were aa were you aware of the late breaking developments. we rnt certainly weren t given a heads up this warrant would be executed. that took everybody by surprise in congress and clearly within the white house. but i m not surprised that once again the president is contemplating firing rod rosenstein or bob mueller. both of those would be acts of obstruction of justice and to see him float in his tweet and otherwise the idea that he could somehow give a justification for it by pointing to rod rosenstein signing a fisa application or bizarrely claim that because rod rosenstein wrote a memo that the president used as a pretext to fire james comey, that gives him a pretempt to fire rod rosenstein. it is bizarre. plainly either of those actions are designed to interfere with an investigation that may implicate the president. that is obstruction of justice. and if the president goes forward with either one of these firings, he is only making the
an unanimous e-mail and not even through the chain of command as the committee pointed out. i think he s saying that s the way it initially came to light publicly. he s referring to the fact as they were reported that that s how it started circulating and that s when he started asking questions. you know members of this appropriation subcommittee are very frustrated edfrustrated that he hasn t launched his own tough investigation. he says he can t because it s in the hands of the inspector general s office and they re upset these guys weren t fired or given a penalty. his response is that it s under investigation. he doesn t have authority to fire them on the spot without giving them due process. fascinating that he could not answer the question as to why these two agents weren t given a sobriety test. he didn t know who made that decision or why. he also alluded to the fact that he wasn t sure that even happened. that s the same thing we ve been