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On that report. >> laura jarrett, thanks very much. rosenstein's departure could be voluntary and from all indications it is but he and the president have had their public differences. he's been the target of criticism from this president for his handling of the probe. jessica schneider joins us now. what are you hearing as this news breaks. >> rosenstein oversaw the rush probe. it was days after the president fired fbi director james comey and that was then and in may 2017 the president's torrent of tweets began slamming the russia probe. it's fair to say that rosenstein was never deterred. h...

Be fired because he oversees special counsel robert mueller. i was hosting "fox & friends" and i interviewed ian prior, he useded to work with rosenstein t the justice department. he believes rosenstein was so stoned by mccabe's antitrust behavior at that may 2017 meeting that rosenstein sarcastically said, oh, sure, i'll wear a wire and then after the meeting, he appointed mueller because rosenstein said he knew he had to keep the rush probe far from mccabe. basically, bringing in mueller who might be seen as more fair is a former fbi director, was important because rosenstein was so alarmed ...

Fox news of the republic and chairman of house intelligence committee devin nunes along with congress been trey gowdy and committee staffers went to the justice department late today and met with deputy attorney general ron rosenstein and viewed a copy of the two-page fbi memo that kick started the rush probe. not a clean copy, as lawmakers demand, government source told fox the reductions were minimal and justified. based on reporting, the memo from july 2,016th was drafted by or with significant input from fbi agent peter strzok who was removed from the special counsel russia probe after the...

Moving forward. >> another curious part of this, saying that the u.s. has never spoken with kim jong-un. >> indeed and there has been some reporting from our own jim sciutto that there's no indication he has. i think that it is fair to assume the national security leadership is most likely advising mr. trump to be very careful on this point. because kim may come back out in public and have something to say about it and we don't blank he would say. >> thank you. new reporting about what steve bannon did say and did not say while testifying to the house intelligence committee about the rush pr...

Four days before comey was fired an aide of sessions? >> yes. looking for dirt. quote/unquote. went to capitol hill looking for information about james comey. >> do we know at whose behest the person did that? >> no. it is not clear if he knew that it was from the department of justice. >> to be clear, you talked about going to jeff sessions, not to recuse himself. he was doing that at the order of president trump. >> correct. the president he wanted to be personally protected by the attorney general with regard to the rush probe. this is about what the president demanded and what he wanted of...