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Special counsel . Eventually can he fire everyone . I mean, its going to be fascinating tomorrow. Were going to hear every one of those questions. What we dont know is how many answers were going to hear. Yeah. That were not sure of. Yeah. This question of Executive Privilege and what theyre going the call Executive Privilege and such a i mean thats a difficult legal theory anyway. Thats not a cut and dried thing even in the best of circumstances, i think were going to get into Appeals Court ter...

Knew that when he fired the special prosecutor. and so a lot of the analysis of president trump is of a politician who is trying to preserve his political future. what if what we have here is someone who is guilty, who knows he is guilty? firing the special prosecutor has a logic to it. >> it is like a confession. here is a difference. with president nixon in 1973, he faced a special -- he faced a congress that was politically and idealogically sympathetic to him because conservative democrats h...

Todays news. they didnt get an opinion from the department of justice about whether his dealings with foreign businesses violated the emoluments clause. he hired a private lawyer for that. thats not appropriate. when the travel ban got a death blow from the ninth circuit today what they focused on was how they didnt follow the proper procedures, they didnt consult with the right departments, didnt have a finding. again and again they dont follow the right procedures and again and again it gets t...

>> we got a lot of questions we want to ask him. >> he violated his own recusal. >> if the president okay testifying in this setting tomorrow? >> i think he is going to testify. were aware of it and go from there. >> i think what republicans ought to focus on is closing down the independent counsel. >> could the president fire bob mueller? >> firing special prosecutors tends not to work, as we all learned from watergate. >> you may be the first president in history to go down because you cant st...

That investigation. thats my commitment to you, and thats the guarantee that you and the american people have. >> so is that a no? >> she took that as a no. kind of the best line of that exchange was just cut off in our video. that now turns out to be possibly the most important question that was asked at that hearing. there were many other important questions asked of the other witnesses that got all the air time that day. but now, now that question. looms as the most important. that is the onl...

>> if the president okay testifying in this setting tomorrow? >> i think he is going to testify. were aware of it and go from there. >> i think what republicans ought to focus on is closing down the independent counsel. >> could the president fire bob mueller? >> firing special prosecutors tends not to work, as we all learned from watergate. >> you may be the first president in history to go down because you cant stop inappropriately talking about an investigation. >> what were calling stupid wa...

Unthinkable for me to imagine, or becomes unthinkable that republicans eventually dont look at that and say enough, this is going to destroy us in 2018. we must put a stop to this. i dont know exactly where that point. but that point begins to become maybe, just maybe foreseeable. >> david frum, a quick last word before we go to a break. >> look, but you are hearing, and this is the most ominous thing saying the president has the right to fire him and fire him for any reason that is the new visi...

Special counsel? eventually can he fire everyone? i mean, its going to be fascinating tomorrow. >> were going to hear every one of those questions. what we dont know is how many answers were going to hear. >> yeah. >> that were not sure of. >> yeah. this question of executive privilege and what theyre going the call executive privilege and such a -- i mean thats a difficult legal theory anyway. thats not a cut and dried thing even in the best of circumstances, i think were going to get into appe...

Intellectually, emotionally disciplined person. he is a carnival barker. and he wants attention, and he wants to make sure that he survives. thats what motives everything he does. >> now kasowitz has absolutely no experience defending a president. he has virtually no experience with criminal law. he has always been in these lawsuits, defending the trump university lawsuit which he lost to the tune of $25 million. >> right. >> what is your reaction to the president having a lawyer with no experie...

>> she took that as a no. kind of the best line of that exchange was just cut off in our video. that now turns out to be possibly the most important question that was asked at that hearing. there were many other important questions asked of the other witnesses that got all the air time that day. but now, now that question. looms as the most important. that is the only time that rod rosenstein has been questioned about firing the special prosecutor. and his answer was theoretically anyone could b...