confidence that when he speaks that is the complete truth, and we can be satisfied we ve gotten to the bottom of it. there s lot to talk about memos and possible tapes of interacs. do you think the special counsel will be able to, jeff, get their hands on tapes if they exist? i would hope so. if they do exist, then a subpoena in the white house would have to respond. i want to talk now about the rank and file. so much has been made of them and how they re dealing with this, and will their investigation continue alongside this one or not. will it, stuart? well, keep in mind robert mueller is at the helm here. so he has complete atonomy to decide what direction and who he s going to utilize. he s going to sit down with those who were in the investigation and be brought
pleasure of going through academy, and from my understanding was on the short list. and one i think is very qualified is assistant drergt paul bate. i think, though, and i think my colleague would agree that i think the fbi would be better served at this point to have someone from the outside come in and do some house keeping and really renew the confidence not only for the american public, but also within the fbi. i think there needs to be some new blood brought in. he s shaking his head in agreement. jeff stuart, i appreciate it. when we come back more on our breaking news. how will russia react?
both republicans and democrats are applauding rosenstein s decision. how is this going to work in the fbi? he s going to start this investigation from scratch, correct? i think he s going to steak where the investigation is now, he s going to of course review the investigation, see what s been done and then either put it in a direction or continue in the direction they ve been going. do you think that the administration now seeing it as a big mistake, stuart, for the president to have fired james comey? well, i mean no question about it. if you had to choose director comey versus form director mueller, i think the president now has to be somewhat concerned. director mueller is going to get to the bottom of it, regardless of what the outcome may be or the imications may be. the truth is going to come out, and he s going to report based upon the evidence he develops. and the american people should be and should have the
the president met with four dand dts for the fbi position. what do you make of those candidates? i don t know too much about all of them except for andrew mccabe, who he and i served together here in new york many years ago. i think being the deputy director and now the acting director, he knows what s going on in the fbi. he knows where he can get his support from, but i think it s very tough to move within the bureau up to that tough slot. you said you know mccabe. does he have a velgzship with mueller? i think so. he s been down in washington a lot. stuart, do you know any of these potential any of these candidates? not those there were other individuals on the short list that i actually had the privilege, one of the candidates, mike anderson, the sac in chicago, i actually had
officer torres still aiming his gun, is making gear nervous. he said hey, can you not point that gun at me? can you get officer whatever to put away his gun. a few times, gear asks permission to move. a couple times, he needed to scratch his nose. he would say, hey, i m going to scratch my nose and he would slowly take his hand and scratch his nose. but officer torres remembers it differently. he brought both his hands down in a quick motion towards his waist and i fired a scot right through the screen door and it hit him. reporter: a single shot and john gear goes down in his own home. remember he hadn t committed a crime and he wasn t holding a weapon. jeff stuart saw his friend get shot. john was hit lower left side on his rib cage. i watched from up there, and as soon as he shot he pulled his hand down to here he spun inside the house and pulled the door shut behind him. and you could see where his