surveillance of page, and to, what would the fallout be if he used the presence ever his name in the memo which the president said was disgraceful and people should be ashamed, what if he does fire rosen stein. that is the seriousness into this investigation. and also the fact that this never leaked, if they were so out to get donald trump, why didn t this leak at a pivotal time during the campaign. as to rosenstein s role, he is mueller s boss approves the extendityure and then you could control what mueller does or does not do. so we must do all we can next week knowing what the intent is from the president and the republicans to try and protect mueller and protect rosenstein so this investigation could reach a conclusion. i don t know if you could see this, but i ll put up on our screen a list of the people who have signed off on the fisa
rod rosenstein or say he refuses to talk to robert mueller, he won t sit down because the investigation is biased. for him this is a great day. matt miller, i saw you shaking your head. yeah. look, i think that s exactly right. for him this is a great day. it gets back to this question of whether it s enough for him to justify, not from a substantive standpoint, but justify removing rod rosen stein or not. you asked who can replace him. you re right, rachel brand is the natural person. i think she is someone who those of us who want to see the rule of law fairly enforced would have faith in. but he doesn t have to pick her. he doesn t have to pick someone from inside the justice department. donald trump can reach across the government and pick any senate confirmed person and put him in the job of deputy attorney general. scott pruitt, for example. that person within that job would have the authority not necessarily to fire bob mueller. that may be too obvious even for the president
refusing to approve indictments that mueller wants to bring. he could even step into the investigation and order bob mueller to stop pursuing the investigation with the president, something we know the president and his lawyers are very worried about. jeremy bash, something else the president is worried about is his personal, his family finances. he said in an interview with the new york times maggie haberman, i believe peter baker that could be a red line. can you imagine a scenario where he puts in someone to red line the mueller probe? second question to you, would mueller be responsive to someone put in after someone like rod rosenstein was fired to draw parameters around the investigation? you know, the memo that sets up the special counsel says that bob mueller can investigate any matters that arise. and so pretty broad, bob mueller will follow the facts wherever they go. all right. we have to sneak in one more break. my thanks to jeremy bash, matt miller, chuck rosenberg
unseen evidence in this investigation that bolsters the fbi s credible and i think elevated the seriousness of the russia investigation. paul ryan is now claiming that he will allow our memo to come ford and forward and we ve asked the republicans for a vote on this. so if paul ryan is going to allow your mem o to come out on monday. is there anything you could share. the new york times reports that your memo includes this fact that mccabe told the committee that the decision to seek a fisa warrant was also prompted by russian attempts to target papadapoulos, a trip page took to moscow and the russian hacking of democratic e-mails. so more went into the fisa application than the dossier, which is the trump favorite shiny object to distract from everything, even though the dossier has not to this point been disproved or discredited. the characterization of mccabe testimony is it is a
remarkable moment. let s look, though let s step back to the fundamental question that we are talking around the edges of, which is this. that the man who walked into the house chamber the other night walked in there as president of the united states. he is the head of the executive branch, one of three co-equal branches of government in a nation of laws where nobody is above the law. he didn t walk into that chamber as an emperor or a king. even the president in this country is accountable before the law. and so this investigation and his obvious attempts to derail it, to smear individuals who spent their entire life in service to the country in these law enforcement organizations, and to attack the concept of fairness in the american justice system right.