after the midterm election, that he would get a call from the white house saying it s time to go and that s apparently what has happened here. so someone the chief of staff or someone called him up and said, okay, time for you to pull the plug. i think mr. sessions anticipated this. there were signs in the last couple of months that he was realizing that his time as attorney general was coming to a close, so, you know, as i said earlier, i think the only surprising thing about this is the timing, happening the very day after the midterm elections. i heard you saying earlier, and i just want to clarify your position as to what you re hearing from people. does this de facto mean that rod rosenstein is not overseeing the mueller or will not be overseeing the mueller investigation as soon as whitaker takes his seat in the attorney general s office? yes. here s the reason why. the special counsel regulations under which bob mueller was appointed to be the special
whitaker was in place to replace rosenstein if need be, again showing when donald trump s family or money or interests are on the line, he becomes an expert at bureaucracy. he knows mccabe is a deputy, he kno knows so he has that mastery, and when he looks at these civil servants and deputies and as you go into the bureaucracy, he says most of these people aren t going to stand up to a president even if they have said it s wrong, even if they talked about wearing a wire or that it was a joke. this letter from attorney general sessions, former attorney general sessions as of this hour, it s not dated. there s no date on here. we don t know when this began. and it says they top basically in washington speak, you fired me. it s unbelievable. so jeff sessions is going and by the way, jeff sessions will be a witness sooner or later in this mueller probe. at your request. he put this in writing for a
time was right, it may very well be this moment. and i m sure bob mueller and his team have prepared for this contingency. so it could very well be that he walks into the grand jury tomorrow and says, you know, ladies and gentlemen, i ve been presenting this evidence to you. i have told you what the potential charges might be. may i please ask you to vote on the following charges. once he does that, it literally is a matter of hours between the time the grand jury returns an indictment, that indictment gets dropped on the court s docket and then i m sorry, but a criminal case is in progress at that moment. so that s two different things you re talking about, glenn. one of the things we re talking about is a report that a lot of people think bob mueller is preparing, which can be handed to the guy who was his boss, rod rosenstein. now it s going to be matthew whitaker, and that report it s possible no one will ever see that report, versus a grand jury? those are definitely two dif
he s the chief law enforcement official in the country. he can accept that interpretation, why not? franklin roosevelt may have accepted that. he says i can get rid of this guy, this bozo who betrayed me. i ve got a justice i like, kavanaugh in there, whitaker i like. if anybody gets in my way like rosenstein, they may not be there. i think it s a street fight. if he lets it go, do you want to be president of the united states when your son-in-law has been indicted? do you want to be there? do you want to be there when your daughter has been indicted? when you re facing a report from this guy who you consider a bozo? he doesn t respect these people. they re just enemies on a street corner. so it s not clear what chuck schumer can do about this if anything, but here s what he just had to say about it. protecting mueller and his investigation is paramount. it would create a constitutional
robert, obviously the biggest thing, the reason america knows rod rosenstein comes to an ending with the appointment of matthew whitaker. but there is a whole lot of controversy surrounding matthew whitaker, who is exactly what donald trump tends to look for in people around him, someone who sounds loyal and has suggested that the mueller investigation is either illegal or can be pushed back through efforts of the president and the white house. i have known matt whitaker for years. i actually moderated his senate debate when he ran for u.s. senate back in iowa in 2014. he lost that primary. he s a federal prosecutor in iowa. this is a rah, rah republican. someone who is all about president trump. he is someone who is a partisan. he has joined the government being chief of staff to the attorney general, but make no mistake, this is a hard-line conservative, ran as a hard-line conservative for u.s. senate, an ally of attorney general sessions, an ally of president trump, now at the top