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It's entirely inappropriate for the president to meet with rod rosenstein and do effectively what he did with jim comey before he fired comey, which is to invite in this case rosenstein to pledge loyalty, to say are you on my team, are you with me or against me, and to hold rosenstein's job over his head, make him audition for the job he already holds. it's an effort by the president to pressure the investigation and in fact to compromise and obstruct it. >> now to our former fed. frank, how would team mueller view a rosenstein departure, and how would they process it? what would it mean to th...

Firing? again, the president can't fire bob mueller directly, he would have to get rid of rosenstein, would have to get rid of sessions. is that what it's going to take for republicanyou're going to h to fire rosenstein. >> we have already seen some republican -- sorry, was that for me? >> you can go. >> we have already seen some republicans making it clear that they do not want the president to fire robert mueller. we have seen everyone from senator tom tillis, republican from north carolina saying that congress should act to at least some other lawmakers in their statements saying that, well...

President from seeking to fire robert mueller if he wants to. he tried in the past, and he was stopped only because people didn't follow his orders. so if he directs attorney general rod rosenstein to do so, rod rosenstein has a decision to make, either he'll step down or we'll see another saturday night massacre situation, but that's all in the hands of the president to initiate. >> charlie, what do you think the likelihood is that donald trump sits down for a face-to-face with bob mueller? >> dramatically less than it was 24 hours ago. this has become very, very personal. he perceives this a...

And it's been approved, you can move forward. of course, here, we have the president of the united states. so we see an even much higher level of review going up to rosenstein. and of course now officials over at the southern district of new york. it is never taken lightly when you go after an attorney/client privilege piece of information. one because it's sack sack row sankt in many respects. and from the prosecutor's perspective, if they screw that up if they somehow see evidence they're not supposed to be, that causes a huge problem down the line because there's something called the fruit ...

They had approval to look for that as well. >> all right, michael schmidt here from "the new york times" with some breaking news here, top of the 1:00 hour. michael, thanks. do come back in there's more news to share. tom, we also learned that deputy attorney general rob rosenstein signed off on this raid himself. what does that tell us? >> that tells us frankly they're following along with the guidelines that he'd been given. if you want to look at this from a sports analogy, craig, rob rosenstein is the president and gm of this investigation and robert mueller is the coach. he's the one that...