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Hostage taking. and that can embolden more threats and hostage taking. rod rosenstein, he may have been slow to learning that lesson about house republicans. this is the man, after all, who effectively got bullied into joining trump's cover story for comey's firing. you see his name there on that infamous letter about it. and then of course he fled from that mess by appointing mueller. but lately, and this is very important tonight, lately rod rosenstein says he's had enough. >> i can tell you the different people who have been making threats privately and publicly against me for quite some ti...

The officials are committed to holding further discussions on these matters and we look forward to continuing our dialogue next week to satisfy the committee's request." republicans are basically saying this whole thing is punted for maybe a week and they have of course been pressing for this for weeks and they are using the "i" word. they are threatening impeachment of d.o.j. officials. but let's be clear about something tonight. this fight has been going on since before there was even a special counsel probe. it's actually been going on since before president trump fired james comey, and it ...

To kick up dirt and kind of throw smears at this investigation. the people that write columns in the "wall street journal," then go on fox news, they're happy to just accuse the department of stonewalling. it's almost better for them. and to the point that mark warner made in that tweet that you showed, if the department never turns this stuff over, maybe it gives the president the pretext he's been looking for for some time to fire rod rosenstein and try shut down the investigation. >> expert analysis, chilling at times. matt miller, former spokesman for the d.o.j. thank you for your time ton...

Ari. one of the things at the department of justice, one of the rules is you don't talk about investigations, you don't share the product of investigations until it's finished and even when it's finished only if you're bringing charges because it doesn't give people an opportunity to defend themselves. if it named, for example, roger stone or donald trump jr., any of the other people in the trump orbit and it said what allegations the department is investigating that automatically puts those people under suspicion in a way that's not really fair to them because there's no way for them to clear...

Adam schiff, who viewers know from many of his discussions on this, was briefed about this at the d.o.j. do you have any information from that briefing? >> i don't, ari. and frankly, when it comes to ongoing investigations i think congress should stay out. and so you know, mr. schiff is in what's called the gang of eight, and let's keep it compartmentalized that way. of course we have an oversight rule, once the investigation is over. but we really should be playing a very limited role right now as a special counsel. does his job, follows the evidence, and tells the american people who was res...