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More like a chess move. at least hes getting advice from someone whos telling him how to move the pieces here in a way that best defends his presidency. and whats significant here is the resignation and not necessarily the firing. under that, the vacancies reform act is an open question on whether or not someone who is fired, whether it invokes the vra, vacancies reform act. but if somebody resigns, that allows trump to name a successor, a temporary successor. otherwise theres a strong argument ...

Unpopular nominee and couple that with the russia investigation and rosenstein, and the fact that everybody identifies their number one issue as health care, and i think that this is a recipe for disaster for republicans and it further encourages democrats to show up to vote. >> congresswoman, thank you. congressman, thank you. our viewers can tell youre both former members because of your civility to each other and your modest host. appreciate it. always a pleasure to have you both on. coming...

Whats going on. we want to have transparency. we want to have openness. >> deputy attorney general rod rosensteins future seems to be hanging in the balance tonight. this all follows "the new york times" report late last week saying that hed suggested perhaps secretly recording trump and lobbying cabinet members to invoke the 25th amendment. sources tell nbc news that trump decided not to fire rosenstein after discussions over the weekend with aides and allies and among other things after being ...

To peter baker, to cynthia alksne, to frank figliuuzzi, thank you so much for starting us off. coming up the other big story of the day, the latest reporting on rosenstein and his job future. and later, new numbers tonight on where these midterms may be headed exactly six weeks from now. "the 11th hour" just getting started with a new week on a monday night. police stay with us.

Presidents senior advisers over the weekend today but for quite some time now have tried to explain to the president that he simply cannot do. if rosenstein leaves, they say it has to be by his own decision and not by the president firing him because that just adds another data point for robert muellers investigation into obstruction of justice. >> and youre so right to point out that huge distinction. so jeremy, if in fact he leaves, you and so many others have been kind enough to be on our bro...

Its entirely inappropriate for the president to meet with rod rosenstein and do effectively what he did with jim comey before he fired comey, which is to invite in this case rosenstein to pledge loyalty, to say are you on my team, are you with me or against me, and to hold rosensteins job over his head, make him audition for the job he already holds. its an effort by the president to pressure the investigation and in fact to compromise and obstruct it. >> now to our former fed. frank, how would ...

Firing? again, the president cant fire bob mueller directly, he would have to get rid of rosenstein, would have to get rid of sessions. is that what its going to take for republicanyoure going to h to fire rosenstein. >> we have already seen some republican -- sorry, was that for me? >> you can go. >> we have already seen some republicans making it clear that they do not want the president to fire robert mueller. we have seen everyone from senator tom tillis, republican from north carolina sayin...

President from seeking to fire robert mueller if he wants to. he tried in the past, and he was stopped only because people didnt follow his orders. so if he directs attorney general rod rosenstein to do so, rod rosenstein has a decision to make, either hell step down or well see another saturday night massacre situation, but thats all in the hands of the president to initiate. >> charlie, what do you think the likelihood is that donald trump sits down for a face-to-face with bob mueller? >> dram...

And its been approved, you can move forward. of course, here, we have the president of the united states. so we see an even much higher level of review going up to rosenstein. and of course now officials over at the southern district of new york. it is never taken lightly when you go after an attorney/client privilege piece of information. one because its sack sack row sankt in many respects. and from the prosecutors perspective, if they screw that up if they somehow see evidence theyre not supp...

They had approval to look for that as well. >> all right, michael schmidt here from "the new york times" with some breaking news here, top of the 1:00 hour. michael, thanks. do come back in theres more news to share. tom, we also learned that deputy attorney general rob rosenstein signed off on this raid himself. what does that tell us? >> that tells us frankly theyre following along with the guidelines that hed been given. if you want to look at this from a sports analogy, craig, rob rosenstein...