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All thought the time frame, he continued to inject his own editorial comments, and we had very serious questions. my point behind the confirmation is that this selection of the chief of staff was extraordinary and had never been done before in the history of the united states, to provide a chief of staff to jump over the normal vacancy route, which started with the deputy attorney general, associate attorney general, the position that rod rossenstein had, and others who had had confirmation, and...

Away. a for a few hours it seemed like rosenstein who oversees the russia investigation may be fired, but then wasnt. tomorrow rod rossenstein was supposed to be heading back to the white house again, this time while the president was there. but this time at a rambling press conference today the president said maybe that wont happen either, maybe no meeting with rosenstein tomorrow, or at all. let me keep you pinned to your seats for another few hours so you all stop reporting new things about b...

Of department deputy attorney rosenstein. he thought that his testimony last week was weak. and hes also -- hes referred to him as a democrat which is odd because rod rossenstein is actually a republican. but he has said they dont have to fear for their jobs. so its hard to know whats going on there. >> i will say -- ive been sort of fascinated from the very beginning about the team the president has put together to mount his legal defense. the initial hiring of marc kasowitz and then kasowitz s...

Confirmation whether they will appear. joining us now, chief legal correspondent, ari melber and matt miller who served as justice department spokesperson under eric holder and now security alyst and michael mcfaul who served during the obama administration. im going to let matt go first because hes a psychic. he predicted that jim comey would have memos. last week he wrote for politico magazine that he predicted president trump may seek revenge on the department of justice and alas here we are....

Yesterday, proud to be here today and pro to work here tomorrow. >> credit to both of them for answering questions. theyve got to be disappointed that today should have been a big day, a win for them like last week, that massive bust around the opioid epidemic over 100 arrests, but matt, you see the two gentleman standing there smiling ear to ear loving this job after the president basically lit them up. >> i think the response from the attorney general and deputy attorney general was absolutely...

Fire the fbi director because you have white house officials who say, look, were going along with that the dag said. >> so, obviously, the vice president is the first big senior administration official to get out in front of the camera and really start trying to explain some of this beyond of the justification in the letters that were released yesterday which is important except he sort of hung it, as you were saying so much on ag sessions and deputy ag rosenstein that it begs the question when ...