Would Fire Mueller News Today

Prepared. >> and president trump has repeatedly expressed his anger, congressman, that attorney general jeff sessions recused himself from the russia investigation. youre probably hearing some of our new reporting from kaitlan collins about scott pruitts request to replace sessions. if the president were to do that, would that mean the end of the russia investigation? you do get the sense from scott pruitt that he does like to ingratiate himself with the president. >> look, hes done exactly what...

That would take time. theres no reason people could consent to re-writing the code that way. we have the president trying to get people fired because they are standing up and enforcing the law. these search warrants on michael cohen were executed by the u.s. attorneys office for the southern district of new york. it was done according to law. there was nothing there that showed if anything was wrong. if the president were to get people fired, its only because he doesnt like whats happening with ...

Questions. >> i think the president was pretty clear about his frustrations when he spoke about that last night. >> reporter: while the raid at the office of the presidents personal attorney michael cohen was oerd eordered by the u.s. attorneys office in new york and not mueller, mr. presidetru out ranled. rosenstein had to sign off. >> why dont i just fire mueller? i think its a days grace whats going on. i think its a really sad situation kwlowhen you look at happened. many people have said yo...

Why they think that. like it is hard -- the facts didnt match it. how did they snow the president for so long. >> i think this was a bit of baby-sitting. they were deeply concerned the president would fire mueller and doing everything they could to wait him out. to try and get to the next exit. just wait -- a little bit more -- >> buying time. >> just buying time. because if they said to him, hey, look, mueller is going on for two years and hes eventually going to come and -- and be an even bigg...

Theyre approaching a midterm election where theyre already in bad shape and one thing that could make it worse, getting into a public spat with the president. the president fires back at them, and their base, in terms of electoral turnout just disappears because they get mad at republicans for fighting with the president and the republican base is still with the president, even though many more republican voters have issues with the president. so its a very delicate matter for republicans on the...

That his own attorney general having to come out today and defend himself and the job that he does and says im not going to let the statements that cross a boundary here in terms of executive independence from the -- the department of justice really cross that boundary. >> and here is a frightening thought but i think it is correct, i think if sessions were to go, the president would fire mueller in a second. or figure out a way to get somebody down the line of chain of command to do it. those p...

And let the republicans dangle, hell do it and thats what he did. >> the new mueller reporting that we had that indeed, and i think it was always the president always wants to say no collusion, no collusion, nobody said anything, those of us reporting on this knew that mueller wasnt done with this, now this shows you, no, muellers not done with this. >> i never bought the whole collusion thing, i always thought the line would be obstruction of justice, follow the money and all of that would wrap...

Ivanka was the only one who had an office on the 26th floor. the sons were down a floor and that was highly symbolic and ivanka was somebody he felt he understood fully, could -- communicate and give him unquestioning love and support. his daughter. ivanka is busy and her husband have their own legal issues here. whether he intended to or not, robert mueller is putting tremendous psychological and familial pressure on donald trump. and donald trump is a pretty tough guy. but the visceral hatred ...

Investigators are asking some witnesses if he potentially knew that john podesta was ultimately hacked before the rest of us knew, before the public knew, ultimately the e-mails came out in october and they are looking to find out is there anybody that could be a back channel and roger stone is he potentially that back channel. because we know stone was tweeting about podestas a time in the barrel on august 21st, about a month before these e-mails started to come out from podesta and if so, was ...

>> to your point about kelly, i think the chief of staff right now while looking at a cleaner slate around him, looking behind him and he hears growling and that is the president of the united states. >> he has to find somebody to mind him. >> he has to find somebody to mind him and it is not individuals in the communications shop or anyplace else. it is someone who will have access to that west wing in a way that gives the president the comfort he needs. >> guys, weve been saying this for a yea...