investigation. he s the boss of bob mueller who is the special counsel who he apointsed but he s not leading it. bob mueller is leading its. rosenstein is knots involved in any way others than he s ultimately bob mueller s boss. rosenstein put out an interesting statement as well. it had to do with anonymous sources. saying don tside anonymous stories. was it surprising for you to hear this from rosenstein? what do you think this is about? yes, in a word it is surprising. it came out at an odd time, on a wen nights that rosenstein weren t responding to any one thing. that had been 30 hour beforehand. what it is about, i believe, without knowing let me say this as afternoon educated
as well. so he s correct that if there s going to be progress in this area it probably would be in the area of claim of abuse of power. this was supposed to look at the possible collusion. is it mueller s face to widen the cope of this and look for obstruction of justice or other high crimes? well, it s part of his mandate. the rosenstein mandate said look at the counterintelligence, look at the collusion stuff, look at whether or not there s been any efforts to obstruct justice. it s right in the order that covers the cfr vrs that covers his behavior. he s expandsed liz investigation. it s been reported a as an expansion. it s become viable because of the actions of the president when if he had just sat still and let the collusion counterintelligence investigation run its course there probably wouldn t be this
this investigation, that s when the president s going to finds himself in reeling danger, i think. sorry. we got to leave it there, michael. you re coming back to join us on another segment. we ll get more of your take on all that. le. remind me what i was going to say. all right. we ll try to remind you where we left off. thanks, gentleman. breaking news we need to bring to everybody overseas. american militaries members are missing after a bizarre and still mysterious incident at sea. this is the uss fitzgerald, damaged, her hull rimmed over. japan-based destroyer collided with a massive ship in waters off japan. the captain and sail oarsors, other were hurt. seven crew members of this crew are still unaccounted for as rescue crews are desperately searching right now.
and a sr. administration official told me they re not aware of any plans to meet with lawyers but that leaves the door wide open to him possibly doing so. you mentioned him hiring on yet another high-fourd attorney. we re talking about jong dowd, a d.c.-based lawyer. he led the investigation into gambling charges against pete rose who was also a manager. he also represented senator john mccain back in 1990 corruption scandal. they were cleared of any wrongdoing. another big name added to his team which shows you ho serious this is. you saw that other list of folks associated with the president lawyering up as well. thank you. mean time sources say deputy attorney general rob rose stienl is considering recusing himself from the russia investigation to become a witness instead.
playing zero. i think he s frustrated by the fact that there is a special counsel at all, period. he did not think that it warranted it. he was rosenstein appointed. and rosenstein appointed him. that s not the person who would normally do that recused himself because he had conversations that he didn t disclose. this fell to rob rosenstein. it s not as though he seized it. but donald trump tends to look somebody to play who is not him or his meet family. it s sometimes steve bannon, wrients priebus, any one of a number of people, jim comey. in this situation it feels like it s don rosenstein. you said i had to get rid of comey and now i have to deal with this investigation. he s not leading this