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The chopping block. >> well, i'm saying it on behalf of the white house. and that's that, you know, no changes are going to be made at the department of justice. we fully expect rosenstein to continue on as the deputy attorney general. >> now, all of this is happening as there is an ongoing campaign among some conservatives and grassroots groups to push rosenstein to resign or for trump to fire him. we also note according to sources we've spoken to at cnn this past week that the president has been increasingly angry at rose steen, seeing him as someone who enables a probe that he has repeat le...

Special counsel. >> just a good lawyer that they knew of? >> a lawyer they knew of. ken starr, flrp a whole bunch of them during the reagan and bush administration and the clinton administration. that statue expired in 1999. lt at the end of the day there were a lot of people dissatisfied with the way the statue operated. congress never reenact another stauchlt instead, the justice department itself promulgated regulations that provide that the attorney general or if the attorney general is recused as he is in this particular instan instance. >> right. >> -- the deputy attorney general can him...

Competent. i'm a big fan of the finn. >> how is the white house going to answer this question tomorrow? the questions about his campaign and russia and the answer you saw. the quote from the president is this "in fact, when i decided to just do it, i said to myself, i said, i know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a made-up story" and a reminder tonight of the lengths the administration went to to push a false narrative that a deputy attorney general citing clinton's e-mails recommended to the e-mails that comey had to go and so the president acted upon its. >> i think the president ...

He is in this particular instance. >> right. >> -- the deputy attorney general can himself appoint a special counsel, as it's called in the regulations. under that rubric, the deputy attorney general himself in this case would pick a special counsel from outside the government, somebody who the regulations prescribe has to be someone of great integrity and experience and the like. in this case deputy attorney general rosenstein would give the jurisdictional statement to that person and say here's what i'm asking you to investigate. these people or these things. and that's how it would work. >>...