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He can't just fire mueller the way he would fire somebody else. he would have to go through the department of justice. he would have to go through rod rosenstein. rosenstein made it, i thought, you tell me, pretty clear in his testimony that he does not see mueller as a malofactor. so if he refused to fire him, he would have to fire rosenstein, and we know how that goes from the nixon days. >> yeah, it would have to go through several steps and it would be like telegraphing a punch. the downside would be tremendous. at the same time, it's not clear -- we're seeing this mueller investigation, s...