president from seeking to fire robert mueller if he wants to. he tried in the past, and he was stopped only because people didn t follow his orders. so if he directs attorney general rod rosenstein to do so, rod rosenstein has a decision to make, either he ll step down or we ll see another saturday night massacre situation, but that s all in the hands of the president to initiate. charlie, what do you think the likelihood is that donald trump sits down for a face-to-face with bob mueller? dramatically less than it was 24 hours ago. this has become very, very personal. he perceives this as a it was never really like i think his lawyers would have set th themselves on fire before they would let him be in that situation, now it becomes
to do? are we heading to a saturday night massacre situation, or will we see the mueller report and respond as a democracy is supposed to do? i don t think it s in mueller s interest or intent to stretch it out. one thing about that, about the attack on mueller, the president made clear he doesn t want to fire him, but make no mistake, they are following the clinton playbook on discrediting mueller, which is how they d like it to play off. in a year of incendiary talk, charlottesville and what happened in charlottesville and the protests in charlottesville stood out. listen to this. we condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry, and violence on many sides. on many sides. it was the on many sides. it was just repugnant, a
parts, what we re looking for is who is the next defendant to draw the scrutiny and focus, it really seems to be jared kushner. there seems to be a lot of focus and questions about mr. kushner s conduct, his meetings during the transition, and a lot of speculation right now about his fate. so that s really what we re looking for, but back to what donald trump could do about robert mueller, you know, as we know, he can actually fire him, rod rosen stein would have to follow him. we could be looking at a saturday night massacre situation, if trump tried to make that happen, and rosen stein didn t want to do it, and resigned. would he put an acting person. there are some standards in place, and there s a justice department set of rules that say mueller can only be fired for good cause, not just for any reason, brian? good cause is usually a high bar, a high standard, especially among legal types. jill wine-banks, we have noticed
really seems to be jared kushner. there seems to be a lot of focus and questions about mr. kushner s conduct, his meetings during the transition, and a lot of speculation right now about his fate. so that s really what we re looking for, but back to what donald trump could do about robert mueller, you know, as we know, he can actually fire him, rod rosen stein would have to follow him. we could be looking at a saturday night massacre situation, if trump tried to make that happen, and rosen stein didn t want to do it, and resigned. would he put an acting person. there are some standards in place, and there s a justice department set of rules that say mueller can only be fired for good cause, not just for any reason, brian? good cause is usually a high bar, a high standard, especially among legal types. jill wine-banks, we have noticed that mr. mueller doesn t put out a lot of press releases. in fact, i can t remember the last mueller press release, but
and questions about mr. kushner s conduct, his meetings during the transition, and a lot of speculation right now about his fate. so that s really what we re looking for, but back to what donald trump could do about robert mueller, you know, as we know, he can actually fire him, rod rosenstein would have to fire him. we could be looking at a saturday night massacre situation, if trump tried to make that happen and rosenstein didn t want to do it and resigned. it would be the next person up. there are some standards in place, and there s a justice department set of rules that say mueller can only be fired for good cause, for misconduct, for conflict of interest, not just for any reason, brian. good cause is usually a high bar, a high standard, especially among legal types. jill wine-banks, we have noticed that mr. mueller doesn t put out a lot of press releases. in fact, i can t remember the last mueller press release, but if they did, maybe they would say, hey, we had this meeting