Cal or dental procedures. Im still going for my best. And for eliquis. Ask your doctor about eliquis. Welcome to kasie d. C. Im kasie hunt. We are live from washington every sunday. Tonight, Spring Cleaning in the Trump Administration. Rex tillerson gone. Andrew mccabe, gone. Is the Special Counsel far behind him . And what about other key members of the Trump Administration . Senator chris van haul enjoins me live to talk about what all of this means as the Foreign Policy obstacles mount for the United States. Plus, democrats pull off a serious upset in trump country. New polling just out today shows why pennsylvania could be just
the beginning. But we start with a restive weekend in the white house. That is an understatement. Andrew mccabe fired hours short of his retirement, and he kept his receipts. Reportedly handing over notes on the president to the Special Counsel. The Special Counsel subpoenaed the Trump Organization as the president s lawyer wondered aloud whether isnt it tim
grows over fears donald trump will fire robert mueller. officers receiving an email telling a large-scale protest if the special counsel gets sacked. officers must bring riots gear to work with them every day until further notice. there are no plans to fire mueller. for the first time in the lives of many cubans. someone other than a castro taking over leadership, raul castro stepping down as the country s president. a position the 86-year-old has held since his late brother fidel resigned in 2008. senior fellow at the heritage foundation and cuban native weighed in, what america needs to do. we should do everything we can to see if there s a way forward for freedom, give cubans the opportunity to choose their
be in danger. do you think the president will fire mueller? the mueller probe may have been started. calling for the mueller probe to shut down. i don t think anyone in the white house is suggesting not to cooperate with the investigation. if you have an innocent comment, act like it. i don t think the president will fire robert mueller. you re not going to fire robert mueller. if the president stops the investigation that is a constitutional crisis. this undoubtedly will result in a constitutional crisis. i think it will be a true constitutional crisis. welcome to the second hour of kacie d.c., where our panel back for another round is wondering what mary pat christie thinks of christy s wardrobe selection this morning. our editor for the daily beast
it clears the patience with the russian investigation is running out partly because his legal team told him it would be wrapped up by the end of 2017. certainly, that hasn t happened. we have seen a dramatic shift away from they were cooperating with the special counsel to the president saying the investigation should never have started. how much of this, john dowd s statement, he seemed to have come out and put on the table the firing of muller in a way we haven t seen the legal team do. in many way s been mueller s main defender in the white house and walks it back today, kind of, it was just a little bit of a joke. what explains that? is it the legal team jockeying for trump s favor? the reason i was checking my phone, there is a statement literally just out in the last, must be 5, 10 minutes from white house lawyer, ty cobb, he says in response to media speculation
i don t know. there is pressure from the base you don t want to be associated with anything against the president, he made these entities toxic in a way we re not accustomed to and we don t want to be seen as deferential. this is protecting the special counsel s office. there s been a bit of surprise among my sources at the hill how skittish republicans are about this. clint, can i get you to weigh in on this, from your view, the perspective you have in law enforcement, how important would legislation or attempts to protect mueller be? for the politics of it, it could go either way. you protect mueller and then the president tries to fire him and looks like, okay, the democrats are protecting him. at the same time, democrats at this point may say, hey, if he fires mueller it proves our point, this guy is out of control, trying to suppress the