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Fbi is looking into kushner's role with the campaign. the report, which cited u.s. officials, also appeared to prompt an unusual statement from the justice department. deputy attorney general rod rosenstein denounced anonymous allegations and unnamed sources. he says in part, "americans should exercise caution before accepting as true any stories attributed to anonymous officials, particularly when they do not identify the country, let alone the branch or agency of the government with which the alleged sources supposedly are affiliated." >> that's remarkable, the country. >> especially in ligh...

Laelglaelg ed sources are affiliated." what was he responding to? >> well, a couple of things. what i'm told by people at the justice department is number one, this was his decision to do this. one official told me today, this is 100% rod. in other words, nobody put him up to this. he had -- we know, he's been bugged by a couple of things that he says are wrong from the day he came into office. there was a story that he threatened to resign over the way his handling of -- his role in the comey firing was reported by the white house. he says that's not true. there was a story that he had met wi...

With fire. that's his m.o. he's always done it that way. but what he's really doing is throwing gasoline on the fire. since he fired comey, it's spiraled out of control. i think there are a lot of people who would like to warn him, trying to warn him gently about possibly going too far as it pertains to rosenstein here. but so far in almost five months here, we haven't really seen any staffer be able to prevent donald trump from doing something when he decides he wants to do it. >> i think that's in line with what you were saying, rev. i want to ask all of you about rod rosenstein's statement....

There is precedent for that, political reasons, as margaret pointed out, for doing that. that may be a separate strategy. still don't understand why he's going after his own deputy attorney general. but let me read you a statement from the deputy attorney general last night that had us all scratching our heads before we were scratching our heads this morning by the statement from the president. rod rosenstein wrote last night, apparently without provocation, "americans should exercise caution before accepting as true any stories attributed to anonymous officials, particularly when they don't d...

Portion from back in january and what was said today. >> if it's true, it's obviously extremely serious. and if there is any evidence that any one affiliated with the trump campaign communicated with the russian government in the course of this campaign, what will you do? >> senator, franken, i'm not aware of any of those activities. i have been called a surrogate at the time or two in that campaign and i did not have communications with the russians. and i'm unable to comment on it. >> he was asked about that by vice chairman warner. >> this is what happened. senator franken asked me a rambli...