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Mueller investigation invalid, theyve got that. donald trump can use it has a pretext to fire rod rosenstein or say he refuses to talk to robert mueller, he wont sit down because the investigation is biased. for him this is a great day. >> matt miller, i saw you shaking your head. >> yeah. look, i think thats exactly right. for him this is a great day. it gets back to this question of whether its enough for him to justify, not from a substantive standpoint, but justify removing rod rosenstein or...

For weeks its been no secret that the president wants to fire rod rosenstein and seize control of the investigation. the release of the nunes memo may have been a giant step toward that goal. democratic leaders writing in a letter to the president today, quote, we are alarmed by reports you may intend to use this misleading document as a pretext to fire deputy attorney general rod rosenstein in an effort to corruptly influence or impede special counsel bob muellers investigation. we write to inf...

Of a memo as a pretext for firing rosenstein, it would be among the most brazen abuses of executive power really in the history of the republic. we can and should condemn this memo, and were doing it, but the thing to remember it is a bad joke of a memo, but the joke is on us. the effects of the hyped up campaign to release it is the sort of damage to the institutional relations of the fbi and doj, public confidence, all the things that director comey talked about. and if something as threadbare...

Deputy director. you can go down the list. and what matters is his motive when he has these interactions. and here with the release of this memo, we know what his motives are because hes been clear about it. hes telegraphed publicly and he said to a number of aides privately that he wanted this memo released because he sees it as a pretext to move on rod rosenstein potentially to fire him. we dont know if hell do it or not. again, thats clearly what he hopes to accomplish doing this. i think aut...

Rod desantos was on fox news last night. he was saying jim comey, the former director of the fbi, should be made to testify and implying that comey ought to be charged with making false statements. take a listen. >> the memo has raised problems for some of the individuals that you mention including former fbi director jim comey. he was not candid with the intelligence committee in terms of telling them the genesis of the dossier. so i think theyre going to bring him in, put him under oath. i thi...

Show on for nine years called -- about firing people. he ended up firing people. now its reality tv again. heres the president of the united states in his slow motion i can fire comey, i can fire mccabe, i can fire sally yates. i can fire rosenstein. he does it relentlessly with the same sort of grinding power. now he has a pretext to do it again and fire rosenstein in the next few days for all we know. >> out of watching that or reading the memo, the thing that stuck out to me, whats the big ne...

Thats down 28%. donald trump would like to claim that is literally because of black players who are kneeling and zlouing the nfl. donald trump regularly attacks nfl players. what do you make of this idea essentially creating a safe space place for nfl football players? >> it smacks of pretext and a marketing plan that is fully based on donald trumps plan of making america white again. now when mcmahon is says he wants to have a football league who will not include criminals hopefully what hes ta...

And i think its terrible. you want to know the truth, i think its a disgrace. whats going on in this country, i think its a disgrace. >> you still have confidence? >> you figure that one out. >> the man robert mueller reports to as justice is rod rosenstein. someone to watch because of this widely held belief the res leaf of this memo was aimed at him. an attempt to give donald trump a grounds to fire him. here was adam schiff. >> i think theres a grave concern that the president who is looking ...

It looks more like a parking ticket. >> gloria, there was an expectation that this would be used -- this memo would be used as pretext by president trump to fire mueller or rosenstein or possibly both. now that its out, was that political end achieved? >> well, i think you heard the president today, he is not happy. he is itching to fire rod rosenstein. i think there are people around him -- our reporting shows -- that are trying to strap him in his seat and say you cannot do this, you cannot do...

Mueller investigation. >> not pretext, just muddying? >> muddying. if he is called to testify -- dont forget, we have an inspector general report coming out in march on a bunch of other stuff on the hillary clinton e-mails. all he wants to do is contaminate the investigation so if they ask him to testify, if mueller says i want you to testify and he fights that, he can then say to the american public, instead of just no, he can say, why should i. >> its rigged. >> there are a number of republica...