the challenge is not only firing mueller, but the chance to cut back on his budget or stop an indictment or other items. kellyanne conway did make this pledge yesterday. take a listen. you don t expect there to be a change in any way, mr. whitaker won t be dealing with the russia investigation? no, i m not aware of what you asked previously, which is in making this move the president is trying to shut down the investigation. i know the media has asked for a better part of the year is he trying to fire robert mueller, is he trying to fire rosenstein. none of that has been true. so she denied previous things being true. i could parse that a thousand times and i didn t hear an answer there. there s an easy way to clear this up, to bring harmony back in terms of those of us who are concerned about this in the senate. make this guy, mr. whitaker,
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welcome back. as always, we have one eye on the markets. now down just over 400 on the day. the explanation at this point seems to be the ongoing, the continued concerns of this trade war or potential trade war with china. remember, it was just two days ago the market was up over 500 points and the president said, let s celebrate this great market and why isn t the mainstream media covering it. we cover the up days. we cover the down days. on the down days, the president likes to point to the fed. we haven t heard that today. let s turn to rod rosenstein. a little more than a week after president trump signalled he s not planning to fire rosenstein. in an interview rosenstein defended the mueller probe as appropriate and independent. he went on the say at the end of the day the public will have conferr confidence that the cases we brought were warranted by
david and melanie, thank you guys so much. as president trump left the white house for orlando, he seemingly ended speculation that he might fire his deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein. rosenstein was on air force one with president trump today. this is the first time they have met face to face since that bombshell new york times report from what feels like forever ago, just a few weeks. remember the report claimed that the deputy attorney general discussed secretly recording trump and using the 25th amendment to remove him from office. when asked directly if he has planned to fire rosenstein, trump said, no, i don t. no. and added this. well, we re going to be talking. we ll be talking on the plane. i actually have a good relationship, other than, there s been no collusion, folks. i didn t know rod before, but i ve gotten to know him and i get along very well with him. let s go straight to shimon prokupecz who s in orlando.
that became a very big story, actually, folks. we had a good talk. reporter: now, as for that meeting the president had with rod rosenstein, the white house told reporters the two men discussed what they called general justice department business over on air force one. but there weren t many other details besides that. those details, obviously, could be illuminating as rosenstein is the justice department official overseeing the russia investigation. right now the president says he s not going to fire rosenstein. and as for brett kavanaugh, the new supreme court justice, will appear with the president later on tonight at an event here in the east room of the white house. you can hear the president, perhaps, just arriving here at the white house from his event earlier today on marine one. wolf, one key thing to watch later on tonight, whether or not the president, after all of this hot talk, last 48 hours, whether he tries to turn down the temperature in this city, wolf. it is a city