long-sought-after plan to fire rosenstein now, he would have a very high political price to pay. so to answer your question directly, i think the president eventually will. i think the president is setting the stage for this constitutional crisis, but i just don t think we re there yet. even beyond the constitutional crisis, does that then put the mueller investigation into jeopardy? well, look, the fact of the matter is that rod rosenstein arguably has more sway over this russian investigation than bob mueller himself. it s rod rosenstein who has to approve every major investigative step that bob mueller and his team wish to take. it s rod rosenstein who is the link between the investigation and the white house. rosenstein goes to the white house before major indictments, before major steps to brief the president on this. so, look, the position of deputy attorney general or the position of the most senior doj official overseeing this investigation is critically important, and i th
election wor for him. after the election, i think there will be a big problem if you fire around rosenstein. it will be a problem if you guys don t come back next week. that s all i am saying. good to see e yyou. working out the details on brett kavanaugh s accuser, what she lays out with the senate judiciary committee.
so it possible mueller has conflicts of interest that are perhaps being overlooked? no. that completely fits with the narrative that continues to come out of trump and the trump camp and his surrogates. the suggestion of a conflict of interest is done to discredit the basis of the investigation. who else to target better than robert mueller. but the thing about rocket mueller, because he keeps his mouth shut, keeps his head down and works steadfastly forward, that is exactly what the house republicans are trying to do. we saw during the congressional hearing this week where rod rosenstein and chris wray were attacked. ultimately we got that resolution that said they have to turn over the documents by july 6th. to that end, i want to play awe bit of what deputy rosenstein said in his exchange with jim jordan. i don t know why you won t give us what you asked for. sir, i hope your colleagues are not under that impression.
cooperative with them, to produce as many documents as rationally, legally and properly as can be procing them, and we have made dramatic progress in that regard really. tucker: did the deputy attorney general threatened to a subpoena on the email or phone records of members of the house intel committee? i was not in the room and i cannot speak to what occurred. all i can say is that the people the director of the fbi at our senior ethics attorney was there and others and they did not see that in the same fashion. tucker: so as a factual matter, you don t think that happened? i m confident that deputy rosenstein after 28 years and the department of justice did not improperly threaten anyone on that occasion. but we do believe that we have tried to be cooperative with them and made progress in months, as the months have gone
tionally, legally and properly as can be producing them, and we have made dramatic progress in that r tucker: did the deputy attorney general threatened to a subpoena on the email or phone records of members of the house intel committee? i was not in the room and i cannot speak to what occurred. all i can say is that the people the director of the fbi at our senior ethics attorney was there and others and they did not see that in the same fashion. tucker: so as a factual matter, you don t think that happened? i m confident that deputy rosenstein after 28 years and the department of justice did not improperly threaten anyone on that occasion. but we do believe that we have tried to be cooperative with