Page 67 - Radio Interview News Today

Perhaps -- do we have peter baker? it sounded like we were dialing peter baker by telephone there. theres mr. baker. peter, what more do we know at this hour here? 5 after 11:00. rod rosenstein at the white house. president trump here in new york city reports that rod rosenstein is out. >> yeah. this is a culmination of months and months of tension, but advisers to the president told him it would be better for him not to push out rod rosenstein right away, that, in fact, if he was going to do it...

This was a radio interview he did with geraldo rivera. this is what the president said when asked about it. >> but will you fire rod rosenstein? >> i dont want to comment on it until i get all the facts. i havent gotten all the facts. but certainly its being looked at in terms of what took place, if anything took place, and ill take a determination sometime later. i dont have the facts. >> peter bake rosenstein is out and thats what all the reporting would indicate at this point, but if he is ou...

Senators. this was a concern that senator grassley brought up in a radio interview when he was asked if this was a proposal and having the third party doing the question, if he would be okay with that. they got around that concern. the senator would be more willing to do the proposal. >> one of the key senators whose vote is the decisive vote. senator flake on the committee and senator corker and senator murkowski are four so far who said i do not want to vote until professor ford gets to tell h...

A blocking fight. that -- they are trying to pull out every stop they can. kavanagh has been bold and not trashing roe v wade. we are back in the political arena and what youre seeing right now. >> we are back in the political arena. the democrats tried during the hears. chuck schumer quoted in a radio interview this morning calling kavanaugh a candidate on the presidents list. the president has a list of 25 or so and he calls him the candidate most allowing the president to overreach meaning on...

>> so how do you decide? think thats part of the debate. there is already evidence if you look at people have been shadow banned from twitter or who have had youtube videos taken down for saying offensive contact but maybe it was leaning. there is already a threat of that happening. how you define what should be kicked off of social platform. is it inciting violence? david french had a good new york times column today or yesterday about one not use the liable standards? stick to first amendment ...

There is already evidence if you look at people have been shadow banned from twitter or who have had youtube videos taken down for saying offensive contact but maybe it was leaning. there is already a threat of that happening. how you define what should be kicked off of social platform. is it inciting violence? david french had a good new york times column today or yesterday about one not use the liable standards? stick to first amendment and stay with current liable standards. there needs to be...

To have to go before a court of law and not a court of public opinion and articulate that they in fact were negotiating in good faith, were not using terms like perjury trap as a pretextual reason for the president, the head of the executive branch, to thumb his nose at the subpoena power of a grand jury. and theyre going to be faced with the commentary on that very show, and the court of law is not going to be receptive. thats my hope as somebody who is a member of the court of law. >> i didnt ...

To talk to the president in order to understand intent, in order to get what was in thes mind. you say no. >> no. first of all, that is something that might be injugermane in a criminal case there isnt going to be any criminal case here. secondly, the president has already talk about what his intent was or not. he said he didnt have the conversation with comey, if thats what were talking about. so thats a dry hole. >> the other thing we hear in that radio interview from giuliani and jay sekulow ...

Show, and the court of law is not going to be receptive. thats my hope as somebody who is a member of the court of law. >> i didnt play any sound from the radio interview -- >> theres been no allegation -- >> go ahead, jim. make your final point. >> theres been no allegation that the presidents legal team is acting in bad faith in these negotiations. certainly not out of the special counsels office. its irresponsible to say it at this point in time. theyve gone back and forth a number of times n...

Conversation -- with comey if thats what were talking about. so thats a dry hope. >> the other thing we hear in the radio interview from giuliani and jay sekulow is the idea of a perjury trap. that they believe that they dont want to have the president in perjury. >> one other point that was in his mind, the firing of james comey, that was something he had the right under the constitution do and in any event, obstruction of an fbi investigation is not obstruction of justice within the meaning of...