? jim acosta, thanks very much. the u.s. attorney overseeing the cohen case, we should point out-s a strup appointee. he succeeded cnn certain legal analy analyst preet barra. certainly sounds like a preamble to firing mueller or firing somebody. he is angry. when any prosecutor investigates something that touches him, his lawyer is close to him. he s been close to him for a long time. so he s obviously angry. he is saying a lot of things that are probably better for him not to say. the more that he says what he doesn t like with respect to an investigation, it adds to the narrative that he is trying to put a stop to something, which starts to fill in the vessel of obstruction. could he, just in terms of firing mueller, if he wanted to, he could fire mueller well, the procedure there s a procedure by which he s supposed to do it. it has to be found by the deputy attorney general. but he could find somebody to replace the deputy attorney
stormy daniels where cohen made a $130,000 payment right before the election to keep her quiet about an alleged affair with the president years before. in the department of there s an old tweet for every occasion which usually relates to something the president tweeted tonight michael cohen s getting in on the act. he posted this during a democratic presidential primary back in 2015. tonight it resurfaced. hillary clinton, when you go to prison for defrauding america and perjury, your room and board will be free. back now with the panel. so if the president decided he wanted to get rid of special counsel mueller as a lot of people seem to think he has wanted to for a while and obviously given today s statements, he can t just directly fire him, can he? right. he could fire the secretary of veterans affairs, which he did. the other day. the way the regulation is worded is he would have to direct his supervisor in the justice department, that is, deputy attorney general rosenstein, t
something happening in his branch that could affect him and i suspect there might have been a courtesy call. but can he turn around and build this into a case to fire mueller? it s going to be very tough because as i said earlier i think this is a lot of the southern district s own doing and how this was handled. josh, does a lot of this come back to the president s firing of fbi director comey last may? again, the president kind of revisited that firing again today, going on about how he did the right thing. he did, and there was obviously a lot in that statement today. i think the one thing that stood out for me is indicating that he would have actually removed the attorney general had he known that sessions was going to recuse himself, which i think is stunning to think about, that here you have a department leader, an official in government indicating i m conflicted eyre, therefore i m going to remove myself, and then for the chief executive to then say, well, that s cause enou
good evening. the news simply does not come much bigger than this. with president trump weighing military action against syria the fbi takes action against his personal attorney and president trump lashes out big-time. at the fbi, his own attorney gener general, his departmenty attorney general, the russia investigation and the man who s running it. fbi agents raided michael cohen s office and hotel room, and now robert mueller s job may be in jeopardy. that s what a source tells us. and that s what the president also told us tonight during a moment with reporters unlike any the country has seen until now. why don t you fire mueller? why don t i just fire mueller? just fire the guy. i think it is a disgrace what is going on. we ll see what happens. but i think it s a sad situation when you look at what happened. and many people said you should