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Doesnt have personal authority to fire mueller. and translate if he picks up the phone and says im firing you, the special counsel can say, this is a phone call that has no legal force and im not going anywhere. the only way he can removed is for cause by his proper overseer at the doj. and as you mentioned, the big question is all of this a pretext to fire the current a.g. to get another a.g. that might where more apply i cant believe. without following those rules it still could be an improper...

Republican for a lack of their option, it is difficult for them to vote somebody thats not going to fire robert mule ellem. the candidate who would be acceptable seems to be would be very few. that gives the president some pause. >> you are missing one key point on the firing of sessions. >> there is a big theory thats been running around and speculated that this would allow trump to put in a recess appointment who may fire sessions. >> when asked, he did fire and write the memo that was a p pre...

His contacts that may have occurred, including the trump tower meeting he had to get dirt on the clintons, as well as paul manafort. those two have agreed to have a private interview with the senate judiciary committee and the staff. theres no date set for that private interview. at this point, its unclear if they with appear publicly, but the committee did issue a subpoena for another witness expected to come on wednesday, glenn simpson co-founder of fusion gps, behind that russian dossier. say...

Are any of the things that theyve raised, to your mind, legitimate concerns or legitimate grounds for trying to undermine the investigation? >> not only do i not see them as legitimate, its clear from the reporting that they are looking for a pretext for discharging him. first of all, with regard to mueller personally, this is someone who is a lifelong republican who was head of the criminal division in republican administrations who for 12 years was head of the fbi in both republican and democr...

Wednesday. that was glen simpson, the co-founder of the firm fusion gps which is behind that now infamous russian dossier. mr. simpsons representatives saying that they believe this hearing is a pretext, an effort to throw cold water on the issue of collusion with russian officials and trump officials. thats why he is not appearing next wednesday, but this deal cut with paul manafort and donald trump jr. has avoided the notion of subpoenas for now. >> i want to bring in our panel. a lot to discu...

Theyve raised, to your mind, legitimate concerns or legitimate grounds for trying to undermine the investigation? >> not only do i not see them as legitimate, its clear from the reporting that they are looking for a pretext for discharging him. first of all with regard to mueller personally. this is someone who is a lifelong republican who was head of the criminal division in republican administrations who for 12 years was made of the fbi in both republican and democratic administrations. respec...

Legitimate concerns or legitimate grounds for trying to undermine the investigation? >> its clear from the reporting that they are looking for a pretext and charging, with regard to mueller personally. this is a someone who is a life-long republican who was head of the criminal division, republican administrations, who for 12 years was head of the fbi in both republican and democratic administrations and is respected by law enforcement across the country. they raise the fact that he worked with ...

That is one of the defenses that a criminal proceeding that the president could raise. two points about that, rachel. first of all, that wouldnt keep congress from investigating it as grounds for impeachment. that kind of limitations period would not be a limitation on congress because the nature of impeachment would have to be very serious matters, but not necessarily technically within the criminal code. being criminal is not either necessary or sufficient. moreover, i think he is making -- th...

Campaign last year when he was first hired in march 2016, despite having no experience in that arena. theres been reason to dismiss jeff sessions for a long time. we know that he lied on his sf-86 security clearance forms. we know that now that he likely committed perjury and we know about this meeting with kislyak, so when trump is possibly trying to set up some sort of pretext, as if he actually cares about the legal process, and views sessions as anything more than his personal attorney, whic...

Mandate and would not -- would be utterly pretextural to try to fire him for those reasons. >> is there anything that the president or the white house or his lawyers have raised in terms of objections to this investigation? theyve talked about political donations made by lawyers involved in the investigation, theyve talked about bob mueller having been a trump golf club member at some point. theyve talked about obviously this complaints about looking into financial matters and trump business mat...