gen. rosenstein: it's one of my favorite quotes. ron: yes, sir. gen. rosenstein: i encourage you to read the whole thing. this is the concluding paragraph. it says the qualities of good prosecutor are as allusive and impossible to define as those which mark a gentleman. and you should read, or woman. and those who need to be told we -- would not understand it. a sensitiveness to fair play and sportsmanship is perhaps the best protection against the abuse of power and the citizen safety lies in the prosecutor who tempers zeal with kindness, who seeks truth and not victims, who serves the law and not factional purposes, and to -- who approaches his task with humility. ron: i didn't even need to give it to you. gen. rosenstein: probably not. [applause] ron: humility is not really a word honored in this town. can you say a few words about humility and being in public service? gen. rosenstein: i have not spent that much of my career in washington. i have spent my entire career with the department of justice. but half of it with the u.s. attorney's office in

gen. rosenstein: yes. my understanding -- i asked about this after the story showed up in a newspaper yesterday. my understanding is some people assume that i am micromanaging things. but i am not, unfortunately. issues would come to my attention if there was a dispute between the relevant parties. in this case, the civil rights division actually reviewed the civil rights title of the u.s. attorneys manual and the changes they made, to the best of my understanding, were actually recommended by the career prosecutors and approved by the political staff and so there were no issues that came to my attention. my understanding is that particular issue, the determination was made that the guidance was unnecessary and outdated and addressed an issue that had not arisen in the past decade or more. over time, the manual had a tremendous amount of material that was not useful for prosecutors -- the goal was to have process computers -- have prosecutors -- if there is anything in their rhetoric not serving purpose in

gen. rosenstein: funny you should ask that question. [laughter] gen. rosenstein: it's an important issue. we in the department and executive branch, we strongly support appropriate congressional oversight. oversight is very important. it's one of our obligations to comply to the extent we can. interesting historical point, as the president proclamation today mentioned, there are three branches with three distinct authorities. there is actually not a constitutional basis for oversight. that has been viewed as implied power and has developed over the years. there are conflicts between the executive and legislative branch over oversight throughout history. i have been in the department for almost 30 years. going back hundreds of years, these conflicts have arisen. what we have been told in the few instances where this has been litigated, the courts have said, but the branches have a responsibility to try to compromise. responsibility to get along. there have been repeated articulations over the years principles -- the redline dark-haired where it is not ap

gen. rod rosenstein's memo that defines the russia investigation.s been going everywhere and congress wants to know specifically what is the scope, donald trump's attorney weighed in on the possibility of a presidential hearing for special counsel robert mueller to sean hannity last night. >> you know the president as well as i do and the pres. has great desire to tell the truth if he gets a fair hearing. our job is to make sure he gets a fair hearing, jane and marty and me, our job is to make sure he gets a fair hearing from mueller. we are not convinced he will. maria: your take adrian? >> this constant disparagement people on the far right are trying to do to robert mueller is extremely dangerous, extremely difficult. maria: what is to disparage, asking for a fair shot? >> there is no reason he shouldn't get a fair shot. he's throwing out the notion that if he chooses to testify may not get a fair shot is ludicrous. maria: if the same people were overseeing both investigations of the so-called narrative of trump collusion with russia and the hill

rosenstein should be directed by his boss, the atty. gen. to pull the plug on this investigation. non: can he having them make recused? >> you are the guy, mr. rosenstein should go. mueller is outside his bounds. we are talking manafor it, papadopoulos has nothing to do with this. anyone looking at this so there's no collusion between the trump campaign and russian influence, that means your purpose is gone. pull the plug but we don't know that because rosenstein won't give us the scope letter. shannon: what authority to look at things, heavily redacted. you have any believe you will get it rejected? >> not without citation. shannon: keep us updated, great to see you. incredible expos out of minnesota. is there a daycare connection with middle eastern terrorism involving millions of your tax dollars? that investigation you don't want to miss next. ♪ never drop to your knees, ♪ ♪ look into the sky for a momentary high, ♪ ♪ you never even tried till it's time to say goodbye, bye ♪ ♪ everybody fights for a little bit of light, i believe. ♪ geico motorcycle, great rates for great rides

gen intel® core™ processors. >> dana: fox news alert. trump set to meet with rod rosenstein and the f.b.i.rector christopher wray at the white house at the top of the hour. sources say they are expected to discuss trump's request for the documents related to his claims the f.b.i. planted a spy inside his 2016 presidential campaign. the white house says this meeting was scheduled about a week ago. when asked about the meeting in a taped interview with martha maccallum, the vice president just said they are trying to get to the bottom of whether or not there was a spy in the campaign. more on this as we get it. we are going to take you live to the white house where president trump hosting a ceremony for nascar cup series champion martin truex jr. and his team. he is walking out there from the oval office. he has to walk a little bit of the ways to the south lawn where a big event today. obviously nascar fans are going to love this. as they love it -- do we have him yet? all right. we are going to keep going yet. seven months after a devastating series of wildfires northern california napa re

gen. to step in and put these people under investigation. all this as the white house says it only recently learned of michael cohen's stormy daniels tweet. rod rosensteining for his job is calls for his impeachment grow. joe the jennifer way that his conflict of interests saying they are adding up. >> the problem for rod rosenstein, he has multiple conflict of interest, he should not be supervising this case, he wrote the memorandum that led to the firing of james comey, sign a fisa application, he continues to know and care about comey and mueller and others. he should be removed from this case. this is absolutely disgraceful and he will pretend he is above all of this but when all is said and done mr. rosenstein represent a part of the department i thought we had lost a long time ago when the obama administration people left office. rob: rod rosenstein has been in a position less then a year and a half. jillian: a tough day for nbc as the network was forced to correct itself over this fake news story. >> something breaking news, nbc news exclusive investigation, we are learning federal investigators wiretapped the phone lines of michael cohen. jillia

rosenstein and other leaders and there has been some pushback. he wrote an interesting piece that the president may not understand how the executive branch works and the doj works but the former atty. gen. saying more doj norms being eroded, trump, subject of the investigation once access to material related to the inquiry, his congressional supporters want evidence connected to an ongoing investigating. they say no, the institutions are time-tested. >> they need to understand the department of justice exists under the executive branch, they are accountable to the pres. and they are accountable to congress and when congress asks for information they must turn it over. they have been obstructing in doing so many things from a lack of transparency about something that should have congressional oversight. >> is not the only one objecting. chuck schumer saying the president of the us to pressure the justice department to reveal detailed documents about an active investigation of the president's campaign for the purpose of denigrating it is a gross and unprecedented abuse of power. >> not a fourth branch of government. people can talk about how they don't like this are what information to g