mr. rosenstein? rosenstein: we have the assessments of the intelligence community and an indictment that was returned charging foreign nationals with interfering with the election. congressman: what is your opinion? >> the same as is. congressman:, so the intelligence community and the fbi have determined our country was attacked in order to influence our election. yet, that's not the purpose of this hearing. the purpose of this hearing is to undermine the fbi, to undermine mr. rosenstein, and to undermine our system of justice. if that attack has artie been established, why are we asking questions that undermine the very people that are at the head of the investigation? i will tell you why. because the majority doesn't want a conclusion to this investigation. number two. would part of the investigation be, mr. rosenstein, has anyone taken steps either during the campaign or since being sworn in to lie, obvious skate, -- off the skate, obstruct the uscate,ent -- obf abstract the investigation? mr. ros

mr. rosenstein. >> mr. rosenstein, i know that you're a constitutionalist and i think about the framework we're dealing here in this article 1, asking questions of article 2. and and i would ask you in our role of oversight, article 1 role of oversight. any information that's housed in the executive branch. anywhere in the executive branch that would be perm fently and forever, unavailable to the oversight of the united states congress in. >> i don't know that. the answer to that, with regard to the information of the justice department there are certain categories of information as director wray said that we typically wouldn't release and my experience is that congress doesn't want to know the identities of confidential sources. director wray and i don't know the names of the confidential source, to the extent we ever hear them, they're masked. >> what i'm trying to get at here is the public is never going to have confidence in this broader issue that w

mr. rosenstein? >> congressman, we have the assessments of the intelligence community and we also have an indictment that was returned that charged foreign nationals for interfering with an election. >> thank you. mr. wray, what's your opinion? >> same answer. >> so, the head of the fbi and the deputy attorney general relying on the intelligence community of the united states, including the fbi, have determined that our country was attacked in order to influence our election. yet, that's not the purpose of this hearing. the purpose of this hearing is to undermine the fbi, to undermine mr. rosenstein, and to undermine our system of justice. if that attack has already been established, why are we asking questions that undermine the very people that are at the head of this investigation? i'll tell you why, because the majority doesn't want the end and a conclusion to this investigation. number two. would part of the investigation be, mr. rosenstein, mr. mueller's investigation, has anyone taken steps eit

mr. rosenstein, mr. wray, i appreciate your work but i'd also appreciate the house of representatives could get the information. mr. gowdy talked about how long there's been a special counsel. we started asking for information in july of last year and some of that is still not given -- still hasn't been give to the congress. still has not been give on the the committee charged with defending the judiciary committee. so, i > appreciate what you do. i want the information and we're so frustrated there's a resolution on the floor of the house that will be voted on. resolutionsave any on what you have to vote on. >> i know you don't. >> the gentleman will suspend. the time is now the attorney general's. >> if you're interested in the truth, mr. jordan, the truth is we have a team of folks that are trump appointees and career folks and they're doing their best to produce these documents. director wray explained the process. he's got hundreds of people working around the clock trying to satisfy these requests

mr. rosenstein. >> -- is not true. that's correct! and my job is to make sure we respond to your concerns. we have, sir. now, i've appointed mr. lousch, who is managing that production, and i understand it's going pretty well, sir. so i appreciate your concerns -- >> again, i think the house of representatives is going to say otherwise. >> but your need to attack me personally -- >> may the witness be permitted to answer the question? >> it's not personal -- >> the gentleman will suspend. the witness will have an opportunity to say whatever he wants at the end of mr. jordan's five minutes. until the end of those five minutes, it's his time. >> i appreciate your service. it's not personal. we just want the information. why did you tell peter strzok not to answer our questions yesterday? when i asked him if he had ever communicated with glenn simpson, he gave us the answer he gave us dozens of times, on advice of fbi counsel, i can't answer that question. why couldn't he answer that question? >> mr. jordan, i appreciate your sincere conc

mr. rosenstein, mr. wray, i appreciate your work but i'd also appreciate the house of representatives could get the information. mr. gowdy talked about how long there's been a special counsel. we started asking for information in july of last year and some of that is still not given -- still hasn't been give to the congress. still has not been give on the the committee charged with defending the judiciary committee. so, i > appreciate what you do. i want the information and we're so frustrated there's a resolution on the floor of the house that will be voted on. resolutionsave any on what you have to vote on. >> i know you don't. >> the gentleman will suspend. the time is now the attorney general's. >> if you're interested in the truth, mr. jordan, the truth is we have a team of folks that are trump appointees and career folks and they're doing their best to produce these documents. director wray explained the process. he's got hundreds of people working around the clock trying to satisfy these requests

mr. rosenstein? >> inquiry, mr. chairman. >> this is not an appropriate time for parliamentary inquiry. >> point of order. it will be the republicans who continue to -- >> that is not an appropriate point of order. >> he needs to be corrected. >> the time of the gentleman -- the gentlewoman will suspend. the time of the gentleman from ohio will be restored for additional 15 seconds and then the deputy attorney general will be allowed to respond. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i do appreciate your work, but i also appreciate if the house of representatives could get the information we have repeatedly -- mr. gowdy talked about how long this investigation is going on, how long there has been a special counsel. we started for asking for information in july of last year and some of that is still not given -- still has not been given to the congress. still has not been given to this committee, the committee charged with -- the judiciary committee. i appreciate what you do. i just want the information and we're so frustrated

mr. rosenstein. >> that is correct. and my job is to make sure we respond to your concerns. we have. i've appointed mr. loush who's managing that production. my understanding is it's actually going very well. >> again, i think the house of representatives is going to say otherwise. >> your use of this to attack me personally -- >> may the witness be allowed to answer the question. >> the witness is going to have an opportunity to say whatever he wants at the end of mr. jordan's five minutes. >> i appreciate your service. it's not personal. we just want the information. why did you tell peter strzok not to answer our questions yesterday? when i asked him if he'd ever communicated with glenn simpson he said on advice of fbi counsel i can't answer that question. why couldn't he answer that question? >> i appreciate your sincere concerns but i didn't give peter strzok any instructions. when you find some problem with a production or with questions, it doesn't mean that i'm personally trying to conceal something from you. it means we're running an organization that's trying to follow the r

mr. rosenstein, is this. do you see why that lady last night might believe there is bias in the justice department in how these investigations, when you compare one to the other, have been carried out? >> yes, sir, and i share your concern. as you know, i wasn't the one running the investigation in 2017. i absolutely share your concern. i understand that. and i think one of the challenges we face, and director wray and i are very familiar with this challenge, is that the culture of the justice department in which we operate -- there are exceptions, obviously -- but the culture in which we operate is one in which we make a conscious effort not to consider partisan issues. the way i've run my offices, i've been a manager in the justice department in a number of different capacities, at this point for about 16 years or so. and my -- i've been very attuned to this issue and i make every effort, congressman -- >> i'm running out of time. my time is very short at this point. i appreciate you weren't there. you are

mr. rosenstein, mr. wray, appreciate your work but i'd also appreciate the house of representatives could get the information. mr. gowdy talked about how long there's been a special counsel. we started asking for information in july of last year and some of that is still not given -- still hasn't been give on the the congress. still has not been give on the the committee charged with defending the judiciary committee. so appreciate what you do. i want the information and we're so frustrated there's a resolution on the floor of the house that will be -- >> i don't have any conclusions that you have to vote on. >> i know you don't. >> the gentleman will suspend. the time is now the attorney general's. >> if you're interested in the truth, mr. jordan, the truth is we have a team of folks that are trump appointees and career folks and they're doing their best to produce these documents. director wray explained the process. he's got hundreds of people working around the clock trying to satisfy these requests

mr. rosenstein?m not keeping any information from congress that it's appropriate. >> in a few minutes the house of representatives will say something different. >> i don't agree with you, congressman and i don't believe that's what they are going to say. >> i think in a few minutes the house of the representatives is going to go on record saying you haven't complied with requests from a separate and equal branch of government, that you haven't complied with subpoenas and you have seven days to get your act together. that's what is going to happen. that's not jim jordan. i think that's the house of the majority of representatives. i don't know why you won't give us what we've asked for. >> i certainly hope your colleagues aren't under that impression. that is not accurate, sir. >> it is accurate. we have caught you hiding information. >> point of order. we can go to mr. jordan's press conference but we came here to hear from the witness. will you allow him to answer? >> we've caught you hiding informa

mr. rosenstein has answered questions about the report. and fbi director chris wray appeared last week before the senate judiciary committee. earlier today the house passed a resolution ordering the justice department to furnish documents related to the investigation. you can find this hearing, along with the fbi director's testimony, on c-span.org as well as using our radio app. we'll also show the hearing tonight 8:00 eastern over on c-span. the economy wrapping up its work, but here's some of the testimony from earlier today. >> good morning. the judiciary committee will come to order. and without objection, the chair is authorized to declare recesses flt committee at any time. before we begin our hearing this morning, we need to vote to wave the committee's seven-day hearing assignment. ruling to 3 of the committee rules the question is whether there is good cause to begin today's hearing less than seven days after it was notice ds. those in favor will say aye. >> aye. >> those opposed no. >> no. >> according to the chair the ayes have

mr. rosenstein, are you a democrat?m not a democrat and i'm not angry. >> this morning our president tweeted when is bob mueller going to list his conflicts of interest. mr. rosenstein, does mueller have any conflicts of interest? >> if there were any conflicts of interest brought to our attention it would be brought to review. and so i'm not aware of any disqualifying conflicts of interests. >>> white house chief of staff john kelly's days may be winding down as new reports suggest he may leaf his post in the near chu fur. he may step down as early as this summer but possibly soon. kelly has told colleagues he doesn't intend to stay beyond his one year mark on january 1st. but some say that departure could come as early as this week. nbc news had rarted in late april that current and former white house officials expected kelly to leave in july saying the chief of staff and the president had tired of one another. the president is considering at least two candidates to replace kelly. vice president pence's chief of staff

mr. rosenstein had made its decision. mr. trump erupted in anger saying he needed someone overseeing the investigation to be loyal to him. mr. sessions offered to resign. you also report that rosenstein had every right to be furious over the way this all went down for him and a source close to rosenstein says the white house put greyhound tires on his back. they threw him under the bus. >>> lots of hurt feelings to go around. >> yeah. i mean, the original problem here is that the president wanted to send his own four-page letter to comey about why he should be fired and the white house counsel, don mcgahn looked at that letter and said, this is not a good idea. the president had mentioned the fact that comey said he wasn't under investigation in russia, but the letter was rambling, it went on and on like one of the president's stump speeches. what happens is mcgahn brings in sessions and rosenstein who were already interested in getting rid of comey, and they used sessions and rosenstein as the rationale for the comey firing,

mr. rosenstein, mr. wray, i appreciate your work. but i'd also appreciate if the house of representatives could get the information we have repeatedly -- mr. gowdy talked about how long this has been going on. we started asking for information in july of last year. some of it still has not been given to the congress or this committee. the committee charged with defending the judiciary committee. i appreciate what you do. i just want the information and we're so frustrated that there is now a resolution on the floor of the house that will be voted on. >> time has expired. mr. rosenstein will be allowed to respond. >> i don't have any control over what resolutions you vote on. >> the time now is the attorney general's. >> if you're interested in the truth, mr. jordan, the truth is we have a team of folks. they're trump appointees and career folks and they're doing their best to produce the documents. director wray explained the process. there are hundreds of people working around the clock trying to satisfy the requests. whether you vo

mr. rosenstein, are you a democrat? i'm not a democrat and i'm not angry. >> you know who else isn't a democrat? probably not angry either. bob mueller. >> no, he's not angry. >> i think -- >> angry's not the word. >> focused. >> calm, not angry. >> life long -- >> good morning everyone. >> unlike a lot of those republicans yesterday that were on that committee. they were just sort of unhinged. really angry and unhinged. >> hair on fire. >> just sort of spewing a lot of facts that weren't true, but they were so angry and unhinged, for an fbi director, life long republican like chris ray who's committed his life, certainly, did this, came in donald trump asked him to be his fbi director. came in and is doing such a great job. rod rose enstein, a life long. >> they're yelling and shouting. for them to be so unhinged and screaming and yelling like that at two of america's top law enforcement officers. a lot of americans are looking and saying why are they so unhinged. >> because they're worried. it's that simple. if they w

mr. rosenstein? >> in his office. >> mr. rosenstein made a decision that instead of us seeing the most explosive text message between these two key agents who were on the clinton team, the russia team, and on the special counsel team, he made a decision to wait a month for us to see that text message? >> i can't speak to whether anyone made a conscious decision. i would just say we had -- there was -- in that fourth recovery that we made in may there was 100,000 plus lines of text to go through, most or all of them we had found before. this one was one we hadn't. we didn't see it or pick it up until june. >> and did you not see it or was it hidden from you because we have the text message right before it and the one that happened right after it but somehow that one, the most explosive one, was missing from the pages that we got months ago. >> and i can explain how we ended up finding it because it was missing from -- we did not have it either until we recovered it. >> the department didn't give it to you either? >> i don't th

mr. rosenstein -- >> can we allow him to answer? >> reporter: rosenstein visibly frustrated. >> mr.ordan -- i am the deputy attorney general of the united states. okay? i'm not the person doing the redacting. i'm responsible for responding to your concerns as i have. i have a team with me, sir. it's just a fraction of the team that's doing this work. whenever you brought issues to my attention, i have taken appropriate steps to remedy them. so your statement that i am personally keeping information from you, trying to conceal information? >> you're the boss, mr. rosenstein. >> that's correct, and my job is to make sure that we respond to your concerns. we have, sir. >> i think the house of representative s is going to say otherwise. >> your use of this to attack me personally -- >> it's not personal -- >> reporter: rosenstein and fbi director writes to have wray both defended their response to an onslaught of requests from republicans to turn over records about the 2016 clinton e-mail investigation and russia probe. and the fbi director revealing a staggering number. 880,000 documen

mr. rosenstein, august 8, text message in the ig report. trump is not ever going to become president, right? peter responds, no. we will stop it. the justice department had previously provided text messages from that date. they included all of the messages except the we will stop it message. why was that left out? i spoke with michael horvitz yesterday and he said when he testified he did not have an opportunity to explain. he assured me he had a long telephone conversation with mr. jordan after the hearing and explained it. he is in a much better position than i. what i can assure you, we are not withholding anything embarrassing. the message was not in the original material. you guys did not find it and he did. we're asking you to produce stuff and we expect a good faith effort. you guys didn't find it. but he was able to find it and you didn't. so it was disappointing to see that text message there. think about the timeline. you have peter who opened the counterintelligence investigation against trump. one week later, this text message.

mr. rosenstein since he recommended that comey has been fired.they need to ask about those memos out of the department justice -- what authority does he have to even contemplate indicting a president question mike why has he not violated the appointments clause of the constitution? article one! rated first in the constitution! they do not have to sit back and watch all this! they need to get involved! >> sean: that's why i call you the great one, mark. so important we get this right. our constitutional republic depends on it. you can see him sunday night. don't miss it. watch his show. "life, liberty, levin." when we come back, harris faulkner -- unbelievably shocking. that on this busy breaking news night. started searching for her words. and my brother ray and i started searching for answers. (vo) when it's time to navigate in-home care, follow that bright star. because brightstar care earns the same accreditation as the best hospitals. and brightstar care means an rn will customize a plan that evolves with mom's changing needs. (woman) because

mr. rosenstein -- >> sean: 100?n't know if it was that many but certainly a number of the keyey questions, that is the response he gave. its ongoingnv investigation, on advice savannah don mike fbi counsel, i can't answer that. of mr. rosenstein wants to be transparent, you should have had one of his employees answer all return questions when we had the deposition.oy >> sean: i love you or fight. we need to see these hearings. >>>> here's the other thing, we have the resolution on the floor. i think the full house will go on record tomorrow, say, mr. rosenstein, we are giving you one last chance. 70s to give us the information we are supposed to have and then if you don't give it to us, there are other options under the constitution by that resolution is on the floor of the house tomorrow morning. >> sean: by the way, sara, here mr. rosenstein doesn't particularly like me. i have no idea why. s i'm a very likable guy. >> i've heard rumors, sean. i've heard a lot of rumors about how he doesn't like you. >> sean: you

mr. rosenstein. >> that's correct. and my job is to make sure that we respond to your concerns. we have, sir. now, i've appointed mr. loush, who is managing that production. and my understanding is it's actually going very well, sir. so i appreciate your concerns. >> again, i think the house of representatives is going to say otherwise. >> but your use of this to attack me personally is wrong. >> well, it went on like that, and a short time later congressman jordan asked rosenstein about a report that he had somehow threatened staffers on the house intelligence committee. >> mr. rosenstein, did you threaten staffers on the house intelligence committee? media reports indicate you did. >> media reports are mistaken. >> sometimes. but this is what they said. having the nation's number one law enforcement officer threaten to subpoena your calls and e-mails is downright chilling. did you threaten to subpoena their calls and e-mails? >> no, sir, and there's no way to subpoena phone calls. >> well, i mean i'm just saying. i'm reading what the press said. >> i would suggest that you not

mr. rosenstein and mr. wray and mr.ueller, they have already found -- these people have found, people have been convicted, people are in jail, who investigated hillary clinton -- there were eight or 10 hearings for her. nothing came out of it. it went on for more than two and a half years, they are saying. , how cann they ask they ask these people, who are [inaudible] to get it over with? this is important for our democracy, it truly is, greta. i will hang up now so someone else can get in. host: we will start with this story, the washington post has a headline on their website that representative maxine canceled events after death threats. waters says individuals threatened to shoot and lynch her ahead of a texas event. jimmy, republican, florida. caller: thank you for taking my call. i am calling from south florida and i want to give a shout out to the president trump. the african american, by way, and i have been a democrat my whole life. but i want to give a shout out to give a shout out to mr. trump, because i'm a

mr. rosenstein, are you a democrat? >> i'm not a democrat, and i'm not angry. >> a little while later, congressman eric swalwell of california asked about another presidential tweet from this morning about mueller's conflicts of interest. the deputy attorney general said he was not aware of any conflicts of interest by director mueller, i should say. this has been a back-and-forth since this morning. again in a hearing that, at least on paper, was about the clinton e-mail investigation back in 2016. >> we played jim jordan there again. we say house free democrat caucus there. is that what you're hearing from all of the republicans on the committee? are they singing from sort of the -- singing the same tune? or is there a split on the republican side you are picking up on at all? >> jordan was, by far, the most personal in how he went after rosenstein specifically and on this issue of document production specifically. by and large though, they are speaking from the same hymnal. it strikes me, the first four questioners w

mr. rosenstein and mr. wray about this whole ordeal. >> the gentle lady from new york is recognized. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you, mr. horowitz, for your service. chairman gowdy and others have mentioned the very troubling e-mails that were very critical of president trump. so my question to you, none of these e-mails were made public during the election, correct? that's what i read. >> no, they were not. the text messages were not. >> they were not made public during the election. so therefore, it's fair to say that these e-mails did not influence the election, correct? they weren't made public, so they did not influence the election. >> yeah, i don't think these text messages were at all out there in 2016. we uncovered them in 2017. >> okay. they did not influence the election. now, the fbi conducted investigations related to both presidential candidates, but director comey publicly released information only about secretary clinton while he kept secret information about the investigation related

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mr. rosenstein and mr. wray, thank you for your service. i hope you pass along my thanks to the men and women who serve the department of justice and the bureau. this morning donald trump, our president, tweeted -- when is bob mueller going to list his conflicts of interest. mr. rosenstein, does mr. mueller have any conflicts of interest? >> mr. chairman, if there were any conflicts of interest that were brought to our attention, i would discuss it with mr. mueller, and there could be review in the department if there were credible allegation of a conflict of interest. so i'm not aware of any disqualifying conflict of interest. >> in your experience at the department, are you aware ever in your experience with the department's history of an unindicted subject of investigation being given evidence that exists in the case where that person's a subject? >> i wouldn't want to comment on what's ever happened, but generally that would not be our practice. >> and do you intend to change that with the request that rudy giuliani, the president's cou

mr. rosenstein since he recommended that comey has been fired.hey need to ask about those memos out of the department justice -- what authority does he have to even contemplate indicting a president? why has he not violated the appointments clause of the constitution? article one! rated first in the constitution! they do not have to sit back and watch all this! they need to get involved! >> sean: that's why i call you the great one, mark. so importet this right. our constitutional republic depends on it. you can see him sunday night. don't miss it. watch his show. "life, liberty, levin." when we come back, harris faulkner -- unbelievably shocking. that on this busy breaking news night. news >> sean: we showed you earlier former president bill clinton embarking on a book tour this week and still defending his absolutely disgraceful behavior towards monica lewinsky. "i do not owe her a apology or nothing." amazing book right there. "nine rules of engagement," in bookstores tomorrow. one of our favorite anchors, personal friend of mine, harris faulk

mr. rosenstein was shaken, unsteady, overwhelmed. another person in touch with mr. rosenstein around that time said he sounded frantic, nervous, upset and emotionally disregulated. and we do have some other news tonight about this mueller investigation. today the special counsel asked a judge for another delay in the actual sentencing of the former trump national security adviser mike flynn. flynn's been working for the feds, but this is the third time his sentencing has been put off. also for the first time a member of mueller's team is speaking out publicly about the investigation into paul manafort, trump's one-time campaign chairman. an fbi agent testified in virginia court today that manafort's personal assistant gave him access to a storage locker that contained boxes of financial documents. josh gerstein of politico, who will join us in a moment, reported on another wrinkle that emerged from that fbi agent's testimony. he writes, quote, a meeting last year where associated press reporters discussed with federal officials the news outlet's investigation of paul

mr. rosenstein. why didn't we see is earlier. the most explosive one that comes eight days after peter strzok opens a counter intelligence investigation into the president of the united states. and six days before the insurance policy text message. is sequence and important and worthy of questions of mr. rosenstein in the few weeks he's before our committee. >> lou: one of the things, the president of the united states interceding and ordering tran parency. it is a witch hunt. rod rosenstein is attacking a sitting president of the united states. and the motivation of the f.b.i. and justice department are conclusive and i don't give a dam what the inspector general wants to call the report. it is nothing more than a cover up. >> we sent a letter to the president three weeks ago asking the president to give congress the information and most importantly the american people. and i hope the president declassifies stuff and we'll get all of the answers and bee don't have to wait for the f.b.i. and give us the information. i am all for

mr. mullen rosenstein is not part of the witness change. chain. maybe i'm wrong, but the letter did not answer my question. i'm not going to give up on this, i try to make sure that he can do his job without interference but it really does bother me that mr. rosenstein has not appointed a special counsel look at the doj and fbi abuses. and can he oversee the mueller investigation given the role he played? >> are you going to continue with that? ely. >> sandra: meanwhile, the president's lawyer, rudy giuliani companies trying to go further saying they are trying to bring the president. he said this. listen. >> a group of 13 highly partisan mueller, excluding him -- mueller team, excluding him, trying to get h in trouble when he hasn't done anything wrong. >> sandra: what do you think of that, senator? a that haveost senator. that happens sometimes with live tv, we will try to get him back if we can. okay, senator, can you hear me? all right, the beauty and joy of live televisions. >> it was the russians, they are trying to knock me off the air. rud

mr. rosenstein? >> in his office. >> when you did get it mr. rosenstein decided we could not det inot get it until your t came out. reporter: another lawmaker requested why report was so lent on allegation that clinton serve are may have been hackd. >> that is not in your report. reporter: president we'd in, you read that ig report, about how she got away, it is a disgrace. reporter: after reviews, democrat blame former director james comey accuse republicans of refusing to acknowledge a clinton prosecution was never justified they. >> they are howling about lock her up is bogus, it was baseless, it was unsubstance unsubstantiated. >> he executed the hillary clinton campaign. reporter: in statement, lawyer for strzok confirmed to fox news his client has been cooperating with a fbi review, which included being escorted from the building for now strzok is an fbi employees. lou. lou: thank you. >> an fbi. who was escorted from the building this afternoon. we'll bring you up to day as we learn more. china accusing united states of extreme pressure a

mr. rosenstein in contempt. they may argue he must be removed from his role of the special counsel. thatis an investigation has already yielded five guilty pleas and led to the indictment of 20 people so far. the president and some of his closest advisers are under investigation for having indicated in a criminal conspiracy with a foreign power against the united states. that is an emergency. the president practically holt ond to lester firedsion when he said he this rush of of staff with trump in -- this russia staff with trump in russia. that is an emergency. this is been a hard week for the majority. i know it must be tempting to change the subject and rally your base with yells of lock her up. but we cannot hide from our responsibility. hide from our constitutional duty to protect our country from foreign interference. hide from our responsibility not to interfere with a proper investigation. i ask you to consider this question. when the special counsel's work is complete, when the enormity of what he finds has been laid bare, how will the american people judge her actions today

mr. rosenstein. >> that's correct. and my job is to make sure that we respond to your concerns. we have, sir. >> i think the house of representatives is going to say otherwise. >> but your use of this to attack me personally is deeply wrong. >> reporter: the justice department says it has already turned over nearly 900,000 pages and is working around the clock to comply with republican demands for transparency. and tonight, the house turning up the pressure. lawmakers approving a rare resolution demanding even more documents, and threatening to hold rosenstein in contempt of congress or even impeach him if he does not comply. >> we are not in contempt of this congress and we are not going to be in contempt of this congress. >> i didn't think i was going to be spending the first ten months of my job staring down the barrel of a contempt citation for conduct that occurred long before i even thought about being fbi director. >> and cecilia vega is with us here on the desk here in new york tonight. and cecilia, as they debated the merits of the russia investigation in washington tod

mr. obstruction, rod rosenstein. take a look. >> mr. rosenstein decided we couldn't get it until the report came out. he sat on it for a month of time. >> i can't speak -- >> not the first time mr. rosenstein kept us from getting information. he has hid information from us. he redacted all kinds of important commence from strzok and page we had to find it. wouldn't be the first time he hasn't given us information. i want to, well, i got 30 seconds. i don't have time to get into another subject area. mr. horowitz, i appreciate that, but i think it's interesting that you had it, you discovered it, and we couldn't get it right away like the other text messages, we had to wait until the final report. >> sean: the swamp protects their own and this is one example. the constant stonewalling, the slow walking has led judicial watch to sue for andrew weissmann's text messages related to hillary clinton and donald trump. big-time democratic donor tapped to play the lead role in the ongoing russia witch hunt, "new york times" called him weissmann's

mrs. rosenstein, we are you keeping information from according? not keeping any information from congress that -- >> in a few minutes, mr. rosenstein, the house of representatives will say something different. >> i don't believe you. if they say that -- >> ed: there was another clip in there. they were back and forth with matt gates of florida. he kept -- he was pressed on whether or not he read the document, the fisa warrant and he wouldn't answer directly yes or no. either he read it or he didn't. >> yeah, those kind of things are awkward. it's exacerbated because he was under oath. if you've seen a title 3 warrant application or something and a fisa warrant, it's just as big. some of those things can be big with tons of exhibits. unless you were clear that you read every page of it, i'd be reluctant to stay that i read it all as opposed to having read the substance of it of been briefed on it. you're better to be straightforward saying i signed it after being briefed on it. there's plenty of things that senior people he that the a.g. and deputy