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Figure, and a lot of things democrats dont like. but its one of the reasons chuck schumer put out a statement almost immediately after mike and adam goldmans very good story today saying this should not be used as a pretext to fire the deputy attorney general. >> its an interesting realignment when you have laura ingraham and don junior attacking him. >> absolutely. jeremy bash, thank you for spending the first half of our hour with us. when we come back, steve schmidt weighs in on the resista...

Report, there is no humor in this. this is ridiculous. there is no humor in this. lee, i want to play this for you. the democrats tonight are saying this is just pretext trump needs to fire rosenstein. this is what leon panetta said tonight. >> he has to think very carefully about the implications of taking action here, because if he does this, it raises concerns about the mueller investigation. it raises concerns about the possibility of obstruction. >> laura: why would it be obstruction of jus...

Places. i think the thing with rod rosenstein and his leaked behavior, i dont think its a fireable offense. if you look at the sequence of when this happened, this was at the time of the comey firing. they had done a job on him. they lure him into writing a memo and said that made for the pretext for firing comey. he was under a lot of heat as a result of that, and he had a lot of reason to distrust the white house at that point. the other thing is apparently he was present when some people went...

Sources lives at risk, would jeopardize programs and practices in law enforcement and intelligence collection that are crucial to keeping the country safe? what if its just sensitive material from an active law enforcement investigation that would impede that investigation if these materials were made public? law enforcement officials dont just open ongoing investigations willy-nilly there is a reason this stuff is kept close. and they know that, right? the idea of demanding documents that reall...

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...

He finds stenches in lots of places. i think the thing with rod rosenstein and his leaked information about his behavior, i dont think its a fireable offense. if you look at the sequence of when this happened, this was at the time of the comey firing. they had done a job on him. they lured him into writing a memo and said that was, made that the pretext for firing comey. he was under a lot of heat as a result of that, and he had a lot of reason to distrust the white house at that point. the othe...

Lying to the american people and prop began diesing the american people and misinforming the american people and having real russian information bought and paid for by one party to destroy another candidate and that fisa court judges are all lied to. chucky doesnt care about that at all. all he cares about is friends in the deep state. tonight, he released a state that proves just that. this story must not be used as a pretext but the corrupt purpose of firing the deputy attorney general, rosens...

Rosenstein, i think hell expose it as the pretext that it is. >> kevin, last question to you. another story bubbling having to do with declassification. what led to it. what does it say the way washington the working today? >> it tells me the government is still doing its job and when the president proposes to do something thats inappropriate, that can harm the national security of the country, which that could have very well done, exposing sources and methods, the government is pushing back. ot...

He denies the tone of certain things. he denies most of it, but he doesnt deny that he had a conversation or multiple conversations about the 25th amendment. and he doesnt deny that at least the subject of wearing a wire came up. and that does put him in a very difficult position with respect to the president. i continue to think that the president, you know, is something of a barking dog that doesnt actually bite very much about these things with the singular exception of jim comey. and so, you...

House who keeps in touch with the white house about these sorts of things who said, wouldnt this be a pretext for firing the deputy attorney general in any administration? and so there is a concern, wolf, among the presidents allies and supporters that if these allegations are true, that the deputy attorney general has gone too far. and the question, of course, wolf, is whether or not the president takes that leave. does he go ahead and make this decision to fire rod rosenstein? and if he does t...