ladies and gentlemen, please welcome deputy attorney general rob rosenstein. -- rod rosenstein. mr. rosenstein: thank you. thank you very much. thank you. [applause] thank you. thank you very much. thank you very much. states.ent the indicted byse are the words spoken department of justice attorneys at the start of every federal trial. each of us represents the united states, the entire united states. more important, we represent every one of the citizens, all ideologies, all affiliations, all races, all religions. we represent supporters and critics, victims and criminals. our oath of office begins to promise to support and defend the constitution. establish a to legal duty that overrides loyalty to anyone else and in the final clause of that oath, we swear to well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office. we can only fulfill that charge if we understand those duties. i served under five presidents and nine senate-confirmed tend if youneral, count bill barr twice. we are not sure about that. [laughter] i spent most of my career outside washington but worked at headquart

today rod rosenstein says the following. he says we now see the former director is a partisan pundit selling books and earning speaking fees while speculating about the strength of my character and the fate of my immortal soul. he goes on to point out that generally speaking prosecutors and lawyers base their opinions on eyewitness testimony. clearly, anderson, the gloves are off for the deputy attorney general after two years of overseeing the mueller investigation. and now he has obviously an answer to the comments made by the former director of the fbi james comey. >> yeah, i want to play for our viewers who didn't see it, what comey said to me just last thursday night in our town hall with the former fbi director. >> i think people like that, like rod rosenstein, who are people of accomplishment but not real sterling character, strong character, find themselves trapped. and then they start telling themselves a story to justify their being trapped which, yeah, he's awful, but the country needs me. >> so rod rosenstein, yo

rod rosenstein's last day on the job. i have a special report tonight and it may break some news for you. we begin with breaking news. >>> a top democrat today, the chair of the house ways and means committee dialing up the heat trying to get donald trump's taxes, sending a subpoena to treasury secretary steve mnuchin for business tax returns, demanding the documents in the last week. mnuchin was spotted entering the west wing earlier today. he has missed multiple deadlines from other democrats. he's said that the original request for these trump tax returns which are of course required under federal law in his view had no legislative purpose. all this caps a week that has been dominated for the historic contempt for donald trump's attorney general. and it is also ending with not only this tax fight but other democrats saying they'll fight fire with fire, warning of a separate contempt vote for don mcgahn. >> we've subpoenaed mcgahn and we're expecting him to show up on the 21st and if he doesn't, he will be subject to co

we gather for this special ceremony to celebrate the 37th deputy attorney general of the u.s., rod rosensteinease join me in welcoming onstage stage our 85th attorney general, william barr. our guest of honor, rod , bethtein, jeff sessions williams, director of the fbi, hurt andy, robert deputy attorney general ed o'callaghan. [applause] >> also joining us in the audience, i would like to welcome kellyanne conway, alexander azide, senator richard byrd, senator tom cotton and congresswoman susan brooks, as well as deputy secretary of state john sullivan. thank you for being here today. thank you for coming. [applause] >> while there are many special guests with us today, none are more important than the family of deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. join me and giving a warm welcome to the wife of the attorney general, daughter julia parents.on and welcome. the entire department greatly appreciates the enormous support that you have provided to our deputy attorney general, as he dedicated himself to seeking justice, keeping our country safe and ensuring that the law is enforced equally and

let's talk about rod rosenstein and james comey. that's interesting.d that's building between the former deputy a.g., rod rosenstein and james comey. what do you make of it? >> it is very interesting. . it does make you think that rod rosenstein has been harboring some of these feelings for some time because now that he's left the justice department he's being much more vocal about his feelings about the former fbi director. i think it's more emblematic, the bigger picture this is supposed to be an independent department. in the past few years we've seen how politicized it's become. it's interesting how these two massive figures in the intelligence community are butting heads on this. i think it's only going further people on the right and the president and his administration who are pushing to investigate the investigators, this all comes back to that and i think that we won't -- this won be the end of what we hear from it. >> great point. thanks for your insight this morning. >>> when is rod rosenstein's book coming out? >>> let's talk tariffs. major

plus rod rosenstein unchained. the former deputy attorney general comes out swinging after james comey calls him weak. >> the former director seems to be acting as a partisan pundit. selling books and earning speaking fees while speculating about the strength of my character. yesss, i'm doing it all. the water. the exercise. the fiber. month after month, and i still have belly pain and recurring constipation. so i asked my doctor what else i could do, and i said yesss to linzess. linzess treats adults with ibs with constipation or chronic constipation. linzess is not a laxative, it works differently. it helps relieve belly pain and lets you have more frequent and complete bowel movements. do not give linzess to children less than 6, and it should not be given to children 6 to less than 18, it may harm them. do not take linzess if you have a bowel blockage. get immediate help if you develop unusual or severe stomach pain, especially with bloody or black stools. the most common side effect is diarrhea, sometimes seve

rod rosenstein does so. and as i think he acknowledged tonight, that's something director comey has forever been mad at him for and rosenstein did acknowledge, i get it. i understand why he's upset with me. >> how notable is it that the president is going after the sitting head of the fbi, a critical tool to all of you guys who are current or former feds, the whole world is watching and they can see this. >> yeah, i mean, i think we've seen this before in the not so recent past of the president really making an attack on both the department of justice and, specifically, here at the fbi. we saw him do it with comey. we saw him take on mccabe. now we're seeing him take on chris wray. obviously, you know, the president has him as his latest victim in sight. i just think this is so dangerous, right, to erode the public's confidence even further in the fbi. put aside russia. put aside politics. for the actual sort of day-to-day business that the fbi has to do, they depend on the public having trust in them, right

ask your doctor. >>> rod rosenstein, slamming james comey tonight, a former deputy attorney general respondingtly to comey, telling a cnn town hall last week that rosenstein's character wasn't strong and that his soul had been eaten by his time in the trump administration. >> now the former director seems to be acting as a partisan pundit, selling books and earning speaking fees while speculating about the strength of my character and the fate of my immortal soul, i kid you not. that is disappointing. speculating about souls is not a job for police and prosecutors. >> here to discuss is the former director of national intelligence mr. james clapper. so good to have you on. >> thank you. >> give me your reaction to that, james comey and rod rosenstein, comey was scathing last week. >> i know jim comey personally, we served together when he was director of the fbi and i was dni and i have great respect for jim. he's a friend and a great colleague and i think he's been a great public servant. i do not know rod rosenstein personally. it struck me, though, that he did an admirable job in a very dif

former deputy attorney general rod rosenstein who only left the job friday is speaking out tonight calling the mueller investigation justified and characterizing one-time fbi director james comey as a "partisan pundit." according to the times rosenstein's former boss william barr has now asked a federal prosecutor in connecticut to examine the origins of the russia investigation. "the washington post" tonight, for good measure, reports that before trump ousted top officials at homeland security they had pushed back on a secret plan to arrest thousands of migrant families living in several cities across our country. and tonight we appear in a full fledged trade war with china. all of this follows trump's relentless attacks on twitter over the weekend. he posted nearly 100 messages, mostly focusing on house democrats investigations into his administration, the mueller report and this now escalating trade war with china. today beijing retaliated, increasing tariffs on $60 billion worth of american goods after trump raised tariffs on $200 billion worth of chinese products last week. this trigg

you should really talk to rod rosenstein." >> narrator: they set up a meeting tween rosenstein, attorney general jeff seions, and the president. >> the president lets them know he wants to fire james comey. that's clear.e and rective for sessions and rosenstein is to draw up the rationale, to write memos explaining why they believe comey had made mistakes on the job and deserved to be fired. >> narrator: they had their orders. rosenstein would build a case against jim comey's handling of the fbi. >> rod rosenstein, this guyye who's served 2s in the justice department, a boy scout, he looks le a boy scout. and he thinks that comey has violated the justice department norms by talking too much about hillary clinton during the election. >> narrator: the president m wanted to as soon as possible. it was a rush job. rosenstein delivered it the next day. >> rod rosenstein's memo echd what a lot of the hiy clinton campaign people had been saying for months, that comey had inserted himself into th election, he'd made himself too public, he had taken on a role that did not really belong to him. >>

i've been highly critical of rod rosenstein along the way. thought he had a lot of conflicts of interest and other questions. at thee same time, for director comey to make this kind of comments, i thought that was just wrong. >> he's always right, jason. he's always right. he's authored the script of what is right and wrong. there are plenty of days i disagree withh rod. i neverr call for impeachment. rod had a tough job. i appreciate his service to the country, even though on the days when i disagree with him. to take a shot at someone, to do it with a moral arrogance that jim comey does almost a everything, one reason he is not very popular right now. >> jason: director comey, two years ago, that he was fired. i think that was the right thing. the democrats conveniently forget how much they wanted to see him fired by the way he treated clinton. but i got to ask you, -- >> you mean those who didn't want him criminally prosecuted. remember, harry reid thought they committed a criminal violation then they wanted him r fired and now they want h

rod rosenstein is firing back at former fbi director james comey. mr.ut to speak at an event in baltimore, maryland. our evan perez joins me now. evan, what do we expect mr. rosenstein to say? >> reporter: well, anderson, this is the first time we'll hear from him since he left. one of the first comments is going after james comey, the former director of the fbi who, as you remember, made comments at the town hall with you last week questioning his character. today rod

so i don't get rod rosenstein on the record of what was said? clearly bob mueller is saying something drastically different than what william barr has testified before congress. i would also say to robert mueller, if you want to slit his work stand, what was the point of giving this press conference today outside of wanting to pour gasoline on the impeachment fire? i would also say that only one person between william barr and robert mueller has gone before congress and testified under oath, and that is not robert mueller. this raises a lot of questions, and hopefully everyone gets to the bottom of this. >> katie: from a doj official about this discrepancy issue, is a senior doj official saying ia discrepancy. they did not reach a decision, even so they didn't want to reach the impression that that's what they're doing. what mueller said is that he didn't even engage. he told them he didn't want to leave the impression that there was a discrepancy between barr and mueller. psychic is important ten to mention that >> melissa: hang on, let me get

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he flat out said he thought rod rosenstein had weak character. >> rod rosenstein is returning the favorh. >> i mean, wouldn't you take umbrage, if someone said you had weak character? >> the moment we speculate about each other's immortal souls is the point where the off-ramp of the justice department needs to -- >> it was the soul, not just the character. david? >> rosenstein is pushing back on his job on the mueller investigation. remember, he writes the memo that gets comey fired. we know from the mueller report and other sources that he thought he was being used in that regard. i don't think that changes the fact that he probably has pretty strong views as a career prosecutor about how comey handled the results of the email investigation into hillary clinton and the fact that comey went out of his way to opine her behavior when there were no charges brought. that disagreement is probably real and has escalated. >> let's talk about joe biden and the middle ground for climate change, if there is any such thing. congresswoman ocasio-cortez doesn't believe there is. she wants to see bol

i think for rod rosenstein, it has revealed who rod rosenstein is. i think rod wanted his job too much and was willing to make too many accommodation toss keep that job. i think that in bill barr, when he was serving with george herbert walker bush, when he was serving with the president with integrity and character and decency, then it kept him tethered. but serving with this unethical president, he's become completely untethered. >> on this, what do you think -- when rod rosenstein, who was directly involved in the removal of james comey, then was a fact witness in that part of the obstruction probe, so soon after the mueller report was finished was so publicly attacking james comey, who he helped oversee the removal of, did that strike you as inappropriate at a time when congress didn't reveal issues. >> i guess what i found most inappropriate is that someone who participated in one of the most important vignettes that the counsel wrote about might constitute obstruction. as a pretext for the fire of comey, that he would participate in the white w

came up with this decision in conclusion alongside rod rosenstein.nstein had been overseeing this investigation from the get-go. bill barr came in just a few months prior to its conclusion. i'm curious as to whether or not rod rosenstein was always in the same view as bill barr's presenting himself to be now. >> susan, what do you think? >> i actually think that barr is right, mueller could have reached a conclusion consistent with the olc memo, but one thing that is almost crystal clear from the mueller report is that had mueller reached that conclusion, he would have accused the president of the united states of a crime. that is the between the lines when he says we would have exonerate him but we did not. barr's own defense, his own read of why he doesn't believe that the facts as presented constituted obstruction of justice, an extraordinarily weak legal theory on the face. so to the extent that barr is now pointing to this choice as a manner to sort of criticize robert mueller, the president and his supporters like bill barr are incredibly lucky

or, were robert mueller told bill barr, rod rosenstein, and ed o'callaghan. all of them sitting that office. he said they were on separate tracks. "i know about the olc decision that you can't it had a president, but i was looking for evidence and we didn't find enough evidence." two different things. and now he is saying -- he is backpedaling on what he said in the office of the doj to bill barr. we want the other interesting distinction, he said "there wasn't enough evidence." of course democrats will see that, seize upon it. rightly so, the term termination don michael mike at your petition was there evidence. he said there wasn't enough evidence for they will take off the piece of that. they want to get the underling documents. i don't see how they resist. her nancy pelosi, the statement where she said we will investigate and legislate. she won't go down that road yet. but do you think she can resist the push to go for impeachment now? >> i think they really need to take a step back and realize what they've got. if they question people, if they can get pe

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shan, it's been hard to know sometimes where rod rosenstein -- which side rod rosenstein is on.edly was willing to wear a wire because he was so concerned by what he was seeing in the white house but then he writes the cover letter for firing james comey. here is how james comey feels about rod rosenstein. >> i think people like that, like rod rosenstein, who are people of accomplishment but not real sterling character, strong character, find themselves trapped. so they start to make little compromises to stay on the team, eco his words, use the term spying, talk about collusion or just be silent, thinking that's what i need to do to survive, and in the process he has eaten their soul. >> your thoughts? >> well, i think we're seeing a shift on our view of rosenstein. i think there is a time everyone thought he might be the standup guy, being the hero, the idea of wearing the wire out of a sense of conscience, i think now at least my view, and i wrote a piece on this, is that he is more of a person looking for the best political cover. i think his ep tat at the justice department

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i think for rod rosenstein, it has revealed who rod rosenstein is. too much and was willing to make too many accommodations to keep that job. >> do you think the congress should call or subpoena mr. rosenstein to further explain that very controversial memo which is the origin of the mueller probe? >> i think he should be brought before the judiciary xhoe. we are taking steps along that regard. >> i have to ask what are those steps? are you telling us today that you have requested rosenstein testify to the house intelligence committee? >> i'm not prepared to comment. >> would it be reasonable to say you've already requested it? >> this does feel like a deposition. it would be more than reasonable and for him to come testify before congress. >> i'm sorry but it felt like a depo. the bottom line is the full context. not just us. for the first time he's confirming it. >> chairman schiff was very clear with the fact they're taking steps. i want to dig in a couple of things. >> what he knew at the time he wrote it. even looking back to the change when it

rod rosenstein was instrumental in what appears to be a pretekt to his firing writing a memo about thelinton investigation. what was interesting and we have heard this before is that prior to jim comey being fired and rod rosenstein playing the role, you go back in time to when he invited jim comey to speak to a group of his attorneys to talk about leadership. he heralded comey as a great leader who made tough decisions in the case and is now playing a role in the firing. if you're jim comey, it has to sting a little bit. he's surveying the landscape. this is someone i know having worked for him that's moored to his values and orbits any situation trying to determine the most ethical thing to do in this situation. when he looks across the landscape and sees people who stick their finger in the wind and make a decision in their best interest personally, it has to grate on him. >> that leads us to attorney general bill barr and how some people now see him as not so much of a straight shoort and a nakedly partisan person which apparently caught people by surprise. here is james comey on b

he's sitting in a glass house throwing rocks at everyone; bill barr, the president, rod rosenstein. career professionals within the justice department. i think they have a lot of integrity and professionalism. unfortunately, jim comey does not. he's been, he's been embarrassing himself and, unfortunately, he's taking the -- he's trying to take the fbi down with him, the good men and women of the fbi. we should be talking about their good work, not him. trish: no, i mean, he's really in some ways suggest hiked that reputation. we were -- sullied that reputation. i don't know if you heard me earlier talking to karl rove, but i think we're going to learn some pretty bad stuff just exactly how this all went down, and it's not going to be very flattering to the fbi. but as you said, it's not the rank and file, right? it's a few people at the top that are doing some really unethical, unethical stuff. >> yeah, unfortunately, you see corporations where their leader and the inner circle are the bad apples. i nebraska thought we'd -- i never thought we'd see it in the fbi. we had jim comey, m

rod rosenstein's signature is on the reauthorizations. the standard for reauthorizing a fisa is even higher. th to prove. once and for all, what will they find in one, two, three examinations, reviews, investigations of the origins of the russia investigation. >> i don't know. they may try to be dissecting the language in the fisa application. >> what was the concern? what was going on? >> i think they are trying to demonstrate that there was problems with what the obama administration did as far as pursuing the investigation. it went through a rigorous due process within the department of justice and fbi. it was approved by the fisa court. it went through all of those steps. if they look back in 2020, are they going to find something that should have been said differently. whatever they might. that's what they are trying to do is uncover something they will misrepresent as being part of this deep state effort to try to undermine donald trump's election. >> harry, rod rosenstein's signature is on one of those fisa reauthorizations. he sai

and you've had years of questions about rod rosenstein. you drafted actors of impeachment. attorney general sessions you called on him along with other members of the freedom caucus to resign. attorney general sessions. now, deputy attorney general rosenstein is resigning with a positive letter for president trump, and leaving on good terms with president trump. and it was just a few months ago you worried the dag was a character in this whole situation that was -- >> mark: i still have concerns, bob -- >> robert: about rosenstein? >> mark: adam schiff has concerns, i have concerns. >> robert: what are the concerns ? >> mark: well we have credible evidence that he wanted to tape the president of the united states, wear a wire, we have that from other individuals who wanted to do that. i think he needs to answer to those questions so i still have those concerns that are there. i also have -- >> robert: he denied doing that. >> mark: i agree i think that's why we need to hear from him. i can tell you james baker, and others that we've interviewed disagree with rod, and believe

rod rosenstein was a witness. rod rosenstein was eight participants.at led to the firing of james comey and he should not have had any role in adjudicating whether the instructor case rose to the level of prosecutable crime. that is a huge problem. >> why do you think he did that? >> honestly, i think many courses of the contract -- including setting a very dangerous precedent at the justice department of referring matters for investigation that involves the president's political enemies because the president wanted him to. i think that was justified at the time and i discussed it as this was going on and i think this was justified and these are not his words but my impressiond ... ... do it set dangerous precedent that the top acting officer of the we have many questions, what about mr. mueller? we have invited him to come before your committee. when do you summon him? when do you compel him, perhaps, to put his hand in the air and tell the american people his story in front of your committee, perhaps to the public? >> we have given the justice depart

i have been highly critical of rod rosenstein along the way. thought he had conflict of interest and other questions i have had. but at the same time for director comey to make the comments as he -- since his last day of leaving, i thought it was wrong. >> he is always right, he is always right. he is authored the script of what is right and wrong. there are plenty of days i disagree with rod. i never called for his impeachment. i never called for john costigan's impeachment. rod had a tough job and i appreciate his service to the country. even on the days i disagree with him. but to take a shot at somebody the week they leave public service and to do it with the moral arrogance that comey does everything is a reason he is not popular. >> two years ago is the day he was fired and that was the right thing. the democrats conveniently forget how much they wanted to see him fired by the way he treated clinton along the way. >> you mean those who didn't want him like criminally prosecuted? harry read thought he committed a criminal investigation. an

there was a back-and-forth with rod rosenstein and comey from a speech he delivered.ormer director seems to be acting as a bipartisan, selling books, speculating about the strength of my character. >> i think people like rod rosenstein, people of accomplishment but not real sterling character start to make little compromises to stay on the team, echo his words, use the word spying into the process he has eaten their soul, their loss. >> speculating about schools is not a job for police officers, we base that off eyewitness testimony. >> bret: we haven't heard a lot from rod rosenstein. that is as strong as it gets. >> i don't think you will send a holiday card to james comey. he is acting like a pundit and not a good one, fill with sensationalist language describing his colleagues as characters or monsters out of harry potter. trump is eating their souls. how much of james comey and his soul was taken when he worked for donald trump? he comes across as a bitter ex-employee who should limit himself to taking selfies in the woods. >> bret: we forget there is another inv

traditional to hold a farewell ceremony for a deputy attorney general in the hall, but this is rod rosenstein. and given what rod has given to this department, years of service and his achievements, we all know it is the right thing to have rod's farewell ceremony here today. now this occasion honors rod not only for his tenure as deputy attorney general, but also for his nearly three-decade career at the department. and when rod arrived in 1990 as jim just said, there was this very svelte and dynamic deputy attorney general [laughter] who i'm sure serves as an inspiration. \[laughter] now in those days the deputy job was a lot different. but i will tell you now the , attorney general job was a lot different also. [laughter] you like records. this must be a record of attorney generals being proposed for contempt within 100 days of taking office. but rod's arrival at maine justice in 1990 was not the true start of his d.o.j. service. as a law student at harvard, rod interned at the u.s. attorney's office in the district of massachusetts and the acting attorney u.s. attorney in that office at t

, arising out of rod rosenstein's critique of mr. comey's conduct in holding that press conference, releasing derogatory information about secretary clinton but then announcing that no reasonable prosecutor would bring charges against her. is that right? >> that's right. >> you started your career, i believe, in the intelligence community and then moved on, of course, to the department of justice. and thank you for agreeing to serve again as attorney general and help restore the department's reputation as an impartial arbiter of the law and not as a political arm of any administration. i think that's very, very important, that you and director wray continue your efforts in that regard and i'm grateful to you for that. >> thank you. >> i do believe that we need to ask the question, why didn't the obama administration do more as early as 2014 in investigating russian efforts to prepare to undermine and sow dissension in the 2016 election? mr. mueller's report does document that the russian government through their intelligence agencies

a celebration of sorts for rod rosenstein. any number of ways to deal with that. you don't need to get into it. this is how he dealt with it. the attorney general of the united states speaking in public in the wake of this historic vote of contempt by the judiciary committee. take a look. >> in those days, the deputy job was a lot different. the attorney general job was a lot different, also. this must be a record of attorney general being proposed for contempt within 100 days of taking office. >> funny thing to make a joke about, right? >> for an attorney general. >> for an attorney general facing a contempt charge. there are multiple debates about whether we are in a constitutional crisis or whether we get there when a court goes through process, issues an order, the white house then defies it would. that be the moment of constitutional crisis? so there is some debate about whether we're there or not. the issue for the white house is whether they are overplaying their hand, as matt is suggesting, by defying demands on every front from congress. then the issue fo

i'll say real quick i don't know rod rosenstein, i can't judge what's in his heart. his behavior. if you talk to the people inside the fbi they look at the actions, his complicity and helping fire comey over the pretext of the hillary clinton case of all things and his refusal to defend the department until there were instances of him permly beisonally being att. i'm not going to defend his actions but i will talk about him as a person, the person we saw tonight, an honorable person who was faced with terrible consequences. people fault him for being sanctimonious. in an era where our leaders are lying to us with reckless abandon, maybe we all need to look in the mirror. >> jennifer, you're shaking your head. >> i worked with jim when he was the u.s. attorney in manhattan. i know him as well. he was an exemplary leader. you would follow jim comey off a cliff as we used to say. i don't agree with everything he did in connection with the email investigation. i agree, he's a good person and has very strong values. >> today rod rosenstein, was his last day at the doj, he

i think that's is part of what we have seen with bill barr and rod rosenstein. accomplished people lacking inner strength. can't resist the compromises necessary to survive mr. trump and that adds up to something they will never recover from because mr. trump eats your soul in small bites. >> i'm not really sure what he's saying there. i think he should be more explicit there. it's a message we have heard from a lot of people who, to be fair, do not like donald trump, even and especially republicans. maybe some former republicans. james comey might not be the perfect messenger for this given the fact he has a beef with rod rosenstein, given their history. rosenstein's letter very critical of comey was used to help fire james comey. what he says is something that other people have said. i want to say one other quick thing. in defense of the news media which i don't think i should have to do this but i'm going to say it. what a red herring. come on. the entire news media, every reporter in the world just got it wrong. no we were reporting on the content of william

in this case rod rosenstein.pervising the investigation and had a right to make charges decisions. >> i got that point as to why you think -- >> chris, federal regulations -- the regulations gave the special counsel the prosecutorial and declamation decision surprisely because the d.a.g. and a.g. were conflicted and can thought make that decision. >> no one ever said the d.a.g. was conflicted, absolutely not. no one ever made a determination that the deputy attorney general was conflicted in this matter. if he was conflicted, he couldn't supervise it. the ethics officials would have opined -- >> creating a special counsel -- read the grounds for the appointment of a special counsel. when there may be an appearance of any kind of conflict, that is when a special counsel is appointed. he cannot -- so that you can give those prosecutorial decisions to someone who is insulated from the people who may be unable, for either appearance or actual conflicts, from being able to do that. >> why have someone supervising the

mcgahn did not tell acting attorney general rod rosenstein that the special counsel must be removed but was instead prepared to resign over the president's order. le do you i ask and ledowsky did not cooperate and mcgahn refused to recede about directions to have special counsel removed despite the president's multiple demands that he do so. that's again quoting from the mueller report. the american people can take little comfort in the fact that the episodes of potential obstruction of justice would have been much worse had the president's staff actually followed through on his orders. the misconduct here emanates from the president himself. the report notes the marked change in the president's behavior after the firing of f.b.i. director comey once the president realized that the investigators were conducting an obstruction of justice inquiry into his own conduct, the president launched public attacks on the investigation and individuals involved in it and who could possess evidence adverse to the president. while in private the president engaged in a series of targeted efforts to con

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i think for rod rosenstein, it revealed who he is. he simply wanted his job too much and was willing to make too many accommodations to keep that job. that when bill barr was serving with george herbert waser bush and when he serving with the president of integrity and character and decency, then it kept him tethered. but serving with this unethical president, he has come completely untethered. ari: what do you think when rock wasnstein -- rod rosenstein involved in the removal of james comey and was a witness in that part of the probe so soon after the robert mueller report was finished was attacking james comey, who he helped oversee the removal of, did that strike you as inappropriate at the time when the congress hadn't finished its review of the issues? rep. schiff: what i found most inappropriate was that someone who participated in one of the vignettes that the council wrote about might constitute the crime of obstruction. in writing a memo that was used at the pretext for the frame of coal me that he would participate in the w

rod rosenstein is firing back at former fbi director james comey. mr. e, maryland. our evan perez joins me now. evan, what do we expect mr. rosenstein to say? >> reporter: well, anderson, this is the first time we'll hear from him since he left. one of the first comments is going after james comey, the former director t f

rod rosenstein vocal at the pulpit there. lauren: rosenstein unleashed.lines making news. fox news confirms kirstjen nielsen opposed a secret white house plan to arrest thousands of migrant parents and children. the white house proposed a sweep of migrants with plans to deport that. nielsen pushed back with concerns that i.c.e. agents weren't up to the task and was worried about public backlash. the crowded field of 2020 democrats is likely getting bigger today. steve pul bullock set to enter e race today, to become the 22nd major candidate, billing himself as the only democrat who has won in a red state. felicity huffman pled guilty to multiple charges. she admitted to bribing a test proctor. sentencing is set for september the hit tv show, empire, is coming to an end. fox announcing that the upcoming sixth season of the hit pop drama will be its last. the news caps months of speculation following the arrest of actor jussie smollett who was accused of faking a hate crime. empire made its debut i game of thrones nearly had another blooper on its hands. fa

for years, you have had serious questions about deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. afted articles of impeachment. attorney general sessions, called on him to resign. now deputy attorney general rosenstein is resigning with a positive letter from president trump and leaving on good terms with president trump. and it was just a few months ago you worried the dag was a character in this whole situation that wasn't -- mr. meadows: i still have concerns. bob: about rosenstein? mr. meadows: yeah. certainly i have concerns. adam schiff has concerned. i have concerns. bob: what are your concerns about rosenstein? mr. meadows: one of the concerns is we have credible evidence that he wanted to tape the president of the united states, wear a wire. we have that from other individuals who wanted to do that. i think he needs to answer those questions. so i still have those concerns that are there. bob: he dwe inside doing that -- he denied doing that. mr. meadows: i agree. that's which we need to hear from hit james baker and others that we've interviewed disagree with rod and bel

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