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His position on voting rights and other things. but you don't fire someone for following the law. in this case, he simply recused himself from anything dealing with russia because of his past involvement and meetings with the russian ambassador and other issues. and he gave that job to his deputy, as is appropriate, rod rosenstein, who has in fact appointed a special counsel, who was an fbi director under a republican administration, well respected on both sides of the aisle. so that is why you see democrats saying no, the president cannot fire the attorney general. i guess he legally can, but...

Do this without a confirmation process, put somebody through as a recess appointment, democrats will just prevent the senate from recessing and he won't be allowed to do it that way either. where do you think this is going to go? what do you think will happen with this standoff between the president and his own a.g.? >> well, first of all, senator grassley is expressing the sentiments of a lot of republicans including senator lee just yesterday in the judiciary committee came out strong, even saying he didn't agree with jeff sessions on a number of things, including criminal justice reform, bu...

Relationship with an international drug trafficker that he tried to get lenient treatment for in the 1980s. >> in the statement stay away from my money, it seems clear now that robert mueller is not staying away from the money. how close are we headed to a nixon moment where he tried to fire the special prosecutor in that instance back in the 1970s and if donald trump did fire mueller, what do you expect to happen next? >> first of all one would hope that donald trump learns something from history and the reaction to the firing of arch bald cox was a jie nor mouse t outpowering of support for ...

Staying away from the money. how close are we headed to a nixon moment where he tried to fire the special prosecutor in that instance back in the 1970s and if donald trump did fire mueller, what do you expect to happen next? >> first of all one would hope that donald trump learns something from history and the reaction to the firing of arch bald cox was a jie nor mouse outpowering of support for the special prosecutor. it was that that led nixon to appointment a second special prosecutor and turn over the tapes that ended up being his doom. so if donald trump learns anything, my advise to him ...

That's also the reason that they'd likely be brought in to begin with, that these are people who don't mind aggressively going after the president's adversaries against all of these negative reports and, of course, all of those leakers. liz? elizabeth: all right. of kristin fisher with great reporting at the white house. kristin, thank you so much. leland: a little bit more on this with jenna johnson of "the washington post." jenna, always good to see you, thanks so much. we'll start where kristin did on this issue of executive privilege. what is the calculus that the white house is going thro...