national security officials go into the house hearing. they will testify on worldwide threats to the u.s. you think about this war in the middle east and the tentacles the stretch back to iran. critical meeting coming up here. secretary mayorkas will be there talking about the border and chris coffer wray. the war is on in what could be the final battle in gaza. israeli defense forces storage the hospital in gaza city looking for hamas terrorists. looking for hostages. as of this hour, it s not clear how many they found or located of either. so it s a big news day today. back together in new york yet again. i m bill hemmer, good morning. dana: good morning, i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. one thing about the hospital piece for yesterday the administration said yes, our evidence shows that hamas is hiding in the hospital. i don t know how long they knew that. but for weeks like in the last three weeks there have been media confusion on whether they were t
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concerns in terms of what s going on with mr. rosenstein right now. after yesterday s media confusion as to whether or not he may have quit or been in the process of being fired, do you have any further clarity as to his fate and what s going on between him and the house? i don t. i think we need to see this is part of a long effort by the president and his allies in congress and his allies on fox to push rosenstein out of the way so that they can put someone in there who someone the president gets to do his bidding. th that s a shrewd way to kneecap, and you are right to point out concerns of attorney general, matt whitaker, that he wrote an op-ed suggesting that would
in the middle of that media confusion yesterday, a justice department spokeswoman actually drafted a statement for attorney general jeff sessions to issue in the event that rod rosenstein was actually dismissed. that draft was never formally sent, but it was drafted, and the contents of the draft were leaked to both axios and the new york times, and in part that leaked draft confirmed what we already suspected, that if rod rosenstein was out, that he was resigning or he was being forced to resign or he was fired, the current solicitor general, noel francisco would step in and take over as the top justice department official in charge of the russia investigation. in other words, that s the person who robert mueller would now have to report to and who he add have to get permission from for important steps in his investigation, things like new indictments, new grand juries. but that draft statement also told us something new. it said rod rosenstein s
concern. susan collins, republican senator also expressing concern. we ve had other sort of scattered expressions of concern in terms of what s going on with mr. rosenstein right now. after yesterday s sort of media confusion as to whether or not he might have quit or been in the process of being fired, do you have any further clarity as to his fate and what s going on right now between him and the white house? i really don t, but i think we need to see this is part of a long effort by the president and his allies in congress and his allies on fox to push rod rosenstein out of the way so they can put someone in there who is pliable, someone that the president can get to do his bidding, his own roy cohn, as the president would say. that of course is a much more shrewd way to kneecap the mueller investigation than overtly firing bob mueller. you re right to point out concerns about the deputy attorney general matt whitaker.