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Prepared. >> and president trump has repeatedly expressed his anger, congressman, that attorney general jeff sessions recused himself from the russia investigation. you're probably hearing some of our new reporting from kaitlan collins about scott pruitt's request to replace sessions. if the president were to do that, would that mean the end of the russia investigation? you do get the sense from scott pruitt that he does like to ingratiate himself with the president. >> look, he's done exactly what the president has told him to do at the epa. you can imagine the scenario here. he goes there wi...

That would take time. there's no reason people could consent to re-writing the code that way. we have the president trying to get people fired because they are standing up and enforcing the law. these search warrants on michael cohen were executed by the u.s. attorney's office for the southern district of new york. it was done according to law. there was nothing there that showed if anything was wrong. if the president were to get people fired, it's only because he doesn't like what's happening with the rule of law. >> if they have sought advice on the president's authority to directly fire th...

Questions. >> i think the president was pretty clear about his frustrations when he spoke about that last night. >> reporter: while the raid at the office of the president's personal attorney michael cohen was oerd eordered by the u.s. attorney's office in new york and not mueller, mr. presidetru out ranled. rosenstein had to sign off. >> why don't i just fire mueller? i think it's a days grace what's going on. i think it's a really sad situation kwlowhen you look at happened. many people have said you should fire him. >> reporter: the president vented his frustration by tweeting. continuation...

Why they think that. like it is hard -- the facts didn't match it. how did they snow the president for so long. >> i think this was a bit of baby-sitting. they were deeply concerned the president would fire mueller and doing everything they could to wait him out. to try and get to the next exit. just wait -- a little bit more -- >> buying time. >> just buying time. because if they said to him, hey, look, mueller is going on for two years and he's eventually going to come and -- and be an even bigger problem. >> probably would have fired mueller. >> and the president in this case justified in c...

They're approaching a midterm election where they're already in bad shape and one thing that could make it worse, getting into a public spat with the president. the president fires back at them, and their base, in terms of electoral turnout just disappears because they get mad at republicans for fighting with the president and the republican base is still with the president, even though many more republican voters have issues with the president. so it's a very delicate matter for republicans on the hill. in talking to them over many months, they have always expressed publicly and on the record...