i m alex marquardt. nice to see you. i m christine romans. stories from moscow shortly. first we begin here sources familiar with discussions in the white house tell cnn it looks like president trump is considering firing deputy attorney general rod rosenstein in the wake of the fbi raid on trump fixer and personal attorney michael cohen. rosenstein has been supervising special counsel mueller s russia investigation since jeff sessions recused himself. the president has talked about firing all three sessions, rosenstein, and mueller, at various points. the widespread assumption was that federal regulations barred president trump from firing mueller directly, but yesterday we learned the president does not share that assumption. listen does he believe he has the power to fire robert mueller? certainly believes he has the power to do so. press secretary sarah huckabee sanders did not suggest that the president that
yes, and i ll have my team follow up with you so that way we can have this discussion across the different categories where i think that this discussion needs to happen. look forward to it. open to regulation, don t know what it will look like. wall street liked that answer, and they liked zuckerberg s testimony. facebook shares popped 4.5%. its highest level in almost three weeks. facebook has lost tens of millions of dollars in market value since the current crisis began. zuckerberg testifies again before the house energy and commerce committee. zuckerberg also confirmed that facebook is cooperating with special counsel robert mueller s russia investigation. listen to this exchange with senator patrick leahy, the 33-year-old ceo choosing his words very carefully. have you or anyone at facebook been interviewed by the special counsel s office? yes. have you been interviewed? i have not. i have not others have? i believe so. and i want to be careful here
facebook boss mark zuckerberg gears up for more questioning on capitol hill just hours from now. and most saying he did a pretty good job yesterday. it was remarkable testimony. five hours, long time there. welcome back to early start. i m christine romans. i m alex marquardt. it is 30 minutes past the hour. sources familiar with discussions in the white house tell cnn that it looks like president trump is considering firing deputy attorney general rod rosenstein in the wake of the raid of trump fixer were and personal attorney michael cohen. rosenstein has been supervising mueller s russia investigation since attorney general jeff sessions recused himself last year. the president has talked about firing all three men, sessions, rosenstein, and mueller, at various points. the widespread assumption was that federal regulations barred president trump from firing mueller directly, but yesterday we learned that the president does not share that assumption. listen does the p
another statement from the president s attorney, from john dawd, when he spoke to the daily beast. to point out, that daily beast said that dowd clarified high was not speaking on the president s behalf. should we anticipate more actions like we saw with mccabe s firing yesterday, that strike at people connected to special counsel mueller s russia investigation, on the side. what is not okay is that president is trying to shut an investigation down. he might not go as far as he would like to. he may show restraint now and
what does the fbi consider that to be, how it is applied to mccabe in this instance? the term is found by the inspector general, the department of justice, michael horo witsz. anyone who knows andrew mccabe and his 21-year career has to doubt that he did anything as blatant as telling an out right lie. the suggestion from horowits, we haven t seen the report yet is that when he was asked in the investigation about exactly what he did in permitting the agents to speak to the wall street journal, he was somewhat squirreliyiy or not forthcoming that is for an fbi agent, it is almost inconveefable that he