he can t just fire mueller the way he would fire somebody else. he would have to go through the department of justice. he would have to go through rod rosenstein. rosenstein made it, i thought, you tell me, pretty clear in his testimony that he does not see mueller as a malofactor. so if he refused to fire him, he would have to fire rosenstein, and we know how that goes from the nixon days. yeah, it would have to go through several steps and it would be like telegraphing a punch. the downside would be tremendous. at the same time, it s not clear we re seeing this mueller investigation, some of the things going on with two of the guys, strzok and weismann. it s not necessary that mueller himself is out to get the president. he has a long-standing record of honor and service to this country. but what we re seeing the investigation itself looking a little bit dodgy. and i think since he s already fired strzok for those texts with his lover and fired the lover as well, or moved her
baseball. we ve got to play baseball. we can t go in there and start playing che ining chess. but you don t have to undermine the fbi. you don t have to tell people they re like the kgb. it s a lot of crap coming from people on your side of the fence. you don t want to undermine the fbi, do you? the biggest problem with the fbi not the fbi, but that the special counsel has right now the the public perception of what s going on inside there. yeah, and who s feeding that? listen, when it comes down to it, the truth is the truth, chris. we ve got these teches and these e-mails, which were declaration and the guy was gone. of membership in the resistance. they were political opinions about sanders and trump from strzok. i don t see you running around defending bernie sanders. and if this were an investigation into bernie sanders, i probably would be. but at this time, we still have a high-ranking person in investigation who was trolling for jobs at hillary clinton s v
along, as well. that s already been halfway taken care of. as far as i m concerned, if mueller and his team comes clean on what really happened with strzok and maybe gets rid of weismann for what he did, supporting the deputy attorney general and her insubordination and attending hillary s victory party, those e-mails and texts were declarations of their joining the resistance. and with those two fellas gone and maybe more of a shake up, we could have a pretty solid investigation and move forward resolutely towards its conclusion. that s your characterization. i mean, it s hard to take a look at what we understand for the fact facts you know, strzok, his texts were done before he have ever got involved with the mueller investigation. they got rid of him. you know, that just as we kind of brushed it aside when hillary clinton and her team were making the exact same argument that you guys are making now during the e-mail probe, that guys are against us, they have political animus. of
but you don t think it was him trying to stay above the political stray. that s what this is. this is politics. strzok isn t mueller. he s not a main guy on his team. he isn t making decisions. i disagree. strzok had, at the fbi and this investigation had incredible powers. he wasn t how do you know at the mueller investigation he had special powers or considerable powers? do you know what his role was? his leadership role but he it was a leadership role. we know that. how do you know that? because he was one of the highest-ranking people in the fbi, the number two guy in countersblenlg counterintelligence. you don t put a guy in there like that to make coffee. i didn t say he was making coffee, but there s a big difference than saying this is one of the main guys in the probe and he was making coffee. i gave you the coffee thing with papadopoulos. you can t just throw it out every time you want to minimize someone. i get that it works politically, but are you a