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probably stay republican with the chief justice roberts as the judge, win it there and declare a victory. and that s what he should do. well, we have to remember bill clinton was impeached but stayed in office. so it doesn t necessarily mean it would be the end of his precedency. takes a two thirds vote, remember. so, jack, would firing him get the president his ability to control the special counsel investigation. that would be the only reason of getting rid of rosenstein. i think it ll be exceedingly difficult. i can t imagine someone will come in and sit in rosenstein s place and try to baby-sit him and redirect of the course of the investigation. that s just not going to happen. i totally agree with everything bob said, by the way. and i think if he tries to replace rosenstein, if he tries to replace sessions, it would be seen for what it is. it would be seen as the act of a man with a guilty mind. innocent people don t behave this way. they don t threaten to fire ....
atta attack. they see our resolve breaking and it becomes a tweet without meaning he s hurt himself in forth corkorea. he ll look in the eyes of russia and iran. we have full coverage today for you from the top stories from white house correspondent jeff bennett and rodriguez and alexi from axios and npr and i ll talk to castro coming up. let s head to the white house for reaction. jeff, another good day to you on this sunday. what can you tell us? president trump responded using what is his favorite me megaphone twitter to level the most direct criticism yet. president trump says putin wbr id= wbr1755 /> bears responsibility for that deadly chemical weapons attack in /b> out saying we don t want the united states to get embroiled in another war in the middle east. there is still a lot of feeling along americans that we went into the war in iraq under pretense that was false, there was a lot of fatigue about being in iraq for so long and so the support for any action fel ....
he was facing an uphill battle. a lot of people, including the republicans do not believe he has the experience of veterans affair and though he does have credentials as a doctor, he does not have the credentials to run something that brig. it s still a very fluid situation. right now the president says he s standing by dr. ronnie johnson and he s going to leave whether he steps aside up to ronny jackson. i heard the line where you have trump saying we wish to work on this new deal with iran. can you tell me what it is the president of the united states wants and what is it about this deal that macron that he d being to change? reporter: look, all we know is the line you just cited. there s no more information coming from the president what this deal might be. the french president went into much more detail. he said don t rip up the current deal until you have something else. so keep the deal this is the french president laying out his argumen arguments, he said keep the d ....
disciplined or removed from office only by the personal action of the attorney general. but according to the white house, the president has been advised he, he can terminate robert mueller all by himself. . does he believe he has the power to fire special counsel robert mueller? certainly believes he has the power to do so. most legal experts believe he would have to order deputy attorney general rosenstein to fire mueller and corefuse. i know a number of individuals in the legal community and including at the department of justice said he has the power to do so but i don t have any further announcements. they told me, i ve asked. they said it s rosenstein oversees is the special counsel and only he has the power to fire the special counsel. again, we ve been advised that the president certainly has the power to make that decision. i can t go anything beyond that. we ve been advised the president certainly has the power to make the decision. to be clear, the warrants ....
ukrainian government which have links to russian politicians and operatives. the memo says the link compels investigators to examine russian efforts of interference in the 2016 election. the payments from ukraine to manafort is the basis for financial crimes charges he faces. manafort wants the charges dismissed claiming beyond mueller s scope because ukraine is unrelated to the campaign. the declassified memo was written in august by deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. it shows rosenstein s strong backing for the special counsel despite attacks from the president. let s discuss this with julian selzer. good morning. good morning. the constant attacks against the word collusion. the word he said the most in the first 14 or 15 months. how significant is this development? it doesn t seem there are any new findings here, but it shows there is legitimacy to looking at the financial ties with officials in the trump orbit and russia. this just provides credibility for mu ....