he said he believes he has the authority, for example, to fire rod rozrozen rosenstein. he can't technically fire mueller. he could push rosenstein to do it. rosenstein has indicated he is not going to do that. the president, though, could also try to essentially defang mueller. essentially take away his security credentials. something he did to former cia director brennan. he was asked about that in that reuters interview as well. he said he hadn't really given that a whole lot of thought. we try to drill down exactly what the president meant. the other big headline here is president trump seeming to indicate that he's now leaning against doing an interview with special counsel robert mueller. saying what his lawyers have been pushing for a number of day. that he's concerned about a so-called perjury trap. the president also neglecting to say again that russia meddled in