zerlina, what about rosenstein's role the firing.'t make reference to russia and doesn't go so far as saying he should be removed. it was his assessment of handling the hillary clinton e-mail situation. what is your assessment? >> rick is right, that the memoranda he put out didn't actually call for the firing. i think we all made that assumption because trump actually did fire former director comey, but i think it would be important, if mueller is -- has an ongoing and active investigation of obstruction, rosenstein would be a witness in th investigation becausehe reasoning that the white house put out as to why they fired comey was not the truth. so in terms of building that case for obstruction, you're going to need various pieces of evidence, one being that memo that really was put out as a pretense that turned out to be a complete and total fabrication by the white house. >> joe, you know how white houses work. you know the politics and the dynamics of various competing camps within the white house. "the new yorker" asked the qu

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zerlina, turning to the paris accord.t of it worse for the american environment or leadership from around the world? >> i think both. this is going to have deadly consequences. this is something that's very damaging. as we've been saying all week since this announcement, it doesn't go into effect until 2020, so i think it's going to now be a campaign issue, not just in 2018 but also 2020. i think president trump has to expand his base of support. he's making decisions that essentially consolidates a very small portion of the american electorate. i think that's going to be damaging going into elections because people understand that climate change is real regardless of what the science deniers say. we want clean water, clean air. we don't want there to be many more flints in the united states. i think this issue is something -- i think people can university accept it if they're thinking rationally and believing in science which we all should. >> understand that it's crossing political lines. both republicans, democrats, bo