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If the president were to do something that led to the dismissal of mueller i think you would say republicans on the hill begin to break. the hill is staying there with trump until something gets too weird. that could be firing mueller but it could be this rosenstein statement. this may be -- this is a guy that screams of keeping his job. this is a guy who admitted to the senate he wrote the memo to justify a decision the president already made to fire comey. is he now carrying water for the pres...

Backgrou sources should be treated skeptically. but the record of these stories has been very, very good. americans should turn a skeptical eye to all the information they receive. but the "washington post" is a highly professional, credible news outlet. i just think this is kind of a weak attack to say that a story that is based on anonymous sources or background quotes is inherently not trustworthy, likely to be wrong. the track record does not bear that out. time and time again the work of th...

Can decide the fate of basketball mueller. he said listen, it falls on me as to whether he stays. one has to wonder how much if any pressure he is feeling from the administration right now and why out of all nights to issue the statement tonight. >> thanks to our lead-off panel, thanks to, along with birthday wishes to beiana goal riga, michael crowley and vivian salmano. thank you. come up, the donald trump a nightmare client? are his troubles of his own making? is he making new troubles ever...

We had never seen. obviously people should be cautious with anonymous sources. vivian, you cover this crowd. and michael went there. it sounded to a lot of people, the statement did, like it was somehow dictated. >> i mean there is no real way to tell if it was dictated or to the. but there has definitely been a major pushback by the administration, rod rosenstein not being unique here in terms of trying to push back against any of these stories that are making allegations against the administra...

Deal with personal financial issues with the kushner family and their business. cant get a square answer out of the two of them. but of course the summation being why did we not know about this and and something about it just isnt kosher. >> and this is all happening while mueller hires experts in various fields, financial, legal, and so on. >> which raises the question about this statement coming from rod rosenstein tonight. why issue it tonight. its coming on the backdrop of rod rosenstein bei...

And when do you expect to see some movement, some migration? >> i think it will be a dividing line with the base. right? the base is going to follow this president. they love the president because he is a fighter not because of his policy chops. and when gingrich and others kind of lose their credibility over this issue it will still work with the base. but the hill is a very different question. if the president were to do something that led to the dismissal of mueller i think you would say repu...

Likely to be wrong. the track record does not bear that out. time and time again the work of these papers that are breaking these big stories has been substantiated and is extremely credible. so i think its a very odd statement on multiple levels. >> michael, you are right. and to underscore that, we have had your colleagues on from publications like the times, the post, in stories where they have quoted 20 to 30 source, sourcing by the dozen the likes of which we had never seen. obviously peopl...

It. >> explain why that would be a big deal? >> because this is a sanctioned bank. he would have no legitimate reason for meeting with this banker, sanked by obama administration. even more shocking is that he would have this meeting and not disclose it publicly. then when asked about it, the russian bank and jared kushner had two different answers and two different reasons for having meeting. kushner said it was about administrative decision possibly related to syria. the banker said no, this h...

With the president will lead to the hill republicans breaking even though his base stays with him. >> formerly congressman harold ford. it was a weird statement from rod rosenstein. >> a few of us thought is this real? thats how bad rod rosensteins statement was. >> think about where weve come from, you had a president who had his vice president, deputy attorney general and attorney general all go out and say we fired him because of performance issues, sluggish morale. director comey, excuse me....

I dont quite know what to make of it, frankly. it is vaguely trumpian. it came from rosenstein, would rosenstein put out a statement at the direction the white house or at the direct of the president? who knows? im -- its rank speculation because i really have no idea what that was supposed to mean. >> i wondered if when he was talking about the country, if he is referring to not saying u.s. first in front of -- or u.s. official in frontan an anonymous source. and i think its really interesting ...