>> DEMOCRATS AND SOME IN THE
MEDIA ARE RAISING THE ALARM
AND WARNING THAT PRESIDENT
TRUMP MAY FIRE SPECIAL
COUNSEL ROBERT MUELLER.
THIS, DESPITE THE TRUMP
DENIALS OF THE POSSIBILITY.
WATCH.
>> FIRING MR. MUELLER, OR
CALL INTO QUESTION THIS
ADMINISTRATION'S COMMITMENT
TO THE TRUTH, BUT ALSO TO
OUR MOST BASIC CONCEPT RULE
OF LAW.
>> [INAUDIBLE] ROBERT
MUELLER.
>> NO, I'M NOT.
>> HE WANTS TO SHUT DOWN
THESE INVESTIGATION
INVESTIGATIONS AND HE WANTS
TO FIRE SPECIAL COUNSEL
MUELLER.
>> I WANT TO ASK YOU
PERSONALLY WHAT THE YOUR
REACTION WOULD BE IF THE
PRESIDENT DID TRY TO OR FIRE
SPECIAL PROSECUTOR MUELLER.
>> FOR THE 1,000TH TIME WE
HAVE NO INTENTIONS OF FIRING
BOB MUELLER.
>> Melissa: HERE NOW IS
ALEX, A REPUBLICAN
STRATEGIST WHO SERVED AS THE
COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR FOR
MARCO RUBIO'S PRESIDENTIAL
CAMPAIGN AND JESSICA TARLOV,
AUTHOR OF "AMERICA IN THE
AGE OF TRUMP AND A FOX NEWS
CONTRIBUTOR.
THANKS TO BOTH OF YOU FOR
JOINING US.
ALEX, THIS IS A STORY THAT
WON'T GO AWAY.
>> IT REALLY WON'T.
I SPEND MY DAYS HERE IN
WASHINGTON TALKING TO
REPORTERS.
I CAN TELL YOU THAT THE
MUELLER INVESTIGATION IS
NUMBER ONE MOST TALKED ABOUT
TOPIC IN WASHINGTON.
WHAT A LOT OF REPORTERS SAY,
THEY DON'T NECESSARILY
REPORT IT.
I THINK WHAT A LOT OF
WRONG.
MUELLER WILL INDICT JARED
KUSHNER FOR IT.
AND THE PRESIDENT WILL FIRE
MUELLER BECAUSE HE DOESN'T
WANT TO SEE HIS SON-IN-LAW
LOT OF THIS.
REPORTERS, CORRESPONDENTS,
THEY WANT TO GET REPUBLICANS
PRESIDENT FIRED MUELLER.
>> Melissa: THAT'S LIKE WHAT
IF YOU DO IF IT SNOWED IN
AUGUST, JESSICA.
>> IT'S SUCH A HYPOTHETICAL.
>> YOU CAN ASK ANY TYPE OF
QUESTION YOU WANT IF YOU
DON'T HAVE THIS PERSON IN
THE ROOM SAID HE IS
STORIES WHERE YOU DON'T HAVE
SOMEONE IN THE ROOM ON THE
RECORD SAYING THAT THIS
HAPPENED AND, IN FACT, HAVE
SAYING AGAIN AND AGAIN NO,
READ INTO THEIR STATEMENTS.
GOING OFF ON IS ACTUALLY
WHAT MEMBERS OF THE TRUMP
ADMINISTRATION, THE
PRESIDENT HIMSELF,
CONSERVATIVE PUNDITS,
CONSERVATIVES IN THE HOUSE
ARE DOING, WHICH IS TO
UNDERMINE THE MUELLER
INVESTIGATION.
HAD YOU JUST THIS WEEK THE
TRUMP LAWYER SAID THAT
MUELLER ILLEGALLY OBTAINED
EMAILS DURING THE
TRANSITION.
THAT'S ABSOLUTELY NOT TRUE.
HAD YOU BOB MUELLER BEING
CALLED A BAD MANAGER.
YOU HAD CALLS FOR A SECOND
SPECIAL COUNSELOR.
ALL OF THIS ADDS UP TO
CREATING A SENTIMENT IN THE
PUBLIC THAT BOB MUELLER IS
JUST A LIBERAL.
WE KNOW HE IS A REPUBLICAN
AND CHRISTOPHER WRAY DONATED
TO REPUBLICAN CAUSES.
THEY TOOK THE PETER STRZOK
TEXT MESSAGES WHICH I TOOK
ISSUE WITH CERTAINLY THE ONE
ABOUT THE INSURANCE POLICY
TO MAKE IT OUT IF THE WORLD
IS FULL OF PEOPLE WHO LOVE
HILLARY CLINTON.
>> Melissa: JESSICA DIDN'T
SAY ANYTHING JUST NOW ABOUT
EVIDENCE THAT PRESIDENT
TRUMP WANTS TO FIRE ROBERT
MUELLER.
AND I IN FACT.
>> UNDERMINING.
>> Melissa: IF YOU ARE
TALKING ABOUT UNDERMINING.
>> Melissa: UNDERMINING THE
INVESTIGATION IT ACTUALLY
GINS IT UP MORE, AL LERKS,
IT MAKES IT SEEM MORE
INTENSE AND NEFARIOUS IF HE
IS SAYING HE WANTS TO HIRE
HIM.
IT'S HAVING THE OPPOSITE
EFFECT.
>> LOOK, ANYONE WHO SUPPORTS
PRESIDENT TRUMP WOULD
RECOGNIZE WHAT A TERRIBLE
IDEA FIRING BOB MUELLER
WOULD BE.
>> RIGHT.
>> FOR THE REASON YOU JUST
SAID.
NOT ONLY WOULD IT CAUSE A
CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS
BECAUSE CONGRESSIONAL
THE LEFT WOULD ASSUME THAT
MUELLER HAS SOMETHING THAT
THERE IS SOMETHING THERE.
THAT IS WHY THE WHITE HOUSE
IS COOPERATING 100 PERCENT
WITH THE MUELLER
INVESTIGATION.
THERE HAVE BEEN NO
WHITE HOUSE IS NOT
COOPERATING AT ANY POINT.
PRESIDENT IN THE WHITE HOUSE
STOP COOPERATING, THE PUBLIC
WILL JUST ASSUME THAT THERE
IS NOTHING THERE.
>> Jesse: DON'T YOU THINK
THERE IS SOMETHING TROUBLING
ABOUT THE NEGATIVE COMMENTS
COMING OUT OF TRUMP TEAM?
>> Melissa: LET ME STOP YOU
RIGHT THERE.
I THINK WHAT IT IS IS
EXACTLY WHAT YOU SAID.
IT'S PEOPLE SAYING THAT HE
WANTS TO FIRE HIM BECAUSE IT
IS A WAY TO MAKE IT SEEM
LIKE THERE IS MORE THERE.
MAKE IT LOOK LIKE HE IS
TRYING TO HIDE.
IF YOU UNDERMINE ENOUGH AND
SAY FAKE NEWS ENOUGH IF
SOMETHING DOES COME DOWN, IF
THOSE REPORTERS GET THEIR
WAY AND JARED KUSHNER IS
GOING TO BE INDICTED THEN
THE TRUMP TEAM CAN SAY IT
WAS BIAS, THIS IS OFF.
THIS ISN'T REALITY.
HAVE YOU PARDON COMING.
>> Melissa: THAT'S NOT ABOUT
THESE RUMORS THAT HE IS
GOING TO FIRE MUELLER.
>> HE CAN'T FIRE HIM BECAUSE
BUT HE CAN CONTINUE TO
UNDERMINE HIM AND THE
CREDIBLE CREDIBILITY OF THE
SOMETHING DOES HAPPEN.