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fire rosenstein and sessions, there were people who didn't approach barr and he at first said no. >> we are going to take a quick break. when we come back, i think there is an important aspect that he was asked about, president offering pardons. it's an important thing to discuss right after this.
that was entangled with the law. and it's amazing that there are so many families for whom two generations are ensnared in this criminal investigation. >> look, i've seen this work both ways in public corruption cases. i've seen high-ranking officials told that their child is exposed criminally and they need to cut a deal. and i've seen them walk away from it, much to the d disgruntlement of their spouse. i don't know where this will go, but most likely trump will lash out and fire rosenstein before making a deal for one of his kids. >> frank, thank you for being there for us. when we come back, the high five seen around the world. at something old,
credibility. now what happens if the president takes action, what are the possibilities how washington could respond, what are the possibilities where bob mueller would respond. i don't have any doubt bob mueller knows what he would do in that situation. >> why do we think trump hasn't done it. the guy touches hot stoves and says i'll do it again. this one is all, it feels like it is all bluster. i understand were senate republicans are saying this is one of his soap boxes, we're not so worried about it. that's been the white house defense. he could have done this months ago and didn't. >> it is a question whether he could have done it without having sessions and rosenstein gone. then there's pressure not to fire rosenstein. and not to fire sessions. sessions is now gone and rosenstein is now has a superior, this guy whitaker. he tried to get mcgahn, white house counsel to move on this a year ago, and he said you can't do this, threatened to resign.
investigation. does that quote, bill crystal, need to be delivered to mitch mcconnell? >> if you're the president of the united states and think an investigation in department of justice which ultimately reports to you is illegal, you probably are saying -- >> has he ordered the end of the investigation in your mind? >> no. but i am worried in this respect. what did he do, what is the first thing after election day, he accepted sessions' forced resignation. and people aren't aware how extraordinary this was, put whitaker as acting attorney general. rosenstein would have been next in line, that's the way it happens, you could have made the solicitor general acting attorney general, that wouldn't be out of the ordinary. bring in a nonsenate confirmed, your political guy whitaker got the job because he defended trump on tv enough that trump said make him chief of staff, then was kind of a white house
he doesn't trust him enough -- >> that's the diabolical beauty of this move. now he does not have to -- >> who figured it out? >> he doesn't have to fire rosenstein, he doesn't have to fire mueller -- >> he has somebody like you around. who is telling him? >> everybody knew sessions was going to be removed from office. i think there was some vetting, but again, the main criteria was the ploil at this pledge in the russia audition. >> he went point by point, hit all the erognous zones. >> this is scraping the bottom of the barely. this is a man who has a walking conflict of interest, not only the statements about his ignorant uninformed statements about the russia investigation, but his own exposure, this company that he was in the board of that the fbi -- the ftc called a scam company, fined him $25 million, so the miami fbi is investigating that. he's the subject of that investigation. a walking conflict of interest. >> i'm older than you guys.
the challenge is not only firing mueller, but the chance to cut back on his budget or stop an indictment or other items. >> kellyanne conway did make this pledge yesterday. take a listen. >> you don't expect there to be a change in any way, mr. whitaker won't be dealing with the russia investigation? >> no, i'm not aware of what you asked previously, which is in making this move the president is trying to shut down the investigation. i know the media has asked for a better part of the year is he trying to fire robert mueller, is he trying to fire rosenstein. none of that has been true. >> so she denied previous things being true. i could parse that a thousand times and i didn't hear an answer there. >> there's an easy way to clear this up, to bring harmony back in terms of those of us who are concerned about this in the senate. make this guy, mr. whitaker,
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welcome back. as always, we have one eye on the markets. now down just over 400 on the day. the explanation at this point seems to be the ongoing, the continued concerns of this trade war or potential trade war with china. remember, it was just two days ago the market was up over 500 points and the president said, let's celebrate this great market and why isn't the mainstream media covering it. we cover the up days. we cover the down days. on the down days, the president likes to point to the fed. we haven't heard that today. let's turn to rod rosenstein. a little more than a week after president trump signalled he's not planning to fire rosenstein. in an interview rosenstein defended the mueller probe as appropriate and independent. he went on the say at the end of the day the public will have conferr confidence that the cases we brought were warranted by
david and melanie, thank you guys so much. as president trump left the white house for orlando, he seemingly ended speculation that he might fire his deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein. rosenstein was on air force one with president trump today. this is the first time they have met face to face since that bombshell "new york times" report from what feels like forever ago, just a few weeks. remember the report claimed that the deputy attorney general discussed secretly recording trump and using the 25th amendment to remove him from office. when asked directly if he has planned to fire rosenstein, trump said, no, i don't. no. and added this. >> well, we're going to be talking. we'll be talking on the plane. i actually have a good relationship, other than, there's been no collusion, folks. i didn't know rod before, but i've gotten to know him and i get along very well with him. >> let's go straight to shimon prokupecz who's in orlando.
that became a very big story, actually, folks. we had a good talk. >> reporter: now, as for that meeting the president had with rod rosenstein, the white house told reporters the two men discussed what they called general justice department business over on air force one. but there weren't many other details besides that. those details, obviously, could be illuminating as rosenstein is the justice department official overseeing the russia investigation. right now the president says he's not going to fire rosenstein. and as for brett kavanaugh, the new supreme court justice, will appear with the president later on tonight at an event here in the east room of the white house. you can hear the president, perhaps, just arriving here at the white house from his event earlier today on marine one. wolf, one key thing to watch later on tonight, whether or not the president, after all of this hot talk, last 48 hours, whether he tries to turn down the temperature in this city, wolf. it is a city where the temperature definitely needs to be turned out this evening. >> didn't turn it down earlier today. let's see what happens later tonight. jim acosta, thank you. let's dig deeper right now in the fate of the future