maddow, she walked through, maya, the timeline that makes it sound like whoever it was, because they weren t in the room who leaked this information to the new york times, may have, we don t know their motive, one motivation possibility is that it would trigger donald trump in the paper he s most obsessed with, to then have a pretext to fire rosenstein, which they want him to do, a lot of the folks at fox want him to do. trump tweeted about the idea he would release these unredacted wire taps from carter page, the wire taps that led to carter pain being surveilled. he tweets i met with the doj concerning the declassification, he was going to declassify and talked out of it. i meant with the declassification. they agreed to release them but doing so may have a perceived negative impact on the russia probe and key allies called to ask not to release and the inspect inspector general has asked to
look, prosecutors, fbi types, sometimes they mix humor. sometimes they miss a little bit of the subtext. i tend to believe that rosenstein was probably joking and being sarcastic. what do you want me to do wear a wire. my problem, why was he joking some he should be wearing a wire. they all should be wearing a wire. they re working for a crazy person who lies all the time. everything that trump says should be recorded by people who want to protect themselves. it s a hilarious story from the perspective this is a chaotic time and nobody knows what they re doing, but a sad story in so far as this is another example of official washington, the institutions that are supposed to protect us, being cowardly and being by this president and not knowing what to do. we need heros, not keystone cops talking about like wire taps. yeah. and the thing and rachel maddow, watched her, brilliant rachel
whose former friend ousted producer bill shine is running communications inside the white house. you cannot make this up. no hollywood studio would buy your script because they would think it s a lie. a piece by the new york times about deputy attorney general rod rosenstein, the times reports after trump fired james comey, rosenstein suggested that he secretly record the president omarosa style inside the white house and he also discussed with cabinet members to invoke the 25th amendment to remove mr. trump from office for being unfit. the times cited people briefed on the events themselves or on memos written by fbi officials, not anyone who was in the room. but nbc news reports that among those who were in the room with rosenstein when he made his comments about the wire, there s disagreements about whether his comments were sarcastic or serious and whether he brought up the 25th amendment at all. rosenstein has issued not one