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What the president did. the president has the authority under article 2 to fire anybody who is executive branch official. comey was eminently fireable. only thing president trump did wrong in firing comey is he didn't do it inauguration day when he should have. mark: what's your take? >> two problems with rosenstein. number one, he signs one of the fisas against carter page. now if carter page was, in fact being investigated through a court used almost exclusively to gather intelligence on foreign terrorists, if carter page, there was probable cause which is what the fisa warrant needs that ca...

Was president. those are all covered by executive privilege and by the unfetterred pardon power which is in the constitution. when you put it altogether, you end up with an illegitimate suit. it's an illegitimate putting. he doesn't have the power to investigate to impeach, and so rosenstein's appointment is not only illegitimate, it's a constitutional farce and it's hurting the country. mark: what do you think the framers of the constitution would say about what this does to separation of powers, what it does to the whole construct of our constitutional system? and isn't it why chuck schumer ...

Oversight. it is only recently that they have begun to issue subpoenas for documents from the department of justice. is only recently they have threatened contempt of congress for the failure of the department of justice under rosenstein and sessions to produce documents that congress is entitled to under constitutional oversight. they are now only beginning to exercise the power that they had. they clearly have the authority under the constitution to subpoena mueller. to have him answer questions about why he is conducting his investigation the way he is. why there is no basis for a crime for...

The dossier. you get to the bottom of the dossier, you drag down the whole issue in comey. you drag down rosenstein who extended it and proved it, you drag down the hillary clinton campaign and the dnc that paid for it, you drag down mr. clapper who was pushing it, mr. brennan who was pushing it, all the secretive activity going on top echelons of the obama administration. you drag down the obama administration. isn't that why they don't ever want to get to the bottom of the dossier? >> yes, yes, absolutely. and the other reason is there was a black ops basically intelligence operation run aga...

Conclusion of the e-mail investigation was wrong. as a result, the fbi's unlikely to regain public and congressional trust, until it has a director who understands the gravity of the mistakes and pledges never to repeat them. having refused to admit errors, the director cannot be expected to implement the necessary actions. here's my question, is mr. mueller unaware of this, one of the questions is how was comey fired? is he helen keller? number two, why is mr. rosenstein involved in any of this, given his role in firing comey? >> the deputy attorney general has a clear conflict of interest. n...