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Cloud up even more and make it worse for yourself. what do you do? >> only rosenstein has the power to fire mueller as he should. he should do that and then recuse himself at the same time. pete: you say he should. is that the right move to make the russia thing go away? >> end the investigation. then there would be a new special counsel that would be appointed in the investigation moves forward. and hopefully the new special counsel would be impartial, which mueller is not. i would hope that if rosenstein doesn't fire mueller, that he recuses himself and then rachel bran who is number three t...

The 2016 campaign. joining us is matt miller a former chief spokesman for the justice department. appreciate your time tonight. >> of course. >> so could the president really fire bob mueller? cofire the special counsel? >> yeah, absolutely. could do it one of two ways. he could repeal the regulations under which mueller was appointed and directly fire him. the second way is probably the more likely way and has historical precedent. he could order or ask the attorney general jeff sessions or the deputy attorney general to fire mueller. that's what happened in watergate. you saw the top two o...

So i think that there is little doubt in my mind, not coming out of the briefing by the deputy attorney general, but in my mind, that when president trump said he removed him because of russia, that was the honest underlying cause for his actions. i think that was inappropriate, but i think that's what he did. >> on that note, are you confident the president and the doj are going to keep their hands out of this investigation? after all, he does have the power still to fire robert mueller. >> apparently, he does not. under -- i may be wrong on this, but what we heard in terms of the statute and...

Against for quite a long time. there's a geographic targeting order in new york directed at it, so you've got a couple of different things here that don't all conflate into one thing, which mueller has to separate and then investigate one by one and give us his read on it. >> all right, we have to leave it there. my takeaway, robert mueller has his work cut out for him and john, you might have some clients looking for representation, and you can be in luck here, brother. coming up much more, republican congressman jim banks of indiana will be here. or plan for tomorrow? at kpmg, we believe s...

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