whitaker does, and he s probably not going to just fire mueller. he ll probably try to starve him. no matter what he does, remember, there are pieces of this investigation already alive. right? southern district of new york, that district in virginia. and, of course, he ll have backed up his files. so the mueller investigation was sort of inside us all the time. it s around. it s not just in the person of mueller. there are of course the extreme is that rosenstein will not approve the release of his findings. like, this has to be done. they have to have a formal approval of the release of this findings, but there still seems to be enough fail safes so the truth will come out. and all that s happening surrounding michael cohen and a piece in the wall street journal yesterday, encapsulating all that s happened with michael cohen saying the president knew about each and every one of these conversations. what s your perspective?
seems post reporting is right. what s the punishment for such a violation? there can be criminal charges, fines. depends on the severity, and it then raises a question prosecuting a sitting president, leads us to a return to some of the mueller questions about can you indict a president? who s a sitting president, justice department general and so that all said, to your point, this is a southern district of new york investigation. it s separate from mueller. mueller farmed it out. no matter what happens now, the turmoil in the justice department, that will keep going forward and see where it leads. dig into that later in the show more. president trump in france today commemorating or supposed to be, the 100-year anniversary of the end of world war i, criticizing his host along the way and getting something there he could not get at home. he s over there because he wants that military parade? right? marking the 100 anniversary of the ending of world war i in the
courthouses across the country. this is illegitimate because the attorney general is illegitimate. how founded is that? how likely is that? where will you see the protest against this take place? two things to watch. that argument is already going to play out in a court in washington, where an associate of roger stone has challenged the validity of the mueller investigation and judges asked both sides, team, you know, special counsel s office and stone s associate to weigh in on a what a post-whitaker world likes like s does it invalidate mueller s investigation? most likely not. and secondly rod rosenstein. called the whitaker appointment a good thing. why would he do that? when any lawyer looking at whitaker s background, involvement in a company, under an ftc investigation, now we read criminal charges. when the job should have been his? right? rob rosenstein should have gotten this job?
last week by a justice department watcher to be very careful not to assume that bob mueller doesn t have as strong of an investigation or case on the conspiracy/collusion side as on the obstruction side. just because we don t hear as much about it to not assume that isn t just as strong and moving forward and closing in on this president. do you agree with that asse assessment? i do. when i saw first the indictment of the russian troll farm actors and the indictment of the russian gru military intelligence officers, it s clear that mueller s team not only knows a lot but has done an extraordinary job of pulling together disparate data from all over the world and all over the intelligence community. and so you have to believe, if you ve read either of those indictments. and i would urge people to do that because they re fascinating. you have to believe, nicolle, that bob mueller knows a lot
jury. so you have these 100 senators. now, of those two figures, the figure that many of those senators will weigh the heaviest is the 37% because those 37% of people will not accept the evidence against trump. and i think that this jury pool is very susceptible to that number. joe, you know, yes. joe, one footnote to donny s pepsi challenge, that 70% cohort that thinks the president should testify, that include the president of the united states. we re told that his advisers think that just like he was advised not to take the omarosa bait, the first lady advised him not to engage with omarosa, he can t help himself. that s why they think he will ultimately do an interview with mueller, he just can t help himself. you look at those numbers, 70% of americans say that if