kara skinnel for connecting the dots. we are learning from a source that deputy attorney general rod rosenstein who appointed robert mueller and his office still manages the russia investigation on a daily basis planning to resign. jessica schneider is here with us on this. do we know anything about the timing of this or what this is going to mean for the special counsel s investigation? brian a it could mean a lot, but the timing here is not set in stone. rosenstein will likely step down in the next month or so and is planning to leave the justice department when the president s pick for attorney general william barr is likely confirmed and with the confirmation schedule that would be by mid-february at the earliest. rosenstein has long seen this coming. he s signalled that he would leave his post and mueller s investigation was complete or close to complete so that really the probe was protected. of course, rosenstein has overseen this russia investigation. he appointed robert mu
litigation in this case is the firm of austin and berg and in particular, two lawyers and we have a picture of a couple of them, ted kang and brian boone are the two lawyers that are involved some of the behind the scenes litigation in a fed cal court here in washington. at one point they sealed off the entire fifth floor of the courthouse in order to be able to allow so that those guys can come through and the clients can come into the courthouse so they can keep them away from the prying eyes. back in september there was another hearing that they didn t expect us to be at and i sat outside the door and i chased them down the block trying to get comments from them and they declined to comment at the time. what we know about them is that this is a firm that has represented russians before. they in particular hadleg deripaska. we ve been hearing his name a lot. who worked with paul manafort