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Matt is a reporter for "the washington post." and matt, based on the president's comments today, what would you say happened? is this the doj rolling over? is it rosenstein and wray rolling over or is this them just trying to, i don't know, is it a semantics argument about whether they are a -- allowing the president to get his way? >> this is a strategic maneuver on the part of the justice department. so as i read that statement, it sounds like they agreed to reveal some information to lawmakers, but it didn't explicitly say that it would turn over documents. they in the past have said they w...

Justice department alum of the justice development if he were to do something like that and some would reveal it as an obstructive act, that he would reveal something that the investigators don't want revealed. so certainly he has a lot of power in this respect. but he himself, much like rod rosenstein does seem to be walking a line here and pushing the justice department, but only pushing them so much. >> i do want to ask you about that, because everybody says that rosenstein is between a rock and a hard place, yes, but if you look at all the public opinion polls out there, about the mueller ...

Rosenstein had already agreed to expand an inspector general investigation to find out whether trump's campaign was infiltrated or surveilled for political purposes, a point for president trump. but the house republicans have made a new request, they want to look into conduct at the justice department. so what could be called concessions by rosenstein, the attacks by the gop are not stopping. just yesterday attempts by the attorney general said the doj will not be extorted. >> there have been people who have been making threats privately and publicly against me for quite some time and i think ...

President trump is putting the pressure on his fbi and justice department. >> a lot of people are saying they had spies in my campaign. if they had spies in my campaign, that would be a disgrace to this country. that would be one of the biggest insults that anyone's ever seen and it would be very illegal, aside from everything else. it would probably make any political event ever look like small potatoes. >> rosenstein is already walking a fine line as he attempts to protect the independence of the doj while appeasing the president and his party who are demanding information about an fbi infor...

Name? is it -- is it rosenstein or rosenstein? >> so there's no right answer to that question. my family, my father pronounces it stein, but i have relatives that pronounce it steen. >> glad we got that owl of the way. rosenstein we'll go with also told a story about a question his daughter asked when his family found out he was becoming deputy attorney general. >> my younger daughter was 14 at the time when she heard i was going to become deputy. she asked me a very important question. she said, dad, does this mean you'll get your picture in the paper? and i said, no. so, it was quite unexpec...