rosenstein: conflicts between which? ron: demand made by the chief executive. gen. rosenstein: no. there are no such complex. -- there are no such conflicts. [laughter] ron: i'm just saying this is part of human nature. it is nothing particular to our time -- it is nothing to chill your to our time. gen. rosenstein: the way this administration operates is not the way you see it characterized in the media. there is no doubt by anyone in the department of justice that we are complying with the rule of law. we are enforcing the priorities of the administration. there have been significant changes in some of the department's priorities. but we apply them in a way that is consistent with the rule of law. ron: as mentioned earlier, you served under five presidents, nine attorneys general, you have served both republican and democratic administrations. that in itself is a remarkable feat in these days. i am curious, i just asked you about balancing the rule of law with the concerns in the executive. i would like to ask you something about the other branch of government. the congress. how d

ron collins, and our guest, u.s. deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. [applause] ron: mr. deputy attorney general, thank you very much for participating in this event today. i would like to begin with a question that is on everybody's mind. [laughter] gen. rosenstein: uh oh! [applause] -- [laughter] ron: i would appreciate a clear and direct answer. [laughter] ron: to set the record straight. how do you pronounce your last name? [laughter] [applause] senstein orro rosenstein? gen. rosenstein: there is no right answer. i have relatives who pronounce it stein. i will answer to either one. [laughter] ron: you agreed to do this with nonterview screened questions in advance. in the presence of the press. and without any reservations, other than pending cases. the question i have is why? [laughter] gen. rosenstein: i couldn't turn down this invitation. particularly on law day, which , andry significant to me my career. i think it's important for us to take opportunities like this to get out the word about the rule of law to explain what it means and why it is critical to our demo

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is it the presidents belief that ron rosenstein. >> i'm not aware of any belief of that. >> i have not seen a specific document, but we do not have any personnel announcements and we are continuing to move forward with the department of justice. >> there are questions about james shaw junior. has the president, has he called him? is he planning to meet with him? he has been talking to the heroes. he said something about james saw -- james shaw junior. there hasrstanding been an outreach effort to bring them here to the white house. i will bring you more information on that. do these issues support those who offer questions about the president's legitimacy? >> i'm not sure i follow the question but i think the fact , that millions came out and voted for an content to support this presidency makes him a pretty legitimate. affecting the president's thinking of the iran certainly the fact the deal was made under false pretenses. and also is problematic. the president has been clear he thinks the deal is one of the worst we've ever seen and we will keep you posted when he's made a final dec

we will leave this for remarks from ron rosenstein. people comment on the role of law this afternoon. -- he will comment on the role of law in this afternoon. >> as we celebrate the 60th anniversary of law day, a day established by president dwight the as in our -- dwight d. eisenhower in 1950 eight, to mark the nation's commitment to the rule of law. we look forward to hearing from the deputy attorney general today as he discusses the rule of law, the first amendment, and the mission of the department of justice. mr. rosenstein

. >> can you tell us more about your meeting with ron rosenstein? >> it was just a very routine meeting. as you know, congress alike to see documents opened up. a lot of people say they had spies in their campaign. if they did, that be a disgrace to this country. i would be one of the biggest insult that anyone has ever said to a machine. it would probably make every political event ever look like small potatoes. some man got paid based on what i read in the newspapers and on what you reported, some person got paid a lot of money. that is not a normal situation. hopefully that would be -- and i think the department of justice wants to get down to it. congress does. hopefully they will all be able to get together. general kelly is going to be setting up a meeting between the representatives to open up documents, take a look and find out what happened. if they had spies in my campaign during my campaign for political purposes, that would be unprecedented in the history of our country. >> can you give an update? about president xi? >> no. president xi

when director comey was talking about the fact that she only shared it with one friend, ron rosenstein knew he actually shared it with more than that, and yet the deputy attorney general remained silent. and when a number of us brought up the fact that there were reductions of material facts back in january, rod rosenstein again was silent. perhaps he is not silent when it comes to spinning his narrative. even today we continue to see leaks come out of the department of justice and fbi spinning a narrative that quite frankly is not supported by the facts. it is time we get to the facts. it is time we appoint a second special counsel. i think the leadership of all of those who have cosponsored -- it is time for transparency, and it is time to allow the american people to know the truth. >> fbi james comey has been fired, fbi director of counterintelligence -- fbi counsel lisa page demoted and reassigned. what did all these fired, demoted, and reassigned people do in the obama administration? they ran the clinton investigation and ran an investigation into president trump's campaign. wha

chuck grassley demanding answers from deputy attorney general ron rosenstein and fbi director christopher ray, records of the intercepted calls between flynn and russian ambassador kislyak and the agent who took notes during the interview with michael flynn that led to his guilty plea for lying to federal agent. the issue came up during fbi director james comey's bookstore. >> did you tell lawmakers fbi agents to believe michael flynn was lying intentionally to investigators? >> no. i don't know what -- maybe somebody misunderstood something i said. i didn't say that. shannon: there is the possibility someone in donald trump's campaign was a secret fbi source. catherine herridge tells us what she is hearing tonight. >> reporter: a source close to the matter says there is a renewed interest by congressional investigators in the 300 page testimony from glenn simpson, the cofounder of fusion gps. the story behind the unverified trump dossier. the senate judiciary committee is ranking democrat st. diane feinstein unilaterally leased the transcript the details business relationship with former

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and that's not obstruction, but that's being definitive by mueller and ron rosenstein overlook that investigation >> we can't resist what they call the unitary executive point, the president can fire anybody in the executive branch. we wouldn't have a civil service in that case. the right is a constitutional proposition and invite us back to talk about that because that led to this interview. if there was any news media today, perhaps he suggested that rosenstein could be fired. >> i didn't say that, don't put words in my mouth. rosenstein is not in the same category as mueller. he has a conflict, a legal conflict. >> to fire mueller or rosenstein would be a massive assault on the rule of justice and law in america. >> we are out of time, congressman jamie raskin is a member of the judiciary committee and victoria toensing is a law partner with joe degeneva and a justice official. >> thank you. >> book tv takes hundreds of author programs through the country all year long. look at some of the events we will be covering this week. we are headed to the history center where john edward recounts the

he commented on ron rosenstein and the justice department. >> you have been one of the biggest critics of the department of justice and how they have handled aspects of their business recently, and you have gone so far to suggest that deputy attorney general should be impeached. have beenairman nunes asking for more information on their surveillance activities and their investigatory activities. can you explain broadly, what is your issue with the way that doj has conducted itself, mr. rosenstein in particular, and where do those issues stand at this moment? by some of these meetings and treaties in the last few days? theesentative meadows: issue to answer your question directly is we get more rhetoric than action. for us it is about getting the documents, making sure we actually get the documents that we have a constitutional right to have. it is our job to do oversight. requesting many of these document since last november. here we are, 6, 7 months the process, a little over 12,000 documents have been delivered to million.e out of 1.2 at this rate, we will be way into president trump

on to spend, deputy attorney general ron rosenstein talks about the first amendment and the mission of justice department. but none :00 a.m., the backlog of immigration cases with the director james mckendry. at collegem., a look sports and the potential implications of athlete compensation. >> israel he prime minister benjamin netanyahu gave a presentation saying iran has lied about the international nuclear deal. in a public presentation, the prime minister showed documents he said were obtained by an israeli intelligence operation. he also directed comments to the upcoming decision on the nuclear deal. this is just over 15 minutes. prime minister netanyahu: you may well know that they repeatedly deny having nuclear weapons. you can listen to iran's president -- >> nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass distraction have any place in a rands defense doctrine and contradict our ethical convictions. prime minister netanyahu: this was repeated by the prime minister. >> -- prime minister netanyahu: i am here to tell you one thing. a random lied. lied.n big-time.

if he believes being asked to do his job is extortion ron rosenstein should alaw us to find a new deputyl. one interested in transparency. >> mark meadows is right. the other fundamental problem is you have an attorney general in name only. attorney general sessions is nowhere to be found. because he recused himself. he can't do the basic fundamental job there and as long as you have sessions sitting on the sidelines you have rosenstein running the department of justice and he is not cooperating with congress. >> bill: i know why you did your job well now. >> you could see why i got fed up. >> bill: you believe in the role of congress as it relates to the department of justice in this matter and oversight. >> abraham lincoln was known as spotty because he didn't believe what ts president was saying. there is a lot of history here, mr. rosenstein. brush up on it because you aren't doing your job. >> bill: 10 days in italy did you a lot. >> the blood pressure went down but now it's up. >> sandra: a new political ad turning heads this morning showing a candidate pointing a shotgun at a teen

eastern, oprah winfrey, representatives steve scalise, ron rosenstein, and attorney joe -- thursday at:00 p.m. eastern, me too movement founder -- starbucks coo, and nikki haley. wednesday, hillary clinton, rex tillerson, and canadian prime minister justin trudeau. thursday, apple ceo tim cook, governor john kasich, governor kate brown, and congressman luis gutierrez. friday at 8:00 p.m. eastern, jimmy carter, betsy devos, representative mark meadows, and lancea mayor keisha bottoms. c-span.org, c-span, and on the c-span radio app. words,"kend on "after james clapper with his book on fears"book "facts and and he is interviewed by democrat jim himes. himes: what do you think the risks and opportunities are of the trump foreign policy, which is radically different than the obama foreign policy? james clapper: i have tried to look at ways that could be supportive of president trump and his foreign policy, whatever it turns out to be. for example, i agree what he came out on afghanistan. i know it was a teleprompter speech and all of that, but i thought you said the right things, and we ne

he would probably assign this to the deputy ag, ron rose rosenstein. rod would have the responsibility of deciding what to do with that report, which makes them a key figure in all of this. makes him a very key figure in all of this. i think while the country understands bob mueller's role, understand rob rosenstein's, which puts him at risk. he has two decisions to make. the first is, what is the scope of bob mueller's investigation? if rob mueller can be fired, -- if rob rosenstein can be fired and replaced by someone who will simply do the presidents bidding, that person can surreptitiously, effectively hobble the mueller investigation and we wouldn't know it, by limiting the scope of what robert mueller can do. of equal significance, when bob mueller makes a report to the justice department, and it goes to the deputy ag, and the deputy ag makes the decision of what to report, if does that it contains evidence of potential criminality on the part of the president of the united states, does it go to congress? does it get released to the public? doesn

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they say deputy attorney general ron rosenstein has said repeatedly we don't put a lot of stock in anortherny and nunes to accommodate their requests. are they working with you? >> yeah. i think that rod rosenstein the deputy attorney general has a real chance here to clean this mess up for the american people. he really can step in and clean it all up. i think, you can make sure. nobody is asking for sources, right? nobody is asking for sources. nobody is asking for methods. let's lay all the cards out on the table. here is what happened and how this counter intelligence investigation was opened. brian: two years a president, whether you voted for him or not, has been hamstrung by a process that's making it impossible for him to move forward. >> they never had any evidence of colluding with russians then you have to ask yourself why did they open this investigation. steve: great question. that's why you want to hear about the source. >> nice to be here in person. ainsley: more "fox & friends" in two minutes. best fitting diaper. pampers cruisers with three-way fit. they adapt at the waist,

and what does ron rosenstein, what role does he play? that came that created sort of a barrier. >> on all of this we have national review, and he was on last night filling in for jesse watters this is what he said. >> finally, someone is able, who has the authority and status to push back on the special counsel investigation. what has been from the beginning, which is that this is an unguided missile. what happened here is a sunday prosecutor and gave him basically, limitless authority to go find a crime. the first time we've had someone with special counsel, they had to take notice of. the judge presiding over a case saying, what on earth does this have to do with collusion with russia? and he was not very satisfied, obviously, with the answers he got from special counsel. >> you know alan dershowitz has been such a strong voice through the entire process. if you days ago he said everyone should be concerned about the way this is being handled because anyone can be in trouble. anyone can be charged for something like this. how far can t

of a lawful charter that rosenstein put on mueller and a that has been the problem that conservatives have had with this for a long time. the solution isn't as we heard from ron desantis to assign another special counsel. conservatives aren't supposed to like that. >> and a lot of the people saying this don't know anything, right? they don't have access to the rosenstein memo that lays out -- we've seen two paragraphs in public. a judge in virginia again there is a way to do this, you can question the authority of the special counsel as one of those charged, paul manafort has done and the special counsel has had to file documents with the judge in virginia saying here is my charge, here is my evidence, you tell me judge, continue or not. there is a process called the constitution in the way the system is set up. silly to talk about. but those saying this, do they have secret information that none of us have about bob mueller's charge? >> this remains the riddle here in terms of we don't know all the things that mueller knows. we don't know where the investigation has gone completely or where it is going. and this issen wou se sen one os that drives critics cr

. >> for the past year, rosenstein has been a frequent target of president ron's frustrations with the justice department and special counsel robert mueller's investigation. rosenstein oversees it. congressional republicans of also piled on the deputy ag, threatening him with impeachment last month for allegedly stonewalling their requests for documents related to the fbi's probe of the trump campaign. today rosenstein may have been referring to his current situation when he made this joke that a leadership forum in new york. >> the dictionary defines piling on as joining other people and criticizing someone, usually in an unfair manner. i also have experience with tha that. >> a few hours later, rosenstein found himself a few seats down from the president at a roundtable discussing gang violence. despite rising tensions between the white house and doj, it was a fairly cordial interaction with the president even thanking the deputy ag for his remarks. >> we are hopeful, mr. president, we can get some assistance from congress enclosing some loopholes so that our law enforcement officers

rosenstein: everyone keeps breaking ron's rule. [laughter] i am condoning it. i will not talk about the mueller investigation. in general, our goal is always to conclude every investigation as expeditiously as we can. certainly, any investigation that i oversee -- i'm not talking about anyone in particular, because i see a lot -- we recognize the need to move them as expeditiously as possible. >> my name is laura greenberg, i'm neither a lawyer or member of the press. gen. rosenstein: welcome. [applause] clearly a concerned citizen. deputy secretary, you said you were not concerned at the beginning about a breakdown in the rule of law and you cited several factors, one of which is cultural integrity and believe -- and a belief that the people who are implementing laws were doing so fairly. if we have a president who is conveying exactly the opposite message and impugning all of those people, many of them, is that not a reason for concern? [applause] gen. rosenstein: as i said, the responsibility for implementing the rule of law is with the department of justice

i agree with devin nunes and ron desantis saying citation of contempt and move toward impeachment. jeff sessions is an embarrassment to the nation. rod rosenstein is an embarrassment to the nation. the leaders of the republican house and senate. this is a time for men and women to stand up and serve the nation. the president should shut the mueller operation down. if rosenstein or sessions won't step up, the president should take care that the laws be faithfully executed. mueller is undermining the rule of law with this investigation. he needs to provide the oversight and shut it down. lou: thank you, tom -- fall -- m fitton. do you believe jeff sessions and rod rosenstein should be cited for contempt of congress? up next here, president trump firing back at former secretary of state john kerry fear engaging in -- for engage in what appears to be obama-led lou: president trump today slammed former secretary of state john kerry for trying to undermine the trump administration. president trump tweet thd, quote, the united states doesn't need john kerry's possibly illegal shadow diplomacy on the badly negotiated iran deal. he was the one that crea

i agree with devin nunes and ron desantis saying citation of contempt and move toward impeachment. jeff sessions is an embarrassment to the nation. rod rosensteinembarrassment to the nation. the leaders of the republican house and senate. this is a time for men and women to stand up and serve the nation. the president should shut the mueller operation down. if rosenstein or sessions won't step up, the president should take care that the laws be faithfully executed. mueller is undermining the rule of law with this investigation. he needs to provide the oversight and shut it down. lou: thank you, tom -- fall -- m fitton. do you believe jeff sessions and rod rosenstein should be cited for contempt of congress? up next here, president trump firing back at former secretary of state john kerry fear engaging in -- for engage in what appears to be obama-led shadow foreign policy. still be. it comes when your insurance company says they'll only pay three-quarters of what it takes to replace it. what are you supposed to do? drive three-quarters of a car? now if you had liberty mutual new car replacement™, you'd get your whole car back. i guess they don't

rosenstein to turn over documents related to the trump investigation. joining me, one of the men on the front lines of this battle congressman ron desantis.here is a bunch of committees. you have the nunes house intelligence committee. what we now know, tell me if i'm wrong, this intel investigation by the fbi and strzok was started without any real intel. is that right or wrong. >> yes, they got access to the two pages. i haven't rated. but intel folks have. basically you had this papadopoulos tip from him popping off at a bar. there was no credible intelligence on that two-page document. this is peter strzok, the ina news fbi agent who said we can't afford the risk of a trump presidency and need an insurance policy. judge jeanine: let's move to the house judiciary that you are on. you have been asking for 1.2 million documents for a year now. whenever you get close rod rosenstein runs to the white house to make sure people's names are redacted. how many of those 1.2 million documents do you think you have got? >> maybe a quarter of them between an agreement between the relevant chairman and rosenstein. i don't know that we received all

rosenstein told him the president wanted that memo to be about russia. joining us now, senior editor at the atlantic ron

rosenstein told him the president wanted that memo to be about russia. joining us now, senior editor at the atlantic ron brownstein and row nat tow. let me start with you. let's start with rudy giuliani calling this investigation a lynching mob. listen to what he said. >> we'll challenge mueller to write whatever you got, take your best punch, with all your 13 democrats there, you couldn't find a republican? so you got a group there that's a lynching mob. let them do their job and boy we're ready to knock the heck out of you with our report which will be authoritative and backed up. it'll be backed up with law and facts and we'll let the american people decide this. >> a lynching mob, let that lynching mob do its part, finish its job and then rudy went on to say they better finish by september 1st or they'll be meddling in the 2018 elections. >> i got to tell you i am just angry at the idea that fbi agents and doj, federal prosecutors are being called a lynching mob. a lynching mob say group of people who are going to commit a heinous crime and these are people doing their jobs to protect us to try to p

joining us now is florida congressman ron desantis who is running for governor in that state. how do you feel about the pitch from rod rosensteintitutional oversight responsibility. remember, brian, we have been going for these documents for months and months and months. and what they do they stonewall, stonewall, trickle some out. we say well, maybe do contempt and trickle some more out. if you remember the nunes memo people like rod were saying we can't do a nunes memo because that will devastate american national security it had nothing to do with that it informed american people about some of the conduct of people in his department. we have a right to this information. and i think that there does need to be consequences. and i think what he did really just underscored the contempt that he shows for this process. brian: what exactly are you waiting for? >> >> look. i don't think we should wait. what i have been say something we want certain documents. brian: what documents? >> we want everything from the end of the hillary case through peter strzok, mccabe, kobel, the whole lot of them. we have been dealing with these issued

rosenstein that i've seen in the list. >> pete williams, thank you for joining us tonight. i appreciate it. >> you bet. >> we're back with jennifer rubin, ron klain and ruth marcus. the word purpose keeps coming up with these questions. what was your purpose, what was your purpose, and that as i say is the issue of intent, why the special prosecutor is saying we have to have the conversation with the president, we have to know what he was intending in firing james comey. what he was intending and what he meant when he told the russians in the oval office the next day that the pressure was off because he fired james comey. >> right. a key element of the crime of obstruction of justice is a corrupt intent. and that's a synonym if you will for purposes of corrupt intent. the only reason that james comey was fired, according to donald trump, was because of the russia investigation. the corrupt intent being that the president wanted to get rid of an investigation into himself. and this goes to the point we were talking about earlier. if not for donald trump continue wally blabbing about why he was doing something or what was bothering him, we wo

winfrey, steve scalise, ron rosenstein. wednesday at 8:00 eastern, hillary clinton, rex tillerson, james mattis, and canadian prime minister justin trudeau. thursday at 8:00 eastern, tim kasich,vernor john governor kate brown, and congressman elise gutierrez. carter, betsymy devos, mark meadows, and the atlanta mayor. primetime.n >> education secretary betsy devos was on capitol hill to testify on the department's agenda. she spoke about school safety measures in response to recent school shootings. this portion of a hearing is just under 2.5 hours.