>> j-rod danced, golfed and watched the the sunset.s for that ring, j-lo's emerald cut diamond is estimated to be worth over $1 million. the singer dropped a major proposal hint last year when she released the music video meaning the ring in spanish. ♪ >> of course, everyone is going to ask you. is there a ring? do you want a ring? >> it's more of a symbolic thing. i played it for alex and i was, like, are you cool with this? i think it's funny. he was, like, yeah. i'm cool with it. >> j-lo tagged ellen in her engagement post and the talk show host responded, yes, i'll be your maid of honor. last month, she quizzed j-lo. >> what is your favorite body part on a-rod? >> oh. i love his arms. >> and gave her this j-rod clock. >> it's to remind him that time is ticking, and he should hurry up and propose. >> the proposal news was all so sweet and romantic until a-rod's baseball rival jose canseco said, little does he know he's cheating on her with my ex-wife. he talked about aliens, teaching us time travel and provided no evidence for the c

rod rosenstein.te of the university of pennsylvania's wharton school and told his audience today how important that has been to his work as a prosecutor. >> i attended an under graduate where i studied money management, marketing and finance and understanding business remains central to my work. financial expertise is important to prosecutors because you need to comprehend transactions in order to understand when they are fraudulent. >> so when rod rosenstein likes at checks that were used in a criminal pay off scheme for example, you're not going to fool him about what is going on here because you have changed which checking account you're using in the middle of the pay off plan. who do you think was paying for attention at the wharton school to legal accounting practices? rod rosenstein or donald trump? >> we should focus on the people who play significant roles in setting a company on a course of conduct. we want to know who devised and authorized the schemes and hold them accountable. >> last fal

into j-rod's wedding plans.ource tells "e.t." their kids will play a big part in their wedding as they were a driving force in the proposal. this will be j-lo's fourth wedding. >> this is my husband, ojani noa. >> shemarthey divorced after len a year together. ♪ >> in 2001, she married her backup dancer, chris judd. they split after ten months. ♪ j-lo's longest marriage was to singer marc anthony. they divorced ten years later. a-rod has had his share of famous girlfriends. he dated kate ud hadson in 2009, and he said he was handling rumors of romance with madonna with baseball. >> i love to play baseball, and to go to a place for four years where nobody can get to me, and the personal stuff, baseball is that. >> a-rod dated cameron diaz starting in 2010, and when kevin asked about their relationship, a-rod finally referred to her by her initials. >> i don't like talking about my relationships, but what i will tell you about c.d., she's probably one of the greatest human beings i have ever met. >> c.d. it just s

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it was made by the president's appointees, william barr and rod rosenstein. that doesn't mean it's a wrong conclusion, but it is a very different thing from an independent conclusion. second, their assertion that you can only have obstruction of justice if it's proven that there is an underlying crime is simply incorrect under the law. it is often the case that there is an underlying crime, and that can be used as proof of obstruction of justice. but the idea that it is exceptional or unfair or unprecedented to charge someone with obstruction of justice when you were not charging them with the underlying crime, that's not right, and that shouldn't color the whole issue. >> let me just get one clarification, jeffrey. you were a former u.s. prosecutor. if there is a very, very sensitive, very, very high-profile case and the prosecutors and the fbi come up with all their information, wouldn't it normally, under special counsel procedures and guidelines, go up to at least the deputy attorney general if not the attorney general to decide whether or not there shoul

a-rod only once before. each has two children from previous marriages. >> they look happy together. >> they're a handsome couple. >> don't be fooled by the rocks she's got. she's still jenny from the block, nbloc block, mike. >> i'm happy for them. a-rod continuing to rehabilitate his image and good for him. here's a look at 4:00 in the morning. tomorrow, tuesday and pretty much nothing out there. here's a look at that cloud cover that's going to come in. the breezes are going to pick up. did you see all the green across mendocino and the sonoma county coast during the morning hours? look as we head into the afternoon hours. it kind of falls apart. the clouds hang around at noon. won't be as sunny as today. the breezes that pick up will make it feel cooler than what we're going to deal with today with total sunshine and light breezes. so let's move forward. i want to talk about what's going on with our rain season. look at this. more than three feet of rain in santa rose. most of that fell since january. 130

rod rosenstein in his position has been under fire for quite some time.ut both by the book guys by their history and by their previous experience. >> as been pointed out by others including shannon bream, made the point that these are men who are deeply preoccupied with the task of getting the department of justice back in the nation's good graces and why for the stains that occur there because of the behavior of certain officials at the department as well as officials at the fbi. much riding on this and you can see that, as the outlines of these men in their efforts to abide by the regulations, go by the book, of course that insulates them to some extent any political criticism. you can hear the partisanship embodiment -- if you would let me interrupt you for one moment. >> bret: let me interrupt you for real quick, brit. excuse me, brit. senior department official telling our own jacobson, "special counsel mueller is not recommending any further indictments." again, the news from "special counsel robert mueller not recommending any further indictments."

is it not time for rod rosenstein to move on? >> seems that mueller is still running justice department, and attorney general has to take back control of the justice department, rod rosenstein and mueller have been working closely together on this abusive investigation targets president trump. rod rosenstein is responsible for be on vehicl obstruction ofn covering up anyway we can details about abuses of justice department and fbi, and targeting president trump and others. it is remarkable that attorney general continues to have him in place in this position of power. he is running the department as number 2. and by outsourcing control of the justice department to rod rosenstein, mr. barr is sending a signal, that it is business as usual at the deep state. david: how long do you think he will be there? it can't go to that much longer, can it? >> i think they have nominated someone to take over his slot, it could be 5 to 6 months before. he could continue to as you highlighted at beginning, collaborate with mr. mueller as he conti

laura, let's start with the news of rod rosenstein. he's acting as, quote, a heat shield, if there's fallout from the mueller report. who is he trying to protect? >> i think he's trying to protect the integrity of the investigation. when you heard rod rosenstein talk about the investigation, he has said, listen, the american people should feel secure and confident in the integrity of the investigation. if there's evidentiary support for what they're saying and this is the counterargument for a witch hunt. i think he wants to be there as the main stay, the consistent people look at to say, somebody that was there all along, and had a direct hand in having robert mueller there, you don't leave and fly the coop when the pressure is under the spotlight. i think he's trying to have the personal accountability. >> he's flagging when he says that. he is telling us, which we know, that there's going to be a pitched public relations battle when this report comes out. donald trump and his henchmen have been trying to delegitimize what the invest

lightning rod was the word she used. what do you say? >> well, i think she's wrong. i think what they're hating on is the drift of the democratic party towards socialism. i think this entire thing you heard donald trump jr. do last night is a continue eight of what president trump started in the state of the union where he's starting to define the democratic party and the nominee he runs against as a socialist. so i think -- as long as she's basically the heart and soul of the party, i think they'll keep going back to this well to define the democrats as socialists as they head towards re-election. >> i think obviously there's a lot of republicans who want to act like she is the heart and soul of the party. that's the big question for democrats right now. keith, what do you say? is she right that this is about them needing -- it was hillary and now it's going to be her? >> i think she's exactly right. she's a 29-year-old freshman member of congress. she has been in office for all of two months now. last year she said at this time she was waitressing at a taco bar. sh

lo and a-rod get engaged. ♪ >> we both feel like we're just beginning. >> a-rod announced the engagemento of j. lo's stunning ring and the caption "she said yes." that was followed up with another surprise "i love you" in rose petals on their bed. all this during a romantic weekend in the bahamas. >> can i get a dance move? hey, hey, hey, hey. >> as for that ring, j. lo's emerald cut diamond estimated to be worth over $1 million. number two, jussie smollett enters a plea in a chicago court room. the "empire" star accused of staging a hate crime and falsifying a police report. he's due back in court april 17th. number one, felicity huffman and lori loughlin among those arrested in a college admission bribery scandal, accused of paying into a scam that would get their kids into elite universities. both were in custody before appearing in an l.a. court and posting bail. their next court appearance is march 29th in boston. >> it doesn't seem like you've had very many pitfalls. >> thank you very much. we've had our moments. >> for the latest go to etonline.com. >>> sandy? >> tell me about it.

rod rosenstein was there from the beginning.s responsible for appointing the special counsel. because you'll remember that jeff sessions recused himself and then comey gets fired and then this whole thing ensues where they decided they need a special counsel to take over this investigation p and it was ultimately rod rosenstein who made that decision. so in order to sort of see this thing through rod rosenstein for whatever reason is staying it's clear that things are perhaps not wrapping up as quickly as we all thought and that look, this could come at any day, but for now rod rosenstein, which he always had intended, he always wanted to stay this see this through, he kept delaying his leaving the department of justice and now it just seems that that's continuing, we really don't know when the special counsel will finally deliver the report to the department of justice. once that happens, we certainly expect for rod rosenstein to leave shortly thereafter. >> just for clarification, the source, are they using the term heat shiel

the attorney general william barr and deputy rod rosenstein are hold up at the justice department in washington now. combing through one of the most anticipated reports in recent memory. special counsel robert mueller's findings in the investigation of russian interference in the 2016 presidential election in the united states. barr has promised to share what he calls principal conclusions of mueller's report with congress, possibly as soon as today, with the announcement there will be no more indictments in the case, some members of president trump's team are already claiming vindication. but the president himself still faces multiple investigations by both congress and other federal prosecutors. i will talk about the breaking news with congressman steve cohen of the judiciary committee and our correspondents, analysts and specialists are standing by. let's get the latest on breaking news. sara murray is joining us. congress and the american people are waiting to hear what the attorney general will reveal. >> that's right, wolf. a very busy weekend for the attorney general. it reall

j-lo and a-rod are basking in the glow nine days after a-rod popped the question. j-lo's 15 carat bling was on full display as they hit up the bar. but before the couple's trip to the big apple, j-lo was just a proud mama watching her 11-year-old twins perform in their fifth grade musical. check out max singing his heart out alongside a-rod's 10-year-old daughter, ella. ♪ >> while emme held her own during a solo number. ♪ meanwhile, kim kardashian and kanye west's daughter stole the show. 5-year-old north was feeling the music. ♪ and just look how north lit up when her dad went up to the mic. to another talented kid who caught the attention of celine dion during her vegas show over the weekend. >> i'm going to give you my microphone, and you can turn around and sing. ♪ >> just look at celine's face as 7-year-old angelie belts out "i surrender." >> can you do this for me? ♪ this girl is on fire >> i love this so much. anything can happen at a celine dion concert. sadly her reign is coming the an end. her last performance is june 8th. it's almost over. >>> hey, every

so it looks like rod rosenstein is doing that. and so, you know, i think, anderson, over the next several days, we're going to see a lot of comings and goings over here at the white house from the attorney general barr and the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. it is going to be very interesting to watch. and, of course, the president has been indicating in the last day or so that he wants this mueller report released. i think if the president is making those kinds of noises, i think that is another indication coming from the president and his team that there is some guarded cautious optimism right now. with that caveat, we just don't know what bob mueller know, anderson. >> jim acosta, thanks very much. more reporting now as well as some of the best political and legal folks we know, legendary and investigative reporter carl bernstein, john dean, jeffrey toobin, gloria borger, and cnn crime and justice reporter shimon prokupecz. any clear sense that we did last night, the week before that, or several months before that about

i want to ask you about the deputy ag rod rosenstein.ons. rosenstein had been planning to leave the doj mid-march, but now a source is telling cnn he's going to stick around until the mueller report drops, saying he wants to be the heat shield, as i said. if there's fallout from this report, what does that say to you about the reaction that we'll see when mueller finishes his report. >> well, it's very hard to note, don. rod rosenstein is one of the few people in this administration who is competent and who's pretty much like someone who actually doesn't break laws and is not himself under criminal investigations. so he's already a distinguished man in that regard. and the idea that he's staying, i think, could mean reactions, you know, he's worried about reactions on either side. i don't think it tells us one thing or the other. i do think, though, the other thing you pointed to today about the release of the michael cohen documents really does underscore something that i think some of us have been trying to say, which is, there are a b

why would he leave it up to ag barr and rod rosenstein? >> i think that's the most important open question that we have. you know, that's your job as a prosecutor. my job as a u.s. attorney was to look at evidence, particularly in very close cases. and make a decision. so we know that mueller is not someone who shirks duty. we will need to understand what he said about why he wasn't making a decision. it sounds like perhaps he was leaving it up to people in congress. we don't know that for certain. but it is a little bit alarming that bill barr, based on 48 hours worth of review, was willing to jump in and make that decision for bob mueller, the person who, after all, had the best look at the evidence. >> joyce vance, stick with us. it is now half past the hour, and the president is in the air on the way back to the white house. this is after he learned and the rest of us learned about the findings of the mueller investigation per william barr. he says robert mueller's report did not establish that the trump campaign conspired or coordinat

barr and rod rosenstein found. attorney general barr and deputy attorney general rosenstein further found no obstruction. a complete exoneration of the president of the united states. number one, special counsel did not find collusion, sarah sanders is trite say that. she not right to say they did not find any obstruction. they left that question explicitly up to both william barr and rod rosenstein, and william barr and rosenstein determined that there was no obstruction. she said it is a total and complete exoneration of the president. the mueller summary according to bill barr says while the president did not commit a crime, it does not exonerate him. expectly said in that letter. even in circumstances where the news is good for them they have to be incorrect. that's consistent, i guess, with this white house. >> and katy, why you are going to see such a pitched battle to get the actual report. jerry nadler earlier today on "meet the press" said essentially arguing that some of the documents are protected by exe

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j-lo rocking her million dollar plus ring on a private jet, a-rod packed with gifts.n congrats banner, a chalk board sign with their engagement date, and popped the champagne. he stepped up his game. a-rod clearly hit a homer with his new fiancee, but kind of struck out capturing her reaction. >> so? >> yes. >> nick jonas wowed his new wife with an expensive gift. check out priyanka's new mercedes, estimated price tag, $200,000. caption? when the hubby goes number >> that is perfect. before nick was a married man, well, he was just a teen with a dream, and "e.t." was there. tomorrow, we'll take you back to wh w the jonas brothers. so good. >>> but speaking of marriage, there is an epic wedding happening on "ncis: l.a.," and only we were onset. ♪ >> kensi and deeks are going to finally tie the knot. we have got to get her to the altar. we have to get her there on time. >> the fact i'm giving her away, and it's amazing and surprising as well. >> it's the wedding fans have been waiting fine years for. kensi and deeks' love story has weathered even a helicopter crash. don

to, was a source that about three weeks ago the general attorney bill barr and the justice attorney rod rosenstein, was briefed on the mueller investigation, and they were surprised to learn that mueller was not going to be able to reach a conclusion as to whether or not obstruction of justice had occurred by the president. again, this is something that came somewhat unexpected to the attorney general and the deputy attorney general -- >> hold on one moment. the president of the united states and the prime minister of israel had aboare about to spea. >> it's a big moment. a very important moment. it's my honor to welcome prime minister netanyahu to the white house. he's a very special man. he's done a great job. i want to begin by expressing our condolences to the prime minister and the people of israel for the horrific hamas rocket attack on israeli homes this morning which wounded seven civilians, at least, including numerous children. our prayers are with our friends in israel as they carry out an incredible way of life in the face of great terror. the united states recognizes israel

rod rosenstein saying basically, listen, we are doing our job here. it doesn't mean you're going to go down this road the way you think you are. >> he went out of his way, rod rosenstein in the letter to say we don't disparage people who are not charged. the rule of the department of justice is put up or shut up. if you charge someone, you disclose everything. if you don't charge someone you don't embarrass them. well, donald trump cannot be charged under department of justice policy. does that mean nothing should be disclosed about him either? does he win both ways? no indictment and no disclosure? that's a possibility. >> it's good to be the king, as he said in the history of the world. van, i want to ask you about reporting overnight. elijah cummings of the house oversight committee isn't happy with the white house over the fact it won't provide information about how jared kushner and ivanka trump have used apparently their private e-mail server for government business. kushner used what's app to communicate with the crown prince of saudi arabia. t

mueller was appointed 673 days ago by then acting attorney general rod rosenstein. and despite the president publicly attacking the investigation more than 1,100 times according to "the new york times," mueller has gotten results. so this -- these are just the facts, okay? 199 skcriminal counts so far. 37 people and companies charged. 29 of them thus far, russia. seven people are pleaded guilty. five have been sentenced to prison including the former campaign chairman for presidential candidate of the united states -- paul manafort. but even when this report is formally over, which really at this point could come any moment the president's national security advisor michael flynn still hasn't been sentenced. the former trump campaign official, the deputy chairman, rick gates, who was one of the first to be indicted by mueller has still not been sentenced. and obviously that could mean they could be providing information on other inquiries. and there's still the mystery of that unnamed company, a mystery company mueller believes could provide information for his crimi

the attorney general in two photographs and rod rosenstein.the attorney general not just his opinion as well as attorney general, they think rod rosenstein all of a sudden flips out, it's ridiculous. >> rudy giuliani, personal attorney for the president of the united states, dana. dana: i newsed to glare at you -- ed: now we're working together. dana: to find out in this hour there was no collusion -- ed: working together through history right now. our colleague, shannon bream, is live in washington. bret baier will be back at 8 p.m. eastern. shannon bream in washington with more fox news special coverage. dana: thanks. ♪ ♪ >> it was just announced, there was no collusion with russia. the most ridiculous thing i've ever heard. there was no collusion with russia. there was no obstruction, none whatsoever. and it was a complete and total exoneration. shannon: president trump just minutes ago reacting to the news from attorney general bill barr that, quote, the special counsel's investigation did not find that the trump campaign or anyone associa

lo and a-rod. >> last night. >> i meant this weekend. do you bieve it should be j-rod or a-lo?> i'm going to say j-rod -- >> j-rio. >> that's a good onetoo. >> here's the thing. j-rod -- >> class participation >> red-hot. you know who else is red-hot? >> who? >> the cavs. winners of six in a row, tied for the best streak in the nhl. you didn't ing lik think that was a goodeg sue. caps going for their seventh n straight win w they take on the jets in just over half an hour. a little less. so who is the player to look out for tight? and andre burkeosi. it's the stars on the top lines who will need to shine during the stretch run to the playoffs. >> i think the top six. i mean, i think when you look at this team l whereast year you had a lot of the same guys, but they have actually outperformed their numbers by and large. jacob ranna, looking at 20 goals. and tom wilson. and maybe brett connolly gets there. and maybe nick backstrom. and you've g all these guys with 20 or more goals. by the time you get to the end of the season, that's a tough thing for any team to defend against,

sandra: the attorney general william barr and rod rosenstein are at the doj now. questions about how much of this report william barr can make public. there are bipartisan calls to make as much of it public as possible. classified information and information regarding grand jury investigations will be restricted. >> i can't speak to what other members of my party would say as far as their calls. but i'm for full transparency while respecting the rule of law. this has been going on for months and captivated the audience of americans for months. taxpayers have spent $30 million on it. i think democrat, republicans and even the president says he want the report released publicly. that's where generally everyone stand. sandra * listen to this. >> at the end of the day if this report comes back like it seems to be coming back that there is no collusion on the part of the president. sandra: two years later and $25 million spent, there is no evidence of collusion, no evidence of collusion. no indictments for collusion. is this a win for the president? >> i am not cheerin

rod rosenstein the deputy attorney general is not leaving his post this month after all. and tonight we know why. a source telling cnn that rosenstein will remain at the justice department until special counsel robert mueller files his much anticipated report. the source adding that rosenstein's sticking around so he can act as the heat shield, in other words, absorb the punches if there's fallout or backlash from mueller's report. we're going to talk more about that in just a moment. >>> also tonight, what could be a clue from mueller's notoriously tight-lipped office? a senior lawyer asking a federal judge to extend the deadline for mueller's team to respond to a request that documents in one part of paul manafort's case be unsealed. the deadline is this friday. they're asking for a two-week delay due to a very busy week. what's unclear is if that means they're wrapping up their investigation. so there's lot to discuss. shimon prokupecz is here, matthew rosenberg, and jennifer rogers. we are told that rod rosenstein is staying at the doj longer than planned, all right,

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and rod rosenstein and some others in the justice department said no.hey basically held the line, and later when he tried to fire mueller, his own white house counsel held the line. tonight if we know nothing else, we know trump failed to remove him. he has the highest indictment rate than any other president. others have had it. barack obama went eight years and none of his advisers were indicted. we didn't know until late in the day that bob mueller was going to finish his entire probe without incident. >> we should note something here, julia, that barr makes. aside from the principal conclusions, he says this. this is sort of directed by the regulations at issues. he said they provide you with the description and explanation of instances if any in which the attorney general proposed was inappropriate and should not be pursued. there were no such instances, which is essentially barr saying what, julia? >> he's saying that no one should be worried, that this justice department sought to shut down. he's saying that robert mueller let him off the hook. t

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rod, what a genius move. rod rosenstein signature is on two critical documents.rds he did something wrong here. and the exoneration letter from the department of justice where his name is in there, indicating he said there is nothing to this, let's move on. one more thing on the obstruction charge. they said also, they didn't even consider the fact that the president couldn't be indicted according to olc, office of legal counsel. brian: good point. >> they looked at it any way, even though the president couldn't be indictedded but they still could come up with no legitimate i prosecutable car of obstruction. the media is making this up. they have no credibility left. now they're just completely embarrassing themselves, misreading that four-page letter. brian: like the rams complaining they lost the super bowl. they were crushed. they lost. it as is over. >> right. move on. it wasn't the refs call, you lost by 600 points. move on. the game is over. it is not the ref. it is you. brian: such a big day, i almost thought you would wear a tie. i was mistaken. >> that a

but barr and deputy rod rosenstein decided the president should not be prosecuted for obstruction. chuck schumer and nancy pelosi writing in a statement, quote, given mr. barr's public record of bias against the special counsel inquiry, he is not a neutral observer and not in a position to make objective determinations about the report. >> the mueller report must be made public for a full accounting of what happened. and the attorney general of the united states must be required to testify before congress. >> reporter: house judiciary committee chairman jerry nadler says he will require barr to come testify before congress. just because the mueller investigation i concluded doesn't mean the investigations are stopped on capitol hill wrapping up the russian interference in the election but the other committees are already investigating potential obstruction of justice, political corruption and abuses of power. democrats friday sending letters to nine government agencies demanding they preserve any documents related to the probe. >> we know there are lots of investigations going on.

we do know that certainly rod rosenstein was read in on this investigation from the beginning. bill barr was probably given some briefings before this weekend, before the report was delivered. so they've had some time to think about this. of course, the president's lawyers, jim, are very happy with the result. jay sekulow has been making the rounds this morning on the morning tv shows, and here's what he had to say. >> here the decision was made by the office of legal counsel and the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein and ultmimately the attorney general of the united states that there was no basis upon which an obstruction of justice charge could be met, and that is where the president can easily say that he was vindicated on both obstruction and collusion. >> and, of course, the answer is not quite that simple. look, i think jay sekulow is doing a very good job and his legal team have done an amazing job. they essentially threw themselves in front of the bus to save this president, sometimes from his own behavior, from his own actions that we all saw in public. and so i t

so bill barr and the deputy ag, rod rosenstein, together at the justice department. how are they working out these conclusions? >> they're at work still poring over this. there was a chance they would have the top lines to congress yesterday. it didn't happen but it is going to happen today. this isn't about copying and pasting the top conclusions and sending it on. they're trying to determine what they want to make public. they know there are these big outstanding questions. people want to know why the special counsel decided he did not want to push for an interview with the president of the united states. he only got answers to written questions. the doj guidelines say you can't indict the president, but is he guilty of collusion and obstruction of justice? those are the top questions. what you can be sure of is rod rosenstein, bill barr, robert mueller, they are not living in a vacuum. also voters who have seen this drive on for two years saying we want to know more rather than less. that are lawmakers who want to see the entire report and all the underlying findi

the signal to me is rod rosenstein is leaving my mid-march and apparently he asked for more time. don't want to get into predicting how close we are but i suspect i would not surprise me if we saw something before the end of the month. before april 1st. it's not far away. don't beat me over the head if i got that wrong. everybody is trying to figure out what's going on here. and there's other indications that suggest this might last a little while longer. but i do think, from where i sit, i think we're getting to the end. >> looking at the investigation now, what we know about the public indictments and stuff and what we now know about the independent council, do you think it was a better system than a special prosecutor? because there's democrats now that are saying maybe this special prosecutor favors. >> there's no perfect solution and there's flaws to the independent counsel statute. many of which with the benefit of hindsight perhaps but justice scalia saw them when he was having to deal with the constitutionality and he was the only justice that dissented. so now with the be

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however, bill barr, his attorney general, essentially exoneratinexonerates him. >> and rod rosenstein. >> who i was told is staying on as sort of a heat shield for bill barr. bill barr is this hand-picked attorney general who wrote a memo saying that the obstruction probe was fatally misconceived. so now this new chapter is a fight over disclosures from the report. the white house has been bracing for this. it knows the order of battle and is preparing for a subpoena fight with the democrats who have already threatened that. also, pardons. what is the president going to do? his attorneys have said that once this probe is over with, that is when he's going to look at pardons, consider them. you heard him today say a lot of people were hurt through this investigation, as shimon pointed out. raises the question, what's he going to do next? >> the whole issue of pardons clearly coming into focus. the president said a lot of people have been hurt in this illeg illegal takedown. >> wolf, i think one of the important points here for the president certainly, even people around him, in late 20

justice department right now with deputy attorney general rod rosenstein reviewing the report. the president, well, he just returned to mar-a-lago just moments ago after spending the day at his golf club in west palm beach, florida while he, too, awaits the brief. cnn has a team of reporters and analysts standing by who have covered this story for nearly two years now. let's go to cakara scannell. the deputy attorney general and the attorney general about to release the details. in what way will they be released, do you know? >> we do expect the report to be delivered today, that's bill barr's report from the principal conclusions of the mueller investigation. that is expected to happen today, but the big questions still loom of what will we learn in this report? does it answer questions of obstruction of justice and collusion relating to the president's actions? do they explain why they did not interview the president and require a sit-down interview with him? another big question here is how detailed is this summary going to be? they've been together now two days behind close

rod rosenstein, matt whitaker. did the right thing. >> do you think the president realizes it? because he was the greatest pillorier of all. >> i think that when he looks back on it, he's going to realize that those of us that were telling him to slow down, keep quiet, let the justice system work, were right. he didn't realize it at the time. >> you may have been right. but did the president, by saying witch hunt a couple hundred times. >> or more. >> 183 times. >> did he change the standard? did he lower the standard by which he would be judged? >> of course he did. he tried to sully the process in every step along the way. george, in 589 days, we, as americans, will go back to the polls. we know that the russians tried to interfere in 2016. we know that they attempted again in 2018. >> and they were encouraged. they were encouraged to do it. >> thank you. we know that much of what they hacked and stole and used and the fact that we did have a campaign chairman, i'm not pointing at you, sara. it's church time. i'm

he just arrived at doj to continue to review it, as did rod rosenstein. one of the things in the one page letter that notifies congress about the report being finalized, he said he would consult with robert mueller and rod rosenstein how much can be made public. one wrinkle in the report, this is a counter intelligence investigation and a criminal investigation, there are issues of what can be made public, grand jury material and classified material, as sarah was saying, once they get their arms around what's in the potential realm of something they believe they can make public, all eyes will be on what does it say about what the president did about his actions, big looming questions of collusion and obstruction of justice. >> we're showing viewers video of rod rosenstein, deputy attorney general and bill barr, attorney general, arriving at the justice department. there are incredible details that he has collected, especially russian efforts to interfere in the u.s. presidential election which the u.s. intelligence community has concluded there's no doubt

bush appointed rod rosenstein the us attorney for the district of maryland. the only attorney in the country appointed by bush later kept on by president obama and again held over by president trump. rod rosenstein's long tenure is marked by dramatic decline of other violent offenses attributed to enforcement and prosecution to have robust collaboration between prosecutors and police and the community with crime prevention. equally impressive to demonstrate his strong commitment to preserve public trust in the justice system by going after corrupt police officers and correctional officers and elected officials and as he pursued repeat offenders in large-scale drug dealers. 2017 appointed by president trump to be the 57th deputy attorney general of the united states perk up but the responsibilities included advising and insisting the attorney general on department policies and to provide overall supervision to all organizational units of the department of justice perk a most famously he appointed robert mueller a special prosecutor to oversee the impartial inv

there's been a lot of turmoil and rod rosenstein has been there from the beginning. he's been the constant. so he can walk bill barr through how mueller is doing this work, what the primary conclusions were, some of the decision-making, because he's in constant contact, overseeing robert mueller from the beginning of this investigation despite all of the chaos that's going on around it. i think that's why he's playing such an important role today. >> almost acting as a translator? >> a little bit. bill barr is brand new to this job and obviously he knew what he was walking into but rod rosenstein can walk him through that and i think that michael is completely correct that bob mueller is not immune to the conversation that's been going on in washington, not immune to the fact that congress wanted to see the entirely report but they certainly want more information rather than less and i'm sure he took that into account when coming up with the summary of his conclusions. i don't think bill barr showed up at the justice department this morning and thought, i have to wri