Disciplined or removed from office only by the personal action of the Attorney General. But according to the white house, the president has been advised he, he can terminate Robert Mueller all by himself. Does he believe he has the power to fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller . Certainly believes he has the power to do so. Most legal experts believe he would have to order Deputy Attorney general rosenstein to fire mueller and corefuse. I know a number of individuals in the Legal Community and including at the department of justice said he has the power to do so but i dont have any further announcements. They told me, ive asked. They said its rosenstein oversees is the Special Counsel and only he has the power to fire the Special Counsel. Again, weve been advised that the president certainly has the power to make that decision. I cant go anything beyond that. Weve been advised the president certainly has the power to make the decision. To be clear, the warrants that were executed agains
facts. reporter: house intelligence chairman adam schiff writing mueller a letter calling the doj guidance, quote, another attempt by the trump administration to obstruct the authorized oversight activity and legitimate investigations of the committee. republicans insist the mueller report already vindicates the president. we re finding each and every day that this whole collusion narrative that was out there that adam schiff and jerry nadler keep talking about was really not there. reporter: democrats hope mueller s televised testimony will educate the pop what is in the report educate the public on what is in the report. we don t need robert mueller to say anything breathtaking. we need him to highlight the main parts of the report because it is so devastating. reporter: preparations have been going on for weeks with mock hearings, scripted questions. the biggest question today, of course, does anything change in terms of public opinion. of course, we won t know that unti
and actually it started practically from the time i came down on the escalator. reporter: behind closed doors, cnn has learned he s becoming increasingly irritated with the focus on mueller s hearings. trump allies echoing the same feeling. we ve already heard from him. i don t know how many times we want to see this movie again. i think the american people have moved on past this. reporter: as tension grows between house democrats and the justice department after it issued a warning for mueller to, quote, remain within the boundaries of his public report. attorney general william barr says the guidance came at mueller s request. they asked us for guidance in writing to explain or to tell them what our position was. we responded in writing. reporter: what do you think of congressman nadler lashing out saying this was arrogant to send this letter? he was misinformed as to the
this new letter that directs mueller to not say anything at all to congress about trump or about any of his investigative decisions saying that everything else he did is covered by privilege and otherwise stuff at the department expects him not to talk about or wants him not to talk about. a senior official told us that mueller s july 10th letter to the justice department which this letter said it is in response to, apparently that letter from mueller to justice was a one-paragraph letter sending them the subpoenas he got from congress and asking for guidance on what he could say. now we know from the publication of this letter that the justice department took 12 days to respond to mule eller and gave order to not tell anything at all, not about the president or anyone else and signed by a justice department official who is supposed to have no role in this matter at all. we are going to get expert help on that in a second in terms of
roll. would mueller s findings ever be released? has responsibility, mueller to, report only to rosenstein or the person acting in that particular position. the report is handed over to that person. if there s questions where to go from there, the indictments, grand jury subpoena issues, they re all centered around the ultimate clearance of rod rosenstein or lis figure. remember they have been criticized largely because they have acted mostly autonomously away from what the oversight should be perhaps of rod rosenstein. i think he has been under fire since the day he appointed robert mueller and will continue through the rest of his tenure. they have been able to independently act and that will probably continue. here s what the woist is reporting tonight, president trump is unlikely to fire rosenstein till after the midterm elections. you expect something big late november after the midterm elections. attorney general jeff sessions