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Consternation. my hope is for the sake of the country that was someone would rein this president back in and that he would not take the kind of inappropriate action as firing rosenstein or firing mueller which i believe would put us into a constitutional crisis. you just said the word privately to describe the concerns of our republican colleagues. i ve been monitoring public pronouncements today and largely from republicans they ve been essentialliquiv cal or we don t need to do anything because i m confident they ll say he won t fire mueller. it won t happen. don t worry about it. do you think that s good enough? you know, i went out before the holidays before christmas and gave what i hoped was my red line speech that firing mueller, firing rosenstein, going off and pardoning family members or others would be a bridge too far. most republican who have been on ....
Country that was someone would rein this president back in and that he would not take the kind of inappropriate action as firing rosenstein or firing mueller which i believe would put us into a constitutional crisis. you just said the word privately to describe the concerns of our republican colleagues. i ve been monitoring public pronouncements today and largely from republicans they ve been essentialliquiv cal or we don t need to do anything because i m confident they ll say he won t fire mueller. it won t happen. don t worry about it. do you think that s good enough? you know, i went out before the holidays before christmas and gave what i hoped was my red line speech that firing mueller, firing rosenstein, going off and pardoning family members or others would be a bridge too far. most republican who have been on gone on the record have said yes, they thought that would go too far, as well. but we seem to be fast approaching that point. and my colleagues are going to ....
Bookie or if it s ivanka, don jr. someone out of atlantic city or a fixer inside deutsche bank, i don t know who it is, but yeah. might be a caddy that s saying, boss, use a 4 club and you can fire mueller. definitely. it s wrong. it s wrong. also, they can t fire mueller. the president can t fire mueller. if he does, then it will be appealed to the united states supreme court most likely and the court will reverse it, making matters much worse. but mika, let s look at what happened yesterday. yeah. i think it was an important day. we criticized republicans for not saying enough, standing up to the abuses of power and the incoherent statements of policy that the president makes or the violation of constitutional norms, but let s look at what happened yesterday. if the president wanted to go ....
Fire rosen stein, that would be the beginning, end of his presidency, he s not going to do that. i think the president is too smart to, to fire mr. mueller. if he did, it wouldn t end the investigation. look, this is painful. but we ve got to finish it. he s too smart? kasie hunt, to fire mueller? is that what they re going on here? because there s legislation that would make sure that he can t fire mueller. if these republicans so r so sure and so confident to step out in front of the cameras for the first time for some of them in a long time, why don t they just pass the legislation and make sure he can t? i don t know anybody who really with a straight face, can trust that this president means what he says after the patterns and the track record we have seen throughout his entire presidency. do i need to make a list? i mean, my god. i think that list would not be hard to make. it would be long. and it would be very long. i think you should read my read on senator kennedy s ....
I don t know how you can have any other conclusion. reporter: for the first time, trump attacked mueller by name, asking, why does the mueller team have 13 hardened democrats, some big crooked hillary supporters, and zero republicans? his question was rhetorical as well as incorrect, as mueller himself is a republican. as is deputy attorney general, general rod rosenstein, who oversees the probe. and this tweet on saturday had many questioning if the president is setting the stage for mueller s firing. the mueller probe should never have been started in that there was no collusion and there was no crime. that tweet caused white house attorney ty cobb to issue a statement once again saying that there are no plans to fire mueller. trump himself can t fire mueller directly, he d need the deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein, to do it. or trump would need to replace his attorney general jeff sessions, because of his earlier recusal from the russia probe. on saturday, one of the pres ....