independent counsel is a keet r i creature of the court, bob mueller can be fire by president trump and it something that everybody should be thinking about down the road if this investigation goes done and goes on in directions the president doesn t like. jeff zeleny, as if there isn t enough chaos in this administration, imagine him firing mueller. come on. i guess it a real possibility but just imagine the optics of that. mike chael raise as very goo point. we draw so many parallels to watergate. this is a moment in every respect obviously but particularly on the law there. it is certainly a possibility but, look, i thi that the optics of that would be horrible. i mean, i can t imagine what congress would do, but the term witch hunt, there s one person in this town that i ve heard using that term today, that s the president. there aren t republicans on capitol hill saying that. speaker ryan was asked directly
day and then possibly go home and relitigate it as well, it does provide a huge distraction for them. anna knnovarro, maybe you asd the question yourself, at what point do republicans really start distancing themselves from the president? what do you think? i think today was an important point when lindsey graham came out of the briefing with deputy general rosenstein that this had possibly gone from a counterintelligent investigation to a criminal investigation, that has to have had an effect on a lot of republicans. the word criminal means a lot. i can tell you it made my jaw drop and made me look at things in a very different light. and i think republicans are going t he to do what paul ryan h been saying all along, which is walk and chew gum at the same time. we sit there day after day
that? that s kind of a sort of expressing a pride in his lack of knowledge that i don t imagine that republics in the end, however much they admire him, his gumption is life story, his energy, and his charm, i don t think they will see him as a presidential. bill: i was watching you on bet baier. none of us surprised the super committee didn t do anything it is divided as brit hume says along the ideological fault lines. as soon as the democrats went in to demanded a million dollars in tax increases it was no. that s it. it was over three months ago. who is going to win this in the pr battle? democrats going to win or republicans going to win. democrats win in the short run because the media will join in the narrative that it s grover norquist, it s republic on citizen nens over raising taxes. they may get a bump right now. in the end, on election day, people are not going to make those calculations as to whether some congressman in
he had simpson bowls last fall, a year ago this past year. and he appointed the commission. by part son in nature. they issued a cut $4 trillion he dismissed it. in january he said republic congressman paul ryan h serious entitlement. we know the facts the people who follow know the facts. he is more interested in getting reelected than he is confronting the problems that confront us. bill: the economy is so bad and the debt is so high, how does he think he is going to get reelected from that? i know. by creating a strategy. bill: blame the others, i got it. yeah. bill: what if we get another downgrade next week and the market is down 500 points which is certainly possible. it is possible. i think that s unlikely. one good thing going for him is that there was a back stop in this measure. they are going to cut through sequestrations across the top. but, look, here is the point. the point is that he has made a determination he he can t get reelected because people