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The investigation haunted that committee hearing today. one question that pompeo would not really answer was -- if the president fires mueller or rosenstein, will he -- will he quit in protest? pompeo basically said, no, i need to -- i want to be doing a good job. that -- i mean, that just shows that this investigation is, you know, on the minds of many people and the sort of damacles hanging over mueller, as long as it's still there it will dominate. >> were you surprised, sabrina after the intelligence community, including the fbi director briefed the president and his team on russian meddli...

And anticipation that trump is corrupt. i don't think that would be good for the country. moveon.org, which is a progressive organization already has an action plan on their site for when trump fires mueller, when he pardons people that were investigating. they already organized all of this. so it's not to say that they're excited. >> that is well-earned because of the president himself. his favorite thing to do when he's on the cusp of making decisions to say i don't know, we'll see what happens. he's actually asking us to speculate as to whether or not he's going to. i don't know if he enjoy...

>> all options. but steve bannon, the president's exiled chief strategist, has another idea. instead of firing mueller, just cripple the investigation. "the washington post" reports bannon is pitching a plan to west wing aides and congressional allies to cripple the federal probe into russian interference in the 2016 election. the first step these people say would be for trump to fire deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. rosenstein was at the white house for a meeting with the president. the white house also says it is regarding routine department business so right now he, too, still has a ...

Jurisdiction. if you read the four corners of the document that mueller has, it's stuff related to the collusion and anything that may arise out of this. so, the difference here is that it's his own justice department, his own prosecutors that went ahead and did this. why did rosenstein do this? why not keep it with mueller under one roof? well, if the president fires mueller and ends mueller's investigation, does this allow something else on the president to continue on because it is at the u.s. attorney in new york the president can't shut down? >> let me ask you about the access hollywood t...

Interference, and i think most members of congress view it that way. >> but he did have the opportunity to say that, to say, no, i have no reason not to want to fire bob mueller yesterday. he was asked directly and he didn't say no. as you mentioned, you and most republicans said mueller should be able to finish his investigation and finish his job. is there any reason not to act now as a member of congress before trump fires mueller to prevent him from firing mueller? >> well, all i can say is that mr. mueller, to be removed, has to be removed for cause. i have legislation that would require ...