i decide whether it s a special counsel, there won t be a special counsel because i m the boss and the ag is in charge. all this is going haywire because of trump s craziness and fear of something and by the way it s still not clear what he s afraid of, but it s something. he can t make this investigation go away. he s not going to stop it. as ken pointed out, what s he going to do, fire thousands of fbi agents. what he can do a couple things. make life really miserable for rod rosenstein. he loves to torture people who he feels have been disloyal and are somehow wronged him, especially if they work for him. [ inaudible ]. nothi at all. but as comey pointed out, rosenstein is asurvivor, and he s done things to insulate himself from being fired before. with trump specifically. number two, trump is gining up his base. let s not underestimate the way that he is playing this as a rigged system. rule number one of politics, donald trump style, is if donald trump is losing, someone els
in north korea, i m sure it s like that too. let me ask you about this whole thing that started this week so we have a friday explanation. everything that is still murky about what may have gone on between the trump people and moscow, what may have gone on whether business nature, political nature, something to do with sanctions are all mixed together, we don t know. it s murky. the clarity in this matter emerged when he fired comey. because he had tried to get comey to do a pledge of allegiance of some sort, clearly, he asked him to get rid of the flynn case and then says if you re not going to play ball you re out of here. which have the earmarks of obstruction of justice. he s getting clarity to the prosecution here. but all since firing comey. well, that s the astonishing thing here is the degree to which this is an incredibly self-inflicted wound inflicted by donald trump on himself. so we don t know what the facts are of collusion or not collusion made up stories according to t
which hunt. over the last five weeks that man, rod rosenstein, has risen from relative obscurity and been thrust into a key role in the unfolding investigation. it was rosenstein who the president asked to draft that now infamous memo that served as the pretense to fire former fbi director james comey last month. however, it wasn t long before trumconfessed that rosenstein s recommendation had thing to do with the firing. regardless of recommendation i was going to fire comey knowing there was no good time to do it. and, in fact, when i decided to just do it, i said to myself, i said, you know, this russia thing with trump and russia, is a made up story. days after that admission that rosenstein appointed robert mueller as special counsel to pick up the trump/russia investigation where comey left off. with talk that the president is considering ways to oust mueller as special counsel rosenstein is the only person who stands in
comey to drop the investigation of flynn among other things. he asked dan coates to intervene to get the fbi to back off flynn and he asked nsa mike roggeers to publicly deny existence of everyday of collusion with russia. the difference between this and nixon on the broadest possible brush here. nixon knew he had done a lot of things wrong that could come out. lots of things are on the record. i did a lot of digging, myself, from the national archives. nixon told his people to go in and steal everything from brookeings. he said to go in and make it look like a democrat job. all this is on the tames. nixon knew all that could come out. could you tell u casualty dirty tricks, going after the script it was all there. so he had reason to play defense. we have yet to find the clarity of what trump is hiding. no, xats exactly right. that s exactly right. it s looking increasingly like there are tames. you don t know the content that might be on the tapes.
that i get to pick the next one. i decide a special count sell, in fact, there won t be a special counsel, a imthe boss the ag is in charge. all this is going haywire because of trump s craziness and his fear of something and by the way, it s not clear what he s afraid of, but it s something. ultimately, he can t make this investigation go. what is he going to do fire all the fbi agents? absolutely fwhoochlt he can do, though what he can do, he can make life miserable for rod rosenstein. he likes to torture people he feels have been wrong to him. what has he done? nothing, absolutely nothing at all. but as comey pointed out, rosenstein is a survivor. he s done certain things to kind of insulate himself from being fired before, with trump specifically. number two, trump subpoena ginigi trump is gining up his base. if donald trump is losing,