Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20171217:02:10:00
People do take it seriously. the very fact that we're having this conversation is fascinating. we didn't have this conversation about the prosecutor in the cia leak case in the bush administration. we didn't have this conversation really during the starr investigation of president clinton, a somewhat different legal situation for ken starr. the point is most presidents recognize that firing a special prosecutor is a political risk in a big way. it echoes watergate, it echoes what president nixon did with archibald cox. rod rosenstein, the deputy attorney general who would have to be the one to...