of this and allowing congress and allowing the doj to handle this, making clear there s no there s a huge separation between the doj and the white house, but this is a doj that has wanted to make clear to folks that the norms are back, you know what i mean? the rule of law is back. and so they have a lot to think about when it comes to the criminal contempt, which can also take a really long time, right? this isn t something that usually is over in a month. this could take months and even years, depending on how former president trump acts and interacts with privilege. more importantly, steve bannon. bannon s relationship with trump has been interested. he was in the white house for a brief time, got fired, then fell out of trump s good graces because he talked to all authors for a book, but slowly worked
asking him to do things. and if he s talking about it in public it can possibly be a crime, that seems to be the way he approached his previous high crimes in office. well that s absolutely right, and thank you for having me. when the impeachment proceedings one forward, obviously earlier this year that too was based on president trump acts and public, they re the incitement insurrection. but whether or not he thinks that carrying out some kind of realtime life stage parity is going to immunize him from criminal liability, the reality as we concluded in our report, is that president trump repeated interference with the election administration in georgia, his effort to solicit and threaten senior state officials to certify the election for him falsely, and to find exactly enough votes to rig the election for him, that was a crime. and whatever he wants to say on stage, whatever much you might want to make fun of secretary
according to sources we spoke to fire mueller, but cnn has with. learned that the president has thanks. following the raid on been talking about it for michael cohen, the president s months. we do know that he made moves to legal team is re-evaluating whether mr. trump should agree fire mueller last june but was to an interview with the special talked out of it. yesterday the new york times counsel. reported there was a second one white house official telling cnn that the president s aborted effort to fire the special counsel in just cooperation should be proportional to the courtesy december. that he receives from special that move fueled by reports that counsel robert mueller. mueller had issued subpoenas to and the administration believes deutsche bank for the that the cohen raid showed a lack of courtesy. president s financial records. cnn has also learned that reports which then proved to be mueller s investigators were meeting with the president s inaccurate. for more, we l
if trump acts, rothstein is his most rosenstein is his most likely target. we should note not all of trump s legal advisers are on board, but officials are telling us they believe he has a stronger against against rosenstein, he believes he has crossed the line in what they can and cannot pursue and call his conflicted since he s a special witness in the investigation since he wrote the memo that suggested firing former fbi director james comey. even though trump has considered firing rosenstein in the past, the possibility has taken on a more serious tone in recent days according to sources we ve spoken with. thank you. top republicans urging president trump ton fire mueller. they want the special counsel to finish what they started and are warning the president his presidency could be on the line here. i think it would be suicide for the president to fire him. i think the less the president says about this whole thing the
reporter: good morning. our team has learned the questioning on capitol hill just president s consideration of hours from now. firing rod rosenstein has gained welcome back to early start, i m alex marquardt. urgency following the raid of i m christine romans. the office of the president s personal lawyer, michael cohen. 30 minutes past the hour. let s begin with this sources sources familiar with the matter familiar with discussions in the say this is one of several options including going so far white house tell senior citizen as to fire attorney general jeff t looks like president trump is considering firing tell cnn sessions, as well, that trump has been weighing. it looks like president trump is officials say if trump acts, considering firing rod rosenstein is his most likely rosenstein. he s been supervising special target because installing a new counsel robert mueller s russia deputy attorney general could provide the check on mueller investigation since attorney th