rosenstein as deputy attorney general was vested with the responsibility by statute to select a special counsel. >> you think he had to do it? >> yes, i? >> even though people will criticize him and say there was no apparent crime to be investigated. i did the legal research, i don't see it as a legal premise but a lot of better legal minds than mine are making the case. what do you say? >> i say that the purpose of the special counsel statute, not unlike the former statute i was involved with, is to investigate whether allegations of wrong doing. the allegations of wrong doing were -- involved potentially a number of people and it may have included the president at the beginning, it may not have. but the point is he has to do the job that the statute and the law requires and that's what he was doing. the fact that somebody doesn't like it is not relevant. >> do you think -- so what we're seeing right now is an indication that rosenstein doesn't want to resign, because if he wanted to he would.