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Are very important. >> in judge brett kavanaughs initial hearing, democrats tried to delay the beginning of it. do you anticipate any of those types of maneuvers in a couple of hours? >> our focus, as i said, is on facts and evidence, not parliamentary maneuvers here. here is a question of timing thats very important, gentlemen. tomorrow the judiciary committee is scheduled to vote even before hearing dr. blasey ford the republican leadership scheduled a vote really any pretext of listening resp...

To be quit or hes going to be fired? what was it then? >> it seemed to have been sparked by a "new york times" article ran last week that depicted a point in time, a while ago, approximately 18 months ago when rod rosenstein was first in the job as the deputy attorney general after he wrote the memo the president used as a pretext to fire the fbi director jim comey -- >> youre talking about the 25th amendment. i get that because the administration responded to it, played into it, and now theyre ...

Rod oversees the potential counsel probe, the mueller probe. hes been a stalwart over it, having him there to defend is porn. and he also oversees the criminal investigations pending in the southern district of new york involving michael cohens cooperation and wherever that may lead as has been reported and other matters farmed out to the u.s. attorneys offices for example in d.c. so having him there, and having him in place is important to the institutional integrity. >> what was all of this th...

>> the russians would like to illuminate or reduce us interests in the region but also interested in oil sales which is a conflict with iran because their sales decreased and russias are increasing. it is all about selling weapons, 300 are defense systems and using this most recent attack on their own aircraft as a pretext for wanting to do that. >> at the united nations, the president leading with japan, south korea and other key players. >> the president is criticized for not being multilatera...

Reduce u.s. interest in the region but they are also interested in oil sales amount is potentially a conflict area with iran because irans oil sales have decreased and a row are increasing. weapon sales, going back to the days of the soviet union, its about selling weapons. they are using this most recent attack on their own aircraft as another pretext for wanting to do that. >> shannon: a quick comment and north korea as well as the president is at the united nations, meeting with leaders of ja...

Get trump out of office and put someone else in the presidency. that is such an act of disloyalty that trump undoubtedly has been rule nating because of that. also a pretext to get rid of him and not be accused of obstruction of justice because rosenstein was disloyal and put rodriguez in place, a fresh face and maybe more loyal to trump in trumps view. we have all of this atmosphere floating around this very, very difficult and complex situation. >> and lets expand the conversation a bit. we ar...

On over the weekend. the president provoked it. he started it open air force one friday, should i fire him or i shouldnt. thats the way the president thinks. >> harris: so you mentioned catherine herridges reporting. the alleged conflicts of interest of rod rosenstein, witness to the comey firing, potential witness in any obstruction investigation. >> those things -- >> harris: for an example. >> -- would be a pretext for the firing. the real reason for the firing is because of donald trumps con...

The president as we have heard over and over again as sales the "new york times" as fake news, the failing "new york times," this story was based on anonymous sources, if he then bought into it and used it as a vehicle to fire rod rosenstein without trying to drill down and get to the bottom of whatever rosenstein may have said, i think everybody would have seen it as the pretext it is. but he has chosen to take an intermediate step and talk to rod rosenstein and i would expect that meeting on t...

Actually bring in all of of these people to know exactly what rosenstein said, look, im not a guy who is going to go on a witch hunt; right? so rod rosenstein should have his fair day in court. however, if rod rosenstein really did talk about wearing a wire, then for sure he should be fired. >> the top democrat in the senate, senator schumer says that the shg no -- says that the new york times report must not be used as a pretext for purpose of firing deputy rosenstein in order to install an off...

Leadership at the time is really devoted to comey. and so when he is fired without any -- with great surprise and drama by the president in early may, mccabe is angry about that. hes also pressing the deputy attorney general to recuse himself from the investigation because of rosensteins role in the firing of comey. we all remember that he wrote this interesting sort of memo laying out the case for why comey had flouted doj protocols in the handling of the hillary clinton investigation and thats...