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Rosenstein has moorefed from a barney fife figure to a joe friday. just the facts. you don't like what i'm doing, i really don't give-a-damn. i'm going to keep my head down, we're going to keep doing the job and i'm not going to be intimidated by this president, by hacks in congress or by anybody else. its been, it has been quite a transformation. >> well, yeah, you also have to realize that this job and the role that he is in requires so much politics, it requires politics in dealing with congress and basically playing defense was a pretty big portion with the republican congress to get the p...

He was ready to resign and convinced, wrongly, it turned out, that president trump was about to fire him. top justice department aides scrambled to draft a statement about who would succeed him. by the afternoon, mr. rosenstein was back at his pennsylvania avenue office seven blocks away, still employed as the second in command at the justice department, and for the time being, at least, still in charge of the russia investigation. if you need a reminder about just how vital rosenstein's role is in the russia investigation, take a look at how trump's lawyer, jay sekulow, planneded to mark rose...

We can do the executive branch oversight. it's the inspector general who just told us a couple of days ago they all of a sudden found 5,000 text messages that were lost. so it would be nice if all of this information congress requested would have been delivered when we asked for this stuff last august. so we have not been getting the information until recently, that's why this is taking so long. >> last question. >> reporter: there's been some reporting that the president wants to fire mark rosenstein. do you think that would be a wise decision? >> i think rod rosenstein is doing a fine job. i...