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Going to be independent or not be independent. what are the risks do you see for the mueller probe if rosenstein leaves? >> well, first of all, rod rosenstein should under no circumstances resign. if the president tends to obstruct justice, rosenstein should require him to be fired. he shouldnt take a step affirmatively and essentially let the president off the hook. this looks to me like a slow moving saturday night massacre. it seems like the only question is whether these steps take place now...

Move on are prepared to take to the streets if either of those things happens and it would be justified. it also reminds me this question of whether hes resigning or whether hes going to be fired, is the same question we had on the saturday night massacre, is whether richardson had resigned or whether he was fired and the same question for the deputy attorney general who refused to carry out the order to fire cox and it also affected our office as to whether he had been fired and if we hadnt bee...

Congress getting the details of his investigation. >> lets just play the domino theory here. if jeff sessions resigns rather than being fired because the job is very much on the line after the midterm elections, if he resigns and whoever replaces him under the vacancy act i believe would only have to be a confirmed senior official, presidential appointee. could be another cabinet secretary. could bit a deputy secretary from another agency? and that person would not be recused. so it would no lon...

Of the department heads and you need the approval of the vice president to then take it to the congress and as we know from watching vice president pence hes nothing but loyal to president trump and i think that sort of effort would immediately result in someone being fired by the president. >> and pete, i think youve got an update? >> i just want to expand on something that phil said about all the different versions were hearing about this. were hearing that hes going there, the white house say...

No favors and did judge kavanagh no favorites by not putting the fbi to work on these charges when they first came out, for having a review outside of the lights. as a result of that we have a feeling by the democrats that this is being rushed, by the republicans that kavanagh is being sandbagged here and theres no orderly process to resolve all of this. >> and i want to ask you to respond to the rod rosenstein news, and we dont know what it is, whether hes fired, resigned or stays on for a whil...

Could have well been today or over the weekend but what is your reaction to the cloud over rod rosenstein and an experienced prosecutor whos the sur vising authority over the mueller probe? >> theres a cloud over the investigation and certainly the immediate battle question is rod rosensteins role and whether hell resign, be fired, will be replaced, so on and so forth and recognize theres discussion of jeff sessions stepping down two months from now possibly after the election which then would...

Tumultuous day in washington. >> yes, it may be. it looks like he may be trying to divert attention from the kavanagh hearings. although it may be just a question of his return to d.c. >> and matter if he does get pushed out, would it matter who takes over the mueller probe as far as what the reaction would be from critics of the president? >> i think it would be hard to find someone that critics will find not threatening to the investigation. but it does make a difference if theres someone who ...