it is unclear how much longer rod rosenstein will be in office.e had that back and forth a couple of weeks ago. recklessly everyone was reporting that rod rosenstein was on his way to the white house to potentially be fired by the president. the president has made clear on prior occasions he doesn't like the fact that special counsel bob mueller was installed at the hands of rod rosenstein, and on other occasions he has made clear he doesn't like the fact his attorney general has recused himself. he said just recently that he's not thrilled with his attorney general's performance, so it is unclear what is going on. sometimes people go to the media because they want to stand up for their own, you know, conduct and the things that they have dedicated themselves to. sometimes they want to speak to an audience of one, that audience of one being donald trump. what i can say is, you know, i think it is good that he issued that message, rod rosenstein issued that message. it is a good, strong statement that he has not wavered from the thing that he did a

mccabe and page or rod rosenstein? >> i will never believe rod rosenstein.ng and distinguished track record of deposition. >> you have to wait until all of the facts come out. we have not heard from rod rosenstein himself. he has to put his record on it. >> i don't believe any of them, sean. it needs to be investigated. >> sean: sad. biggest abuse of power, in our history. you won't believe what hillary clinton said about bill clinton's infidelities and in washington breaking news. stay with us. we have serious problems. we're tumbling end over end up here. what are the chances your not coming back? five seconds to mandatory abort. that's one small step for man, [ alarms blaring ] one giant leap for mankind. first man. rated pg-13. (engine roaring) (horn honking) okay, okay, okay... (clatter) ( ♪ ) feeling unsure? oh... (nervous yelp) what if you had some help? introducing the new 2019 ford edge with the confidence of ford co-pilot360 (tm) technology. the most available driver assist technology in its class. ( ♪ ) the new 2019 ford edge. ( ♪ ) - i geta lot.c

there was that -- the "new york times" broke this story initially that rod rosenstein had brought up the idea of wearing a wire, that he had talked about, you know, the 25th amendment process of removing the president from office. and in the wake of this, rosenstein, of course, assumed the president would be furious. he expected that he would be fired. and i think a couple things transpired after that. i mean, first, it became very clear that the kavanaugh confirmation process was going to be a lot messier than the president and his allies initially expected. i also think they got a sense, the president did, you know, from watching fox news, from talking to some of these allies, that he wasn't really sure that it was true, this notion that rosenstein raised the idea of wearing a wire. rosenstein denied it. i think this pushed all of this into the back burner. the two were originally supposed to meet sooner. that got delayed because of the kavanaugh fight. now they seem to be, at least for now, on pretty solid ground. it might be a little bit tenuous, but at least they seem to have rea

as one republican congressman demanding rod rosenstein resign, and resign now. >> it's time that rod rosenstein steps down. he should do so immediately, in doing that, i think it would serve the country well, this president well. and it is time we evenly get to truth of the matter. lou: investigative journalist sarah carter will join me, and talk about latest developments. president trump on his way to moma mo -- montana. >> we're doing a rally for matt rosen dale, a fantastic man. he is doing well, we will be talking tough things about senator tester who has been a disaster. and a disaster for montana. lou: republican strategist ed rollins with me, assess the states when what appears to be likely outcome of midterm elections. >> our top story, caravan of 4,central american4-- 4,000 central americans. the leading edge of the caravan it guatemala, 1 over the border they face a journey over 1200 miles to reach brownsville, texas. the closest point to where they are right now, today mexican government dispatched additional police to the border, and warned caravan that mexico will not per

joining me now to talk about all of this, decision to subpoena rod rosenstein and justice department's decision to ignore a house subpoena for mccabe's memo, detailing his meeting with rosenstein, andy bigs, great to have you with us, start with rosenstein, what are prospects for encouraging him to appear before your committees? >> really in hands of our chairman, and we're talle calling on chairman to issue that subpoena, to get him before us, i am not alone. meadows and g gohmert, this hava host of us we want rod rosenstein to come in testify, let's hear what he has to say about this serious allegation. it is. -- we need to subpoena him, and quite frankly, you know it, when you try to ensure compliance, if you don't have a punishment or a carrot, or a stick, then you are never getting compliance. we tried that carrot approach it is time for the stick. lou: it is time for the stick as you put it but we have been watching these delay, the the insulting delays from justice department, refusal to defer to oversight role, the constitutional oversight role of congress. you put up with it f

rod rosenstein knows everything bob mueller is doing. you are the president of the united states and this is a giant cloud over your presidency and you are like this with him. >> to be a fly on the wall in that conversation would be amazing, but i say this all the time about president trump. the big stereotype is he loves to fire people and he gets angry, about you he rarely goes that step and go does fire someone and think about the last backs and forth with members of the senior staff. they had their relationship that was cool and distanced and john kelly decided to stay in the white house until 2020. now he is doing the same with rod rosenstein and it's like a cat playing with a mouse and batting him around and enjoying this rod rosenstein not knowing if he's here to stay or a short timer and the president not wanting to do anything that he doesn't know the outcome. it is true that because rod rosenstein knows about the investigation and the president is so eager to see this brought to a close. there may be a conversation that is real

deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. remember, the same rod rosenstein "the new york times" had been reporting that had discussed secretly reporting the president after his firing of then-fbi director james comey back in 2017, and what the status of his employment status has been a huge question. now, he's heading down with the president to florida. let me get to the white house now. cnn's abby phillip is there. it seems like are we at a point where we can say the president is saying let bygones be bygones? >> it does seem like president trump is not talking like a man who is preparing to fire someone today. in fact, inviting him onto air force one and saying it is going to be very nice to have him there, as he goes down to florida for this police convention. now, the president, i was struck by how much he emphasized the good relationship he had with rosenstein. he noted that he didn't really know him all that well up until recently. but he said repeatedly, we have a very good relationship. he didn't answer questions abo

donald trump has been very critical of rod rosenstein at points, more lately. he had him on air force one. he's talked to him. they almost left that conversation feeling like they were friends. so i think what you are going to have is some congressmen trying to get some answers, both on the republican and the democratic side to where this is all headed especially with a few weeks before the election of course. eric: that's a very important point, people focusing on the wire and the 25th amendment, but the major issue has to deal with the mueller investigation, what it's doing and his oversight of some of the fisa applications. >> absolutely. this has been such an under wraps investigation. robert mueller has said almost nothing going forward. but really on capitol hill, there's some mention, a congressman from north carolina is outraged at the fact that rod rosenstein had a sit-down interview with the "wall street journal" just a few days ago and has not testified in any way shape or form at least at this point before congress. he and some of his colleagues on

rod rosenstein?ed the sba to warrant on carter page. he actually wrote the letter to give to the present, so that james comey would be fired. he laid it all out. this guy is in the middle of everything, and somebody needs to learn the truth because he is still the deputy attorney general of the united states. >> sean: by the way, to answer serious question, who is investigating the investigators, all of us have been from the beginning. starting with both of you, to be honest. lead to the number one "new york times" best seller, but this sounds like a soft coup. revengeof taken out on the president. you have two people that both reported the very same thing here, john, about what rod rosenstein instead at the time. that is mccabe. he is under criminal investigation. thinks that hillary should win 100000000-0. >> as i was coming over to the show, i bumped into an old fbi friend of mine. he said i am starting to think that if you need to rebrand itself. maybe we should call ourselves the federaled burea

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he has a special guest on air force one, deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. is going to get interesting breed this comes after last month's "new york times" report that rosenstein had discussed secretly recording the president and possibly removing him from office under the 25th amendment. rosenstein denies that report. here is the president this morning. >> president trump: on the plane -- i actually have a good relationship, other than there has been no collusion, folks. no collusion. no, i don't. i didn't know rod before. but i have gotten to know him, and i get along very well with him. b5 rosenstein expected meet with white house republicans on thursday. here's house committee devin nunes with his questions. >> i think it all comes down to whether or not he was willing to wear a wire or not. if he was willing to wear a wire and secretly record the president, maria, someplace of this country has never been before, i don't know if any time in the history of this country where you had people at the top levels of government conspiring to secretly record a pr

>> i assume it is rod rosenstein. remember, this is the guy, think about this -- this is the guy who that joe said he wanted to wear a wire to record the president. who allegedly talked of invoking the 25th amendment. he did that in front of subordinates. whether was joking or not we will find out. he did not do that classified setting so what is he want to classified setting to answer questions about those very things? only reason is because he doesn't want the american people to know what happened. this is the same guy who will not give us the anti-mccabe memos that we have subpoenaed. he will not rest the august 2 memo he wrote that altered the scope of the mueller investigation will not give us the jim baker or bruce ohr 302 is. this is the same guy. on the occasions that the term student quizzes postponed. let's get him under the right conditions as soon as possible. lou: congressman jim jordan, as always, good to see you. thank you so much. >> thank you. lou: up next it appears anti-trump cnn believes a caravan

for moments that matter. ♪ >> harris: a subpoena for rod rosenstein?what bob goodlatte says will happen if that deputy attorney general refuses to talk with congress about a "new york times" report claiming that he discussed secretly recording president trump and trying to get him kicked out of office. rosenstein was tentatively scheduled to meet with lawmakers last weekend failed to show up due to disagreements over the terms of the interview. >> it's essential that we talk to him, he knows that, he is not agreed to come for a transcribed interview on the record. he needs to agree to do that and if he does not agree to do that very soon, i will issue a subpoena for him to appear. >> harris: this comes as the house judiciary committee is also set to interview the fusion gps cofounder tomorrow. although he's expected to take the fifth, catherine herridge's live in washington with the latest. catch us up. >> thanks, harris, that afternoon. the russia investigation comes to a head with scheduled testimony from at least three witnesses and it remains a hig

he doesn't want rod rosenstein. rod rosenstein is next in line.ould be the person who would become the interim attorney general, unless he then takes the step of firing rod rosenstein. but either way he's not going to have a quick pick as we know, you know, republican senators were having this conversation a few weeks ago about which one of them might be willing to take the job because maybe they would be willing to confirm quickly if it was one of them. and we had lindsey graham this past weekend talking about his golfing, joking with donald trump about whether he would be willing to take the job. we're talking about a job that senators don't want and that trump is trying to fill with just about whomever he can who will be either loyal to him or plan b. plan b seems to be or just really taking care of himself. which either way has nothing to do with the country. >> in "new york" magazine olivia lizzie went to the white house to study the question of what's going on with john kelly and the rumors about the president wanting to fire john kelly. and

he told our good friend and colleague kristen welker that he has no plans to fire rod rosenstein. he has a good relationship with him. the president reportedly referred to rosenstein as mr. peepers and jeff sessions as mr. mcgoo. it remains to be seen how good the relationship is. this is the thing. rosenstein staying on the job is the one thing that republicans and democrats agree on. republicans want him to stay on the job because they feel like if he were to be fired or resign, then that would inflame democrats ahead of the midterms. democrats want him to stay on the job because they feel like if something happens to him, it could tip the country into something of a constitutional crisis because it's rod rosen stain who oversees the russia investigation. the president was also asked about brett kavanaugh. the president said he thinks that democrats are going to end up voting for republicans based on the way that brett kavanaugh was treated. we've already seen the president preview this message, the post kavanaugh confirmation message. he's saying the way democrats have treated k

coming up for us, rod rosenstein picks up? validation, air miles and job security while accepting a trip with the president on air force one. but a few hours later "the new york times" drops that story involving the mueller investigation. >>> then later tonight trump versus the swift vote, we'll call it, in the battle over the continue ten senate seat that is up. "the 11th hour" just getting started on a monday night. he 11g started on a monday night. this isn't just any moving day. this is moving day with the best in-home wifi experience and millions of wifi hotspots to help you stay connected. and this is moving day with reliable service appointments in a two-hour window so you're up and running in no time. show me decorating shows. this is staying connected with xfinity to make moving... simple. easy. awesome. stay connected while you move with the best wifi experience and two-hour appointment windows. click, call or visit a store today. >>> what did you say to rod rosenstein today, mr. president? >> we just had a very nice

former top attorney testifies about rod rosenstein's plan to wear a wire and record president trump in the white house. james baker's testimony behind closed doors has one demanding that rosenstein resign and resign now. >> i think it's time that rod rosenstein steps down. he should do so immediately. and then doing that, i think it would serve the country well, the serve the president well. it's time that we eventually get to the truth of the matter. >> lou: investigative journalist sarah carter joins me tonight and we will talk about the latest developments and president trump on his way to missoula, montana, there to rally support for rosendale locked in a tight and a bitter contest against the arrogant wheezal incumbent -- weasel incumbent john tester. >> president trump: we have doing a rally for matt rosendale who is a fantastic man. he is doing very well. we will be talking some pretty tough things about senator tester who has been a disaster. a disaster for montana. >> lou: the top story tonight the caravan of 4,000 central americans from honduras has traveled through guatemala

now, rod rosenstein is a career prosecutor. he's a man of integrity. i don't think that it is likely that he kbot on that airplane and said, okay, let me catch up on the russia investigation, let's talk about all the specifics on that. that being said, the optics are terrible. even though they're entitled to meet, it's one thing to meet in the white house with other aides there, to meet on air force i and have a 30-minute discussion certainly raises eyebrows. that's what republicans are worried about, this appearance of impropriety. they will tell prosecutors, look, don't even ride in an elevator with jurors, and if it has the appearance of impropriety, why give people the thought that there is anything going on? >> jeremy, i trust that you read the "new york times" tonight on the israeli firm. for folks who haven't had the time to plow through it, what's your biggest takeaways here? >> the big takeaway is that rick gates pled guilty and is awaiting sentencing. considerable proposals from a social media and psychological operations and operation resear

maria: does rod rosenstein have a problem? >> i think it all comes down to whether or not he was willing to wear a wire or not. if he was willing to wear a wire and secretly record the president, maria, someplace that this country has never been before. i do not know any time in history of the country where you had people at the top levels of government, conspiring to secretly recorded president so that you can trap the president into going after the 25th amended to remove the president. that is serious stuff. maria: you will talk about that with rod rosenstein next week. anything else we can expect from the meeting when he heads to capitol hill? >> i think those are the questions that have to be answered by rod rosenstein. he needs to tell us really, what he meant by this joke of willingness to wear a wire. and don't forget, this is a very important point. when rod rosenstein appointed a special counsel, the lead investigators knew that there was no evidence of the trump campaign colluding with the russians. so what has the s

our top stories, troubling new revelations about deputy attorney general rod rosenstein and enlarging questions about his role in what the "new york times" covered as a meeting designed to subvert the trump presidency. senior fbi officials now say rosenstein was very serious when he talked about secretly recording president trump. we take it all up with two reporters who have been at the lead in covering this story. investigative journalist sarah carter, and the hill opinion editor john solomon. >>> also tonight, supreme court justice brett kavanaugh taking his seat on the bench. his first day at work. while the radical dems who tried to destroy him and his family are facing a massive backlash from angry voters all across the country as we head into the midterm elections. >> you had forces saying things that were evil. that were bad people, and he is a very, very fine man, and what was said about him should never have been said. lou: president trump to speak at a campaign rally tonight in council bluffs, iowa, later this hour. you're looking at the venue already crowded. we'll be brin

the president realizes there is a whole bunch of people behind rod rosenstein.he solicitor general moves up. there's lots more lawyers behind him. so i think he's fine with keeping him. rod rosenstein simply at this point when the moul investigation wraps up, will probably hand it off to congress. not a lot of discretion for him. it's the devil you know and the devil you don't. >> kristin, listen to how he began his answer. >> i actually have a good relationship, other than there's been no loougs, folks. no collusion. >> his mind immediately went to the focus, or one focus, of the investigation. >> sure. that's busieiggest complaint. he said there should be no reason for it to continue. i have always thought that the "new york times" report that sort of kicked off this latest round of drama around rosenstein about the did he say that we should invoc -- was it the 27th amendment? >> 25th. >> 25th amendment, sorry. does he wear a wire? i always wondered, was there going to be a chance the deputy attorney general could sit down and go -- this is two entities the pr

kennedy: rod rosenstein was a no-show for hearings today that were to discuss allegations that rosenstein offered to wear a wire while meeting with the wire while meeting with the president. coaching means making tough choices. jim! you're in! but when you have high blood pressure and need cold medicine that works fast, the choice is simple. coricidin hbp is the #1 brand that gives powerful cold symptom relief without raising your blood pressure. coricidin hbp. so let's promote our falle a homecomingtravel dealame, on choicehotels.com like this. touchdown. earn a free night when you stay just twice this fall. or, badda book. badda boom. book now at choicehotels.com as one of the nation's largest investors in infrastructure, we don't just help power the american dream, we're part of it. this is our era. this is america's energy era. nextera energy. this is america's energy era. when it comes to managing your type 2 diabetes, what matters to you? step up to the stage here. feeling good about that? let's see- most of you say lower a1c. but only a few of you are thinking about your heart. fac

just before the appointment of rod rosenstein, to mueller.eter strzok said there's no there there. now i think, with the media leak strategy that we have been been able to unveil and report, along with the insurance policy comment, they leaked the information to different news sources, it all goes back to the clinton phony russian dossier, creating the atmosphere this must have really happened when just the opposite is true. the only russian interference came from hillary paying for russian lies disseminated to the american people and used as a fraud on a fisa want four times. >> yeah. listen, a lot of harry houdini going on in may of 2017 at the justice department. they didn't have a case, and instead they tried to create the aura in the public media there was a case. it was obstructed by the president. and i think when we look back in the history we'll see a lot. i was thinking because of the work of congressman meadow, congressman jordan, digging, glen simpson and christopher steele were out peddling their story to the media trying to get

because rod rosenstein was then publicly struggling to deny a story in "the new york times" saying that early in the trump th administration rod rozenstein discussed trying to assemble evidence to be used in convincing the vice president and the cabinet to remove president trump from power by using the process authorized in the 25th amendment.au and rod rosenstein in that story was being quoted as willing to wear a wire possibly himself to record the president, to gather evidence against the president. speculation was then running high that the president would use the meeting that was scheduled for the same time as the kavanaugh hearing to fire rod rosenstein and force tv attention to shift to the theatrical drama of rod rosenstein arrive agate the white house and then leaving the white house. and then perhaps the president then making a statement about the firing, but the president canceled that meeting and decided to watch the hearing on tv like the rest of us. the meeting was rescheduled for today on an airplane, which couldn't be more ironic because of this. >> bill clinton gets int

and occasionally reckless decisions that have to be walked back." >> narrator: and reports that rod rosenstein in the days after comey's firing... >> rosenstein talked about possibly... >> narrator: ...raised the question of having the presint removed from office. >> ...the 25th amendment to the u.s. constitution... >> rosenstein has disputed and denied that report... >> narrator: rosenst future is in jeopardy. >> ...rod rosenstein's future up in the air, and now there are these reports today that he might be about... >> narrator: now, trump is rallying his base ahead of the midterm elections. >> y know he's very effectiv on the campaign trail. >> narrator: once again on the attack. e> the obstruction is democrats are obstructionist. we must elect more republicans so we can get the votes that we need. you're voting for which party controls congress, very important thing. >> narrator: his presidency at stake. >> "we will imach him, we will impeach him!" but i y, "how do you impeach somebody that hasn't de anything wrong?" >> if democrats take control of g e house, they are going to be a subpoen

i'm not making any changes. >> rod rosenstein traveled with the president on air force i today. according to the white house, the two met for about 45 minutes and discussed various topics. back in washington, trump said this about rosenstein and the investigation. >> i think we'll be treated very fairly. everybody understands there was no collusion, no russia. it was all made up by the democrats. they're the ones that colluded with russia. >> there are new reports tonight, however, that robert mueller is looking into more trump campaign efforts to sway the election with the help of a foreign entity. the "new york times" is reporting that a top trump campaign official identified as rick gates requested proposals in 2016 from an israeli company to create fake on-line identities to use social media manipulation. can you imagine such a thing? and to gather intelligence to help defeat republican primary race opponents and hillary clinton. the company is identified as psy-group, p-s-yp-s-y, dash, gr. there is no evidence that the president acted on behalf of the group, but the owner, j

he is on the plane with rod rosenstein heading up on there.ey had a very good talk an alluded obviously to the drama and suspense that was the major story in american politics just before the kavanaugh nomination. for more now on the president, the relationship with rod rosenstein, and the path to the midterms, katy tur is joining me live from california. she is at ucla, home of the bruins. that is where she's kicking off the week long battleground college tour ahead of the midterms. 2:00 p.m. eastern hour every day this week. so, katy, from the campus of ucla, first of all, just the president right there, i don't know if you heard very briefly alluded to rod rosenstein, talked about having a good conversation with him. what did you make of that? >> you know, i think it's interesting that he was with him on the plane. the president has historically been reticent to fire anybody so to fire him on the plane to orlando is a long shot. usually he's in another room in the white house by tweet and not in person. that's been during the campaign, as w

rod rosenstein is the supervising -- he's the supervisor of the special prosecutor. so rod rosenstein is in effect the highest level working prosecutor in the justice department. and he's supervising the prosecutor who's investigating the president of the united states. so the justice department official has the ultimate control over the investigation of the president, met with the president today to try to convince him he was not part of a plot to use the 25th amendment to remove him from power and he didn't suggest the possibility of he himself wearing a wire to record either demented or criminal language by the president that could then be used to convince the vice president and the cabinet to remove the president from power. that is the strangest meeting that has ever occurred in the history of the united states of america between a president and a member of the justice department. here's what reporters got from the president about that meeting after air force one landed today. >> the press wants to know what did you talk about? well, we had a very good talk, i w

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>> rod rosenstein is actually, because jeff sessions has recused himself, from the mueller probe, rodstein is officially the boss, or the head of the probe. there was some speculation after new york times reported that he had either seriously or jokingly talked about wearing a wire in a meeting with the president that he would be on his way out. jeff sessions, the attorney general's widely believed to be leaving the administration soon after him next month's midterm elections. the idea that you would have to talk to officials at the chile on their way out is really not the kind of turmoil most administrations with look forward to having. for the time being, it seems like he has got a back in from the president. that can be a femoral backing. we don't know how long he will be in that position. we still believe jeff sessions is probably leaving after the midterms pair for now, rod rosenstein, looks like he will be in position for a little while longer. vonnie: given what you said about jeff sessions, ron rosenstein could have a significant impact in the months ahead to he could change r

think it will be difficult to first of all there are many complex of interest apparently with rod rosenstein. there many people that have now calmed to testify in public or transcribed interviews behind closed doors. they will be very pointed questions about that in mr. rosenstein, this report had a lot of sources behind it. they have talked to a number people about it. it's very curious and even if rod rosenstein according to his own words was just out there making this in just her saying it hypothetically to the extreme wall was the underlying conversation? if congress really wanted to get to the bottom of that they would invite the other six people are so into congress. kennedy: they also need those memos from andrew mccabe which essentially documents at least some of those conversations so i think it's smart for the president to do that. if you had to make a choice between firing rod rosenstein and jeff sessions who do you fire first? >> you swing first for the current attorney general who is there in name only the very worthless jeff sessions. he is never there. kennedy: he is recused f