MSNBC's Meet the Press Daily on Friday examined whether President Donald Trump will take action to obstruct the investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller.
"We keep talking about 'is the president going to fire Mueller? Is the president not going to pardon Muller?'" guest anchor Katy Tur explained. "Do you think this is a real possibility?"
"I don't think him firing Mueller at this point is a real possibility, he had his legislative victory, he knows that if he wants to do anything else going forward, that too many Republicans will stand up and call foul," Republican strategist Susan Del Percio predicted.
"Do you think Republicans will stand up and call foul?" Tur followed up.
"I think so, there will be some rooting him on, there's no doubt," Del Percio answered. "I think at least fifty percent in the Senate, of the Republicans, would call him out on it."
"Are you as confident?" Tur asked NBC News contributing correspondent Jonathan Alter.
"No," Alter replied. "Nothing is beyond Donald Trump."
"Every time we think he's touched bottom, he crashes through the floor," Alter noted.
"Endorsing an accused child molester," Tur interjected.
"Meanwhile, Fox is going almost 24/7 saying this is a coup attempt," Alter continued. "They're doing everything they can to lay the groundwork for attacking this man of great integrity, Bob Mueller.
"It is really a shameful moment in the sort of Republican echo chamber right now," Alter suggested. "They want to do something that would destroy our faith in the rule of law, which is what getting rid of Mueller would do."
"Even if Mueller comes out and lays out his conclusions -- says the president obstructed justice, says he colluded with the Russians, I don't know, if he says that -- there will be a good portion of the public that is not going to believe it," Tur noted.
"That's the whole point," Caitlin Huey-Burns of Real Clear Politics replied.
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