the chair didn't even bother to read when rosen stein acquiesced.t a productive meeting. the cloud that nunez and his ilk try to cast over rosen stein is the same as the president tried to cast with his twoiter finger. >> reporter: if the president is your boss, this is not what you want to hear when he's asked if he'll fire you. >> you figure that one out. >> trump was dissing his own deputy attorney general, rod rosen stein. for whom every day can be a near death experience. as a frustrated president lashes out at the russia investigation. >> the entire thing has been a witch hunt. there is no collusion. >> rosen stein became the man in charge, once the attorney general recused himself. he's the one who hired the special council. which leaves him as the man in the middle. between trump and any move to fire robert mueller. a precarious place. oddly enough, rosen stein started out as a teacher's pet. >> highly >> he's highly respected, smart guy. 9 democrats like him. the republicans like him. >> this guy is an man of upstanding character, the gold

rosen stein here, if anyone did infill straight or sur veil participants in a presidential campaign for inappropriate purposes, we need to know about it, and take appropriate action.

rod rosen stein, republican. james comey, republican. christopher ray, republican. what exactly are you-all complaining about? it's time for the cover-up caucus in this institution to stop hiding the truth from the american people. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois seek recognition. >> i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one to te. address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. >> thank you, mr. speaker. on may 25, we celebrate national poppy day. after world war i, popty flourished in europe, scientists said the growth was because soil in france and belgium became enriched with left by the rubble the war. from the dirt and mud grew beautiful red poppies. the red poppy became to symbolize the blood shared during battle following the publish gation of a wartime poem in flanders field.

how do rosen stein and ray react. >> yes. >> what do they do in response to the president. and we don't know the answer to in a either. >> i have to get you on the don junior news. we're learning of another meeting with the foreign countries up to the election. it's now april of 2018, why are we just now learning about this? >> well, because i think the whole 120erry is unspooling here. and we're learning about it, as we reported through attorneys or others who perhaps have testified before mueller, et cetera, et cetera. and that's how we're finding out about this stuff. and it happened a couple years ago, i guarantee you, there's a lot more stuff that bob mueller knows about that we don't know about. that we have only scratched the tip of this story. even though the trump folks say it's going to be over by september 1. >> that's what they say. that's what they say. we shall see. >> thank you so much on that. and yes to the whole mueller knowing a lot more than we know thing. >>> coming up next, inside the mind of roger stone, the republican operative says he's prepared to

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he was given a reason by rod rosen stein. given a reason by rod rosen steen and acted on that reason. he could say he was going to fire him anyway, but he was given a reason, and it was justifiable. >> one of the reasons that wasn't played on that clip but is very interesting. the treatment of hillary clinton. one of the things that president trump's campaign continues to talk about is that hillary clinton's investigation ended before she was interviewed. this is the same argument in the reverse that they're trying to make with the president now that he shouldn't be interviewed. you should conclude an investigation before the president -- the person involved is interviewed. i don't know if that will come back to bite them politically, but legally it could. >> who's making the argument he shouldn't be interviewed? >> all of them? >> all of them. >> last night, rudy giuliani said, the president has to focus on north korea. >> he's talking about scope and timing. and a number of different things as it relates to a negotiation. >

rosen stein. >> welcome. >> mr. rosenstein, thank you. einstein. >> reporter: it's dreiating a monster. >> grofranken stein. >> reporter: jeanie moos, new york. >> and thank you so much for joining us. we'll see you back here tomorrow night. ac 1k3ik9 with anderson begins right now. >> good evening. quite a day. more than most. keeping them honest, at the end of it, we are left more days with fresh evidence the white house is being neither trul for transparent with a country nor it seems concerned about transparency or the truth. some of the dee stories we have been told by the president and his people have now shifted. some of what we have been told we now know is untrue. many of those lives reveal how little we know about the president of the united states and how much u how much was hidden from view when vote, elected him. last night you may remember the new attorney rudy guiliani and changed the official story on stormy daniels and the firing of fbi director

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and it hason implicafor dispute attorney general rod rosen stein who oversees the mueller probe. mark that's right and meadows has been the leader, the holder of this baton, saying why aren't you producing uese documents that tel more about the f.b.i. probe? in particular the hillary clinton probe which a lot of republicans are furious about. they don't feel it went deeply enough and don't feel the right crinal was charged. however, this is a fascinating moment, because republins are also accused of using their congressional power improperly to shield the president and to getnformation to sort leak to the white house. i'm not taking a position on what happening here but it a fascinating showdown. you've never seen anything like it. robert: rob rosenstein h been defiant. final thoughts, julie about the possible impeachment move. against h he went out in public and fought back this week. julie: it is carol said to see congress taking this kind of position between the j or the republicans in congress. that prompted a pretty extraordary statement by the dispute attorney general where

>> pete: how long do you live with rob rosen stein. >> maybe he should keep some of that inside. that hurts d.o.j. >> pete: you get a real vision of our president realtime. >> i think that it's hurting the department of justice and the nonpartisan career. >> sandra: how is it hurting the d.o.j. and fbi when the president calls out reports of bias and, you know, the sort of push against releasing certain documents in realtime requests and that sort of thing, how does that hurt the agency? >> pete: you talk to folks that verbed there. most say he has taken on any politicalization of that department, the people at the top. it's easy to bifurcate that from rank and file lawyer who is doing their job and wants to serve the american people. morale could go up when you call out leaders who are political. >> not if they are your leaders. jeff sessions? >> sandra: pushing back on giving documents. we are allowed to criticize that. >> the way the president undercuts his own officials, happened with rex tillerson, jeff sessions. >> he didn't like their performance. moving "omoving on, calif

>> we do, rob rosen stein. >> i'm so saddened by jeff sessions. i don't know what happened to him.do his scob. >job. >> scary. >> he's a guy i liked for a long time. he just folded. >> radio and t.v. >> i'll hold you to that. >> when we come back, we have really mean, low class leftists. really? wait until you see what they did to tomi lairen, assaulting her. straight ahead. ♪ ♪ ok. who can beat the san francisco guy for governor? not the conservative guy, travis allen. what about this john cox? talks a big game... but what's he done? a chicago lawyer? huh? thirteen losing campaigns - seven in illinois? cox lost campaigns as a republican... and as a democrat. gave money to liberals. supported big tax increases. no wonder republicans say cox is unelectable in november. >> all right, our colleague tommy lairen over the weekend was verbally attacked, water thrown at her while having brunch with her parents in minneapolis. this is over the top. many people both sides of the aisle have been coming to her defense, rightly so. the president trump tweeting everyone is with tomi lairen, eve

right now president trump is wrapping up that meeting with the deputy attorney general, rod rosen stein and the director christopher wray. we're told that this was a prescheduled meeting, a meeting scheduled before the president's tweet this week. a senior administration official has confirmed that the concerns that president trump brought up in those tweets, concerns able a possible fbi informant infiltrating his campaign, those concerns were absolutely brought up in this meeting today, which just wrapped our should be wrapping up any moment now. the tweeted that started it yesterday, president trump demanded that "the department of justice look into whether or not they infiltrated or surveyed the trump campaign for political purposes and if any u.s. demands or requests were made by people within the obama administration." 4 hours later, the doj responded by asking the inspector general to expand a probe to accommodate the president's requests. that's one investigation. as for the special counsel's investigation, rudy guliani is claiming that mueller's team told them that they would wr

. >> republican congressional investigators say rosen stein may also have a conflict in this situation because he signed off on at least one of the surveillance renewals for a trump campaign aide. rick? >> rick: so what are democrats saying about this? >> the ranking democrat, adam schiff said the president's allegations including claims about a former british spite, christopher steele, have no factual basis. >> this is part of a string of meritless allegations from the beginning that i was wiretapped in trump tower, a vast unmasking conspiracy, the investigation began with the christopher steele dossier, all of which was untrue, all of which as you pointed is designed to create in alternate reality for trump supporters to live in. >> they emphasize that with a congressional subpoena issued in april, the department has been in contempt for several weeks. rick? >> rick: catherine herridge in our washington bureau. thank you. >> you're welcome. >> rick: president trump slamming the russia investigation in a series of tweets saying "things are getting ridiculous." the president wrote "the

because when sessions refused it went to rosen stein. the only reason to care is if he wants the investigation shut down. we can come up with arguments about maybe the president just wants the attorney general to oversee the most important case, but it flies in the face of the facts we look at which is that the president wants the investigation shut down. he wanted jim comey to shut down the investigation. he fired him when he wouldn't back off the investigation. he's tweeted over and over. we see reports of him trying to shut it down privately. it's absurd to create a th theoretical construct when there is evidence of what the president's intentions are staring us in the face. >> witch hunt. there have been 20 indictments, five guilty pleas. and a lawyer is in jail. do you see this as potentially significant when it comes to bob mueller's investigation? >> well, rudy giuliani wants us not to think so. he said the president didn't demand he unrecuse. or bury the investigation. demanding to unrecuse means he did ask him and it means that

i think the other problem with the special counsel would be that rod rosen stein can't be trusted toper special counsel to investigate rod rosenstein. so i'm not saying it's a perfect dancer but we don't have good answers with the i.g. or congress. >> neil: my hair is hurting right now hearing this. molly, i'm getting a slight legal handle on it. molly hemingway knows her stuff. where this goes, i have no idea. the latest from texas, the shooting that still has more questions than answers. but we are piecing some interesting developments after this. how do you win at business? stay at la quinta. where we're changing with stylish make-overs. then at your next meeting, set your seat height to its maximum level. bravo, tall meeting man. start winning today. book now at lq.com >> neil: all right. why did he do it? we're still trying to find out why the heck what happened in santa fe high school in texas happened. very few details. casey stegall with the latest. he's learning. >> as they do that, you have lawmakers in austin with roundtable discussions. more on that in a second. first, we

rod rosen stein who's dmuty attorney general. jeff sessions recused himself from the russia investigation so rosenstein is the top guy and a frequent target of president trump's. there's been a lot of talk around washington that trump might order rosenstein there on the right to fire special counsel robert mueller. or trump may fire rosenstein. for the first time rosenstein spoke out. >> there are people who have been making threats, privately and publicly against me and for quite some time. and i think they should understand by now that the department of justice is not going to be extorted. we're going to do what's required by the rule of law and any kind of threats that anybody makes are note going to affect the way we do our job. >> understand what you just heard, this is really the first time anybody has stood up to the president over rumors and threats they'll fire people investigating him. jeff sessions hasn't dont, mitch mcconnell hasn't done it. speaker ryan has kind of said the president shouldn't do it. now rosenstein h

. >> yeah, yesterday he called a snap meeting with rod rosen stein and chris wray, the fbi director to tell them point blank, you're going to provide congressional investigators with the documents they want in terms of what led up to the fisa request to start surveilling members of the president's campaign. he instructed john kelly to get together with the doj, the fbi,the director of national intelligence and congressional investigators like trey gowdy and devin nunes and give them everything that they want. the president also very strong today about the idea that there was an fbi informant that is trying to infiltrate his campaign. listen here. >> if they had spies in my campaign, that would be a disgrace to this country. that would be one of the biggest insults that anyone has ever seen and very illegal aside from everything else. it would maybe probably every political event ever look like small potatoes. hopefully -- i think the department of justice wants to get down to it. congress does, too. >> sources that i talked to this morning don't have high hopes for a meeting with the d

president on capitol hill were drafting articles of impeachment for the deputy attorney general rod rosen stein. is it the president's belief that rod rosenstein committed a crime? >> i'm not aware of that. >> did the white house not endorse the drive or call on the members not to pursue that? >> i haven't seen the specific document. we don't have the personnel announcements and we are moving forward with the department of justice. >> sarah, two questions. there are questions percolating about james shaw jr. and the president. the president, has he called him or is he planning to meet with him? he has hero of the southwest flight in the oval office today. you said something about james shaw jr. last week. but is the president himself going to reach out to him? will he come to the white house? >> my understanding is that there has been an outreach effort to bring him here to the white house. i will keep you updated on that as i have more information. >> second question, chaos, hush money, russia trolls, facebook, wikileaks, d.n.c. hacks, comey investigation on the eve of the election. do the iss

. >> the concern that if rosen stein's hand is forced like this, he might decide to resign rather than launching the investigation into the previous administration. trump has been obsessed with investigating obama's surveillance of him pretty much since he took office. he tweeted with absolutely no evidence no proof, no backup, no prod obama had wiretapped him and continued to make that assertion for several months. >> by the way we have no knowledge as to represent the fact that obama or obama administration or white house executive office demanded the fbi launch this in the first place, no evidence to suggest that. >> if this fs being done for political purposes, obviously it would have been done to help hillary clinton not to help donald trump which was everything that the fbi did by keeping the trump investigation secret and being very public about the investigations into hillary clinton. it was clear one campaign suffered from that and one campaign was helped and it wasn't the politically expedient one for obama and -- >> you also can't control foreign entities and what they are w

for now, giuliani says all the special counsel can do is write a report and give it to rosen ste stein. last night, he challenged mueller to put up or shut up. >> we're trying to get him to end this. this is not good for the american people. the special counsel's office doesn't seem to have that understanding that they're interfering with things that are bigger than them. i think they have the facts from which they can write the report. if you're going to write a fair report, fine, write it. if you're going to write an unfair report, write it and we will combat it. >> even if the president cannot be indictmented, remember who was on the campaign trail with him, his daughter, his son and his son-in-law. i don't know how he'd feel about them getting indicted. i want to go first to the white house and nbc's kristen welker. okay, kristen, what is the president saying about all of this? the last 24 hours, that's like a tornado and a hurricane wrapped up in one. >> a good way to put it, stef. president trump is effectively trying to build on what you just heard from rudy giuliani. the fact t

tomorrow is the one-year anniversary of special counsel's appointment by deputy attorney general rod rosen stein rudy giuliani says they will use the occasion to blast the investigation's very existence. >> please do. >> the only thing that mueller, the only witches of this witch hunt has snarled, willie, are 13 russians, right? donald trump's national security adviser. >> flynn. >> pled guilty. >> his campaign manager, who donald trump told me was absolutely necessary. >> papadopoulos. >> to win the nomination. told me in the summer, got to get him, joe, he's absolutely necessary for me to get the delegates to win the domination. he's been indicted. rick gates who was helped him run the campaign. he's been indicted. and now he's not cooperating. the person that donald trump said was one of his two key foreign policy advisers. you notice mika is rumbling under. "saturday night live" skit. >> i'm going to go like this now. >> look at the list. nothing has been -- you've got four ex-trump advisers, a lawyer, a digital marketing strategist, 13 russian nationals, three russian companies, five guilty

we're talking about his behavior as part of the comey firing, which led to mueller being appointed, rosen stein overseeing all, but still today in the hot seat a lot because of that. >> you mentioned sessions, president trump went to bed last night with the u.s. attorney general on his mind. >> always on his mind. >> obsession. tweeting a quotation at 11:21 last night. the recusal of jeff sessions was an unforced betrayal of the president of the united states. you know what, joe digenova, former u.s. attorney who just appeared on fox news, thanks, that's amazing. let that sit for a second. sessions was spotted leaving the white house yesterday, after the president singled him out. >> by the way -- i'm sorry, steve rattner, where does joe digenova go, after donald trump leaves. he would be the only attorney in the united states of america, that would probably have the audacity to go on television and say that jeff sessions had any other choice, legally or ethically. but to recuse himself if an investigation that he was a part of, because of troubling testimony he gave on capitol hill. and again,

. >> reporter: caught between a steen and a stein is rod rosen whatever. >> remember rosenstein?teen. >> no matter someone finally popped the question. >> how do you pronounce your last name? >> there's no right answer to that question. >> no right answer? >> take it from this guy's creator. >> frankenstein! >> my father pronounces it stein. that's how i pronounce it. but i have relatives who pronounce it steen so i'll answer to either one. >> reporter: will he answer to this guy? >> rod rosenstein. >> welcome to the house judiciary committee. >> mr. rod rosenstein. >> please. i don't have much sympathy for all those steens and steins out there. not with a last name like moos. >> moose! >> the ei is pronounced stein. but then this guy's name should be whiner. >> anthony weiner. he's an exception to the rule. sometimes neither choice is great. you want to be a wiener or a whiner. >> there was some whining on reddit about the special prosecutor. does anyone else read the name robert mueller and pronounce it like bueller. but this is robert mueller, though he sometimes gets the ferr

. >> reporter: caught between a stein and a stine is rod rosen whatever. >> thank you, mr.n. >> deputy attorney general rosenstein. >> reporter: no nder someone finally popped the question. >> how do u pronounce there's n that question. >> reporter: no right answer? take it from this guy's creator. >> frankenstein! >> my father pronounces it stein. >> good morning, i'm rod rosenstein. >> but i actually have relatives that pronounce it steen. >> reporter: will he answer to this guy? >> rod rosenstein. >> welcome to the house judiciary committee, mr. rosenstein. >> mr. rod rosenstein. >> reporter: please, i don't have much sympathy for those out there, not with a last name like moos. >> moose. >> reporter: in german the second vowel takes precedence so the ei in rosenstein is pronounced stein. but this guy's name should be winer. >> anthony weiner. >> reporter: sometimes neither choice is great. there was some whining on reddit about the special prosecutor. does anyone read robert mueller and pronounce it like ferris buell bueller? but this is mueller, robert mueller. >> mr.

both asked to see an unredacted copy of a memo rod rosen steen wrote about bob mueller and what they could investigate in the russian probe. prosen stein resisted and told the republicans no. meadows and other conservatives have discussed the possibility of impeaching rosenstein if he doesn't comply. they've put together draft articles of impeachment. when rosenstein was asked about this by our colleague laura jarrett, he pushed back. >> there have been people who are making threats privately and publicly for quite some time. i think they should be aware that the justice department will not be extorted. >> reporter: responding that rosenstein should step down if he believes he's been eck tort d -- extorted for doing his job. and that is exactly what democrats say the republicans are up to by these tactics. they believe the gop wants to give trump cover to fire him. he was careful in his remarks saying he didn't want to answer this in the context of any current situation that is going on meaning the mueller investigation. but he said to the justice department has in the past reached an opinion that a sitting president cannot be indicted