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Hallie? >> kelly ododge'donnell, thank . ken, we're hearing from the department of justice pushing back on pieces of mccabe's book. there was like a counting of the noses happening, right, as it related to potentially removing president trump from office. >> yeah, this is a very complicated situation, hallie. you have andrew mccabe, a compelling, articulate witness, but also a tainted witness. because he has found to have lied or had lack of candor by an independent inspector general report and rod rosenstein viewed by many people as a protector of the mueller investigation is out with a state...

Asks everyone to do every day, comment on an ongoing investigation into russian collusion? >> it was wrong when trump asked and wrong with comey did it. there was a legitimate reason to be concerned. but at the same time rosenstein knew he was being played by the president of the united states. but that's obstruction of justice. mueller's got that information. there was always a question of whether rosenstein needed to recuse himself since at this point he was going to be a fact witness, that time has come. >> one of the reasons i think mccabe's book is so significant is because so much of wha...

Already have ten democrats who have decided they are not going to vote for judge kavanaugh. i think at this point the jury is out on how this is going. they clearly think that she has been a credible witness for the judiciary committee and now let's see after she finishes up what brett kavanaugh has to say when they come back on the other side. >> bret: there's another event that did not happen today that was going to be big news today and that is the president meeting with rod rosenstein, the president tweeting out... obviously that was a choice to put the focus back on brett kavanaugh. >> wh...

>> he could get ice cream. all those things could happen. john avalon joins us now with some of the distinctions there. >> that's right. the unlikely gold star scenario aside, rumors rocketed yesterday that rod rosenstein was on the chopping block. this was high octane speculation because as rod rosenstein goes, so does the russia investigation. >> you're fired! >> here's the thing, president trump doesn't reportedly like to fire anyone directly. with trump away at the united nations, it appears the deputy attorney general is safe, at least for today. but he has a thursday morning meeting sche...

Somewhere within the justice department or the fbi or somewhere that is -- actually has access to this material and -- and i think it's reasonable to hypothesize -- i don't know for sure, i don't know where it came from -- that it is an effort to make mccabe's conduct look heroic and make rod look less than heroic in this particular period of time in a fashion that makes him less easy to target for possible prosecution. >> yeah, so many threads to follow there. asawan, do we have a sense of whether rosenstein has protectors in the white house or is all the advice merely really about timing, do...