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Disciplined or removed from office by the personal action of the attorney general. so the special counsel is bob mueller. attorney general is jeff sessions. now, jeff sessions of course has recused himself from the russia investigation, so the person in charge is rod rosenstein. it is his responsibility to oversee mueller and make those decisions. whether he is hired or fired. that s up to rosenstein now. and as of december of last year, rosenstein has publicly testified that he sees no reason to fire bob mueller. have you seen good cause to fire special counsel mueller? no. p. thank you. if you were ordered today today to fire mr. mueller, what would you do? i would follow the regulation. if there were good cause, i would act. if there were no good cause, i would not. and you ve seen no good cause so far. correct. so, rosenstein didn t see a reason to fire mueller. is that why his job is in jep ....
Overseeing the russia investigation. rod rosenstein, who has the fire to fire mueller. that s a red line for chuck grassley. here s what he said. i think it would be suicide for the president to fire him. i think the less the president says about this whole thing, the better off he will be. to be clear, he s talking about rbob mueller and the new york times is reporting at this moment that trump sought to fire mueller in december. after there were reports that mueller subpoenaed trump and the trump family bank records at deutsche bank. now, those reports turneded out to be inaccurate and nutrump std down. outfront now, democratic congresswoman, jackie speier, who s a member of the house intelligence committee. good to have you with me. first, the breaking news, the president is considering firing rod rosenstein. who of course has the direct authority to fire bob mueller. do you believe the president is getting ready to get rid of ....
you know, you heard chuck grass say it would be suicide to fire mueller. do you believe, look, republicans are saying now, herballessentially, he s not go do it. so if the president does do something to get rid of bob mueller, do you have the full confidence that your republican colleagues, cornyn, all the ones you just heard there, grassley, that they ll stand up and say that s not okay? not at all because every time they make a very strong statement that i see as being kourmgous, they walk it back. for whatever reasons. whether it s in their districts or the white house, so i don t have a lot of confidence. but what i do have confidence in is that this investigation doesn t end if he goes to the process of firing rosenstein, then mueller because the gags is still being conducted by those within the fbi. ....
Possible summit and asked mr. trump to press them about stopping flying missiles over japan and to send back several japanese citizens who the north koreans have kidnapped over the decades. lots going on. thank you. that s it for me. thanks very much for watching. i m wolf blitzer. in the situation room. erin burnett outfront starts right now. outfront next, breaking news. president trump said to be weighing whether to fire the deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein. a crucial development tonight. is it his way of getting rid of bob mueller? also, new details on the raid on cohn, how the initial moments went down and what the feds took with them. and mark zuckerberg admits facebook has been contacted by bob mueller s team. let s go outfront. and good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, the breaking news. president trump is considering firing deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. a move that could up end the entire russia investigation. and lay the ground work ....
The president find someone to go in and do what he says and fire bob mueller? well, certainly, he may be able to find some lacky who s going try to do whatever possible to squelch this investigation, but it s not going to be easy because these cases are open in the fbi. they re open in the justice department. literally, they re ongoing investigations and they re ongoing court cases and what would have to happen if s not just a new person to take over the role of you know, attorney general or deputy attorney general, and potentially a new special county, but then what would have to happen is somebody would have to go in and decline prosecution in all these cases. somebody would have to close all these investigations. tlas lot of paper work. is somebody going o to come in and do that. what might happen and what i hope happens for the good of this country is that somebody comes in who has enough integrity who says no, i m not ....