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Director chris wray. not that they need any more tests, but christopher wray has said he has steel in his spine. i believe in an interview with lester holt. and the deputy attorney general has talked about not being extorted under fierce questioning from some of the president's most fringey allies, if you will, on the house intel committee. how important is this test for mr. rosenstein and mr. wray? >> it's important to them for two reasons. one, just for the -- to protect the information that's contained in this fisa application to make sure it doesn't expose ongoing investigations, expose an...

President trump has not olbermann the time honored norm that's been in place at least since watergate that there should be a real division between the department of justice and the white house. todd: former obama officials on the defense of a orchestrated spy troink hurt president trump's campaign. next guest warns sally yates has a lot to be worried about. hire to explain it tom fitton. thank you for coming in on memorial day. >> good morning, god bless america. >> i didn't, indeed ar sawlt on the rule of law what do you make of this. >> a bit rich given the fact that she was fired as acting ...

Officers took very seriously. so there are questions about what was the motivation of mr. trump in granting this pardon. i don't think he had a particular relationship with scooter libby. was it designed to send a signal that he's prepared to use his pardon authority for whatever purposes he wants? that may be the case. it's something that certainly was not welcomed, i'm sure, by the intelligence community. >> director brennan, rod rosenstein, acting a.g. on all matters russia related, is being quoted. it's the reporting of nbc news that he has told intimates he is mentally prepared at least t...

>> basis for special counsel? >> i don't know whether or not there is a basis today for special down counsel. i worry about typically it's a role of congress, a role the inspector general at the department of justice to look at this kind of stuff. i have confidence in the inspector general. >> they put out the texts. >> exactly. i worry about investigating my congress because it appears things have gotten so political with anything with respect to these investigations. i worry about that. the american people deserve to know all the truth here. >> right. but what happens when mueller has to del...

Comey. what kind of position does that put rod rosenstein in because it sounds like he's still the acting a.g. or person in charge of the investigation or potentially a witness. >> he's a fact witness if this investigation is centering on why james comey was fired. so rosenstein will have to recuse himself at some point. we also have to note that james comey in this matter is no choir boy. he talks too much. that's a bad trait in a law enforcement agent. so he should never have told james comey that -- james comey should never have told donald trump that he wasn't a subject of the investigatio...