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The united states to accept the statement of his deputy attorney general given his reputation and integrity and allow him to finish the job that the american people expect him to do. that's what i expect to happen. >> quickly, do you think rosenstein would raise his hand under oath and answer questions for congress? >> i have no doubt, chris, if he is subpoenaed to appear, he will do so, he will raise his hand and tell the truth, and that should be the end of it. >> mark tuohy. i don't know if they would subpoena him, they would probably ask him first, but what great insights. you couched it v...

So just before we started tonight we learned that house republicans are starting the process of subpoenaing the justice department for memos written by former fbi deputy attorney general andrew mccabe. why? they want the memos that were reportedly included about deputy attorney general rod rosenstein in that "new york times" story with the alleged comments about secretly taping the president and trying to invoke the 25th amendment. rosenstein emphatically denies those comments and he's going to make his case before the president at the white house thursday. yes, the same day as the kavanaugh h...

Presidents -- >> right. >> he's an honest broker, was doing the job that he was statutorily required to do, and that he honored that -- those statutory regulations in supervising another outstanding former federal prosecutor, bob mueller. so the relationship between the president and rod rosenstein, it appears that there was a working relationship. but rod rosenstein is committed to do his job to the best of his ability, and i believe he was doing it. >> how can the president -- how can they ever get past the fact that he made a decision to bring in a special counsel that the president hates? ...

I'll take silence as acceptance. can you hear me, mark? >> i can hear you. >> good. so what do you think is true? do you think rosenstein offered his resignation? do you think he was just talking about it because he heard that they were going to fire him? you know, help us. we have heard everything. now we hear that, you know, that there's an anticipation that he might resign or maybe there isn't. what do you know? >> my sense, chris, is that rod went over to see the chief of staff to the president after newspaper reports of comments by the president about the department of justice and he want...

>> because these are my friends. i lived in washington, d.c. forever. so i knew that mark tuohy was a very prominent democrat. it's just who he was. we were pals. so in those days, we actually had friends in the other party. >> how quaint! >> yeah. it was a different time. >> but robert mueller is a republican, a well-known lifelong republican. >> absolutely, yeah. >> so are you saying if he has democrats on his staff, that they can't do the job? >> no, winot at all! that's an over-broad interpretation. when you look at some of the things, as i understand, this is in the public domain, going t...