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So either he orders the acting attorney general in this case, Rod Rosenstein, to fire Mueller, or somehow just remove -- can he directly remove the regulations?

Not exactly. I mean, the rules say, in part 7, they say the following. That the special counsel, 'may be disciplined or removed from office only by the personal action of the attorney general.' Last I checked, Donald Trump was not the…

It will be hell to pay, it will be the beginning of the end of the Trump presidency if he did it.

I think that in itself is a sad commentary where what the President says is not taken very seriously.

No, he's not, and by the way, put me in the stupid camp. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt here when he said that, you know, nobody has been tougher on the Russians than he has.

I received a phone call saying that the President wanted to make a change, and that's certainly his prerogative to do that, and that's what happened.

I came to Washington with the commitment to make our system work better for veterans. That's the commitment that I went to work every day. I continue to feel strongly about that. There was no reason why I would resign.

I wasn't willing to do that. I don't think that's the right thing for veterans and I stood up against them.

This is a tough job for anybody to do. What the successful secretary needs to do is to build a team around them because this is bigger than any one person, and to work very collaboratively with veteran service organizations and Congress.

I think the way the findings were used -- were used in a political way. Not by the inspector general, but by the political appointees within V.A.

I believe strongly, Anderson, that when it comes to V.A. and national security, we can't make this a political issue.

He'll project U.S. strength at home and abroad.

I think the only diplomatic option left is to end the regime in North Korea by effectively having the south take it over.

But our biggest national security crisis is Barack Obama.

There is no united nations. The Secretariat building in New York has 38 stories. If you lost 10 stories today, it wouldn't make a bit of difference.

We just have to do more.

We are adding to our app store, you know, apps where people can connect.

How could you argue against wanting veterans to have choice and the best type of care?