Whether Rosenstein News Today

Hallie? >> kelly ododgedonnell, thank . ken, were hearing from the department of justice pushing back on pieces of mccabes book. there was like a counting of the noses happening, right, as it related to potentially removing president trump from office. >> yeah, this is a very complicated situation, hallie. you have andrew mccabe, a compelling, articulate witness, but also a tainted witness. because he has found to have lied or had lack of candor by an independent inspector general report and rod...

Asks everyone to do every day, comment on an ongoing investigation into russian collusion? >> it was wrong when trump asked and wrong with comey did it. there was a legitimate reason to be concerned. but at the same time rosenstein knew he was being played by the president of the united states. but thats obstruction of justice. muellers got that information. there was always a question of whether rosenstein needed to recuse himself since at this point he was going to be a fact witness, that time...

Already have ten democrats who have decided they are not going to vote for judge kavanaugh. i think at this point the jury is out on how this is going. they clearly think that she has been a credible witness for the judiciary committee and now lets see after she finishes up what brett kavanaugh has to say when they come back on the other side. >> bret: theres another event that did not happen today that was going to be big news today and that is the president meeting with rod rosenstein, the pre...

>> he could get ice cream. all those things could happen. john avalon joins us now with some of the distinctions there. >> thats right. the unlikely gold star scenario aside, rumors rocketed yesterday that rod rosenstein was on the chopping block. this was high octane speculation because as rod rosenstein goes, so does the russia investigation. >> youre fired! >> heres the thing, president trump doesnt reportedly like to fire anyone directly. with trump away at the united nations, it appears the...

Somewhere within the justice department or the fbi or somewhere that is -- actually has access to this material and -- and i think its reasonable to hypothesize -- i dont know for sure, i dont know where it came from -- that it is an effort to make mccabes conduct look heroic and make rod look less than heroic in this particular period of time in a fashion that makes him less easy to target for possible prosecution. >> yeah, so many threads to follow there. asawan, do we have a sense of whether ...

Andrew mccabe who briefly led the fbi after comey was fired. sources say the memos are in muellers team hands. rosenstein has issued two statements of denial. last night he insisted i never pursued or authorized recording the president and any suggestion that i have ever advocated for the removal of the president is absolutely false. laura jarrett is working if story for us. theres chatter about whether rosenstein was allegedly joking when he made the comments. was this sarcasm? >> depends on wh...

>> if he decides to do it he needs to do it as part of a transaction otherwise there would be not much point in doing it. he wants relief from criminal exposure of himself and his children and he would have to negotiate that with mueller and i dont think even mueller has the power to do it. its a question of whether rosenstein or sessions might be involved because there are non-russia criminal allegations here so its a very complicated matter. hes right about one thing, i dont agree with a lot o...

More about it, joe? >> reporter: are you going to starbucks? >> both from laura jared of cnn as well as "the new york times" and it is about a memo that was written by the former acting fbi director and andrew mccabe relating to his impressions of a meeting he had in turn with the deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein, and some information apparently in this memo about whether rosenstein had, in fact, provided cover, if you will, for the president when he fired the fbi director james comey. it...

Signals that the republican establishment, the leaders of the house, the committee chairman, theyre taking a different tone, a different message when it comes to the mueller probe in the justice department. you see it even with devin nunes, the ally house committee chairman. he and gowdy are working more closely. its mark meadows, north carolina congressman. the allies of president trump in congress, theyre pushing for rosenstein to perhaps be impeached. theyre railing against the mueller invest...

Smart things to do when youre on the downside of a fight and the other side had more firepower than you is create a similar situation on your side, make it look like an equal story. so if youre going impeachment against rosenstein at the same time democrats are talking impeachment of president trump, it somehow clouds the whole public record. what that what were watching here, a brilliant sort of army of retreat fighting a war of retreat? >> there are certainly different armies within this repub...