rod rosenstein, i have a question. y are you obstructing, intimidating, threatening, harassing congressional members and their staffs? it is time for r rosenstein to step aside or be fired in this case because if thiss an attempt at c obstruction of justice, mr. rosenstein, why won't you let congress do their job? according to new politico poll numbers, mueller's public image, rod rosenstein appointed mueller, is at an all-time low. people beginning to understand. ap reporting mueller's team is "worried that russian intelligence services will use o gather information about its inveation and u.s. intelligence gathering methods." they never should've filed those indictments. tonight, i hope you can stomach this. your mainstream, corrupt media, the destroy-trump media has despite so much success at home on the economy and abroad, not including this week here in singapore, the president has been overwhelmingly portrayed negativelys. earlier today, the president is fighting back. he tweeted:ea "so funny to watch the fake new

he's also slamming rod rosenstein. take a look. >> i think the threat, for a civil subpoena, was reckless. he shouldn't have done that. he is subject to the oversight of the house and senate committees. these committees have a history of rather poor oversight. for those of us who have argued for years that these committees need to exercise real oversight, demand documents are not back down, this is a refreshing tren the allegations that one party used the fbi to investigate the opposing party, it's one of the most serious matters for oversight in our system. it goes t the very heart of our electoral system and our governmental system. there is every reason for the members to want to see these documents. >> sean: some members of congress, they are also firing back. congressman gowdy and meadows revealed the resolution calling out rod rosenstein for his threats to subpoena. of course it all comes in the shadow of the rampant obstruction of justice that we know has been going on with the doj not willing to hand over docum

, and that's why they're pushing back and giving rod rosenstein some defense, but rod rosenstein not quelling any of his republican critics so far this morning, john. >> we'll be back in that hearing momentarily. in the meantime, let's bring our crime and justice reporter, evan perez. he got a little defensive at some points about the questioning of his own political party. >> john, this is a man -- rod rosenstein is someone who i have known probably close to a decade, and i've never seen him so fiery and so passionate, really, because he was coming under personal attack. again, as you mentioned, the fact he is a trump appointee. he's a lifelong republican. christopher wray, the fbi director, is the same. he's a republican who served in the bush administration. i knew him then when he was in the criminal division at the justice department, and now he even made a joke saying he didn't know in the first ten months of being on this job that he would be staring down the barrel of a contempt citation, because that's what the republican members of congress, at least some of them, are sayin

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otherwise, there's a warning among some conservatives that rod rosenstein could be held in contempt ofs. democrats are saying this is all part of an effort to undercut rosenstein because he's in charge of the mueller investigation. they think that either simply trying to give a pretext for president trump to ultimately fire rod rosenstein and put someone else in charge of the investigation. >> thank you for that. that hearing came moments after president trump tweeted that russia continues to say they had nothing to do with meddling in our election. the president essentially giving vladimir putin a pass or speaking on behalf of the kremlin, despite intelligence assessments that say otherwise. his meeting with putin also underscores the growing tension between the u.s. and its traditional allies. let's bring in frederik pleitgen live in moscow. the president sort of speaking on behalf of the kremlin and repeating that kremlin line really got a lot of attention yesterday. >> oh, that certainly did, and it's something the kremlin seemed to be quite happy hearing. it's interesting because

rod rosenstein, really, when is this and? d, it is your constitutional duty, checks and balances, coequal branches, to provide members of congress with the subpoenaed documents and information they need so they can doey your job -- their job d check your department. in seven days from today, if the doj continues as obstruction, i urge every single member of the house to now take action to, yes, move to contempt, and he has, impeachment. enough is enough. trey gowdy was right. of course, many democrats are perfectly fine with doj obstruction. their friends in the deep state have a lot to hide. meanwhile, as robert mueller's witch hunt is producing literally zero evidence that the president did anything wrong, the people on the left are now predictably beginning to unravel. f their favorite new target, the u.s. immigration and customs enforcement agency, it's doing the job that congress passed, their laws. throughout the week, hundreds of left-wingin protesters, they "occupied" fisa offices across multiple cities, forcing some t

rod rosenstein is protecting an ongoing criminal investigation. >> harris: so you like rod rosensteinurse i like rosenstein. can i finish the point before i get interrupted? >> harris: yes. >> you said witnesses backing the house staffers. actually three witnesses in the room who corroborate rod rosenstein that is the trump is the doj senior ethicsthat adsor and that is also the assistant attorney general for legislative affairs. there is enormous evidence to suggest that rod rosenstein was simply responding and defending himself against a bogus contempt complaint against him by saying that i will ask for documents that show you are liars. >> harris: here would be my follow-up. why would staffers lie? >> can i answer that? >> i don't know that that is even significant? >> harris: that's what zac is saying. calling everybody else in the room other than three people a liar. >> you are calling rod rosenstein a liar. >> put everybody under oath and make them testify to what happened there. >> harris: is it that critical? is it that important? >> i'm not sure. i do know this. the doj has n

it also takes a job at rod rosenstein, accusing him of threatening lawmakers and staffers. puty attorney general rosenstein appears to have threatened to subpoena the calls on staff for requesting documents. the doj pushing back saying rod rosenstein never threatened anyone and saying the deputy a.j. was making a point after being threatened with contempt, as an american citizen being charged with contempt of congress, he would have the right to defend himself, including requesting production of relevant e-mails and texts and calling them as witnesses to demonstrate that the allegations are false. that's why he put them on notice to retain relevant e-mails and texts and he hopes he did so. did you get all of that? all right. first of all, you say this has no teeth. >> yeah. if it just a resolution, it's basically just making a political point. i do think the noise that congress is going to make is ramping up. it's not just devin nunes and the house. it's people like senator lindsey graham raising concerns. clearly the doj report today, once we have it, we'll got to the botto

how do you respond if your republican counterparts move to impeach rod rosenstein? >> that's an absurd assertion. we have to take a step back and look at what's happening here. there is a concerted effort led first and foremost, by the president of the united states. you saw just this morning he sent out a number of tweets attacking comey, mueller, the fbi, seemingly everyone who has had anything to do with the investigation into his campaigns connections to russia and by some of my colleagues in the house who are pretending that the fbi is not cooperating, that te department of justice is not cooperating with them. they've sent over a steady stream of documents to comply. they're going to turn them over -- they're only going to comply as their obligated to. they don't turn over documents having to do with ongoing investigation. >> that's an interesting point. you have goodlatte and stuart of utah saying, let's pause and see what we have in these current documents. they're not supportive of what we're hearing from meadows. let me get you on the president's tweet thi

what jim jordan and rod rosenstein were going back and forth about. this gets to -- there are many elements of this, right? it all kind of centers around the russia investigation, the origins of it, and that's what this gets to. jim jordan says, we have the sound pulled, i'll play it for you again, why are you keeping information from congress? and rod rosenstein threw out, said that is not accurate. we are not hiding information from you. i think we actually have it reracked. let's play this for you guys. >> -- congress. >> congressman, i'm not keeping any information from congress that it is -- >> in a few minutes, mr. rosenstein, i think the house of representatives is going to say something different. >> i don't agree with you, congressman. i don't believe that's what they're going to say and if they do -- >> i disagree. i think in a few minutes the house of representatives is going to go on record saying you haven't complied with requests from a separate and equal branch of government, and that you haven't complied with subpoenas, and you got sev

what may be coming for rod rosenstein. but first, pride, bitterness, and the refusal to give peace a chance. that's the focus of tonight's "angle." remember when the left was all about love, peace, and understanding? >> ♪ all we are saying is give peace a chance ♪ ♪ ♪ >> laura: you remember those great musical numbers at those nukes concert in the late '70s, early '80s, jacks brown. the left thought we should stop being so belligerent towards the soviet union, we should engage with the soviets all for a better world. some even admired the castros in cuba and they forward with marxist ideology here at home. so one would've thought that many of the same people and their ideological offspring will view presidentmp's summit with kim jong un as a moment to savor, a real chance to create a more peaceful planet. but no. and you know what? because the man is doing the outreach in negotiating is donald j. trump before, during, and after his whirlwind trip to singapore for theim meeting come his critics and both parties kept reveali

robert mueller and rod rosenstein are republicans.tein. >> we are all over you, mr. president. >> nicolle wallace, thank you very much, and congratulations. >>> ifs monday, allow myself to pardon myself. tonight, absolute power, and absolution. >> the president hasn't done anything wrong. >> then why is presi

director and rod rosenstein. they'll be in there a day after the anti-trump agent peter strzok faced 11 hours of questions from republicans. jim jordan was in that room and one of six doing the questioning. good morning to you before you head to the hearing room. i was surprised by john ratcliffe's commentary a moment ago. he said peter strzok did not help himself and did not help bob mueller. what happened there? >> very true. well, we can't get into all the details until the transcript is released but when mr. ratcliffe was questioning mr. strzok yesterday about the day he was kicked off the mueller team, about the day he was fired, frankly, and what took place in that very short meeting i think john is right. it doesn't help peter strzok or bob mueller. >> bill: does it make you wonder? >> i can't get into the details until we release the transcript. >> we'll be patient on that. we have a hearing coming up and the story will take on a new flavor in 15 minutes. do you wonder if peter strzok will testify publicl

hillary clinton. >> and, frank figliuzzi, there is some extraordinary irony in the layers of rod rosenstein being peeled back the day after such brutal attacks from members of his own party. rosenstein, a lifelong republican under blistering attacks from republicans in the house judiciary committee. when it turns out he wasn't ever comfortable being the fall guy for the president's decision to fire jim comey. >> yeah, so yesterday was quite a disgrace to watch and most americans should just be very troubled by the blatant personal attacks on both the fbi director chris wray, appointed by president trump, and the deputy attorney general rosenstein, a republican, brought in with trump. and yet what we're seeing, nicolle, is essentially a slow-motion train collision about to occur between the republicans in congress who are hell bent on finding a way to get rosenstein out and stop the special counsel investigation and the d.o.j. train, and these two trains are about to collide, sitting squarely on the tracks is the special counsel. so, what's happening here is time is being bought by d.o.j. an

we saw during the congressional hearing this week where rod rosenstein and chris wray were attacked. ultimately we got that resolution that said they have to turn over the documents by july 6th. >> to that end, i want to play awe bit of what deputy rosenstein said in his exchange with jim jordan. >> i don't know why you won't give us what you asked for. >> sir, i hope your colleagues are not under that impression. that is not accurate, sir. >> it is accurate. we have caught you hiding -- >> mr. chairman 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 we respond to your concerns. we have, sir. >> what is your biggest takeaway center rosenstein's testimony, natasha? >> republicans were on attack. a republican appointed by the president. the biggest takeaway is that this proved that the gop -- that the house gop members are an appendage of the president at this point. it's become a complete effort to undermine rod rosenstein so they can eventually set up a sc

they never stopped screaming and let rod rosenstein respond.ear what was going on with this investigation. what were your take aways from what i call the clown show yesterday in the house? >> you call it a clown show. that's a is generous word for it. all of this stuff is done in the name of oversight but this was not aboutor sig oversight. this is all about protecting the president from a lawful and proper investigation of a very serious set of matters and the idea that we drag our law enforcement leadership in front of a congressional panel to be hectored and berated and lied about and lied to for hours and hours and hours, this sends a dangerous message to everybody who works in law enforcement that the congress of the united states is your enemy. they will try to destroy you and that is not the message that we should be sending to people in public service. >> well, it is -- they were angry and unhinged and gene robinson, it was disgraceful and it was dangerous because even the republicans in the united states senate, the republicans in the

rod rosenstein at the hands of jim jordan. a fact check for trey gowdy and a republican party buoyed by a supreme court pick. >>> and protests across the land on immigration as melania trump makes another appearance at the southern border. all of it as "the 11th hour" gets under way on a thursday night. >>> well, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 525 of this trump administration, which now finds itself facing twin battles that will likely define the trump presidency for years to come. for starters, there is that opening on the supreme court, which the president made sure to bring up again today. >> we're going to pick ourselves one great united states supreme court justice. we're going to start working on that process. we're already started. and hopefully we're going to make you very proud. >> and tonight there was confirmation that a formidable white house lobbying effort aimed at potentially wobbly republican senators is already up and running before there is even a nominee that we

but to rod rosenstein, oh, it's just inappropriate. >> sean: the things that stand out. all three of us talked to at least one person. sarah carter, how much sources do you have about his temper and he made the threat he denied today? >> i have at least four sources. >> sean: you are working harder than greg and i. his refusal to recuse himself. and strzok's actions, highly inappropriate? no, that would be rigging an investigation to influence the presidential election and trying to clear hillary clinton and frame trump. that's what happened. >> rosenstein said today if it's appropriate i will recuse himself. it was appropriate a long time ago. he is a witness, investigators, prosecutor, judge, and jury all rolled into one. supervising the prosecution and the judge and jury because he decides whether any charges would be brought. >> sean: why is he only mad at me and not you and sarah carter? >> we are feeling jealous, sean. >> sean: they tried to undermine the election to favor one candidate does screw the other candidate. that's why this matters. why the rest of the me

rod rosenstein sitting there, the president despises rod rosenstein. rod rosenstein saying the president is a bad actor. >> this is not going to make the president like him more. he feels this was politically motivated and he'll keep saying that. we now know that an independent and well respected inspector general has said otherwise. but we know he'll seize on this report where it says comey acted wrongly, because he will use that as a reason to fire him saying, this wasn't an act of injustice, it was an fbi director who was off the rails. >> will he accept that his current team can handle the cleanup or will he accept the calls from capitol hill saying three trump appointees are part of the problem now. >> when they started, there was no white house briefing -- they have now scheduled a briefing. i'm sure sarah will be asking for recommendations from the president. >>> wolf picks up coverage right now. thanks for joining us. >>> hello, i'm wolf blitzer in washington. wherever you're watching from around the world, thanks very much for joining us. we s

he said eric holder, rod rosenstein's predecessor blocked that. in one exchange, rosenstein said nobody is above the law and i'm not above the law and issa cut him off very quickly and said, i will take that as a yes. the final point i would make is deputy attorney general rod rosenstein has also confirmed the special counsel, robert mueller, has taken specific steps since the termination of fbi agent peter strzok from the russia special counsel investigation to determine if any of his actions on that investigation were driven by political bias, dana. >> dana: thanks, catherine. that hearing is still ongoing. let's listen in. director wray is being questioned right now. >> that is correct. i will say congressman, i take very seriously our job to do our job right. and we don't subject to a political litmus test. our agents have to check their opinions at the door, not unlike in this system judges, all around the country, who have their own political views that range across the spectrum. sometimes hold them very deeply or juries that have all kinds o

but first more sound from jim jordan going after rod rosenstein. why you won't give us what we've asked for. >> sir, i certainly hope your colleagues are not under that impression. that is not accurate, sir. >> it is accurate. we've caught you hiding -- >> mr. chairman could we allow the witness to answer. >> mr. chairman, point of order. we could go to mr. jordan's press conference and hear from him but we came here to hear from the witness. >> your statement that i'm personally keeping information from you and trying to conceal information. >> you're the boss mr. rosenstein. >> that is correct. and my job is to make sure we respond to your concerns and we have. >> did you threaten staffers on the house intelligence committee? media reports indicate you did. >> media reports are mistaken. >> sometimes this is what they said, having the nation's number one law enforcement officer threaten to subpoena your calls and e-mails is down right chilling. did you threaten to subpoena their calls and e-mails. >> no, sir, and there is no way to subpoena phone

>>> plus rod rosenstein shutting down house republicans pushing back on conspiracy theories. rosenstein's long-time friend is "outfront." >>> president trump privately polling aides on who's going to replace john kelly as chief of staff. let's go "outfront." good evening. i'm erin burnett. "outfront" tonight, the breaking news, a war zone. those are the words being used to describe the deadly mass shooting that happened late today in the newsroom in annapol annapolis, maryland. we are awaiting a press conference. here what is we know right now as we await that, and we'll bring it to you live. so many details to learn tonight. we know five people are dead, several others injured. and we just know some of the chilling details about the attack here just coming into cnn. witnesses say the gunman shot through a glass door. it happened at about 2:30 this afternoon. and then started shooting in the newsroom. >> i saw a guy holding a gun. the door of the "capital gazette" had been blown to pieces in shattered pieces all on the carpet. this guy was holding what looked like a big shotg

the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein, it's time for you to answer those questions. we know the answers and then recuse yourself and get out of the way. you are the most conflicted person in all of this. not the attorney general jeff sessions and great news for me tonight. pay close attention. remember when chuck schumer said don't mess with the intelligence committee because they will get. there is a book on amazon point comcalled "killing the deep state." remember the group against john kerry, vets for truths. that i sean hannity is the next target of the deep state. wow, it is great to know that corrupt officials with the backs against the wall and desperate people who desperate things and are powerful tools of intelligence are now going after me? okay. really? so sadly after all we have learned, now we have jerome's rediction. it doesn't surprise me. we the united states of america, are we the former soviet union or venezuela. i will never stop ever. here to brake down the damming new report. john solomon. good to see you, sir. quick question, you think that corz

he was using rod rosenstein and i can certainly understand why rod rosenstein was angry about that. >> guys, thanks very much for joining me this evening. congressman ted lieu and matt miller. >> thank you, ali. >>> for more on whether the president should be able to nominate a supreme court justice while he's under investigation, i'm joined by former democratic senator barbara boxer of california who now hosts the podcast "fight back" and former republican congressman mickey edwards of oklahoma. welcome to both of you. thank you for being here, i want to pick up where we left off. mickey edwards, this is, as congressman lieu said, just a weird conversation that we are having but the fact it is has been had before during president nixon's term and the watergate investigation. he appointed four justices before the burglary and justice rehnquist recused himself for having worked in the nixon administration even though there was no accusation of anything else there. so tell me with this context how you feel about this discussion. >> first of all i think not only whoever he nominates now

house's top attorney to document the january meeting that included the deputy attorney general rod rosensteine f.b.i. director christopher wray, their senior advisers as well as the republican house intelligence committee chairman devin nunes and his senior staff. the account claims rosenstein threatened to turn the tables on the committee regarding the russia probe. "the deputy attorney general rosenstein criticized the committee for sending our request in writing and was further critical of the committee's request that the d.o.j./f.b.i. do the same when responding." the comee investigator wrote going so far to say if the committee likes being litigators, we, too, are litigators and we will subpoena your records. the e-mail reviewed by fox indicate a second committee staffer at the same meeting backed up the writing ving the nation's number one for these matters, law enforcement officer threatened to subpoena your calls and e-mails was downright chilling. both the f.b.i. and the justice department dispute the characterization. justice department official said rosenstein never threatened a cr

when you have the deputy attorney general hiding behind a shield of opa as rod rosenstein is doing and not being more forth coming with some of tuments and jeff sessions going completely awol in most areas of his professional responsibility, do you blame more, rosenstein or sessions? >> first of all, i think this is an institutibl with the department. it's often the general cns of the fbi and of the department of ju justice that are the peope hardest to pry these comes out of. i know from having worked on that for years now. but particularly in this investigation. and let me just say, the new fbi director, christop wray has been cleaning house there. there's a number of personal changes. we're making progress. we have a protocol set up where we have a room at the department of justice where we're able to examine thousands of documents that are me available to us when we see them unary dacted, we can look at them and identify the ones that we want to have produced. if they have classified information and involve other investigations, we canact them. but we know what'sedted. that part is

they gave the president an excuse to fire rod rosenstein so they can alter the course of the mueller investigation. but make no mistake, they will continue asking for documents in the pending investigation, something the president has no right to, so they can be fed either directly or indirectly to the president's legal defense team. this is what rudy giuliani has made so clear. it is his expectation. but more than that, they're interested in a fight with the justice department to give this president a pretext to take action against rod rosenstein. >> you saw this this morning on the president's twitter feed. he was really going after the entire russia investigation. let me read to you a couple of these tweets and get your reaction. when is bob mueller, the special counsel, leading the russia investigation, he says, when is bob mueller going to list his conflicts of interest? why is it taking so long? will they be listed at the top of his $22 million report? and what about the angry democrats? will they list their conflicts with crooked h, hillary clinton? how many people will be sen

rod rosenstein.o let's gain this out. the report says that fbi director james comey was right to not charge hillary clinton regarding her extremely careless handling of e-mail. but it criticizes comey for being insubordinate to loretta lynch. he should not have spoken publicly about an investigation that did not result in an indictment. in doing so, he ignored both practice and protocol. but the report concluded that he did not act with political bias against hillary, hence there was something for everyone to point to in the report. plenty of blame to go around including for the fbi agent and lawyer who had an affair and exchanged inappropriate texts, including agent struck saying he'd stop president trump's election. even if his bias didn't impact his work. the ig report will soon fade but the issue that will remain is special counsel robert mueller's probe which is investigating whether the trump campaign cocluded with the russian meddling and whether president trump obstructed justice with regard

jeff sessions showing his loyalty to the deep state over president trump, allowing deputy ag rod rosenstein to stall wal congressional document requests and intimidate members of congress who dare to challenge him. sessions denied reports that rosenstein threatened members of the house intel committee and their staff with subpoenas over a closed door meeting over document requests that have been stole walled since january. >> i'm confident that deputy rosenstein, 28 years in the department of justice, did not improperly threaten anyone on that occasion. since january a great deal of progress has been made. we understand in this department that we are accountable to the president, we are accountable to congress. and we need to be cooperative with them. lou: well, that's really an interesting statement, isn't it? charlie hurt, washington times opinion editor. great to see you. >> great to see you, lou. lou: welcome to the big studio. >> good to be here. lou: let's turn to the statement by the attorney general. accountable to the president, really? and defending rosenstein who absolutely, acco

>> no, it is rod rosenstein. the deputy inspector general releases the congress and it is controlled by the attorney general and inspector general. and they have the right to make changes for national security. >> sean: two weeks worth of alterations? >> the f.b.i. director assigned more people to respond more quickly. >> sean: let me talk about what has come out in addition to the insubordination case. if we know the facts in this case. it is indisputable or incontrovertible. hillary violated the information and put it on a private server and lied about it. and as i said now that robert mueller wants everybody's phones and in case they use what's app or whatever. and he wants all of this information and interestingly he want its and i wonder if everybody who had phones deleting the e-mails and the app and acid wash the phone and brake it up and take the simcards out. how would that work out for all of the people robert mueller requested from. >> they would be obstructed justice. and subject to prosecution. that

the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein, it's time for you to answer those questions. we know the answers and then recuse yourself and get out of the way. you are the most conflicted person in all of this. not the attorney general jeff sessions and great news for me tonight. pay close attention. remember when chuck schumer said don't mess with the intelligence committee because they will get. there is a book on amazon point comcalled "killing the deep state." remember the group against john kerry, vets for truths. that i sean hannity is the next target of the deep state. wow, it is great to know that corrupt officials with the backs against the wall and desperate people who desperate things and are powerful tools of intelligence are now going after me? okay. really? so sadly after all we have learned, now we have jerome's rediction. it doesn't surprise me. we the united states of america, are we the former soviet union or venezuela. i will never stop ever. here to brake down the damming new report. john solomon. good to see you, sir. quick question, you think that corz

trey gowdy understands that bob mueller answers to rod rosenstein. if rosenstein wanted to accelerate the pace and show the american people where this investigation stands we could. all we know as the american people is the very same people that worked on hillary clinton's investigation then worked on the f.b.i.'s trump/russia investigation and then went to mueller's investigation while they were spewing venom and bias that the inspector general said cast a cloud whether the official acts of the government were affected by the bias. the inspector general is a democrat and critical of the staffing decision to take the very same people that had worked on the clinton investigation and then have them ultimately working for bob mueller as someone who worked on a number of public corruption cases the inspector general said it was odd and not something that was a standard practice that we should replicate. time and again bad processes by the f.b.i. and department of justice and why we would like to see it come to a conclusion. >> sandra: congressman, the top

all kind of stuff that rod rosenstein hadn't been giving. had been asking for more information from peter strzok and lisa page, which we got from horowitz, not rosenstein by horowitz and a lot of information about other people and agents at the fbi so anti-trump that they were trying to influence the election. >> right, there's two issue, one is the issue what happened in the investigation. what they're trying to find out in the russia investigation, what really started it? we know official start day of july 31st, looks like a lot of action with fbi informants beforehand. how can we make any evaluation before we know what started this investigation? the other is more broadly getting back to the proper separation of powers. congress is a separate and co equal branch of government. i didn't just say impeachment. contempt. jailing someone -- david: you went pretty far. >> the advantage is that's totally within congress' power. if you make a criminal referral, you have to rely on the d.o.j. if you make a civil referral -- >> that's why law enforc

the dop and house gop clash of the claims deputy attorney general rod rosenstein threatened house investigators and new tonight and mccabe's attorney is suing the doj. also it is primary night across the country. another litmus test for pro-and anti-trump candidates, the reports coming in fast and furious. welcome to fox news at night. donald trump telling sean hannity his tough rhetoric on kim jong un paved the way for the singapore summit. also shitting the on joint military exercise with have a factor and take it to it henry live in singapore, good evening and good morning to you. >> good morning. despite all of the naysayers the president came, saw and got a deal despite critics trying to talk down the possibility of american success before, during and after these talks, the president going on offense talking to sean hannity trying to sell the deal telling him kim jong un is going to start denuclearization virtually immediately with a document they signed just hours ago. the president says this will save millions of lives. >> we had a good feel from the beginning and were able to get someth

rod rosenstein once gave president trump to fire james comey.what does it mean for mueller tries to tell rosenstein there was obstruction of justice? >>> and much fun was made of the over the top hollywood-style movie the president showed kim jong-un at the singapore summit. but as a propaganda exercise, did it actually deserve five stars? >>> plus, a lawsuit accuses harvard of limiting asian american admissions by downgrading applicants regarding personal traits like likability, kindness and being widely respected. do the ivies discriminate against asians? and john travolta with me to talk about his new movie about convicted gangster john gotti, based on a book by his son gotti jr. i'll ask the two of them if the film glamorizes gangster life. >>> but first, we finally got the inspector general's 500-plus page report this week about the fbi's handling of hillary clinton's e-mail and predictably both sides claimed victories of a sort. much has been said, but not that which i think is most important. for me, the i.g. report crystallized the loomi

ed: one of many fiery exchanges that one between congressman ron desantis and rod rosenstein, rosenstein fbi director christopher wray appeared before the house committee and those were not the only heated words. tray gowdy, rosenstein should get mueller to wrap up as possible. >> whatever you've got, finish the hell up because the country is being torn apart. >> pretty strong words. >> good to see you. what's your sense about what whether rosenstein should are already basically admitted he had some sort of conflict here and basically stepped aside? >> well, it's all wicked witchcraft, we will have to wait and see what's in the end of the broom as far as how this investigation goes down, eventually solves itself. it solves itself when it's done to be so. ed: when you look at the fact that rosenstein helped write the memo with attorney general jeff sessions that was given to the president that led ultimately to the firing of james comey, he is conflicted here and that we see this leak in the last 24 hours of "the new york times" four anonymous sources saying that rosenstein felt used, tha

rod rosenstein was in the hot seat. take a look at this. >> why are you keeping information from congress? >> i am not keeping any information from congress. >> i want to know why you won't give us what we've asked for. >> sir, i certainly hope your colleagues are not under that impression. that is not accurate, sir. >> it is accurate. we have caught you hiding information. >> mr. chairman -- >> you wrote the memo saying that comey should be fired and you signed the fisa extension for carter paige. it seems like you should be recused more than jeff sessions. >> i can say if it were appropriate for me to recuse i would be more than happy to do this and let someone else handle this. >> did you not know that bruce orr was meeting with christopher steel, getting the information about the dossier and supplying that information to the f.b.i. at the same time his wife nelly was working for fusion g.p.s. and helping hillary clinton? did you not know he was doing that for the f.b.i.? >> whatever you got, finish it the hell up. t

meanwhile growing pressure on deputy attorney general rod rosenstein to recuse himself from overseeinghe special counsel robert mueller's investigation. this picked up steam when the g.o.p. senator lindsey graham wrote a letter asking if rosenstein's recommendation to fire james comey makes him a witness in a potential obstruction of justice probe involving president trump? and whether he should then recuse himself from the matter? the justice department responded this way. "the deputy attorney general would recuse from all or part of any matter if recusal were deemed appropriate by department officials who are informed about the matter. otherwise he has a responsibility to fulfill his oath to well and faithfully execute the duties of his office." that response not sitting well with lindsey graham. the senator repeated his concerns with rosenstein. watch. >> i'm really curious to how rosenstein could be involved in overseeing an investigation if he is a witness. >> harris: fox news senior judicial analyst judge napolitano. on this very news set we said last week i wonder if recusal wil

character outside of peter struck that i find very very interesting even kind of mysterious is rod rosenstein i mean why hasn't he recused himself because he's actually a witness in all of this stuff and he's overseeing the moeller investigation i find that to be very troubling go ahead lionel. because there's a sense of paralysis they're not this is not supposed to happen for the longest time you know we've used the term deep state or intel state or police state or whatever you want to call it whatever you want to call this government within the government but for years they've they've run this with impunity and by the way this is not the frontline the rank and file f.b.i. agents are out there investigating bank robberies and federal fishing violations oh they're great people same thing for the d.o.j. but this is the what the seventh floor of this notorious group they don't know what's happening they went into this cock sure ready to go they thought they were locked and loaded that they were going to somehow bring a part or caused the dissolution of the house of trump not one think up at thi

it was designed in a way to publicly shame rod rosenstein.said, come on, guys, this isn't going to change anything we do. do you think it might have an impact in his testimony on paul ryan, who is enabled the jim jordans of the world? >> paul ryans of the world is trying to let the air out of the tires by letting them have their moment. i don't think the speaker wants to take this fight all the way to the mat. the question is going to be how parliamentary wise -- how far do the numbers push it. it seems like there will be a clash within the gop before you have the clash with the doj. that's been a long time and coming. we are bound to see it happen. >> karoun, phil mudd, who is going to go get chamomile tale and rest for a bit. >>> does president trump want to undo international alliances? there is new reporting this morning. only tylenol® rapid release gels have laser drilled holes. they release medicine fast, for fast pain relief. tylenol® almost $800 when we switched our auto and home insurance. with liberty, we could afford a real babysit

we went to play more of the interaction between rod rosenstein and congressman jordan. we will talk about it after you listen in. >> why are you keeping information from congress? >> i hope colleagues are not under that impression. it is not accurate. >> we have caught you -- >> as with most things in washington real work is not done on television and it is not all done by me. trump administration officials are meeting and talking with your staff every day, working overtime with fbi employees to accommodate requests and produce relevant information to this committee and other house committees and several senate committees. >> he also talked about whether this was getting personal, personal attacks on him. of the respond to say you are showboating up there giving him a hard time. >> there are valid reasons we are skeptical of the deputy attorney general's answers, responses to the requests we have made to the justice department that were improperly rejected not for national security reasons but just because the information was embarrassing to the justice department or th

there are growing calls for rod rosenstein to recues himself. that includes senate oar lindsay graham. welcome aboard, senator, do you consider yourself a potential witness in the mueller investigation regarding the firing of comey by president trump and if not, why not. he recommended it and he is a witness. if so, you should recuse yourself with oversight of the mueller investigation. thankfully, someone saying and saying what we calm would for for months. deputy rod rosenstein it is time to answer the questions. and get out of the way. you are the most conflicted person. and great news for me tonight. pay close tonight. remember senator schumer said you better not mess with the intel communicates because they get you six ways or sunday. best systeming author korzy. on calledicling the deep state. the group against john kerry, vietnam vets for truth. he said yours truly, that i, sean hannity am the next target of the deep state. it is great to know that corrupt officials with backs against the wall and desperate, desperate people and have the

>> rod rosenstein is in an awkward position as he often is. what is unusual about this is we now see rod rosenstein is a fact witness employees like to say, he observed things that were relevant to potential crimes that may or may not have been committed and at the same time is in charge of the investigation. this is an unusual position to be in, tough to reconcile those two, a witness in the investigation into be running the investigation. rosenstein, it will be interesting to see if he can maintain his position as the investigation moves forward. shannon: his attorney said all along we knew this was going to play out. we were confident that unless there is inappropriate pressure from high levels of the administration the attorney's office would say it is -- our view has not changed. we will watch and wait and see what happens. the issue of pardons today. leading the charge to get the pres. impeached, no secret about that. is anyone else noticing how donald trump pardons the same crimes that are alleged in the mueller investigation, obstructi