so listen, is there a good chance that we could see the deputy attorney general rosenstein recuse himself in what do you think? look, i think we re walking very quickly towards that point. as i mentioned, he very well may become a witness in this investigation because he wrote the memo that president trump used to fire james comey, the fbi director. and it s widely believed that the firing of comey is going to be a part of mueller s investigation into whether or not the president was trying to interfere with or obstruct the justice department s investigation. so all of this is going to come to a head pretty quickly, pretty soon because we believe that mueller, once he s done staffing and looks at all of the evidence, will make a decision as to whether or not this becomes a full-blown investigation of the president, don. evan, thank you. stay with me. i want to bring in cnn political analyst carl bernstein, senior white house correspondent jeff zeleny, laura coats and tara pamieri
find your awesome with the xfinity x1 voice remote. tonight, sources are telling cnn that president trump s tweet acknowledging that he s under investigation came as a surprise to his legal team and white house aides. back with political analyst carl bernstein. we have a lot to cover so let s get through this. you say today is a watershed moment. why do you say that? because trump s strategy is now apparent and it s being talked about by some around him. and that is to stop this investigation in its tracks, to stop it no more whether it involves firings of mueller, rosenstein, but to stop it in its track and at the same time to prevent a move for impeachment. you would think that the two would be mutually exclusive but
a witness in this investigation. so listen, is there a good chance that we could see the deputy attorney general rosenstein recuse himself in what do you think? look, i think we re walking very quickly towards that point. as i mentioned, he very well may become a witness in this investigation because he wrote the memo that president trump used to fire james comey, the fbi director. and it s widely believed that the firing of comey is going to be a part of mueller s investigation into whether or not the president was trying to interfere with or obstruct the justice department s investigation. so all of this is going to come to a head pretty quickly, pretty soon because we believe that mueller, once he s done staffing and looks at all of the evidence, will make a decision as to whether or not this becomes a full-blown investigation of the president, don. evan, thank you. stay with me. i want to bring in cnn political analyst carl bernstein, senior white house correspondent zef
night massacre. he said, identifier mueller and rosenstein for wasting the taxpayers money. this is a witch hunt. do you agree that the consequences of a saturday night massacre would be so severe for this country and the president? they would be severe. i think they d be even more severe. we ve had the suspense leading up to this. we already have fired comey and then we find out that he had given advance notice to rod rosenstein that he was going to get rid of comey anyhow and it turned out that rosenstein wrote a memo that in fact didn t correspondent with the real motive of mr. trump, which was the investigation was pending, which has put him in kind of a trick board seat because if he were to fire mueller who he appointed, he d be firing the
he s trying to do both at once. let s talk about these tweets. this is one of two tweets. i m being investigated for firing the fbi director by the man who told me to fire the fbi director. he calls it a witch hunt. is he contradicting himself? in the interview with lester holt he says i was going to do it anyway, it doesn t matter what rosenstein said. he s not contradicting himself in terms of strategy. once again, let s get rosenstein out of this thing. that s his objective. rosenstein will recuse and let s stop the investigation at all costs because he does not want any more penetration of the facts of this matter involving his own finances, those of his family, whatever contacts there are with russians. he wants it to stop. and once it if he can do that, then he needs to stave off impeachment with republicans joining in a move for impeachment. he thinks he can do that and