course president trump has threatened to fire bob mueller and rod rosenstein in a way he already had his saturday night massacre in a way over several months. and richardson resigned in honor before carrying out the firing of archibald cox. let s turn to much more on the allegations and the memo s attacks. jim sciutto is breaking down memo. we begin with jeff at the white house. you have some breaking news on president trump s relationship with rod rosenstein. that s right. president trump neither he nor the white house will say if he has confidence in his deputy attorney general rod rosenstein who of course is overseeing the mueller investigation. one official i spoke to a short time ago said this. he is unlikely to ever get beyond it. meaning the russia investigation
its early stages by political bias. specifically the steele dossier paid for by democrats and the clinton campaign. it is xlamd the justice department and justice department omitted the province of it. there are serious questions raised by the memo. that they should make sure it doesn t violate any american civil liberties and not be used to make counter intelligence decisions. but speaker ross caution that had members of congress not use to it impugn the integrity of justice system and the fbi though that is precisely how president trump and his supporters are using this memo as mr. trump escalates his tikes u.s. law enforcement agencies. the justice department and fbi run by the president s own appointees say that the memo is
complicated than removing one person. but he is in the cross hairs here and no one knows where he stands. jeff zeleny. the person you talked to said he does more venting than firingest does his fair share of firing, too. it has been quite a time. what is your bottom line takeaway from read go the nunes memo? our viewers should know that the central allegation of this nunes memo is that the warrant to monitor carter page, a trump adviser, during the presidential election, by association, the whole russia investigation, is based almost entirely or principally on this dossier composed by this former british intelligence agent, the dossier and others have attacked for some time to. support that, the nunes memo says the former deputy director of the fbi, andrew mccabe, told the house intelligence committee