Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20171121:02:29:00
He is as you pointed out under law part of the department. this is like a demanding documents. it's a reason we had independent counsel law to put the independent counsel formally in the judicial branch. now that that's gone away we're left with this unusual circumstance and an interesting story. >> this would be unusual and would have that almost backwards dynamic you're describing if the deputy attorney general was not himself directly personally a player in the obstruction of justice matter that is being investigated here. rod rosenstein of course played a key role in the public explanation...