fire rosenstein and sessions, there were people who didn t approach barr and he at first said no. we are going to take a quick break. when we come back, i think there is an important aspect that he was asked about, president offering pardons. it s an important thing to discuss right after this.
that was entangled with the law. and it s amazing that there are so many families for whom two generations are ensnared in this criminal investigation. look, i ve seen this work both ways in public corruption cases. i ve seen high-ranking officials told that their child is exposed criminally and they need to cut a deal. and i ve seen them walk away from it, much to the d disgruntlement of their spouse. i don t know where this will go, but most likely trump will lash out and fire rosenstein before making a deal for one of his kids. frank, thank you for being there for us. when we come back, the high five seen around the world. at something old,
credibility. now what happens if the president takes action, what are the possibilities how washington could respond, what are the possibilities where bob mueller would respond. i don t have any doubt bob mueller knows what he would do in that situation. why do we think trump hasn t done it. the guy touches hot stoves and says i ll do it again. this one is all, it feels like it is all bluster. i understand were senate republicans are saying this is one of his soap boxes, we re not so worried about it. that s been the white house defense. he could have done this months ago and didn t. it is a question whether he could have done it without having sessions and rosenstein gone. then there s pressure not to fire rosenstein. and not to fire sessions. sessions is now gone and rosenstein is now has a superior, this guy whitaker. he tried to get mcgahn, white house counsel to move on this a year ago, and he said you can t do this, threatened to resign.
investigation. does that quote, bill crystal, need to be delivered to mitch mcconnell? if you re the president of the united states and think an investigation in department of justice which ultimately reports to you is illegal, you probably are saying has he ordered the end of the investigation in your mind? no. but i am worried in this respect. what did he do, what is the first thing after election day, he accepted sessions forced resignation. and people aren t aware how extraordinary this was, put whitaker as acting attorney general. rosenstein would have been next in line, that s the way it happens, you could have made the solicitor general acting attorney general, that wouldn t be out of the ordinary. bring in a nonsenate confirmed, your political guy whitaker got the job because he defended trump on tv enough that trump said make him chief of staff, then was kind of a white house
he doesn t trust him enough that s the diabolical beauty of this move. now he does not have to who figured it out? he doesn t have to fire rosenstein, he doesn t have to fire mueller he has somebody like you around. who is telling him? everybody knew sessions was going to be removed from office. i think there was some vetting, but again, the main criteria was the ploil at this pledge in the russia audition. he went point by point, hit all the erognous zones. this is scraping the bottom of the barely. this is a man who has a walking conflict of interest, not only the statements about his ignorant uninformed statements about the russia investigation, but his own exposure, this company that he was in the board of that the fbi the ftc called a scam company, fined him $25 million, so the miami fbi is investigating that. he s the subject of that investigation. a walking conflict of interest. i m older than you guys.