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Independent counsel is a keet r i -- creature of the court, bob mueller can be fire by president trump and it something that everybody should be thinking about down the road if this investigation goes done and goes on in directions the president doesnt like. >> jeff zeleny, as if there isnt enough chaos in this administration, imagine him firing mueller. come on. i guess it a real possibility but just imagine the optics of that. >> mike chael raise as very goo point. we draw so many parallels to...

Mueller can be fired by president trump and it something that everybody should be thinking about down the road if this investigation goes done and goes on in directions the president doesnt like. >> jeff zeleny, as if there isnt enough chaos in this administration, imagine him firing mueller. come on. i guess it a real possibility but just imagine the optics of that. >> michael raises a very good point. we draw so many parallels to watergate. this is a moment in every respect obviously but parti...

Syria the united states doesnt like, like propping up assad, providing the jets and other military equipment that kills innocent si va -- republicans a comey, but it predates that ru luck tant to go out and defend this administration because theyre certain what theyre told by the staff is going to holdup to be true. somebody close to trump dauurin the campaign and transition. theyre in a downward spiral and have to figure out a way to go come to grips with what is happening. the chaos being crea...

Their best scrambling after they were surprised, many of them, surprised that donald trump made the decision to fire james comey. they did their best to say this is a long time respected guy and rod rosenstein is a new guy to the job. it was wide agreement that comey may not have handled himself great in the situation. democrats and republicans, lets go with that. donald trump doesnt like -- donald trump wants to be the guy on the "a"apprentice." everybody sit in front of me in the board room an...

President nixon fired archibald cox the special prosecutor in october of 1973. it was one of the most significant presidential assaults on the rule of law in our history. i think were witnessing something akin to that. donald trump doesnt like -- he is a doory phrase here but important. divided sovereignty goes back to the greek city states the idea you have a rule of law and power is divided among different bodies so that you have a balance. balance is not what he wants. he wants control. and i...

Doesnt work. but the point is you dont need to say these things about what really is the worst despot in the world question. have good diplomacy with the north koreans without actually reg jit mizing a regime that doesnt like is. >> gordon chang and jim walsh, thank you both for joining us tonight. we really appreciate it. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> coming up, michael moore has a question for donald trump, and we have questions for michael moore. thats next. working on my feet all day gave m...

Preserve african slavery. texas politicians have always footnoted their policies as coming directly from god. and so texas justified the confederacy this way. the servitude of the african race as existing in these states is mutually beneficial to both bond and free and is abundantly authorized and justified by the experience of mankind and the revealed will of the all mighty creator as recognized by all christian nations. president trump thinks a better president than abraham lincoln, a presiden...

Dealing with north korea. and do you say its an honor, gordon, to meet with him? do you call him a smart cookie? do you need any of that language here? >> no, you dont. even if we thought that having -- sitting down with the north koreans now was a good thing, and you know, thats arguable. we tried freezes before. we have done all that and it doesnt work. but the point is you dont need to say these things about what really is the worst despot in the world question. have good diplomacy with the n...

Clarifying reason people were likely to vote for trump in the primaries was not income, race, religion or anything like, that it was actually whether they had a more aauthoritarian mind-set. so i think that goes some way to explaining the presidents warmth towards, for example, sisi of egypt and the things that he said about duterte of the philippines and kim jong un. that one is quite surprising, i have to say. and i bet there are some people within the trump administration who are knocking on ...

Which is not the kind of a line you would have heard from ronald reagan or george h.w. bush or other well-known republicans. its the kind of line you would hear more from a suharto or a fidel or some other authoritarian leader. so i thought it was very striking during the campaign, one of the most interesting polls was one out of the university of massachusetts that showed that the single most clarifying reason people were likely to vote for trump in the primaries was not income, race, religion ...