Special counsel . Eventually can he fire everyone . I mean, its going to be fascinating tomorrow. Were going to hear every one of those questions. What we dont know is how many answers were going to hear. Yeah. That were not sure of. Yeah. This question of Executive Privilege and what theyre going the call Executive Privilege and such a i mean thats a difficult legal theory anyway. Thats not a cut and dried thing even in the best of circumstances, i think were going to get into Appeals Court territory pretty quickly tomorrow. And i have a feeling that Jeff Sessions isnt going to rely on the feelings pleading that we heard last week from dan coats and the director of nsa. It is my feeling that i shouldnt talk about this. I have discomfort. Yeah. Yes. I have a gavel. We will seattle. Thank you, rachel. Thanks. When president nixon fired the special prosecutor investigating him, he did it on a friday night and shocked
headline writers who immediately called it the Saturday Night Massacre.
would leave the administration, leave the white house basically calling over there, having to wire this whole thing ahead of time. they can t stand to go through the surprise of nixon got of discovering what elliot richardson was going to do only when the moment came. this again, lawrence, this is the scenario where i do think we get quickly, for the reasons that walter just laid out, you can very quickly find yourself in a constitutional crisis. and i do think to tie up one of the things david said, did this calculation for republicans, who have always held the fate of trump in their hands, not democrats, but republicans, at what point it is more expensive to carry trump as opposed to then stick with him as opposed to run away from him? there is going to be a point where it s more expensive to stick with him. in the black hole constitutional crisis, the notion that the white house is effectively taking over the justice department, and the old standard walls that divided the two and
and so john heilemann, that would leave the administration, leave the white house basically calling over there, having to wire this whole thing ahead of time. they can t stand to go through the surprise of nixon got of discovering what elliot richardson was going to do only when the moment came. this again, lawrence, this is the scenario where i do think we get quickly, for the reasons that walter just laid out, you can very quickly find yourself in a constitutional crisis. and i do think to tie up one of the things david said, did this calculation for republicans, who have always held the fate of trump in their hands, not democrats, but republicans, at what point it is more expensive to carry trump as opposed to then stick with him as opposed to run away from him? there is going to be a point where it s more expensive to stick with him. in the black hole constitutional crisis, the notion that the white house is effectively taking over the justice department, and the old standard w
department have come crumbling down entirely. that is where it becomes unthinkable for me to imagine, or becomes unthinkable that republicans eventually don t look at that and say enough, this is going to destroy us in 2018. we must put a stop to this. i don t know exactly where that point. but that point begins to become maybe, just maybe foreseeable. david frum, a quick last word before we go to a break. look, but you are hearing, and this is the most ominous thing saying the president has the right to fire him and fire him for any reason that is the new vision of the fbi director. maybe we re going to hear a new vision of the special counsel too. david frum, thank you very much for joining us tonight. coming up, the president s cabinet pledged their personal loyalty and devotion to the president today, and they did it publicly, except for a couple of them who held on to their dignity. and later, we ll be joined by a man who was threatened by donald trump with the possibility t