said today. he is giving a specific warning about something he says he is going to come back to. he is going to let it did for now, but he said, i will deal with the justice deputy. i would argue he picked a bad day to do that. right. because you had the senate judiciary committee debating 14-7 vote moved the mueller proek broke bill out of committee. 14-7 the timing could not have been worse. listen to orrin hatch and lindsay graham. firing mueller would cause a firestorm and bring the administration s agenda to a halt. it could even result in impeach men. you can t fire mueller. you can fire rosenstein. are you observe with that? no. mr. rosenstein is doing his job. i think if he fired mr. rosenstein without a good cause it would be seen as trying the get at mueller and blow the whole place out. the justice department warning howard, he picked a bad day to do this.
totally. he probably guaranteed that it might not have been 14-7. they might have gotten extra republican votes on the committee. including the chairman, grassly, which i think is significant.because chuck grassley, like all judiciary committee chairs in these kind of vettive situations are very careful. they want to play a quasi judicial no pun intended roll there. grassley was on record. i think it puts mcconnell in a difficult position. he has already said i m not bringing that up for a vote. i think there is going to be pressure on him to do it. kong republicans have been pleading with the president for months, do not take this step. but i do think there is sort of a red flag in front of a bull kind of aspect to this. i was watching senator lindsay graham saying you can t fire bob mueller. if i m trump and watching that i m thinking wanna bet? that s the reaction the president will be. my curiosity, here s the way
of misleading the country. yes, we consider it very serious business. even when you look at what they put out. it is a dud. it is certainly clear it didn t begin with christopher steele. it doesn t end with christopher steele. it would be going on whether there was a dossier or not. we do take it very seriously. this is an abuse of classified information. are you concern that had the president will fire the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein? ? i m very concerned about it. there s no telling what this president is capable of. and he may conclude he can t fire bob mueller. that would be a real firestorm. but it might be better to fire rod rosenstein, mueller s boss. the reason it might be better to fire the boss is rod rosenstein
bob corker who said a firing of bob mueller would cross the line and would change the dynamic completely. yeah, there are members of congress who aren t interested in protecting bob mueller. some senate republican versus said that s a bridge too far. that s why i put it in terms of the campaign the president is trying to undermine bob mueller and everybody around him. if it gets to the point where public opinion says, yes, this is a witch hunt. you can sure they will fire him. they re not there yet. they re moving in that direction, or if they can t fire bob mueller and he comes out with some conclusion that at least the public might reject that conclusion, some hue he s corrupt. that itself the game we re trying to win. we re going to go live to west palm beach for a preview of the president s day and mar-a-lago. plus, for orrin hatch wins a distinction in utah, not for the reasons he might have thought. we ll explain. he retweeted an editorial headline, what may have been said
boundaries he won t go past. boundaries and donald trump, i m not sure we heard that before. he has moments when he is scared and changes his mind. we ve had, rick, some senate republicans including bob corker who said last week that firing of bob mueller would cross the line and change the dynamic completely. there are members of congress who aren t interested in protecting bob mueller, but some senate republicans have said that s why i put it in terms of a campaign. the president is trying to undermine bob mueller, the fbi and everybody that surrounds him. if it gets to the point where public opinion says, yes, this is a witch-hunt, you could be assured they would fire him. they re not there yet but that s what he is engaged in. so they re moving in that direction, or if they can t fire bob mueller and he comes out with some conclusion that at least the public might reject that conclusion because somehow he is corrupt. that s the game he is trying to win. still ahead on