x-ray vision in stories like this. what do you think this is really about? this is as you said the class classic espionage wilderness of mirrors. basically the idea is, this is a set up. this was deliberately leaked by an antitrust person to promote trump into firing rod rosenstein in order to assist the democrats in the midterm election. and if you are less conspiratorial though, it s clear that there is no honor among thieves and the vast number of people that have been removed from the highest levels of the fbi and department of justice in the last few months all have an incentive to slip the shiv to rosenstein, as the guy who is still there. they are basically in the position you know how it works with corporate crimes when the u.s. attorney tries to persuade the chief financial
when you rent from national. it s kind of like playing your own version of best ball. because here, you can choose any car in the aisle, even if it s a better car class than the one you reserved. so no matter what, you re guaranteed to have a perfect drive. [laughter] (vo) go national. go like a pro. see what i did there? all right, don t get all caught up in the politics of punishment and all of that. there are two big questions. will rosenstein be fired or will he resign? now, the answer matters politically and practically. the practical first. rod rosenstein, now, technically, he has two roles. he s the deputy ag and acting attorney general in charge of the russia probe. so when it comes to who takes over the russia probe, it wouldn t matter if rosenstein
now you have the other specter of this. if rosenstein goes, friends over at fox say, don t do it, it s a trap! they re looking to set you up, saying, this was your move on mueller. don t take the bait. you ve heard this theory. but it also does show something else. no matter if it s because of what rosenstein says with his hand up or otherwise, it is a move by trump ostensibly to stop the probe. does he want that on his account for 2020? i don t know. i think that the chief of staff would be the appropriate person in the event of a staff member being derelict in their duty or being recalcitrant to the goals of the administration. so i think there s a way to do it, to isolate the president. i m not an expert i don t think kelly can fire him. i don t think kelly can fire rosenstein. well, you may be right about that. i think the order has to come from the commander in chief. i would have no basis to dispute that. so, look, i am not aware of what the political implications would
occasional black outs of his extraordinary first year. i appreciate you joining us here this evening. we had all of those today. right on. okay, so, then, my question is does rod rosenstein, does he survive the end of the week, by the end of the week? it feels like he will. i really do think the white house preoccupation over the weekend was entirely about the fate of brett kavanagh working with senate judiciary committee chairman chuck grassley and the majority leader mitch mcconnell on doing whatever is humanly possible. there may not be much left to do humanly and politically possible to keep republicans linked arms about a process and an eventual vote to try to see if brett kavanagh can be confirmed before the mid terms. i think rosenstein and the story of the new york times caught the president s attention, but only momentarily. and he may have thought and the white house may have perhaps engineered this entire fire drill this morning, if you will, to take our attention aw
tonight. it was a strange day, one of our producers had to put out an email pressuring us rod rosenstein is still the deputy attorney general of the united states, then quickly added, right now. he tells us he went to this meeting today at the white house expecting to be fired by the chief of staff john kelly. they were discussing that bombshell reporting where rosen rosenstein discussed the possibility of wearing a wire to record the president is trying to invoke the 25th amendment. some of the president s advisors think this may have been a false flag designed by mccabe and others to get the president to overreact and help democrats who used a rosenstein firing to try to impeach the president. mccabe was under investigation for leaking to the media and then lying about it, and insist he had nothing to do with this week to the new york times. i was hosting fox and friends