Disciplined or removed from office only by the personal action of the Attorney General. But according to the white house, the president has been advised he, he can terminate Robert Mueller all by himself. Does he believe he has the power to fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller . Certainly believes he has the power to do so. Most legal experts believe he would have to order Deputy Attorney general rosenstein to fire mueller and corefuse. I know a number of individuals in the Legal Community and including at the department of justice said he has the power to do so but i dont have any further announcements. They told me, ive asked. They said its rosenstein oversees is the Special Counsel and only he has the power to fire the Special Counsel. Again, weve been advised that the president certainly has the power to make that decision. I cant go anything beyond that. Weve been advised the president certainly has the power to make the decision. To be clear, the warrants that were executed agains
and just note or ask you how you feel about a news cycle that s driven about will the president act to interfere in the investigation into himself and into his allies. yeah, it s odd because in a way it gets framed as if there s some legitimate choice the president is facing as opposed to there being one acceptable choice which is allow the investigation to proceed to allow the rule of law to stand. and one which is to try to commit a crime and obstruct the investigation which is what he s trying to do. for people at the department of justice looking at this, you know, none of them are stupid. they see what the president is trying to do. if he fires the rosenstein they know exactly what he s trying to do. for him to try to you fire mueller, he may be able to do it but he will have to burn that building to the ground before he finds someone willing to carry out that kind of order. jill, do you agree with that. i do. and i ve seen this play out once before. right. and it didn t
which institutions hold. which i think will happen before the midterms. we ve gotten 65% of the way to the midterms. a year ago, i would have bet on it happening by now. i don t know. that s true. there s not that much time left to run out on the clock. we might get there before the midterms. the idea of sort of like that members of congress, republicans all had this line today don t he won t fire mueller. don t worry about it. i want to play this montage. this is what you heard from capitol hill today. take a lis. i have confidence in mueller. and i think to answer your question, it would be suicide for the president to want to talk about firing mueller. i m not concerned that fire mueller. i don t think he ll fire rosenstein. i can t think of any reason. i m confident that would be the beissing of the ends of his presidency. i think the president s too
attorney general rosenstein. nobody asked. the president just brought him up. that was no coincidence. according to the new york times reporting the president s tirade last night copied in private at the white house as he fumed whether he should fire rosenstein before the times broke the news today it was rosenstein himself who was the one who personally signed off on the decision to raid cohen s office. mike the schmidt is one of the reporter who s broke that story as well as tonight s breaking news the president sought to fire mueller a second time in december. michael, i m trying to get a clearer sense of what exactly happened in december as your reporting indicates? into there were several reports at the time that a there was a mueller subpoena that had been sent to deutsche bank for records directly related to trump. now, if you remember, trump talked last summer about a so-called red line, an area that he said mueller should not be looking at. that s finances outside of russi
some crisis point. there s some standoff between which institutions hold. which i think will happen before the midterms. we ve gotten 65% of the way to the midterms. a year ago, i would have bet on it happening by now. i don t know. that s true. there s not that much time left to run out on the clock. we might get there before the midterms. the idea of sort of like that members of congress, republicans all had this line today don t he won t fire mueller. don t worry about it. i want to play this montage. this is what you heard from capitol hill today. take a lis. i have confidence in mueller. and i think to answer your question, it would be suicide for the president to want to talk about firing mueller. i m not concerned that fire mueller. i don t think he ll fire rosenstein. i can t think of any reason. i m confident that would be the beissing of the ends of his presidency. i think the president s too