our allies. so whatever retaliatory strike we do isn t done just out of the blue. bob costa, you ve got a front page piece in the washington post that helps us connect the dots on some of the stories we ve been talking about. we played the sean hannity clips from last night where he showed what he called the mueller crime family and had againsts on again and again saying rod rosenstein needs to be fired. you piece talks about steve bannon back in the mix on the outside of the white house advising the white house on how it ought to handle the mueller investigation. a plan coming from bannon that includes firing rod rosenstein. tell us about what you found. to really understand what s happening with this presidency we often talk about the president watching television, hearing from people like sean hannity, joe digenova about legal strategy and that s one part of it. the other part of it are the phone calls, the meetings, the different whispers from people in the president s inner
he said in interviews that he wanted his own roy cohn. he wanted his own fixers and one of his great disappointments as president and with the presidency is that that s not how the justice department works. i want to ask you about that and also about the fact that rod rosenstein, a man who yesterday the president tweeted was the only person more conflicted than bob mueller because he had signed off on a fisa warrant, he had signed off on that raid into michael co michael cohen s offices. he was in that building behind you today. that s right, and that prompted a lot of calls to the justice department to get to the bottom of exactly what they may have been discussing. i can tell you we were told this was a routine meeting. but, of course, it came against this very dramatic backdrop. and according to sources i have been talking to throughout the week, the president has been mulling the idea of potentially firing rod rosenstein.
you never sort of shied away from the tease, and one of the things you teased is that dvd. are you at this point ready to share any more information about what s on that dvd? not at this juncture, but some would call it a tease and some would call it a prediction. you know, i m going to go back to something i ve said on a prediction scale. you have a pretty good record? i think we re going to keep shooting until we miss. let me use you as a predictor. we have been covering several nda s crafted perhaps by the same people who crafted yurd client s nda, mr. cohen, the $30,000 payment to a door man who corroborates that that payment was indeed made to him to keep quiet about a relationship and a child born to the president and a housekeeper. of course, the president denies that. and nbc news hasn t independently corroborated that. but with your intimate knowledge of the quality of ndas produced by mr. cohen, what do you think
but the real focus was on the mueller crime family. as he called it. throughout the show guests laced into the justice department, here s part of the conversation. james comey is a dirty cop. he is a completely dirty cop who was compromised from the very beginning. of the investigation and jeff sessions, now has an obligation to the president of the united states, to fire rod rosenstein after rosenstein authorized the unconstitutional and unprofessional search of the office of michael cohen. jeff sessions, tomorrow morning, should fire rod rosenstein. it is not up to the president to fire mr. rosenstein. it is mr. sessions job and he has a duty to fire rod rosenstein. rod rosenstein has not done his job. he has not supervised mueller. this whole thing is an absurdity.
and sadly, it is the sign of just how low people will go to denigrate themselves and forever sully their historical reputation by defending the indefensible. donald trump, mika, once again proves, that no one around him leaves without a sullied and tarnished reputation. you take that transcript, the last two minutes of what you said and you have a very good thesis for your column in the washington post. very well done. listen to the content of the argument being made and the argument that donald trump knew was coming, because he promoted it. which means it s something that he probably shares, it was fire rod rosenstein, again and again and again. if you look past the bulletin boards, they were suggesting, not suggesting, they were saying you ve got to fire rod rosenstein. which would be the way to get to bob mueller. if you cleared out rod rosenstein. they re telegraphing how they re going to make that case, by saying he could be a potential witness.