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Seal by a federal judge. you dont normally release these things. sean hannity said it would make watergate look like a parking ticket. 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 rosenste rosenstein. ...

By the way, he fired james comey that monday. anything can happen. with this president. i think the feeling just looking at the president today and -- is that he believes that this memo did what he wanted it to do, which was to contaminate the 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 contaminat...

Everyone has said, shoddy sham 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 we dooerire doing it 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 abou...

Concern that the president who is looking for any pretext to get rid of anyone who doesnt swear fealty to him might use this memo to argue against rod rosenstein or anyone else. as we continue to cover this developing story, we have two reporters on the story tonight. jil colvin, white house reporter for the associated press whose voice you just heard asking the president about rod rosenstein today in the oval office. so it was jill he was kind of sneering at all and matthew nussbaum, white hous...

Convicted then removes him from office. at that point, after impeachment and conviction he could be indicted but not before. theres also a legislative issues with regard to special counsel mueller who unlike ken starr is not an independent counsel. mueller has a boss, rod rosenstein, which is why the nunes memo and the pretext the president might use to fire rosenstein, hes the boss, mueller is not independent and the justice department regulations which mueller and rosenstein work with them bot...

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...

Youre going to have information having been obtained in the first quarter and they say theres something to go on and move forward. >> and in some ways, that simply moots the question of whether the warrant was properly issued in the first place. but more importantly here, alex, the only mention of rod rosenstein in this memo is in connection with the reupping of the warrant. so if rod rosenstein had any significant involvement in this at all, it was only to say, yup, this is an investigation tha...

Everyone has said, shoddy sham 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....

Conyers left once he was facing serious accusations of misconduct involving several women. this was probably the first major public headline grabbing step that nadler has taken since he rose to that position. its interesting that hes taking this step as a way of directly going after another committee, another sort of partisan divide but standing up for the fbi which is in his jurisdiction as head of the judiciary chair. sort of him staking out his turf if hes able to take over the judiciary comm...

Meaning the house charges him with a crime and the senate if convicted then removes him from office. at that point, after impeachment and conviction he could be indicted but not before. theres also a legislative issues with regard to special counsel mueller who unlike ken starr is not an independent counsel. mueller has a boss, rod rosenstein, which is why the nunes memo and the pretext the president might use to fire rosenstein, hes the boss, mueller is not independent and the justice departmen...