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Trump-russia investigation could fire mr. mueller, either by declaring that mr. mueller has overstepped in some way, or by changing justice department regulations to eliminate the rules protecting special counsels. once he's gotten rid of those rules, he can fire him thereafter for any reason he wants to. or unrecused attorney general could declare that, you know, the regular justice department can handle this investigation after all. we don't need a special counsel. an unrecused attorney general could disband mueller's staff. or he could direct mueller's investigators to swiftly tell them to ...

Charlie savage from the "the new york times" lays out what an unrecused attorney general could do to shut down mueller and the fbi's investigation. quote, an attorney general who is not recused from the trump hch russia information could fire mr. mueller either by declaring that mr. mueller has overstepped in some way or by changing justice department regulations to eliminate the rule protecting special counsels. and then once he's gotten rid of the rules he can fire him for whatever reason he wants to. or an unrecused attorney general could declare that, you know what? the regular justice dep...

So many officialing to shut done that investigation, having fired james comey, having gone after his own attorney general, going after robert mueller, talking to people in his administration enlawyers trying to impugn the credibility of mueller. i don't know if they've figured out how to do that but they are aiming to do that. why do you believe that the mueller investigation itself can be fired. >> under the law only the person who appointed him, rod rosenstein with dishis him and only if he commits some impropriety. bobby mueller doesn't do improprieties. he does investigations. he's one of ...

Change, which he now says he's going to make, unless and until that happens, the fbi still reports to the justice department, to the attorney general at the justice department. of course, this attorney general is recused from any investigations related to the presidential campaign, including the russia investigation. attorney general sessions has been the subject of days and days of public abuse from the president who started criticizing him in "the new york times" interview for having recused himself from the russia matter. but the president hasn't stopped criticizing him about that since. if...

One person said he would actually berate employees in front of each other. despite that, he's very well regarded, very highly respected within the bureau. if mueller were to be sort of deliberately humiliated by the white house, that would have major law enforcement repercussions, and with the republican party as we know it is very, very intimately supportive of and connected to federal law enforcement community. so it's important to remember that piece of all this. >> they may be, but i don't think the question is whether or not taking down mueller. i think the question is if he is in a posit...