guy who served time, i seem to recall, through watergate. now he is a contributor to cnn, msnbc, what does he say? it is like the president is plotting to kill somebody, a murder. so he gets rid of sessions, what, so what happens? he has an acting attorney general, then i hear these so-called experts, he can t do that, there is a rule ofr succession of course he can do that. moreover, they say it is like the saturday night massacre how? i did he fire mueller? did he order the attorney general to fire mueller? did he order the deputy attorney general to fire mueller? he hasn t ordered anyone to do anything to mueller, mueller is still roaming the countryside looking for people to prosecute and challenge and so forth and so on. nothing has happened. a but chuck schumer is there, i think we have a constitutional crisis. let me tell you something, this is an important point. i have said that the appointment of mueller is unconstitutional and violates the appointment
msnbc, what does he say, it is like the president is plotting to kill somebody and murder. so he gets rid of sessions, white, so what happens? he has an acting attorney general, then i hear these so-called experts, he can t do that, there is a rule of succession of course he can do that. moreover, they say it is likely saturday night massacre how? did he fire mueller? did he order the attorney general to fire mueller? did he order the deputy attorney general to fire mueller? he hasn t ordered anyone to do anything to mueller, mueller is still roaming the countryside looking for people to prosecute and challenge and so forth and so on. nothing has happened. but chuck schumer as they are, i think we have a constitutional crisis. let me tell you something, this is an important point. i have said that the mueller is unconstitutional and violates the appointment because, he proves my point every day. if mueller was like a u.s.
means we default to what the special counsel regs say, which is that special counsel investigations are overseen by the attorney general. now we have an acting person, acting as the attorney general, so he, matt whitaker now takes over did you say acting, acting, pete? i had to cut you there? he is now the actling, acting attorney general? no, he s acting attorney general. okay. so he now takes over. could he fire mueller tomorrow, if he wanted to? so here s the answer. yes, but, the special counsel regulations say that a special counsel can be removed for cause and it says such as misconduct, malfeasance, inability to do the job or other good cause. so he can t just fire him for no reason or just because. he has to have some reason and you know, chuck, if he tried to do that, there would be an enormous firestorm.
president trump s personal lawyer rudy giuliani out front of the mueller probe on wednesday reinforcing the white house timeline forg getting the investigation wrapped up. file the report by september 1st. he is clearly will he fire mueller? i don t think he will fire mueller. mueller is creating his own problems. giuliani also echoing the president s line of attack with the veiled threat to mueller s team. we ll challenge mueller to write whatever you got. take your best punch with your 13 democrats there. you couldn t find a republican? you got a group that is a lynching mob. let them do their job. we are ready to knock the heck out of you with our report. giuliani defending the president. following reports he tried to get jeff sessions to un-recuse
according to sources we spoke to fire mueller, but cnn has with. learned that the president has thanks. following the raid on been talking about it for michael cohen, the president s months. we do know that he made moves to legal team is re-evaluating whether mr. trump should agree fire mueller last june but was to an interview with the special talked out of it. yesterday the new york times counsel. reported there was a second one white house official telling cnn that the president s aborted effort to fire the special counsel in just cooperation should be proportional to the courtesy december. that he receives from special that move fueled by reports that counsel robert mueller. mueller had issued subpoenas to and the administration believes deutsche bank for the that the cohen raid showed a lack of courtesy. president s financial records. cnn has also learned that reports which then proved to be mueller s investigators were meeting with the president s inaccurate. for more, we l