welcome back. william bar had back to capitol hill after rod rosenstein will resign, this is democrats claim the gop is denying the meetings with donald trump s pick for attorney general. katherine herridge has the latest. leaving his home in suburban washington, rod rosenstein had no comment for reporters after justice officials confirmed his departure in coming weeks after new attorney general s conference, sources close to rosenstein said he saw the deputy s of is a 2-year position which is a approaching but without controversy, house republicans closed their probe and justice protections during the 2015 campaign and rosenstein failed to answer questions under oath.
the fate of people s legacies based upon the mood of the president on a certain day. it s just amazing that we re at this point. so to your point, kate, i still am confused. mark, we have to get past our confusion at some point, buddy. we ll figure it out together. jeffrey, what do you make of what he s saying about rod rosenstein? he says he has a very, very good relationship with him and they re going to have a nice chat on the plane. i m struck by how uncharacteristic that is for the president of the united states to approach anyone who has threatened the 25th amendment, according to the new york times, and talked about recording, secretly recording him. why it s so easily overlooked now. let s remember why rod rosenstein matters. please. rod rosenstein is the deputy attorney general of the united states. and because jeff sessions has recused himself from the russia investigation, rod rosenstein is robert mueller s superior. he s the person who can fire robert mueller, the
waiting for the two of them to have. the president said he put off that conversation until after brett kavanaugh was confirmed, and now they re going down to florida together. so there was that big issue, but then you also heard president trump do something else, which is gearing up for this big midterm fight. he s making a case against democrats saying they overplayed their hand with kavanaugh. he said they were caught up in a hoax. now, that is a very strong way of describing this. this was after weeks ago saying christine blasey ford was credible, the president now calling this whole episode a hoax. it s interesting to see him in this mood, going down to florida. looks like rod rosenstein is having a conversation with him, but he could be in pretty good shape based on the president s mood today, kate. the mood that can change on a dime. abby, thank you so much. really appreciate it. as abby is talking about the midterms, the president is also holding a primetime ceremonial swearin
today. joining me now to discuss all this, jackie kucinich is here, a cnn political analyst. chief legal analyst jeffrey toobin and mark preston, cnn s senior political analyst. mark, what a difference a week and a half makes, i guess, because it was a week and a half ago, i think, yeah, about a week and a half ago that the president was supposed to sit down with rod rosenstein to have this conversation about his employment status. i think we both remember when we were trying to work out what the employment status was on live tv, for quite a while for rod rosenstein. what is this? what are we seeing today? i m not as confused or perhaps i am as confused. we go back to those ten days, and you saw donald trump, we thought he was going to rip off rod rosenstein s head. he very well might do that. he may fire rod rosenstein or ask him to step down on this plane ride. we just don t know yet. it s interesting, we are judging really the fate of people s employ. the fate of people s careers,
that democratic voters care less about the supreme court than republican voters do. if you go back to the republican democratic convention in 2016, neither president obama or hillary clinton mentioned the fact that merrick garland was being held hostage at that very moment. the republican base, which disdains president trump s personal life, loves him because he has delivered on judges. that s a difference between the parties. maybe kavanaugh will help change that, but it s just worth noting, there is not an equal approach to the courts when it comes to democrats and republicans. thanks so much. i want to offer this up because it was hard to hear as the helicopters are always in the background. the president was asked directly about firing rod rosenstein, and his answer was no, i don t know, he said after he was asked if he had plans to fire rod