republican. the fact of the matter is, they are going to crush anybody who they believe might change the balance of power. what are we talking about here? >> sean: mark, sunday night. we are back here monday. >> laura: i am laura ingraham. this is the "the ingraham angle" on an extraordinary news night this friday night. a shocking report from "the new york times" about deputy attorney general rod rosenstein working to drive the president from office. breaking news at this hour, christine ford, the kavanaugh accuser, has missed yet another deadline set by the judiciary committee. ford's attorneys were to respond tonight by 10:00 p.m. to confirm her appearance before them. instead, she and her attorneys are asking for more time. we are going to get into all the details. and the hollywood crowd steps

into the kavanaugh confirmation. a knew halloween costume controversy. identity politics has gone totally crazy. it is all on friday followlies with raymond arroyo. an absolute jawdropper late this afternoon. a report from "the new york times." it lays out that in the spring of 2017, deputy a.g. rod rosenstein suggested secretly recording president trump and discussed invoking the 25th amendment to throw the president out of office. now, rosenstein, as you would expect, is forcefully denying that this ever happened. separately, a fox news source, said to be in the same room as this conversation, is claiming that rosenstein's comments were just sarcastic. they weren't serious. does anyone believe that tonight? "washington post" is also reported that. let's take a trip, shall we,

down rosenstein memory lane. this is the same guy who responded like this to demands from congress to produce documents in that russia probe. >> the department of justice is not going to be extorted. we are going to do what's required by the rule of law. >> laura: so congressional oversight and demands for accountability and transparency are extortion? that somehow runs counter to the rule of law. got it, rod. his apparent contempt for oversight and lawmakers doesn't stop there. here he is in front of the house judiciary committee just a few months ago. >> i am deputy attorney general of the united states, okay. i'm not the person doing the redacting. i'm responsible for responding tower concerns. >> did you read the fisa application before you signed it? >> i'm not going to comment about any fisa application. >> you won't say to this committee whether or not you even read the document you signed that authorized spying on people associated with the trump

campaign? >> i -- >> laura: i love the trailing off there, perfect for a friday night. let's not forget that rosenstein even threatened to subpoena e-mails, phone records and other documents from lawmakers and staff on the house intel committee. they did that earlier this year. now, let's be clear, if "the new york times" reporting is accurate, the president tonight should seriously consider whether rod rosenstein should remain on the job. the white house should be devoting every resource it can to determining the veracity of this report. we just cannot have this plotting at the highest levels of the justice department against the chief executive of this executive branch. joining us now, former trump campaign manager, corey lewandowski, lee smith from real clear investigations and former u.s. attorney, kendall coffey. let's go right to you, lee. you have been covering rod

rosenstein for a year and a half now, since he initially got this job as deputy attorney general. tonight, i just want to play for you a short montage of a variety of pundits claiming per "the washington post" that this conversation about wearing a wire and getting other people to wear a wire, this is all just a joke. let's watch. >> if the words were said, it seems more likely they were said in some sort of sarcastic or exasperated way rather than as a serious plan to actually wire up and go into do this. this does not give any grounds at all in terms of any action of rosenstein's that justifies firing him. >> it makes sense to me that maybe he could have made a crack about it. >> it is important to see this story about rosenstein and the "times" and they are part of the

declassification issue. >> laura: explain that. >> we have seen since monday when the president said he was going to declassify documents. over the last week, "the new york times," abc news, a number of publications have had stories trying to block the declassification, sourced to former and current u.s. officials. i see this as part of the same thing. the "times" stories apparently sourced to andy mccabe. >> he said he didn't talk. his people are saying they didn't talk to "the times" on this. >> the lawyers statement looks like a nondenial on twitter. i think what it looks like is that mccabe or someone close to mccabe is threatening rosenstein saying i've got a lot of dirty stuff on you as well. if these things aren't declassified, you are going down with me. unbeknowns the to andrew mccabe, it appears according to my sources, sometime between last night and this morning, rod rosenstein went in and talked to

president trump and convinced him to hold off on declassifying the documents, kick them, instead, over to the inspector general. >> laura: how does that help the president? >> it does not help the president. the purpose was to delay. it was rosenstein apparently who convinced trump to do it. unbeknowns the to mccabe, he had no idea. presumably, the times story was in the works for several days. the story drops a couple of hours after trump tweets that the documents are going to the i.g. you can imagine rosenstein's horror. mccabe has blown this beautiful plan i had to get us both in the clear. i think that's what happened. rosenstein's attempt to cover up the story, i was telling a joke. >> laura: if it is a joke, and corey, you can chime in here, he must have a really lame sense of humor. a joke isn't, hey, let's wear a

wire. i'll wear a wire or someone else, one of you can, and then we will get someone to invoke the 25th amendment. maybe i can get sessions. how is that funny? there is no giggle in any of that. corey? i think lee is right. this is all about the declassification. trump backtracked for some reason. i think that was a big gift to rosenstein, because he is worried about that fisa application and the fact that skup pa torey information was not put in that fisa application to monitor carter page. >> you are exactly right. that was the third renewal of the application. there were four. the first was denied by the fisa court. rod rosenstein signed it. when the president made the announcement he was going to declassified bruce ohr's 302, it was going to release that nellie ohr, bruce's wife, was talking to christopher steel and that the justice department knew about it and that rod rosenstein was aware of what bruce ohr was

doing. he was his supervisor. that would have come out very clearly. he was so afraid that declassification was going to expose him for what he is, which is part of the deep state. this collusion never existed. it has been a fake dossier from the beginning. we have done extensive research. we have seen what rod rosenstein is really about. he covered up for peter slok, lisa page and andrew mccabe. he recommended that mueller become the head of the fbi and he personally appointed bob mueller as the special counsel to investigate this president. >> tonight, the president briefly referenced this issue with the secret recording. let's batch. >> we have great people in the department of justice. we have great people. they are people, i really believe, you take a poll. i have to be at 95%.

you had some real bad ones. you are seeing what has happened at the fbi. they are all gone but there is a lingering stench. we are going to get rid of that too. >> kendall, a lingering stench. your thoughts there? who is he preferring to pray tell? >> obviously, he is concerned about rod rosenstein. i think he should be. i don't think we can make "the new york times" the judge and jury of rosenstein's fate. the challenge is to find a very accelerated framework for getting to the bottom of this. i don't think the president needs to, for example, ask the justice department to investigate itself. i think he has the power and perhaps should go ahead and put together an investigative mechanism perhaps relying in part on the white house counsel's office so that they can get access, redacted, blacked out in certain places or not, whatever these mccabe memos are. at some point, to bring rod rosenstein into the office, look him in the eye. this president has famously done

with a lot of people hired and fired and look him in the eye and get adequate explanation for this. if it is true, if the way it is being presented in "the new york times" is true, it is something very, very troubling that can't be continuing. >> laura: apparently, according to the report, i am going to read some of it. apparently, the gist of it is that rosenstein was really tick off that even though he wrote that letter or memo justifying the firing of comey, giving justification, he was mad that then the president relied on it when he was asked about it. he both wrote it and then he was mad the president relied on it. that just torqued him off. this is a "new york times" reporting. rosenstein raised the idea of wearing a recording device or wire to secretly tape the president when he visited the

white house. one participant asked whether rosenstein was serious. he replied, animatedly that he was. it is not clear how determined he was about seeing them through. though he did tell mccabe that he might be able to persuade attorney general jeff sessions and john kelly about the 25th amendment, then the secretary of home security and the white house chief of staff to mount an effort to invoke the 25th. according to others who described his comment, rosenstein not only confirmed that he was serious about the idea but also followed up by suggesting that other fbi official whose were interviewing to be the bureau's director could also secretly record trump. this was around the time where after he fired comey, he was looking at him and rosenstein's name had been raised for this and a former obama person. he wanted, according to this

report, there is no humor in this. this is ridiculous. there is no humor in this. lee, i want to play this for you. the democrats tonight are saying this is just pretext trump needs to fire rosenstein. this is what leon panetta said tonight. >> he has to think very carefully about the implications of taking action here, because if he does this, it raises concerns about the mueller investigation. it raises concerns about the possibility of obstruction. >> laura: why would it be obstruction of justice? the mueller investigation goes on. >> i think the whole thing is exactly the opposite. i think it is rosenstein that appointed him. the interesting and revelatory thing is that it exposes a lot of people, a lot of wrong doers at the fbi and doj. they are turning on each other like rats. i hope the president sees that before he makes decisions.

i'll say the important, vital thing is declassifying these documents so we can all understand what the bad guys at the doj and the fbi were doing as these two articles give some sort of indication there is more in those documents we can be sure of. we would like to see them. >> laura: corey, it is true, is it not, that the president can reverse his reverseal at any moment? for now, kicking it over to the inspector general, which has no subpoena power. horowitz is a good guy but it is not going to get us anywhere e can reverse his decision at any moment. right now, it seems to me the bruce ohr 302, the interview memos, the fisa applications and other text messages are critical to be released unredacted except for any sources of the messages. the president has that ability to do it. he has to override rosenstein to do it.

>> you have to remember, when he said he was going to redact, there are only certain pages from the fisa application. i think it was pages 10-12 and 14 others pages. it wasn't the entire application. that's perfectly fine. you also have to remember andrew mccabe has been referred for criminal referred. rod rosenstein is the one who is deciding whether or not andrew mccabe is going to be prosecuted for lying under oath to the fbi on three separate occasions, particularly when he was the acting director of the fbi after jim comey was fire. they ran this tight little group that they never thought anybody was going to get caught, jim mccabe, bruce ohr, rod rosenstein, and you throw in clapper and brennan. nobody could remember these nine or ten individuals have tried from day one to take down a dual elected president. not only are they a deep state. they are an enemy of the people.

>> laura: kendall, this has been such a wild day of news. we will get to that in a moment. i don't see how this continues with this red hot tension between the president and the justice department. this is about the running of the department and basic decisions about redacting documents or not redacting or classifying or declassifying. it is related to mueller. i don't see how it is a sustainable situation with rosenstein and others might say with sessions. with rosenstein, i think it is a bad, bad relationship. >> it has to be incredibly uncomfortable and increasingly less productive for the department of justice. i still think there needs to be a thoughtful, very, very fast inquiry. it doesn't have to be formally structured. the president needs to get to the bottom of this.

we can't rely on newspaper stories in terms of making judgments about one of the most powerful positions in the united states government. on the other hand, precisely because the deputy attorney general's position is so powerful, this needs to be resolved as you say and resolved quickly. >> laura: gentlemen, thank you so much. terrific segment. christine blasey ford is out with a new response over a hearing with the senate judiciary committee. the details broke late tonight. we will bring them to you after this. style chicken in a pouch-- bold choice, charlie! just tear, eat... mmmmm. and go! try all of my chicken creations! chicken!

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breaking news in the last hour, christine blasey ford's attorney making an 11th hour declaration with the senate judiciary committee. she asked for another day for dr. ford to consider the offer for her to testify this coming wednesday. the response coming in just before 10:00 p.m. eastern, a deadline tonight. joining us now with reaction is john yu, former general counsel to the senate judiciary committee and former attorney, david katz and former federal prosecutor, john loro. john, for a lot of us who have been watching this over the last few days, we have been concerned about moving the goalpost.

i believe the testimony was supposed to be on monday, not wednesday. she was supposed to respond about appearing on monday. i think they are negotiating about wednesday. nevertheless, the goalpost keeps moving. it is a smart lawyer representing this accuser. she is pushing it to the last minute to give her client as much time, leeway as she can. at what point does the committee's patience run thin here. >> i think they are just about there. she has to either put up or shut up. how much preparation time does she need to tell the truth? that's the question. she has been dealing with lawyers for weeks, if not months. it is time for her to face the music. she has made a very serious accusation. now, the moment of truth comes. she has to face questioning and be asked the tough questions and she can't escape it. if she refuses to testify, then the bottom line is that he is going to be confirmed and this thing is over. there is a legal expression for

what her lawyer is doing, that's jerking around. every time they reach a point where there is an agreement, all of the sudden, as you say, the goalpost moves. that's just inappropriate. >> laura: there are very strong feelings about this case. a lot of democrats think she wouldn't come forward unless this happened. she doesn't remember key details. if this has to go on another two or three weeks, so be it. it is interesting to note how this is proceeding as a legal matter. it is not a legal setting in a courtroom, one would think that making a demand that you have to speak after brett kavanaugh is a little rich, don't you think, at this point, since she is the one making the accusation? >> well, it is not a court of law but it certainly makes sense that the accusation has to come first and that the person being

accused gets to hear what the accusation is and respond to it. some of her other demand makes some sense, not having all of the cameras high officials are used to. she is not used to that. she is going to tell her side of the story. i kind of agree with kellyanne conway who said she should be accommodated and giving her one more day is accommodating her. she shouldn't be attacked. republicans would have a victory if they ended up losing the house and senate instead of giving her one more day. i think she should also hear mark judge's side of the story. when you are a prosecutor, as i was, you always say, there is one more witness they could have called. why didn't they call him. let the defense call mark judge, if mark judge is so important. here, the democrats don't have the power to call mark judge. they don't have the power.

>> laura: actually, david, necessary not true. what the democrats could have done, they could have gone out and done their own investigation, interviewed mark judge, interviewed patrick smithe. they could have gotten quite a bit done in the last 72, 96 hours or so. instead, what the democrats are doing is going on tv talking about how kavanaugh is a sexual predator. someone that i have known for 28 years. john, i know you have known him for a long time. your reaction to this latest demand by the accuser's legal team? >> laura, you actually put your finger on it when you said this isn't actually a courtroom. this is not a criminal trial. this is the senate performing its constitutional job to give advice and consent t is a political process and a legal process. it is not a criminal trial. the senate doesn't need the fbi to conduct a criminal investigation. as you say, laura, each side has committee staff. they can go out and interview

people and they can interview them under oath. i think that's the most important thing that needs to happen. the stories need to be gotten under oath, under pain of perjury from judge kavanaugh and dr. ford. the sooner, the better. as time goes on, people could adjust their stories and change them in response to what they are hearing in the public. i'm worried about that. i think the committee is right to try to freeze the stories in place as soon as possible so that people can't start changing their stories. that would be worse than moving the goalpost. already, we have lost that. >> laura: the republicans did get both judge and patrick smythe, they did interview them and they did sign declarations signed under penalty of perjury. democrats could have taken part in the questioning. they decided not to. going back to what david katz said, you have to be more accommodating to the accuser. the president was right, let her

speak. to say that the senate wasn't accommodating, they could have interviewed her at home in california. they said they would. grassley said he would do it behind closed doors, in public, could be questioned by an outside counsel, which i thought, because it is all these white men up there. it would have been better to have an outside counsel, specially a woman, ask the question. now, they don't want that. it seems like they have been quite accommodating, except, we are not going to do it whenever you want to do it, because you don't get to determine the terms. i want to you listen to part of the letter that was released an hour ago. the imposition of aggressive and artificial deadlines regarding the date and conditions of any hearings has created tremendous and unwarranted anxiety and stress on dr. ford. your cavalier treatment of a sexual assault survivor who has been doing her best to cooperate

with the committee is completely inappropriate. john lauro, cavalier treatment of a sexual assault survivor seems more to me like a political statement than it does to be from a lawyer who wants to make some headway? >> it is all about politics. if she was serious about having her client testify, she would have made that decision to put her before the public. she is going to be treated with kid gloves. under no circumstances, is she going to be abused or treated disrespectfully. that would be counterintuitive to what the republican majority wants to do. they have bent over backwards to have her come in under appropriate circumstances. let's remember one thing. an accuser does not get to call the shots. this is a process with deadlines. she has decided to come forward and now she has to testify truthfully and honestly and face

the music. >> i was a prosecutor. i have also defended people in the same situation as judge kavanaugh who are faced with charges that seem absolutely unbelievable. they are totally denied by my clients and i have gotten not guilty. there are rules of procedure in court. they are less clear in the senate. my point is that the republicans and the committee should not be seen as not giving her a fair shot, as not hearing her story, as not understanding this is a very unreported crime. president trump should treat her with respect at all times, including his tweets. the republicans should tweet her with respect. all the women and a man in this situation, they don't come forward all the time. sometimes it is a long time before they make these allegations. everybody can understand that.

it is a victory if they lose the house or senate. >> laura: no one is being cavalier. >> she has asked for one more day. >> laura: the vote was supposed to be yesterday. the vote was supposed to be yesterday. feinstein, john yoo, had the letter in july. the democrat, randy sideman, who was already plotting about how to derail kavanaugh. the same person who is advising the legal team. this has turned into a political kudgel to be used again donald trump and the mid-term election. that might sound political. i have been in washington for 30 years. if brett kavanaugh is getting no respect. he is not being respected too well himself. >> i agree with you. not only do we show respect for dr. ford but also not just to

judge kavanaugh but to the senate. i think the senate has been manipulated. these charges were held back until the very last minute, even after the hearings were over. what the senate has to do is to make sure it does its constitutional job. this is not about a form for airing grievances much the senate has to find out the truth. there is no forensic evidence anymore. the only thing that is left is the witness's testimony. the senators have to put them under oath and being respectful. we have found the best way to get the truth is to subject both witnesses to questioning and cross-examination. i don't think anyone should be treated with kid gloves or differently. we ask this of people in cases every day in courtrooms around the country in these kind of cases. i don't think we should expect any less but show them respect by expecting them to tell the truth under oath and be willing to answer questions of cross-examination.

>> laura: we don't change the cameras or the lighting. there is only one camera angle. what is that? if you are going to launch that kind of allegation against someone, this late in the game, 36 years later, then come along and say, i don't want a camera and a woman can't ask the questions. to me, this is -- i don't know. i don't like the feel of any of that. >> laura, we have to respect the victims too. we have to respect alleged victims. >> laura: i'm sorry. when i heard the camera thing, everybody goes up before that committee has to be upped the camera. >> the senate agreed to that. >> laura: did i say they didn't? i thought it was really, really goofy. you look silly and goofy, it sets a terrible precedent. i don't like that precedent of having to change the process so late in the game. >> she is a victim. >> laura: there are a lot of victims. a lot of us aren't used to this,

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launched a brand new string of halloween costumes, including this one, which depicted the costumes of the handmaid's tale. they said rape and rape victims is not funny. the fictional charactering being lampooned and sexuallized is outrageous. in a statement, any said, it has become obvious that the yandy costume is being seen as a symbol of women's impression rather than empowerment. i went to some of their other offerings to see what was there. >> you want to buy something for rebecca. >> i don't. i found this bad habit nunn costume and the religious sister costume and the sexy school girl uniform and the study date

school girl. this is only a sam believing. there is a lot to study there. here is the problem. it is okay to sexualize young girls, nunns, but fictional characters are off limits. we have to respect women, not objectify them the culture says and on the other hand gives them only costumes that sexuallizes and objectifies them. >> laura: i can't believe you can't wear indian and pilgrim costumes. >> native americans. they have naughty native american. hollywood is all in on the mid-term fight and the kavanaugh battle. earlier hollywood a-listers like julianne moore and america ferrera thanked her for coming forward and jesus christ, superstar, john legend has

emerged with his own home video, a constitutional scholar. >> who becomes the next supreme court justice is a decision of a lifetime, your lifetime. brett kavanaugh's troubling views and his rushed confirmation process make him unfit for a lifetime appointment to the supreme court. this fall, your senators will vote on kavanaugh. how they vote will impact you for a lifetime. tell them to vote no on kavanaugh. >> laura: his wife is a beautiful model. she has tweeted the nastiest stuff about the president, nasty, nasty. >> they are entitled to their opinion. here is my problem, their opinion is only as valid as anybody else's. they are very talented but we don't need their constitutional views. where is the hollywood activism on behalf of people like keith

ellison's accuser, the clinton accusers. we need those voices too. it is all one-sided. use your celebrity across the board. ben & jerry's is now involved in this mid-term. they have appointed seven new candidates they picked out at random and they want people to pick a flavor that most captures the essence of those candidates. i looked at them and their parents. we are dealing with rocky road, cotton candy and cuckoos and cream and chubby hubby. the me too movement has spurred so many things and birthed a new phenomenon called modern masculinity. >> it takes one man's courage to

start a chain reaction. if somebody is really feeling something and he has the balls to stand up and say, i'm really sad right now and then you check and you watch the rest of the group as that man says that and they just -- what do you think? >> laura: hold me back. that is hot. sexy. >> unlike religious retreats where it is about your relationship with god and others, this is all about my feelings. they gaze into each other's eyes, these men, while they talk about body image and sexuality. they need lessons in how to be dads, how to fulfill the duties of manhood. that will teach you masculinity rather than gazing at your bro and wondering how he thinks

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could have an impact on the upcoming mid-term. president trump is putting aside talk of a red wave replacing it with a compassionate call to rally lis supporters. here he is in missouri tonight. >> president trump: you have to get out and vote. if you lose the mid-term, we are going to go through nothing but fights, fighting to keep what you have. they are going to want to take it away. you have to get out. you can't be complacent. it is fragile. you have to get out. >> laura: joinings now is will juwando, a democratic strategist, hoist party's nominee for the county counsel in montgomery county, maryland. good to see you. >> good to be here. >> laura: the president was before a little confident because the economy was so great, this prediction of the big blue wave was probably overstated. clearly, he is playing the investigation. they are going to be dropping down investigation after investigation. all this progress we made will be turned back.

how do you see that? >> i think someone got in his ear. you often hear with trump, whoever is the last person to leave he listens to. you need to make sure our base turns out. the democrats are obviously motivated. you have 153 women running for congress. another year of the woman. turnout is up in every state in maryland. we were up 25%. someone realized you have to get your base fired up. >> laura: what are the democrats running for? >> we are running to make sure that there is equality and everyone has a seat at the table, that women are there, that we get health care back and we make education equal. betsy devos has been a disaster at the department of education. >> laura: how so? >> she has rolled back so many things. i worked at the department of education. >> laura: i did too. a little before you. >> a couple years. rolling back protections for

lgbt communities, giving private colleges, letting them run ramshod. there are a lot of things. >> laura: the thing i think that is tough for democrats, i think a lot of it is they don't like trump's personality. he is doing a great job on the economy. african-american, hispanic unemployment, women-owned businesses, confident in the future of this country. right truck, wrong track. there is a 12-year turn-around. right track, wrong track is much better than a few years back. all of that is really positive for the country. i get democrats want more equality. isn't the way to get more equality to have more economic opportunity? that's a big part of it, is it not? >> said those manufacturing jobs

aren't coming back. they are coming back under trump. >> you have seen a spike because of the tax cuts. if any objective analysis has shown that the job growth recession had ended well under obama and it has continued. this trade war that trump is creating has a big-time effect on hurting us in the long-term. these unpaid for tax cuts are there. >> laura: how is it hurting you in the long desh-term? do you think it is sustainable to have a $380 billion trade deficit? i think it is cliche. politics is cliche. so is sports. it is just a change. that can't continue for the country. at some point, you have to pay the piper. >> there are deficits in unpaid for tax cuts. >> laura: the problem is, we had

the debt double under obama. the people are going to have to decide whether they want to go forward with economic advancement or backwards. democrats are going to have the historic edge. great to have you on. >> good to be back. >> laura: dramatic new evidence in the accusations of domestic abuse by dnc co-chair, keith ellison. will democrats finally speak out? we have new details next.

. charges of domestic abuse against dnc co-chair, keith ellison. joining us now is kristin fisher. >> the details have been dripping out for over a month now. the latest bit to drop is the woman accusing congressman keith ellison of domestic abuse has released what appears to be a medical document from 2017 detailing the alleged abuse caused allegedly by the congressman. karen monahan is his ex-girlfriend and she published the document on social media appearing to be from a minnesota clinic back in november of 2017.

she wrote that a doctor wrote she was in a very stressful environment for years, emotional and physical abuse by a partner with whom she is now separated. she identifies the individual she was involved with as congressman ellison. she is worried about retribution if she identifies him publicly. she say the democratic party smeared, threatened and isolated her over these allegations against the congressman, who happens to be the deputy chairman of the democratic committee. they are reviewing the allegations. ellison has categorically denied all of it. after the allegations came out, he still went on to win the democratic primary for minnesota attorney general. talk to your doctor, and call 844-214-2424.

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good-bye to the network after ten years. i can't believe it. and he ep'd the show tonight. nick, i'm going to miss you. we're going to go drinking together. up next, mike emmanuel filling in for -- >> hello, and welcome to "fox news @ night". i'm mike emmanuel in for shannon bream and this is "fox news @ night". asking for an extra day to consider terms for testifying. she was facing a 10:00 pm deadline. new reaction from rosenstein out just a short while ago to a new york times report that suggested he was -- he was suggested wearin