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When hes made findings or conclusions. so if you remove rosenstein, you have to have somebody else put in place to bafshsically overse the investigation because the attorney general jeff sessions has already recused himself. so that would allow the president to have direct influence over the special counsels investigation without removing rob mueller. so i can see why the president may want to do it, but it is a bad idea. >> and daniel, hold on a second. i want to ask one more of page. and that ...

Probably agree to protect mueller from trump firing him. and i think only the most hardcore trump supporters in the senate and house on the republican side would probably try to block this move. i think mitch mcconnell if it was up to him he would agree with this. he had told don mcgahn to stay in that job to try to protect trump from his own mistakes. >> and i want to move on n ste wynn. he of course is denying allegations of sexual misconduct that are detailed by the "wall street journal." whe...

Hearing this morning about the democrats plan to protect muellers team? >> reporter: well, they have raised the question of thousand protect robert mueller once again and they are seeking to ensmur that te ensure that the ongoing budget negotiations include some type of legislation that would protect the special counsel from being able to be fired by the president alone. now, this isnt the first time that the democrats have raised this idea, they actually brought it up late fall last year when t...

Unsubstantiated, but its silly. its silly. why would that be the motivation? you go with the story when you get it. >> i didnt blame the news media on that, chris. im just saying these are all coming to light now, and there are folks that may have information that are bringing this to light and talking when they shouldnt be talking and leaking information when they shouldnt be leaking information to the extent any of this is true to begin with. >> thats beside the point. >> now its becoming publ...

White house for us, thank you. so we have 34re7b9s hav hav discuss, here do that, daniel lippman and page pate. we just heard senator mark warner there. do you think the democrats have a legitimate chance of passing legislation to protect mueller? >> i think there is a lot of support, people were really shaken by what they heard in that "new york times" report that caitlin collins mentioned. and it will just be really curious to see whether or not if they will -- again they need republican sur...

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