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Thats according to a source close to rosenstein who says he intends to stay on until the prosecutorial work is done. that would mean rosenstein would stay until early march and while rosen steen as the been a frequent target, he has not been pushed out by the white house. axelrod, the former deputy attorney general who served under sally yates. help us out here. whos in charge if rosenstein leaves? whos over seeing the investigation by mueller? >> thats the right question, chris. because the sho...

Reporters today president trump is over answering robe mueller questions and they will have to be -- the findings of the trump -- of the mueller -- the mueller report which can is coming out in two months is going to be horrific but this president will not respond to questions. plus what is the crisis theyre trying to push and what will happen if they the president does decide to declare a national emergency? i think he will. what he will do if trump declare as national emergency. and vice presi...

No kw no questions beyond what he did in that take-home late last year. and the zero, nothing, nada. this means this historic investigation is going to end perhaps in the next few months without any direct in-person questioning of the president. mueller will be able to say he gave the president a chance to defend himself in actions of possible obstruction of justice but mr. trump chose not to. number two, the wall. there he was late today huffing his way to the door after failing to get any demo...

Hear what senator graham said, that mr. barrs approach would be and well see what mr. barr himself says during his hearings next week. i think he really needs commit to letting the mueller probe complete its work unimpeded and providing the results, whatever evenchal report there is, providing that report to congress, i think thats what everyone is expecting and needs happen for the it rule of law. >> right. and this president has a lot of legal challenges facing him and something to lever with....

Okay from rod rosenstein to probe the russian connections of former trump campaign manager and chairman paul manafort. joining me now is former u.s. attorney paul fishman. paul, good to see you, thanks for being here. >> thanks for having me back. >> why is robert mueller interested in russian oligarchs. >> not that he is interested in russian oligarchs per se, his job is to find out if there were any ties between the trump campaign and people in russia. and he may well have obtained information...

That e-mail is even as i read from a generous interpretation of it. >> on its face it sounds incredibly incriminating, to say thrown the election sounds as if they believe russia in fact threw the election. but e-mails are really tricky, just like text messages. its very easy for someone to say i meant it facetiously, thats what our critics are saying, so aui would think robe mueller would want to ask her exactly what she want at the time. before they asked that question, they would want to look...