Response to your reporting. He said, quote, the New York Times story is factually incorrect. I will not respond on a story thats biased against the department and advancing their own personal agenda but let me be clear about this. Based on my personal dealings with the president , there is no basis to invoke the 25th Amendment. I want to give you a chance to respond to that. I also want to point out when he says there is no basis, hes talking the present tense. Hes not saying, i never thought there was a basis. Yeah. That was my read. I mean im not going to parse rods statement. I think, myself and other news outlets have all now, including cnn, have recorded the basic facts that are now in dispute. The two basic facts are rod raised the idea of wearing a wire and in a second basic fact, in a memo Andrew Mccabe road that Special Counsel has rod raced the idea of the 25th
release of the transcripts of the witnesses in the russian investigation. The republicans refused. Mr. Nunes refused
but there s a lingering stench, and we re going get rid of that too. reporter: so, anderson, no mention of rosenstein by name there, but you have to believe that s a thinly veiled reference to the times story. so, the question on everyone s mind, will the president fire rosenstein? there still has been no official formal response from the white house, and we ll wait to see if he says anything else in springfield tonight. thank you. we re back with gloria allred, carl bernstein, and david gergen, john dean. the president talking about a lingering stench. what do you think he means? do you see rosenstein being removed by the president? it s hard to tell.
that s what a lot of this is all about. do you see congress at some point wanting to question rosenstein about what he said or didn t say? i noticed before we went on the air, a number of tweets, one from a member of the house judiciary committee asking that there be hearings where rosenstein and everybody in the meeting as well as the documents be brought forward so they can be seen. anderson, another thing on what would happen if he did fire rosenstein to mueller, the next person the last time i looked, the next person who has a confirmed post in the rankings in the seniority rankings of the leadership is the solicitor general, and that s who would take charge of the investigation at that point. anderson, here s the important thing to keep in mind about rod rosenstein also. right now there s negotiations going on about the president testifying, and if bob mueller decides that he wants to
about. do you see congress at some point wanting to question rosenstein about what he said or didn t say? i noticed before we went on the air, a number of tweets, one from the house judiciary committee asking that there be hearings where rosenstein and everybody in the meeting as well as the documents be brought forward so they can be seen. anderson, another thing on what would happen if he did fire rosenstein to mueller, the next person the last time i looked, the next person who has a confirmed post in the rankings in the seniority rankings of the leadership is the solicitor general, and that s who would take charge of the investigation at that point. anderson, here s the important thing to keep in mind about rod rosenstein also. right now there s negotiations going on about the president testifying, and if bob mueller decides that he wants to