rosenstein does that. within minutes or even days of this happening, he realizes, i'm not dealing with an honest broker in the white house. there is a political agenda here and i'm being used, and that's what we've seen happen. >> and hence the story of so many people who come into contact with this white house. ken dilanian, i want to get your thoughts on mike schmidt's reporting and the mike flynn sentencing. >> i think it's fascinating we're hearing this story now, nicolle. it suggests the stenlt to which rod rosenstein has had it. he's at the end of his rope. our colleague julie ainsley said he was having late night phone calls with friends and was resigned to the fact he might be fired. here i stand. this is recorded further evidence. the fact folks are willing to disclose this. it's not surprising. i remember talking to pete williams how rosenstein's appointment of mueller was in a sense his way of trying it get some of his reputation back after being so badly used in the comey firing. and now we're

so mcgahn brings in sessions and rosenstein. rosenstein offers to write this memo. the memo is ultimately the main argument the white house uses to explain the comey firing. they stand on the white house lawn the night of the firing, and they read from the letter and explain to people that comey had to go because he was too harsh on hillary clinton. >> if you're robert mueller and his associates and you now realize or you've realized now for months perhaps that rosenstein felt he was used and he didn't feel i was being accurate and at all honest about the reasons for the firing, what would that tell you about obstruction of justice? >> well, mueller has known this probably for a year. this is nothing that -- >> but the public didn't know it. >> the public did not know it. this is the thing. this is a very important period of time. it's a little more than a week between when comey is fired and mueller is appointed. and what trump defenders and trump's lawyers would say, they'd say, well, rosenstein was more than happy to be part of the comey firing, and then several

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gina, rod rosenstein bouncing up in a chair.tting there -- i don't know what all that was about. these are strange strange folks involved at the top levels of the justice and fbi. >> lou, as you know, i can't diagnose someone i have never seen clinically. but look at them with my background in psychology and knowing they both still work for the fbi. i hope they are keeping up with their psychological assessments because something is amiss here. the n they have to do that in body language terms is they have too much energy inside of them, they don't know what to do. they can't throw their hands up in the air in is energy boiling over in them probably from nervousness or something they may be hiding. that's why you see the bizarre jerks and gestures. lou: maybe that's why they put spies in the trump campaign. >> my background is education. if i had strzok in front of me in a classroom. it's not extra energy. this guy's smirk is smugness and arrogance not just towards trump. but the american people. that's what he was bubbling over

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rosenstein? rosenstein: we have the assessments of the intelligence community and an indictment that was returned charging foreign nationals with interfering with the election. congressman: what is your opinion? >> the same as is. congressman:, so the intelligence community and the fbi have determined our country was attacked in order to influence our election. yet, that's not the purpose of this hearing. the purpose of this hearing is to undermine the fbi, to undermine mr. rosenstein, and to undermine our system of justice. if that attack has artie been established, why are we asking questions that undermine the very people that are at the head of the investigation? i will tell you why. because the majority doesn't want a conclusion to this investigation. number two. would part of the investigation be, mr. rosenstein, has anyone taken steps either during the campaign or since being sworn in to lie, obvious skate, -- off the skate, obstruct the uscate,ent -- obf abstract the investigation? mr. ro

the push to impeach rosenstein failed. freedom caucus members mark meadows and jim jordan were leading the charge and they claimed they had enough of rosenstein's stall tactics. here is congressman jordan on the ingraham angle. >> when is the lim

it's really the rosenstein investigation. you appointed mueller. you're supervising mueller. >> i don't know why you won't give us what we've asked for. >> sir, i certainly hope your colleagues are not under that impression. that is not accurate, sir. >> it is accurate. we have caught you hiding information. >> mr. chairman, can we allow the witness to answer? >> your statement that i'm personally keeping information from you, trying to conceal information -- >> you're the boss, mr. rosenstein. >> that's correct, and my job is to make sure that we respond to your concerns. we have, sir. >> so, guy lewis, in normal times, a career prosecutor at the justice department, a republican for all we know, would enjoy ample air cover from the white house. this appears to be whatever the opposite of that is. as a former fed yourself, how does this guy, who you know, hang on? >> ron, i got to tell you it was a tough week without question for rod. the hearings were brutal in the sense of you really did have a career republican former assistant u.s. attorney, fo

they've really been coming out rod rosenstein.esterday the republicans took on rod rosenstein over the mueller probe. watch this exchange. >> talk about the mueller investigation, it's really the rosenstein investigation. you appointed mueller. >> let me make this one point. we your statement that i'm keeping information from you trying to conceal information -- >> you're the boss. >> that's correct. my job is to make sure that we respond to your concerns. we have, sir. i've appointed mr. lousch and my understand is it's going well, sir. your use of this to attack me personally. >> this not a personal. >> may the witness be permitted to answer the question. >> it's not personal. >> some heated exchanges there. i want to get your reaction with the way republicans are going after rod rosenstein. a lifelong republican and a trump appointee. they're going after him for a reason. what do you think the reason they have targeted him in this manner that is a public berating of him? >> i'm glad you told me that was a congressional hearing

yet rod rosenstein is the key person sitting in that position. and if the speaker and kevin mccarthy want to say no, that's too extreme. then what's their game plan to actually allow congress to do its oversight duty. lou: rosenstein it seems is both an actor and potentially the target of any information. he signed one of the four fisa warrants. he is the man who selected robert mueller. he is the guy pulling the trigger on the special counsel and yet he is involved in so many aspects and elements of this case. this witch hunt. it's extraordinary. >> one part of the case to impeach rod rosenstein is thed yz that he would not comply with duly issued subpoenas. the second part is exactly what you're talking about. did they misuse a fisa warrant. did they mislead the court. and there's an investigation, not only by the inspector general but by congress. and it just begs the question, how is it that rod rosenstein, who signs his name on that document, gets to be in charge of that investigation? i mean -- lou: when we look at the conflicts surrounding

in other words, rosenstein just gave trump the basis for a reset. in fact, you have to wonder if it was planned this way. i don't believe in coincidence. are we really to assume that this indictment just happened to come on the last business day before trump meets with putin? no way. this was deliberately timed. at least by rosenstein to send putin a message right before the summit and in advance of the american midterm elections. whether president trump was part of that deliberation we may never know. surely when rosenstein briefed him earlier in the week trump could have at least requested the announcement be delayed until after the summit. but we will learn on monday whether president trump is finally prepared to stop the charade of crying witch hunt and use the tools that mueller and rosenstein just handed him, to be america's advocate. maybe he'll even demand the extradition of those just indicted for meddling in our election. one can hope. and that brings me to today's survey question at smerconish.com. will president trump confront vladimir p

he had already been briefed by rod rosenstein. going to take this in and arm himself with it to prepare for the putin meeting, it doesn't seem, so far, at least, that he has. >> no, that's right, andrea. look, if this is a witch hunt, it's a remarkably successful one. it seems like there are 12 more witches that we now know about. one of the key things that rod rosenstein said today is this investigation is ongoing. that was his word, not mine. that shouldn't surprise us. what we continue to see time after time is bob mueller and the fbi agents and prosecutors working with him, acting in an extraordinarily professional manner. quietly, diligently, and methodically uncovering facts and bringing cases when those facts dictate. another shoe has dropped today. there are more to drop, i can almost assure you. i don't believe that is rank speculation. this indictment itself makes reference to u.s. persons who were in contact with the russians. it doesn't name those persons. it doesn't say that the u.s. persons did anything wrong. but th

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the last one, rod rosenstein signed. if that's not enough to force the action, as gregg talked about, contempt or impeachment, tell me what it, tell me what is. we have been this patient -- we started this a year ago in july asking for documents. we started with the letters. >> laura: which documents in particular? >> all of them. they have a subpoena with nine different things. they are not in compliance with three elements of the subpoena issued by bob goodlatte. after we first asked for them in letters. >> laura: are there state department documents you wanted that you haven't gotten? >> we do now. >> laura: i had the sense that something was happening. >> in the last few hours, we found out about that. here's the thing. why do we have to dig so deep to find out information that should come free-flowing, if we are really interested in justice? >> laura: gregg, let's go back to may when rosenstein really got his back up. let's watch. >> any reaction to the news that certain members of the house freedom caucus have talk

the fate of deputy attorney general rod rosenstein rosenstein's is up in the air.n expect when congress comes back from recess. not going to do it now. could they do it to later? the power panel weighs in. ♪ ♪ ♪ keep it comin' love. if you keep on eating, we'll keep it comin'. all you can eat riblets and tenders at applebee's. now that's eatin' good in the neighborhood. ...to give you the protein you need with less of the sugar you don't. i'll take that. [cheers] 30 grams of protein and 1 gram of sugar. new ensure max protein. in two great flavors. >> hi, everyone, a head on "the daily briefing" keep an eye on the president after the second leg of the trade torah, and thus stop in illinois. mr. trump moving things out with the european union on tariff and looking at the impact that that is having on the iran policy and the poll numbers and some clear states that he won in 2016, do you have facebook stock? if so, it is tanking today, the fox business network explains why at the top of the hour. >> harris: the fox top story now, lawmakers backing off their ploy to im

. >> rosenstein has earned so much bipartisan support. >> mr.enstein, you have served in the department of justice for a couple decades now. you developed a distinguished career marked by integrity and fairness. >> rod rosenstein, who everybody across the board has unequivocally said this guy is a man of upstanding character and essentially the gold standard at the department of justice. >> he's a man of extraordinary independence and integrity and a reputation in both political parties of great character. rod rosenstein was confirmed by this body by a vote of 94 to 6. that's probably the only trump nomination so far since he's been president that has enjoyed such broad bipartisan support and because of his distinguished record. >> shepard: that video is an ad from bill crystal, the editor of the conservative weekly standard and others. it does not include any of the republicans supporting the republicans impeaching rosenstein. and i might undermine the musical underbed was not of our making. catherine herridge is live in the washington newsroom

the push to impeach rosenstein failed. freedom caucus members mark meadows and jim jordan were leading the charge and they claimed they had enough of rosenstein's stall tactics. here is congressman jordan on the ingraham angle. >> when is the last time you saw the fbi take a disproven document with no credibility and take it to the court and not tell the court the guy who wrote it had been leaking information to the press and the last one rosenstein signed. kennedy: there is no question rosenstein is stonewalling. this morning house speaker wall ryan said that well he wants the documents on the scandal. and impeaching rosenstein is not the answer. >> it's appropriate to conduct oversight on the executive branch. do i support impeachment of rod rosenstein? no, i do not. kennedy: mark meadows says he'll give the department of justice one last chance to produce these documents or else. joining me now, attorney and author of the case against impeaching trump, alan dershowitz is back on the show. >> this is one of the most of f

but they want to impeach rod rosenstein on documents. it's just -- it's a joke. >> you mentioned that the house speaker addressed this. listen to what paul ryan had to say about conservatives in his caucus. >> do i support impeachment of rod rosenstein? no, i do not. since i've been involved, i've been getting a lot of compliance from doj on the document requests. we do not have full compliance, and we have to get full compliance. but we've been making tremendous progress to that point. >> congressman jeffries, let's going back -- let's go back to the hearing where the deputy attorney general testified. this came up, he defended himself, defended his department vid video sis -- vociferously. how out-of-step was it with paul ryan and the rest of the republican party? >> he's trying to distract from the ongoing serious criminal investigation into the trump campaign and try and create this fantasy and fiction and fallacy that this legitimate investigation is a witch hunt. what perplexes me about that whole argument is that every single pers

rosenstein: good afternoon. today the grand jury and the district of columbia returned an indictment presented by the special counsel's office. it charges 12 russian military officers by name. for conspiring to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. 11 defendants are charged with conspiring to hack into computers, steal documents and release those documents with the intent to interfere in the election. one of those defendants and a 12th russian military officer are charged with conspiring to infiltrate computers of organizations involved in administering election, including state boards of election, secretaries of state and companies that supply software used to administer elections. according to the allegations in the indictment, the defendants worked for two units of the main intelligence directorate of the russian general staff known as the g.r.u. the units engaged in active cyber operations to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. there was one unit that engaged in active cyber operations by ste

because of rod rosenstein.er thing rod rosenstein is conflicted upon, he is the subject of an investigation into the fisa abuse. did the department of justice spy on the trump campaign? and there is a lot of smoke there. rod rosenstein signed one of the documents. so if you are overseeing an investigation, and you're the subject of an investigation, shouldn't you recuse yourself? jeff sessions recused himself of pretty much everything except going to talking to high school students yesterday. and so you have rod rosenstein, whose autograph is on the very document. how do you oversee an investigation where you're beneficiary of the results? trish: what do you think, give us insight into the upcoming book. what do you think his role in all of this is? do you think he is deliberately hiding it? >> i don't think they respect congress's ability to see the information. that is why they don't want to give it up. trish: because of republican-controlled house. >> jim jordan pointed this out several times. many of those

but some conservatives they see rosenstein as the adversary.s reportedly leading an effort to impeach rosenstein. accusing him of stonewalling in their probe of the fbi agents accused of bias against the president. but fellow republican gowdy said he's against the move. >> i have had my differences with rosenstein. i talked to him quite often privately which again is a lot more constructive than the public hearings we have. he's a trump appointee. so is jeff sessions and so is chris wray. if president trump is dissatisfied with rosenstein he can fire him with a tweet. but to impeach someone, i mean, no. >> can he fire him with a tweet? rick wilson, jill spence and rick, do you think rosenstein's indictment announcement is going to deter this group of republicans? >> in no way whatsoever. this is -- this is a prank by some house members that want to get a little pr out there and rattle the cage. it's not going forward. >> joyce, impeaching rosenstein is all about derailing the mueller investigation as we have talked about for months with this re

rosenstein, there is no probe. he dated did it personally, hed be ashamed of itself, he's getting precisely what he deserved. what's more important than that. you are watching the president of the united states who is astride the globe and he is being assisted ably by a secretary of state in full. we know longer have a namby-pamby foreign policy. we have a secretary of state who today performed beyond any expectation any americans could expect of a secretary of state. i was amazed at his performance. the president is really pleased especially because of the outrageous performance of the director of national intelligence dan coats in aspen when he kissed at the feet andrea mitchell and criticized the president of the united states. shame on dan coats. >> sean: i watched mike pompeo today and no apologies. finally strength and he laid out all the things that the president -- nbc reported that he is an agent of russia that he's doing to russia. the irony is that we cannot ignore, we've got to get this take on this fis

against rod rosenstein, deputy attorney general. filing the articles in what appears to be an obvious effort to sandbag the mueller investigation. the successful impeachment of a justice department official would be unprecedented. here to help me understand is jennifer rubin and angelo corazon. they threaten to file it as a privileged resolution. it is still somewhat shocking and remarkable that they have filed articles of impeachment against the deputy attorney general of the united states. >> we thought it was remarkable that jim jordan was losing it. but now they have gone the extra mile. the republicans have been saying you put the democrats in charge and they are going to be running impeachment charges. and the only ones talking about impeachment are in fact the republicans. there is something called the speech and debate clause which protects these gentlemen from liabilities criminal or otherwise. so they can't be sued or they can't be investigated for obstruction of justice, but make no mistake that is what they are doing, ob

we heard a lot more of rosenstein over the last few weeks. there was the memorable testimony on capitol hill hi. he fought back. what's your offensive seeing him as a principal now, listen to what he has to said about where this investigation is going. approached the investigation and his belief should continue here outside the political winds. >> i have known and worked with rod for a long time. he would be an outstanding lawyer and dedicated public serva servant. i don't know if today's press conference was in any way a reaction to yesterday's hearing in the house. the hearing as we saw was not one of the house's final moment. it was a purely political show hearing in my view. it was not gamed at over sight or gathering the facts, which after all the oig issued a report about. it is one thing for those committees to waste a lot of time trying to do a needless autopsy of the fbi clinton's investigation. it is quite another thing though. i think many observers noticed this yesterday. it is quite another thing for house committee to in some wa

rod rosenstein today.

and the last one, rod rosenstein signed.> sandra: alan dershowitz is a harvard law professor and author of "the case against impeaching trump," he joins us now. thank you for your time this morning. first off, can you tell us exactly what this means. republicans have been warning this would happen for quite some time. now, they are actually acting on it. what does that mean? >> it is the most shortsighted, and i have to say stupid thing i have heard in a long time. here we have a present to the democrats are trying to impeach. if they gained the house of representatives, they will almost certainly do so. and the big issue will be can you impeach a president and anyone else when you don't charge him with specific crimes, just because you disagree with what he has done. and now, you have the republicans making the case for the democrats who want to impeach the president by offering bills of impeachment and not charging crimes. i'm going to have to write a new book called "the case against impeaching rod rosenstein." the same a

rod rosenstein. rod rosenstein said they were able to hack into a number of different systems.elated to board elections. as was the company that handles election software. the deputy attorney general said that some information was taken out of this. obviously, emails. also information on 500,000 voters and then distributed among social media. some of this information was. the attorney general or the deputy attorney general when talking about the molar investigation responded like this. >> television or in congressional hearings. most anonymous leaks are not from the government officials who are actually conducting these investigations. we filed the rule of law. we follow procedures. we reserve judgment. >> we made it clear that this meddling had no impact on the outcome of the election. the president going to meet russian president vladimir putin on monday address the middling question earlier today. take a listen. >> will we be talking about meddling. i will absolutely bring that up. i don't think you have any g.i. did it. you got me. i don't think. but you never know what hap

a thorn in the side of rosenstein. didn't push it far enough in parliamentary terms to force a vote on impeachment for rod rosenstein. are they just sending a message at this point or did they mean it? >> 218 people to impeach him. that is never going to happen. i get text message from members of congress who maybe they don't want to be out there criticizing jim meadows but they are all defending this investigation and rod rosenstein. some are starting to say it more publicly in statements, as well. this is not a legitimate possibility, at least not in the way that they did it. the reality that this isn't quote/unquote privilege. they're not forcing leadership's hands. they took one step back away from this. but at the same time, they are sending a signal to the white house. that's what you saw in that democratic statement. essentially saying, look, don't view this, mr. president, as license to go ahead and do this and think it's going to be okay. >> is this a way, jeremy, for republicans against the mueller investigat

rosenstein: i'll let the president speak for himself. it's important for the president to know what information we've uncovered because he needs to make important decisions for the country. he needs to understand what evidence we have of foreign interference. thank you very much. >> the mueller investigation indicting 12 russian intelligence officers for hacking the democratic national committee, read the indictment at c-span.org. our schedule looks like this on our companion network c-span2 late they are afternoon, director of national intelligence dan koets joins a discussion on russian election interference, cyber security, schy in a and north crewa, hosted by the hudson institute live at 1:00 p.m. eastern on c-span2. and this morning, president trump and british prime minister theresa may held a news conference at the prime minister's country home. we'll show you the entire 50-minute news conference coming up tonight on c-span. >> c-span, where history unfolds daily. in 1979, c-span was created as a public service by america's cable

it is not about rod rosenstein.uld say the same thing about whoever was in that job who had taken the same actions. it's about power, nicolle, preserving power, extending it, and protecting this president. >> joyce, will you just give us some sort of rope to grab onto that we will be pulled out of this upside down, down is up, up is down, where republicans attack a republican appointee who -- if any one of the other 16 republicans had prevailed, rod rosenstein may have been appointed to the same job. i'm guessing the white house wouldn't green light attacks on him from other republicans in the white house. >> the good news is this impeachment document won't reach the floor of the house for a vote. there won't be a serious effort to remove rosenstein from his job to facilitate the white house in doing that. everyone needs to remember that not too far behind these efforts to attack rosenstein is an attack on bob mueller, an attack on the ongoing russia investigation. this is all part of kowtowing to trump and trying t

rod rosenstein never contacted her. >> sean: he is the same rod rosenstein that begged before the nunesemo, begged paul ryan don't release this up until the final hours. >> yes, the same. this is even more interesting because this week, this week, nancy pelosi, chuck schumer, mark warner, all sent a letter, sent a letter to dan coats asking not to reprimand him to release information to the house intelligence committee, their own committee. so they don't even want the information. >> sean: there is something there. just like rod rosenstein signing the fourth fisa warrant. they don't want to release especially 19 pages if my memory serves me well. >> absolutely. >> sean: go to gregg jarrett. get your reaction to this. obviously, and with so much other stuff happening here today. including the indictment of 19 people which devin nunes warned us about in 2014. this was under obama's watch. we still don't know who hacked into hillary's e-mail server and what methods and the sources were compromised there. >> you know it's not really the bombshell that the media seems to be proclaiming. and

rosenstein: i will let the president speak for himself. it was important for him to know because he estimates important decisions for the country and he needs to know the evidence we have of foreign interference in elections. thank you very much. generaleputy attorney rod general rod rosenstein announcing the and dykeman of 12 russian spies for the hacking in the 2016 -- announcing indictments of 12 russian spies for the hacking of -- in the 2016 election. 12 russian spies will be charged in connection. he said there were no actual vote counts affected by the incidence in the charges. he said no allegation that any american citizen this. -- knew of this. the president right now meeting at windsor castle in the u.k. with the queen of england along with the first lady. to the two days prior president landing in helsinki to meet one-on-one with the russian president vladimir putin. thank you for being with us. up whereou make now this investigation -- of where this investigation is going and what it means for the president ahead of his meetin

>> you need to listen carefully to what rosenstein said this morning.in this indictment there were no americans". they could not show any collusion with any americans. that doesn't mean that other indictments that may be forthcoming, that they will not be able to show american involvement. >> neil: involvement and collusion are two different things. the way this has been bifurcated to me and i just learned that word, so don't mind if i keep using it, that there's a sudden message that we know now the russians were involved in trying to screw up the election. the hard part to prove is that american entities were colluding with them. more to the point trump entities. those that have been indicted in the trump circle, it's been on other matters, not collusion. so what have we learned from that? >> first, the word "collusion." collusion is not a criminal offense. what is -- what happens here, neil, it is always the cover-up that becomes the predominant and more significant. while there is in the administration and the white house continue to say that there

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rod rosenstein, it wasn't the general impression here, that rod rosenstein was doing well but he did that hearing and being very clear what they were doing and what they weren't doing because they weren't able to. in terms of holding him in contempt that doesn't mean anything long-term. but he's saying throw down the gauntlet. if you want to come at me, that's fine. but jeff sessions' recusal is something that a lot of people felt was necessary considering what had gone on during the campaign -- >> one heck of a recusal. >> and it's up to president trump if he wants a new attorney general, that is available to him. the impression is that he's trying to tamper with this investigation. christopher wray is his guy. these are all trump appointees? >> can we give the president credit for restrain? >> it is amazing at this point. >> he knows the person that steps into that role could be worse. could be harder. >> ultimately it's up to him. we deserve -- kimberly strassel row about this in the "wall street journal." we deserve to know and find out if the fbi has been lying to the public abo