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Jeff sessions fired. it's kind of a complicated reality show right now. the president not liking him and wanting to fire him and not wanting to fire him. i can't imagine that rosenstein would not want to resign. >> can we underscore that he went to the white house and ended up participating in a previously scheduled principals meeting sitting at the table with other senior officials talking about whatever policy issues were on the agenda while all of this is swirling. >> that's a good straight face. >> only in the trump administration. >> in the mueller investigation if rosenstein is fired opp...

President has dipped in now. >> really, what it comes down to politically is three people, susan collins, lisa murkowski and jeff flake, the potential republican swing votes if this nomination does go to the floor. >> is corker part of the conversation? >> he may be. i think these are the three that chairman grassley has been focusing on. he's been faced with the challenge of making sure that those three senators in particular consider this process to be fair, while at the same time, you know, we've seen susan collins, especially voice concerns about it being drawn out and being delayed and, y...

Concerns mounting over whether this could be the end of the line for deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. a new report from "the new york times" alleges that deputy attorney general rod rosenstein once floated the idea of secretly recording president trump to expose chaos in the white house. "the times" reporting that it happened in may of 2017, that was during a meeting with other doj officials. soon after president trump fired former fbi director james comey. in that very same meeting, rosenstein is said to have discussed recruiting cabinet members including his own boss attorney general ...

Experience. >> matt miller, is this a line that perhaps rod rosenstein should hold to, that he will not participate in that briefing unless the lead democrats on the committees are allowed to participate? >> it's an important principle. he ought to stick up for it. that's the way the justice department and other intelligence agencies have operated in this sphere. the principle that if you're conducting oversight, then should it be bipartisan and both sides should get -- should get access to the information. that's not what we've seen here i think to the point -- the republicans in congress don...

Rosenstein is, i really worry, as i wrote in the piece that he's giving up too much, he is in a tough spot. but the fault doesn't really rest with him. the fault really rests with everyone else who is not defending him and leaving him in this situation. there ought to be people in congress, republicans especially who are standing up and say you know what? stop politicizing this investigation. mr. president, stop trying to move the line, stop trying to define what's appropriate you. shouldn't be sitting in meetings deciding what they turn over to congress when it's an investigation that pertain...