that hearing yesterday was laying the ground work for trump firing mueller. why did 20 or 15 republican congressmen give coordinated statements. they were reading the statements. that was not random comments. they got together. they had guidance to attack the mueller investigation. they should understand. they do not understand. i think the president s own lawyers even understand don t mess with bob mueller. the republicans on the hill could defend him. republicans on the hill don t understand this is the meltdown. this is the core meltdown. they just can t go there. by the way, breaking news, walt disney company is buying most of the 21st century box, a $52.4 billion deal. i don t think it s fox news. i don t think it s the tv networks but the entertainment side of it. pretty significant. including the simpsons .
congress have picked up on that theme and have decided to throw their lot in with the attack on the justice department and independence of a fact-finding criminal investigation run by this former republican-appointed fbi director. and what you said about preparing the ground for something i think is exactly the right question to be asking. it looks like the battlefield is being prepared here, but we don t know for what and they probably don t know for what yet either. could it be president trump firing mueller? could it be mueller delivering a report to congress that has some kind of damaging information? obviously, the effort is to make it so that the republican base sees this as just more politics and will go along with whatever happens. charlie, any sense that this is being coordinated by anybody or this is just one following another? you know, i and some colleagues have been watching this happen and have been asking that question among ourselves. it s the kind of thing where do
flanked. same question to you in your reporting, natasha, are you seeing an increasing effort to convince donald trump he could get away to fire mueller? there s an effort to discredit the entire investigation. this is the best line where they could say, and the text messages, but with trump firing mueller, that s a difficult process. he would have to get the deputy general to agree to fire him, and of course, if rosenstein did so we all remember what happened back when he wrote that memo outlining the reasons why director comey was no longer fit to serve in the fbi. there was a huge amount of backlash and did a lot of damage to rosenstein oso you would hav to wonder if he would take that chance again, and then mueller,
such action. senator graham is working on some legislation sh but the truth of is matter is the house has resszed for the sum teshgs senate will in the next week or so as well. unlikely we ll see legislative action before labor day, but that doesn t mean that trump has license to do it. republican leaders in congress, republican rank and file, and then just if you look at poll number, the country as a whole, there is no patience for trump firing mueller, and i think that message has been heard at the white house. certainly by his advisers and as the cnn report yesterday indicated with kelly s reaction to comey s firing, i can t imagine the new chief of staff would be okay with the president firing mueller. can he do anything about it? rick, when i talk to people inside the white house, they say you can talk to president about a lot of thing, but as soon as it gets near his russia and taxes, there is no speaking to him. that is when he gets in a lane all of his own. general kelly, he
will his liberal counterparts follow his lead? lawrence jones and executive jeff mcintosh, tina mack for being here. because it s father s day, not going to go babies for. what you think? i don t think the democrats will tone it down. a lot of them are photo ops. they have a pattern of behavior, going after conservative not only on college campuses, the conservatives and media. i think this will fly over after monday and they will go back to their same old political posturing. yes, i think in this moment every american looks at himself and asks what they can do to be part of the solution. that s one of the things that makes this grade. i am happy that we are. to jess, what about the quote unquote violent rhetoric that seems to be emanating from many