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Our legal analyst shan wu is here, alice stewart joins us and john avlon. shan, to you, let s listen to jane mare, who co-authored this new yorker piece on debbie ramirez with ronan farrow, talking on cbs this morning about the claims of political motivation here. listen to what she said. i also interviewed a woman who judge kavanaugh wanted us to talk to, as someone who would defend him. i asked her outright, she knows deborah ramirez. i said do you think politics was a motivation? she said to me, no, and she s kavanaugh s defender. nobody is really alleging politics was the motivation here. shan wu, aside from the president and the white house. shan, can you hear us? he can t hear. all right, just your take on what we heard. i think it s important to know that people are saying ....
Replacing. it could happen, but certainly people that we have talked to, we have not heard any names. even as of this morning, folks here at cnn, some of our reporters here, had heard that people close to the president were urging him not to do this. not to fire the deputy attorney general, but clearly, something changed this morning. you know, we know that folks at the department of justice had been huddled this morning. we thought something was going on because the folks there were not really communicating with our laura jarrett. things were kind of quiet, so we had suspicions that something was going to happen. certainly, we did not expect this, the fact that the deputy attorney general would be fired by the president of the united states. especially in the middle, still continuing this investigation, this russia investigation that rosenstein is overseeing. and what does this mean now for ....
Have president trump meeting with his south korean counterpart, moon jae-in. and you know, after the hugs that we saw between president moon and kim jong-un last week, what does president trump need to find out from or get on the same page with south korea on at this point? at this point, president moon, for his own reason, is very eager to move forward. he would be bringing back, you mentioned the hugs. they met for three days, and he ll be bringing back the message that he s serious about denuclearization, but president trump, you have to give something in return. you have to give it now. and i think if you give it now, maybe there is still a path ahead. so president moon is playing a very, very important role in brokering between moon and trump. sorry, trump and kim. okay. joseph yun, always good to have your expertise. thank you. ....
what do you make of the president saying this morning summit number two is happening? well, i think it s been in the works for a while. i mean, there is no doubt that we all know president trump wants to see kim jong-un again, and kim jong-un has been sending very nice letters, very praiseworthy, and really thanking president trump. now, poppy, to me, the question is, is all members of the senior staff in the administration on the same script? is john bolton with president trump in welcoming these overtures. it s also important, secretary of state pompeo also on the same wave length. because it seems to me there is a bit of a disconnect between the president and his senior staff. joseph, let me ask you this very simple question. what concrete concession or move has north korea made on ....
York times that we learned about the 25th amendment, et cetera, is the proximate cause or if the president s criticism of the russian investigation. shan, just in terms of rod rosenstein s replacement when he or she is named, the immediate replacement, the solicitor general, nole francisco, but as pauby no y poppy noted, the prt can choose anyone who is senate confirmed. how much power does that new person in that position have over the mueller investigation? including can that new person end the mueller investigation? they would have enormous power over the mueller investigation. and it really is going to be determined by what kind of person is appointed and whether they re willing to wield that power responsibly or not. a responsible person is going to come in and they re going to take their time. they re going to talk to the career people, they ll talk to ....