If he wants to fire the fbi director, all he has to do is fire him. We got to the point where the president s own lawyer has to hire a lawyer. Nobody has unimpeachable credentials. This is a president who engaged in questionable behavior over the last several months. If hes really not guilty, then he will be happy to be exonerated by somebody who is out to find the truth. This is new day weekend with Victor Blackwell and christi paul. Good morning, everyone. Im rene marsh in for christi paul. Thanks for joining us. Im Victor Blackwell. Happy saturday to you. The search for seven missing sailors continues off the coast of japan where a u. S. Navy destroyer collided with a merchant ship in the Early Morning hours. Drivers are set to inspect the uss fitzgerald, which is now back at port in yokosuka, japan. The ship took on water after sustaining damage both above and below the waterline on its starboard side. The warships captain, along with two other u. S. Servicemen are listed in stable condition after being medevacd to a naval hospital. The names of the missing are being withheld until families can be fonotified. President trump is adding a high profile washington lawyer to his defense team amid the expanding russia investigation. Now on board is attorney john dowd, who once led the investigation into the pete rose betting scandal for major league baseball. Also cnn learning that tensions are rising at the Justice Department over this russia probe. The man who named the special counsel this incident occurred off the may have to recuse himself. It appears the special councils probe could broaden to include the president s firing of fbi director james comey and whether that was an obstruction of justice. Cnns jeremy dimon is live at the white house. What are you learning about whats going on at the Justice Department and is the white house reacting at all about this news . Rene, tensions are building inside the Justice Department as the special investigation is widening and looking at whether or not the president may interfered into that meddling into the 2016 campaign. That investigation looking into whether there were ties between Trump Campaign associates and russian officials. All of this widening probe has led to questions about whether the Deputy Attorney general, Rod Rosenstein, may need to recuse himself from this matter. As you know, rosenstein recommended that the president fire fbi director james comey in a memo, and comey later was fired. Comeys firing or trumps firing of comey may now be part of that investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller. Of course many of these tensions happening at the Justice Department have a root right here at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. Thats because the president has been enraged in recent weeks over sessions recusal, which rosenstein recommended with regard to the probe. Following that recusal, rosenstein, of course, was the one to appoint Robert Mueller to the special counsel position. That, of course, sent the president off yesterday. We know the president was going off on twitter and accusing now appearing to accuse Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein of being part of this witch hunt. No you have the president seemingly upset at the two top people at his Justice Department. Jeremy diamond live at the white house, thank you very much. We have cnn politics reporter eugene scott, kelly jane torens and danny savalos with us. Danny, if a recusal is to avoid not just actual impropriety and actual conflict of interest but the appearance of those two, why hasnt Rod Rosenstein recused himself yet . Thats a good question in that it certainly is doj policy, it is either actual impropriety or the appearance of a conflict or the lost of that impartiality is another factor in the code of regulations and the u. S. Attorneys manual. There is also a process under doj procedure whereby you report your perceived conflict of interest and your higher ups decide your section chief as it is, decides whether or not there is a conflict of interest or the appearance requiring the recusal. The strange thing here is that we are at the apex. There are not a lot of Section Chiefs above rosenstein in the chain of command to report to and to give him the final word. It is a deliberative process. It is not done overnight. Eugene, if rosenstein and we had another legal analyst, joey jackson on who said it is not a matter of if, but when rosenstein recuses himself, he would then report to whom . We know rachel brame was a trump appointee that the president brought into his administration because of the advice of people on his team who thought that she was someone who could benefit his agenda and bring it forward. The questions that many people would most be interested in is what role would she have and continuing the investigation. If she is someone that the American People would be able to trust to get to the bottom of these questions that people on both sides of the ill have abo aisle have. The question and conversation, not just the recusal for rosenstein but being fired by the president , even the special counsel, bob mueller being fired, how real is that possibility . Lets keep in mind just a week or so ago we were talking about whether trump might fire Jeff Sessions. This is a president who makes his opinions of his employees known and not just to them, but to the public through twitter. Its quite incredible. We heard just this week he was thinking of firing mueller. His aides apparently talked him down from that. Hes upset with rosenstein, not only because rosenstein was one of the people who recommended, as you mentioned, that Jeff Sessions recuse himself which trump was very unhappy about, but he is the guy who appointed Robert Mueller. Trump thinks that Robert Mueller is behind all of his problems now. I think its obvious that donald trump himself is behind all these problems now. If he had not fired comey when he did and in the way he did and with what he said about it afterwards, he would not be facing right now possible obstruction of Justice Charges and an investigation. Evan peres is reporting tensions now within the department of justice and, you know, weve outlined the players here. I wonder one specific instance, one event is being pointed to as one of the routes here, when the attorney general learned of the appointment of bob mueller, sessions was at the white house, and he learned about it when everyone else did. Is that protocol even considering the recusal from the attorney general . I think were well beyond normal protocol. When you look again at the u. S. Attorney manual, the code of federal regulations, eastern these tree tatices did not anticipate that. Issues of recusal are covered. Issues of making public statements are covered under the regulations. I think thats unusual for there not to be knowledge within the department of justice. As we said many times, were in new ground right here. Eugene, i wanted to come to you first for the political consequence, then back to daniel for the legal consequence. If the president was to take the advice of his friend and adviser, roger stone and to fire both mueller and rosenstein, first politically, whats the consequences for the president . The consequences for people who already are not on the trump train would be that it looks like hes trying to cover something. If he really is as innocent as he professes that he is, an investigation should reveal that and would actually put all of this to rest, which is what the president actually seems to say that he wants to happen. If thats not what an investigation revealsreveals, i be problematic. Legal consequences, danny . Theyres twoways to look a this one is that the president as chief executive hat power, Legal Authority to fire anybody in the Justice Department that he wants with impunity. The other way to look at it is this, there are many times that even a legal action can become an illegal action. It with become obstruction of justice, if it is done can construct intent. Done for an improper purpose. There are many examples of this in federal criminal law, which is incredibly expansive. The obstruction of justice laws stand as a shining example of the expansiveness of federal law. Even a lawful act can become an unlawful act if done krucorrupt. Kelly, the president expanding his legal team, adding john dowd. The significance of his addition . Its interesting because people are talking about also Vice President mike pence added a lawyer this week in the probe. Its totally normal when any investigation like this is going on to lawyer up, as they say. The question is why is trump and others hiring so many. It seems to me the same question could be asked about why trump keeps tweeting about this and is upset about this. If nothing happened, if he did not do anything wrong, why hasnt he let an investigation go ahead . If he had not fired comey, we would not be talking about this, that investigation would have taken place more quickly. This does raise questions about why does he feel the need to be so defensive. We heard at the top of the show that even now the president s lawyer has a lawyer. Exactly. Kelly, eugene, danny, thank you all. Thank you. This morning congressman Steve Scalise is still in Critical Condition after this weeks shooting ambush in virginia. Doctors say they are encouraged by the progress the majority whip made since the attack. They said the congressman was in imminent risk of death when he arrived at the hospital on wednesday, but now hes stabilized. 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Fleet and it collide with a container vessel in the middle of the night. We do know three of the injured including the commander were airlifted out and theyre in stable condition. We also do know that the uss fitzgerald has returned to its home port where it began the trip on friday. But night has fallen here in japan. Its very dark outside already. The divers will be trying to get in under the waterline to see where and how the damage occurred. Because we only see pictures of the damage to the righthand side above the waterline. But the serious damage is likely to be below the surface. Were talking about areas like the machine room, the radio room, and the u. S. Navy said they dont know yet when and how they can get into that area. But divers will be trying to gain access to that area to have more detail into how this accident occurred. 18 hours in, we still have many Unanswered Questions as to how this collision could have occurred to begin with. Let me ask you this quickly. I know you said night is falling right now. Do you get any sense as to whether that will impact the search operation . Will they stop for the night and resume at sunup or will they do this aroundtheclock . Theres been no update from the u. S. Navy or the Japanese Coast Guard as to whether or not they will terminate the search and rescue operation. My understanding is that its an ongoing effort by helicopters and vessels in the area. This is a highly trafficked area. My best guess would be that since there are some other vessels in the area, 400, 500 ships traveling around the area, the search will continue. As of this moment we have no update as to when or whether or not they plan to continue this rescue operation into the night. Of course finding those missile sailors is truly the priority here. Thank you very much. Also new this morning, lets take to you minnesota where state Police Arrested 18 people protesting the acquittal of a st. 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