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>> first of all, he is a political hack. donald trump put him in there for one reason and one reason only, as a get out of jail card free. i mean, this is precisely the problem that elliott richardson and ruckles house foresaw before the saturday night massacre occurred. they preplanned to make sure that a political hack wouldn't be put in charge of the department of justice. they both knew that they had to resign, but bourque was prevailed upon to fire archibald cox so they wouldn't put in some hack from the white house -- >> what's so striking, the doomsday scenario we had with the saturday ...

Of the house intelligence committee, congressman adam schiff. and with senate judiciary committee member richard blumenthal. our correspondents and analysts are also standing by. first to our chief white house correspondent jim acosta. jim, you are with the president in new york as the fate of the deputy attorney general is now very much up in the air. >> reporter: that's right, wolf. the white house is pushing back on reports that deputy attorney general rod rosenstein is on his way out the door, at least for now. rosenstein we're told thought he was going to be fired today, but that, of cour...

President, but he contributed to the matrix of showing the president's obstruction of justice in a very, very definitive way as well as showing the collusion -- >> well, we -- >> actually, i think we do know some of it, and some of it has been reported. part of that is indeed about what happened. i'll give you one example. and i think we can reliably say that mcgahn talked about attempts to fire attorney general sessions, by reince priebus, was asked by the president to fire attorney general sessions. or obtain his resignation. and priebus refused. a few days later, priebus was out. now, in a ...

Showing the collusion -- >> well, we -- >> fully, i think we do know some of it, and some of it has been reported. part of that is indeed about what happened. i'll give you one example. and i think we can reliably say that mcgann talk ed about attempts to fire attorney general sessions, by reince priebus, asked by the president to fire attorney general sessions. or obtain his resignation. priebus refused. a few days later, priebus was out. in a skeletal form, that was reported by vanity fair, it's of huge importance in the whole pattern of what trump has done to obstruct goes to what mcgann ta...

Toward the tipping point." we know he asked a security detail to go get him a certain kind of lotion. we are getting new information about his future. sources tell cnn pruitt personally lobbied the president to fire attorney general jeff sessions and replace him with a guy named scott pruitt. joining us to talk about this, political analyst "new york times" white house correspondent maggie haberman. long time no see, maggie. >> it's been at least ten hours. >> the senate intelligence committee put out this finding which says their assessment is that russia meddled in the 2016 election under th...