how stunning is today. i mean, it is an kpo extraordinary for a number of reasons. today we did see the president s

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fire mueller. the procedure by which he is supposed to do it. and it has to be done by the deputy attorney general. but he could find someone to replace the deputy attorney. to affect chu waet of the firing of mueller it could domino. you have to get rid of rosenstein or get a new attorney general. and again, he was talking badly about the attorney general. he doings it all the time. no shortage of ill comments for a lot of lawyers. related to stormy daniels, how could that agreement that cohen saying he facilitated, how would that lead to those possible charges. i get the campaign finance violations, and that would be

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he is after all the head of a branch of government something happening in his branch that could affect him. and can he just turn around and build this into a case to fire mueller, it is going to be very tough. as i said earlier, i think this is a lot of the southern district s own doing in how this was handled. josh, a lot of this comes back to the president s firing of fbi director comey last may. the president revisited that fire again today going on about how he did the right thing. there was a lot in that statement today the one thing that stood out for me is indicating that he would have actually removed the attorney general had he had known that sessions with sessions was going to recuse himself which is stunning. i am con fluktflicted here, so therefore i am going to remove himself.

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