Vanderbilt Television News Archive

(Studio: John Berman) What President Trump said today about firing deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein introduced. [Repeated twice, to reporters, TRUMP - says "you figure that one out."] Live discussion held with CNN's deputy White House press secretary Hogan Gidley†. [From Washington, GIDLEY- says there are no conversations about firing Rosenstein, in whom he has confidence; comments on the clear political bias from the FBI's Peter Strzok that was raised by the House intell memo, how the president has no plans to fire special counsel former FBI director Robert Mueller; criticizes Democratic speculation about the memo.]

(Studio: John Berman) Live discussion held with CNN's David Gergen, "New York Times" Maggie Haberman, Carl Bernstein, legal analyst Carrie Cordero, retired FBI agent James Gagliano about the memo & the issue of what happens next. [HABERMAN, GERGEN, BERNSTEIN, CORDERO, GAGLIANO - offer views on the issue of Rosenstein being fired, how there is a lot going on in the memo, which will continue to be talking about rather than the State of the Union, how Trump is trying to destroy the credibility of law agencies, how Trump has been trying to get the Russia investigation go away: the destabilization of our institutions, the question as to whether the judges should have been warned about the funding behind the dossier & how much we don't know from this memo put out to support a narrative, how the memo does not hold up as a "smoking gun", whether the Democratic memo will be released giving us two competing pieces of paper, how the FBI made a number of mistakes or not, how we need to look at the president & the Russians.]