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More like a chess move. at least he's getting advice from someone who's telling him how to move the pieces here in a way that best defends his presidency. and what's significant here is the resignation and not necessarily the firing. under that, the vacancies reform act is an open question on whether or not someone who is fired, whether it invokes the vra, vacancies reform act. but if somebody resigns, that allows trump to name a successor, a temporary successor. otherwise there's a strong argument that trump should have followed the doj succession line, in which case rosenstein moves up. keep...

Unpopular nominee and couple that with the russia investigation and rosenstein, and the fact that everybody identifies their number one issue as health care, and i think that this is a recipe for disaster for republicans and it further encourages democrats to show up to vote. >> congresswoman, thank you. congressman, thank you. our viewers can tell you're both former members because of your civility to each other and your modest host. appreciate it. always a pleasure to have you both on. coming up, we hear from one of the many bit players with russian friends who got caught up in what has si...

What's going on. we want to have transparency. we want to have openness. >> deputy attorney general rod rosenstein's future seems to be hanging in the balance tonight. this all follows "the new york times" report late last week saying that he'd suggested perhaps secretly recording trump and lobbying cabinet members to invoke the 25th amendment. sources tell nbc news that trump decided not to fire rosenstein after discussions over the weekend with aides and allies and among other things after being begged not to do so by sean hannity on live television friday night. rosenstein, we'll remind you...

To peter baker, to cynthia alksne, to frank figliuuzzi, thank you so much for starting us off. coming up the other big story of the day, the latest reporting on rosenstein and his job future. and later, new numbers tonight on where these midterms may be headed exactly six weeks from now. "the 11th hour" just getting started with a new week on a monday night. police stay with us.

President's senior advisers over the weekend today but for quite some time now have tried to explain to the president that he simply cannot do. if rosenstein leaves, they say it has to be by his own decision and not by the president firing him because that just adds another data point for robert mueller's investigation into obstruction of justice. >> and you're so right to point out that huge distinction. so jeremy, if in fact he leaves, you and so many others have been kind enough to be on our broadcast regularly, have said that a rosenstein departure would equal a constitutional crisis, or a...