tomorrow. i don t think there is a need for legislation right now to protect mueller. right now there is not an issue. why create one when there isn t a place for it? and the other question, brianna, where does the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell stand on this? before he s thrown cold water on this legislation, we have not heard from him since the reports last week of mueller, the president seeking to fire wanting to fire mueller last june. we ll see what he has to say this week when he s asked about this legislation now going forward. manu raju on the hill, thank you. we re also learning that president trump might be itching to fire the man who oversees mueller. that would be deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. i want to go to cnn s kaitlan collins at the white house. what are you hearing? reporter: let me give you the state of play here. this memo according to new new york times reporting specifically names the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein as the pe
from these issues. he, according to the new york times, is in the cross is hairs in this memo that you want released. i know you cannot comment on exactly what is in the memo, i wonder, though, do you have concerns that rosenstein has abused his power? i certainly wish i could discuss what was in the memo, why it is important to get it released. but i cannot do that. anyone who has and signed the same agreement that i did is committing a felony. and that is wrong. which is what leads to false speculation in many cases to where somehow now there is a distraction that the president wants it fire rod rosenstein. these distractions are keeping us from actually moving into some good bipartisan issues. not commenting on what s in the memo, do you worry that federal officials have abused their power? i worry that i worry that federal officials always abuse their power, which is why we have to have transparency. at all levels. not only at doj, we have to have
all right, we re getting a little preview from the president himself on what he s going to say tomorrow night in his state of the union address. maybe not terribly surprising, right, but he just talked about clearly he s going to be touting the economy, he ll be talking about immigration and bipartisanship on immigration. we ll see how that message manifests itself tomorrow night and he ll be talking about trade. all right, so just days ahead now, just ahead of this first state of the union address, president trump took some time to target an african-american entertainer over unemployment numbers. on the debut of cnn s the van jones show, rapper jay-z was on and he discussed personal and political issues. this included whether the drop in the african-american unemployment rate makes president trump a good leader. no. because it is not about money at
causes. does he need to go? he does. he needs to go. do you think he ll go? i hope so. if i could do anything to help him go, i m more than happy to do that. do you think looking at how he responded to these reports buzzfeed report, great report by ruby cramer, great report in the new york times, do you think looking special, he did speak to ruby in that report, do you think he gets it? not at all. he attributed his behavior to him being religious and to him being from the south. that is just, as i tweeted, out freaking rageous. it is enraging to me. i know plenty of religious people and plenty of people from the south and they don t treat women that way. thank you for talking to us. we appreciate it. we re keeping an eye right now on the white house. president trump is expected to join the swearing in ceremony for his new hhs secretary at any moment. stay with us.
transparency in the house. i led a reform effort a year and a half ago that actually now every single dollar that is spent by the house of representatives is searchable and sortable. that information, that transparency is not in the u.s. senate, it is not in the executive branch at doj, it is frankly not even at the supreme court level and it should be. that s why transparency matters rather than distractions that chairman nadler and chairman schiff are trying to throw out there right now. do you think the president needs to address the russia investigation when he gives his state of the union address tomorrow night? i think the american people want the president to address bipartisanship. we were talking before i got on the air, the last time you and i were together was here at st statuary hall, and i stand by what i said there that day. we have got to have more bipartisanship. we have got to have less of these partisan bickering, distractions, that try and stop