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Republicans are telling the president look, maybe at some point rosenstein has to go, at least from their perspective, but to do it before the election, to do it at this heightened stage of special counsel muellers investigation would be dicey for the president. on one hand, the president will say rosenstein is not conducting things based on this reporting, he can twist it to say look, he is not doing this in a fair and balanced manner. on the other hand, it may make the president look guilty or...

You are kind of tied to their narrative and the independent public cannot check the narrative of the sources youre using. its a tricky journalism ethics 101 thing, which would be a real issue if the overarching story wasnt that the president is crazy and probably should be removed because hes unfit for law. in a normal timeline this is a really good example of like why people go to journalism school and what they think about. but we cant really get to that point because overall, were in a situat...

Whose former friend ousted producer bill shine is running communications inside the white house. you cannot make this up. no hollywood studio would buy your script because they would think its a lie. a piece by "the new york times" about deputy attorney general rod rosenstein, the "times" reports after trump fired james comey, rosenstein suggested that he secretly record the president omarosa style inside the white house and he also discussed with cabinet members to invoke the 25th amendment to ...

Oval office, russian journalists, excludes american journalists, and then reveals confidential information. at the same time rosenstein is vexed because the president has had him make this memo about firing comey without telling him the real reason why. finally, when the "times" asked rosenstein, did this actually happen, did you say that we need to invoke the 25th amendment in order to get rid of president trump, rosenstein has this weird nondenial denial. he says, well, i just saw the presiden...

Invoke the 25th amendment. >> is, right. >> not at this moment. >> if you wanted to read "the new york times" piece and the sourcing of it as an attempt really to go after rod rosenstein, part of this piece where the idea of sort of baker act, for lack of a better term, the president with the 25th amendment wept nowhere, but according to the "new york times" the people who heard him saying this more than one time called mr. rosensteins comments an example of how erratically he was behaving while...

Middle of a lot of stuff. he wrote the memo that was a pretext used to fire comey, he then got upset that the memo was released according to the "new york times" and decided to turn i guess on the president he was upset. isnt he a witness? >> he is. theres always been a question at some point rosenstein himself will have to recuse and hes talked to the ethics officers at the department of justice and mueller and that time isnt now. if there does come a time where he has a conflict he will step d...

This, that this gave him another view into how much the president knew or did not know about the way the fbi should operate. we know this over the last year that the president has one view of how the fbi should operate, that is, as his own personal general counsel, versus the -- the constitutional view of how the fbi should operate, which is as an independent institution. so, you know, maybe at this point rosenstein his head is exploding, right? hes been used, hes sitting in on this, he believes...

Used those per sonas. the conspirators corresponded with several americans through the internet. theres no allegation in this indictment that the americans knew they were corresponding with russian intelligence officers. >> further on that point rosenstein add no americans were charged in the indictment and said it does not allege that election results were altered. he also said the investigation continues. we learn today rosenstein briefed the president, told him this was coming before the pres...