information. april, is rod rosenstein still on the potential chopping block, because it certainly seems like the president s ire right now is focused on the cohen matter, more anything else. he seems to be, i think it s, an plop tick about it. so many people are talking about obstruction of justice and a possible constitutional crisis if he does this. and this would be, the president s bye, phillip, moment, i would think. the birth date doesn t like it. and even going to jeff session, if that happens, for jeff sessions to come out and give this warning shot to the white house, this is saying something. jeff sessions has said, look, i m telling you i m not going, i m bringing up jennifer holliday from dreamgirls, because you know that scenario. this is friday. geez, it s been a long week. but, no, jeff sessions and
cohen s property was raided. and he really lashed out at rod rosenstein. and i think jeff sessions was feeling the reverberations of that and realizing how perilous a situation had come to be. and wanted to intervene. josh dawsey with the washington post. appreciate your reporting. hope that was helpful. absolutely. thank you so much. i want to bring in now evan perez, ryan lizza, and april ryan. goo good evening to all of you. before i ask you your take on this, evan, why do you think we re hearing this now? who is this a message to, do you think? i think the white house certainly wants to try to control some of this out there, because i think they know that there s a lot of concern at the justice department about the fact that the president has been musing about firing not only od rosenstein and jeff sessions, but also just trying to figure out ato control, as josh was jut saying, exactly what s happening with all of these investigations. this is one of those bye, phylicia
last 20-some-odd years with bill clinton, white water going down to monica lewinsky. so for his friends to come out and make statements is huge. and that s what stormy daniels attorney is predicting, that s his prediction. he s saying he believes it s going to take the president down or the president will resign, you know, that s him saying that. so, kaitlan, let s talk about this. michael cohen told himself that he is thinking about the impact of all of this on his family and he told me, himself, and the tooums times is reporting that trump s lawyers and advisers are resigned that there s a possibility that the michael cohen could ultimately cooperate with federal officials. is there any wonder why president trump is consumed by this? reporter: well, you can see why the president is so consumed by it, because look at everything they took from not just michael cohen s office, but his home and his hotel room. they have a lot of information. of course, we ve reported that michael co
house. it jus didn t happen. i think general kelly is staying in right now because he feels it s a pay triotic duty, that somebody has to be there minding the entrance to the oval office. and he may be a survivor by staying quiet, but not challenging president trump. if trump gets into trouble with michael cohen or with the russia investigation, he may be the transitional figure for a president pence down the line, someone who can give our country a smoother continuity if trump implodes on us. so he s still a very important figure, but he s obviously kind of any day now if he quit you wouldn t be surprised. and then of course tonight we heard jeff sessions saying if you get rid of rod rosenstein i m gone, too. so there s something afoot going
on within trump world right now that the president s starting to think about can i knock off some more players. chris, kelly s influence seems to be waning shawn hannity seems to be gaining more gaining a foot in the white house. and the washington post is reporting through a source saying, quote, he basically has a desk at the white house. you have the ethical concerns about that? again, it may be true. shawn hannity may be kind of a de facto chief of staff at this point. remember bill clinton used to come into the oval office at the end of his first term and he would rip up the script and change everything. and his advisers were wondering who was whispering to him at night. it turned out it was this vile character morris who was advoozing him. well, leon panetta was able to put a stop to that and take control of the process.