we welcome our distinguished witness. if you would please rise i ll begin by swearing you in. do you solemnly swear the testimony you are about to give shall be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help you god. let the record show the witness answered in the affirmative. mr. rod rosenstein was sworn in as the 37th deputy attorney general by attorney general jeff sessions. mr. rosenstein has had a distinguished career in public service. he began his legal career in the public integrity section of the department of justice s criminal division and later served as counsel to the deputy attorney general and principal deputy attorney general for the tax division. until his apointment by president trump he served as the united states attorney for the district of maryland and holds a bachelors degree in economics and a jd from harvard
apointment of senator strange, he is now the junior setor from alabama. he also set the special election to fill the seat permanently. and he set that special election not for this year but for 2018. so he not only appointed luther strange to that senate seat. he gave luther strange two years to sit in that senate seat before alabama voters could even decide whether or not they liked the raemts. which means alabama was kind of stuck with this unelected senator installed by their disgraced former governor. until today. today that changed. today the new governor of alabama, former lieutenant governor kay ivey who moved up into the governorship when bentley had to resign, today kay ivey said, no. we re not going to have a special election for this senate seat in 2018. we re going to move that up and have it this year instead. the primary happens in august. the election will be in december, which is, frankly, great news for a small d
strange says he did nothing wrong in accepting the seat or lobbying for it. but here s the thing. no matter how much outrage or weirdness attended the apointment of senator strange, he is now the junior senator from alabama. he also set the special election to fill the seat permanently. and he set that special election not for this year but for 2018. so he not only appointed luther strange to that senate seat. he gave luther strange two years to sit in that senate seat
the place. former alabama governor got just six and a half for soliciting contributions in exchange for a political apointment. john roll land got one in prison. prosecutors wanted three. what does it mean for bob mcdonnell? kendall kendall kofi. the defense wants three years of community service and no jail time. the prosecution wants up to 12 years. will there be something in the middle? somewhere in the middle but mostly on the prosecution s side. there is no way i think he s going to get community service or the kind of nonjail alternatives he s asking for. as you described it the range, most of the time is a number of years in federal prison. the guidelines range according to the calculations seem to be 10 to 12 years. if this defendant gets five years anything that range it s a home run for the defense.
morning in cairo. what is the head of the atom irk agency, the nobel peace prize winner, is he going to be the prime minister or is he not going to be the prime minister? he is a liberal secularist and the promo ham ed mor pro moha people hate him we thought we were minutes away from being the prime minister. the ultraconservative islamist party objected to his apointment. so that announcement was suddenly canceled. there have been a variety of names that have been bant y aroe extent that it exists is very difficult to form. it seems that the real game deal