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Cloud up even more and make it worse for yourself. what do you do? >> only rosenstein has the power to fire mueller as he should. he should do that and then recuse himself at the same time. pete: you say he should. is that the right move to make the russia thing go away? >> end the investigation. then there would be a new special counsel that would be appointed in the investigation moves forward. and hopefully the new special counsel would be impartial, which mueller is not. i would hope that if...

The 2016 campaign. joining us is matt miller a former chief spokesman for the justice department. appreciate your time tonight. >> of course. >> so could the president really fire bob mueller? cofire the special counsel? >> yeah, absolutely. could do it one of two ways. he could repeal the regulations under which mueller was appointed and directly fire him. the second way is probably the more likely way and has historical precedent. he could order or ask the attorney general jeff sessions or t...

So i think that there is little doubt in my mind, not coming out of the briefing by the deputy attorney general, but in my mind, that when president trump said he removed him because of russia, that was the honest underlying cause for his actions. i think that was inappropriate, but i think thats what he did. >> on that note, are you confident the president and the doj are going to keep their hands out of this investigation? after all, he does have the power still to fire robert mueller. >> appa...

Against for quite a long time. theres a geographic targeting order in new york directed at it, so youve got a couple of different things here that dont all conflate into one thing, which mueller has to separate and then investigate one by one and give us his read on it. >> all right, we have to leave it there. my takeaway, robert mueller has his work cut out for him and john, you might have some clients looking for representation, and you can be in luck here, brother. coming up much more, repu...

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Follow d.o.j. guidelines and not seek an indictment against the president. the former mayor said they would fight a subpoena if mueller pushed it. >> what were going to do is see what kind of legal remedies are available to us, including if they subpoena us, challenge the subpoena. the same reason they cant indict him. >> which mueller agreed, hes going abide by no indictment of the prosecute. >> i dont think they agree to the process question. they cant issue a subpoena to team for the same rea...

>> no, then we start from day 1 again. we will find out what legal remedies are available to us including challenging a subpoena. the same reason they cant indict him. >> laura: which mueller agreed to today. >> i dont think they agree to the process question. the same reason they cant indict him, they cant issue a subpoena to him. clinton opposed a subpoena and then voluntarily complied. >> laura: your hold pal on msnbc said. >> these folks cant get their stories straight. they cant figure out ...