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They're all gone. but there's a lingering stench and we're going to get rid of that too. >> joining us, nbc news legal analyst and fellow in government studies at brookings institution, jack rice, and criminal defense attorney. ben, is that the proverbial shot off the bow and who is it aimed at, aimed at jeff sessions and rod rosenstein? >> i have long since given up trying to figure out if or when the president is going to get rid of jeff sessions or rod rosenstein. i mean, i would say look, he's clearly wanted to for a long time, and on the other hand they're both useful as punching bags in ...

Intelligence or classified information, you need to think about the blow back and what it means. i suspect the safety net that came into place was the justice department itself that went to his people or went to the president directly and said this is the classified information we have to protect. these are sources and methods of which it came, we need to protect those as well. if you roll this out, this potentially blows the sources. you need to stop. the fact they had to go to the president after the fact rather than before which he should have gone to them in the first place is something i ...

Weekends. but you definitely want to watc watch. >> all right. okay greg. >> the greg gutfeld so, tomorrow night 10:00 p.m. i have the great author walter kern, and it's going to be another great show. tune in, if you don't i will hunt you down and call you names. i want to bid a fond farewell to a guy has been working at vox since the start. jack rice. he's been our sound guy forever. he was the sound guy for redeye, one red i started. and he was to see how awful i was. you think i'm bad now, i was terrible. he had to put up with me and he had to deal with my ear and my shirt and my belt and ...

Nixon. >> when you were working on the special prosecutor bill, you put in checks andne balances? >> correct. >> and how do you see the strengths? >> the strength of the checks and balances. the framers of the constitution knew there would be somebody who would abuse the power of his office and we had to preserve democracy. one of the checks and balances is to make sure the criminal justice system holds everybody accountable. when you start to tear that down and you start to create fake news and you start to tell the american people they can't trust basic institutions in this country, then it ...

Twitter account today, jack. your thought on exactly what the representative said. >> yeah, she's absolutely right. i think about this as a former prosecutor and a criminal defense attorney. and i'm sitting in front of juries. you argue facts if it works. if it doesn't work, you argue the law. the problem is that the president and the people said we had no contact with the russians at all. nothing. fact, they had all kinds of contact and that is objectively true. then we're arguing that we didn't break the law. there are now at least four indictments, two convictions, or at least two pleas, ma...