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Investigation by exposing anti-trump bias in the fbi, could and could give him a pretext to fire the man deputy attorney general rod rosen tine and allow him to replace rosenstein with a trump loyalist. >> its going to be showing misconduct on the part of top people at the doj and fbi. youre going to see a need for a change to certain practices up there. theres going to be a need for a change of certain personnel towards the top. >> memo emerged from the office of trump royalist and intel chair ...

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 authorizing the public release of the memo, hes probably safe. it was served up to him in an official process from congress. but its his intervention with the justice...

Reports as anticipating that this classified memo release will provide him the pretense that he needs to fire the deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein who is overseeing the mueller investigation. thats multiple news reports. i dont know if thats true or not. are you expecting that? >> um, i would certainly hope that wouldnt be the case. this memo is a transparent, political hit job. when it is released, if it is released, people like you and many other journalists and the people who are named...

On everything ive seen at least, theres -- i have not seen reason to think that processes were violated. >> a senator earlier today, i believe it was democrat of oregon, suggested he thinks all of this is just the president trying to create a pretext, put out this memo, and then use that as an excuse to fire the special counsel robert mueller. do you agree? >> its quite possible, yes. the president seems to be taking different steps to protect himself. that seems to be his priority, and hes got ...

Security interests here you talked about counterterrorism being used as a pretext to violate international law so you would say even if there is a y p g p k k association and in other words between the militia and a group recognized as a terrorist group still turkey shouldnt be embarking on this offensive well i mean international law is quite clear about the use of force against another countrys use of force against another country. well i should say very clear there are there are contradiction...

Methods of security only. make them a public. by the way, its about getting the truth out and that is scaring the living hell out of some people atri the fbi at the doj tonight, and of course, the deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein, and of course, peter strzok. according to "the daily beast," rosenstein, he is named in that memo and according to other reporting from the deputy attorney general is responsible for extending the fisa warrant to literally spy on trump campaign manager, the pret...

And he had also last week been complaining about rod rosenstein again, saying maybe he should fire him. and he believes this memo, if it becomes public, would give him the pretext or the grounds to potentially fire rosenstein, to make changes in the department of justice generally that he thinks could help him with the mueller probe. and at the very least, even if hes not able to sort of ward it off, he is laying the groundwork for whenever these conclusions are reached, whatever they are, that ...

Concern for any of that. its just short-term political gain, go into 2018 and sell tax cuts. and the ability of republicans on the hill to sort of not see some of these things, to look the other way or squint and see things in a way where they dont really see a problem with these things. i mean, for paul ryan yesterday to say the mueller probe shouldnt be messed with and yet to green light devin nunes sending this memo to the white house for release, knowing like any logical observer of this kno...

Minions on the house intelligence committee voted to release on monday. drafted by staffers working for the chairman of that committee, trump supporter devin nunes, it moves that a trump associate was wrongly surveilled by the justice department and the fbi. but republicans have a bigger goal in mind here. they say it shows corruption in the fbi that is worse than watergate. proving that special counsel robert muellers investigation is based on a fraud. with reports indicating the president coul...

So far are those not running for re-election. i mean, that is what we have seen. we have seen the politics of personal survival inside a republican party that is fluid and right now controlled by donald trump and his assumed base of voters. that is what is above perhaps speaking out, talking about the separation of powers, the basic tenets of american democracy. there is no concern for history. the fact that this is all playing out in public, in plain view, and that this will be written and peop...