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Cannot do. if rosen sign leaves they say it has to be by his own decision and not by the president firing hip. it just adds another data point for muellers investigation. >> youre so right to point that out. jeremy, if in fact he leaves you and so many others have been kind enough to be on our broadcast regularly, have said that a departure would equal a constitutional crisis or as close to one as you want to come or are we there yet? >> well, even before we get to departure i think a thursday m...

House that is try to go figure out what exactly they want to do with this situation and one of the concerns that has been repeated to the president and that kelly may have been trying to underscore is that on the one hand at the end of the day, whether rosenstein resigns or whether he is fired the end result is the sap. she gone. he is no longer the deputy attorney general. that said there is a tremendous difference between the president accepting his resignation which while it might cause probl...

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...

Whole new generation of republicans swept in. so a number of candidates running doesnt indicate victories. what it does show is enthusiasm and i can tell you that is what psyching out republicans. they know the excitement is on the other side of midterms. thats everything. >> so, what, you have like 156 more dems running than republicans, but youre saying that does not necessarily mean more election victories? you would think if you do the math, it would. >> yeah, so it can. and weve always been...

He cant just open an investigation because the president is embarrassed. as the former u.s. attorney just pointed out, unless theres allegation that someo-- >> the president seems to think the justice department and attorney general, they are there to serve the presidents political agenda, other requirements, does he not understand the role of the role of the justice department and attorney general? >> just within the past week, we have another data point, the presidents tweet about chris collin...

And mind matter enormously. another data point that leads to being more cheerful this evening than you are which isnt very hard is of 36% in the approval rating. thats to me thats a more natural number at this point for the president. and to me, one of the fascinating things the detail in the piece about whispers about the 25th amendment and then wondering about -- that prompted people all day to say well, theres that but we really have to worry about the election, thats absolutely right. the 25...

>> its not a surprise. i dont think voters had an idea how unhinged donald trump is. i think theyre progressively becoming more aware of that. >> i think thats true. i was speaking to republicans and democrats earlier, it could mobilize voters and demobilize republican voters keeping them home. a lot of people that voted for donald trump saying we like whats happening in the country with taxes and jobs. we dont like what comes out of his mouth and dont support his more controversy comments and p...

The second is about to get his second lifetime appointment to the supreme court. >> regardless how we end up considering the motives or whether or not this writer is admirable. one thing we have to take away from this, this notion, they pondered the 25th amendment but moved away from that because they thought in invoking it they would create a constitutional crisis. that is almost beside the point. this white house is in crisis. when you have a group of unknown unknownses unelected officials tak...

That is almost beside the point. this white house is in crisis. when you have a group of unknownses unelected officials taking over the white house and taking over things because of someone they consider inept, you are in crisis. >> to be clear, there is a data point. there is an norms amount of data points. the omarosa data point. >> its not a surprise. i dont think voters had an idea how unhinged donald trump is. i think theyre progressively becoming more aware of that. >> i think thats true. ...

There is a quiet resistance within the administration of people choosing to put country first, but the real difference will be made by everyday citizens rising above politics reaching across the aisle and resolving to shed the labels in favor of a single one, americans. with us, the historian and author jon meacham. thats a pretty good bit of writing there. >> it is. isnt it? so thats a tell. so im sure theres a -- the amount of google searching right now through previous writings. >> oh, man. >...