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Disciplined or removed from office only by the personal action of the Attorney General. But according to the white house, the president has been advised he, he can terminate Robert Mueller all by himself. Does he believe he has the power to fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller . Certainly believes he has the power to do so. Most legal experts believe he would have to order Deputy Attorney general rosenstein to fire mueller and corefuse. I know a number of individuals in the Legal Community and in...

Facts. >> reporter: house intelligence chairman adam schiff writing mueller a letter calling the doj guidance, quote, another attempt by the trump administration to obstruct the authorized oversight activity and legitimate investigations of the committee. republicans insist the mueller report already vindicates the president. >> were finding each and every day that this whole collusion narrative that was out there that adam schiff and jerry nadler keep talking about was really not there. >> repo...

And actually it started practically from the time i came down on the escalator. >> reporter: behind closed doors, cnn has learned hes becoming increasingly irritated with the focus on muellers hearings. trump allies echoing the same feeling. >> weve already heard from him. i dont know how many times we want to see this movie again. i think the american people have moved on past this. >> reporter: as tension grows between house democrats and the justice department after it issued a warning for mu...

This new letter that directs mueller to not say anything at all to congress about trump or about any of his investigative decisions saying that everything else he did is covered by privilege and otherwise stuff at the department expects him not to talk about or wants him not to talk about. a senior official told us that muellers july 10th letter to the justice department which this letter said it is in response to, apparently that letter from mueller to justice was a one-paragraph letter sending...

Roll. would muellers findings ever be released? >> has responsibility, mueller to, report only to rosenstein or the person acting in that particular position. the report is handed over to that person. if theres questions where to go from there, the indictments, grand jury subpoena issues, theyre all centered around the ultimate clearance of rod rosenstein or lis figure. remember they have been criticized largely because they have acted mostly autonomously away from what the oversight should be p...

If in fact he is not owning up to what he did, you know, assuming that he actually did some of these things hes accused of doing and we dont know because we dont have any independent investigation going on, if hes not owning up to those kinds of things, if hes not expressing responsibility or contrition, i think thats frankly a much more damning reflection on his character. and beyond that, its not only about his character. its about his credibility. if we cant trust him to tell the truth about ...

Giving it another shot. >> why dont you just fire mueller. >> why dont i just fire mueller? well, i think its a disgrace whats going on. well see what happens. its a sad situation. again, they found nothing. and in finding nothing, thats a big statement. if you know, the person who is in charge of the investigation, you know all about that, deputy rosenstein, rod rosenstein. as you know, he also signs the fisa warrant. so rod rosenstein who is in charge of this signed a fisa warrant and he also ...

>> theyve prosecutes terrorism cases. >> of course, sure. theres no question they can handle it, and i agree with you on the mission creep argument. its a smart move. its also a smart move to put it in a place where its not subject to ending if mueller gets fired and his team gets disbanded. and i think its a good argument to say, listen, these are trumps people. its trumps doj. its trumps u.s. attorney. theyre still moving forward. a federal judge has approved this search warrant. so were now n...

>> oh, sure. i mean the southern district can handle any kind of investigation. >> theyve prosecutes terrorism cases. >> sure, anything. theres no question they can handle it, and i agree with you on the mission creep argument. its a smart move. its also a smart move to put it in a place where its not subject to ending if mueller gets fired and his team gets disbanded. and i think its a good argument to say, listen, these are trumps people. its trumps doj. its trumps u.s. attorney. theyre still ...

Know, witch hunt land anymore despite the presidents earlier comments. were in a different category, and its moving forward on a different track, and i think thats important for the presidents supporters to understand. >> theyre all trump appointees, though. the witch hunt argument, the witch hunt is being run by trump appointees as well. rosenstein selected mueller to -- >> but rosenstein is independent in a way that jeff berman is not. if he gets pressure, well see what he does, of course. hes...