god forbid confrontation with the likes of russia or china, a serious one, the president and the country are going to need the intelligence community and relying exclusively on his gut poses a real threat to this country and to his presidency. his gut and whatever vladimir putin is whispering to him. exactly. director clapper, good to talk to you. thank you. just got this in from an official at the justice department. deputy attorney general rod rosenstein is expected to leave the justice department in mid march. the official disputed that the timing of his departure has anything to do with the latest revelations from andrew mccabe. emphasizing that the plan is always that he would help for the transition for his successor and then leave. the new deputy attorney general could be announced as early as this week. joining us right now is the republican strategy and democratic strategist and former ci chief of russia investigations. so the white house says andrew mccabe has no cred
russia or china, a serious one, the president and the country are going to need the intelligence community and relying exclusively on his gut poses a real threat to this country and to his presidency. his gut and whatever vladimir putin is whispering to him. exactly. director clapper, good to talk to you. thank you. just got this in from an official at the justice department. deputy attorney general rod rosenstein is expected to leave the justice department in mid march. the timing of his departure has anything to do with the latest revelations from andrew mccabe. emphasizing that the plan is always that he would help for the transition for his successor and then leave. the new deputy attorney general could be announced as early as this week. joining us right now is the republican strategy and democratic strategist and former ci chief of russia investigations. so the white house says andrew mccabe has no credibility. it s not like he s alleging
the justice department in mid march. we ll talk about that next. t-mobile will do the math for you. join t-mobile and get two phones plus two unlimited plans for just one hundred bucks a month.
cnn has learned deputy attorney general rod rosenstein is set to leave the justice department mid march. we previously reported that rosenstein planned to step down after the senate confirmed bill barr as attorney general. a justice official confirmed this more precise timing but said it has nothing to do with the latest revelation andrew mccabe. the former acting fbi director claiming that rosenstein suggested wearing a wire to secretly record president trump and then talked about a strategy to oust the president using the 25th amendment. yesterday the president made his feelings known about rosenstein and mccabe, writing that they were, quote, planning a very illegal act and what he called an inn he will legal and treasonist insurance policy. lindsey graham says his panel will investigate mccabe s comments related to the 25th amendment. roger stone who says never apologize formally apologizing to the judge overseeing his criminal case. a photo posted and then deleted from stone s
[ inaudible ] a to bring the chairman back and unfair to have her hear me and hear herself. i apologize on behalf of the technical grproblems. we ll have her back as soon as we can get this sorted. i will tell you while i was waiting for her to try to get her audio fixed, cnn and reuters reported deputy attorney general rod rosenstein is going to leave the justice department in mid march. i have that news that has broken since we ve been trying to sort this out. nbc has not confirmed this reporting but deputy attorney general rod rosenstein had been expected to leave the department when the new attorney general william barr was sworn in and cnn and reuters saying that is scheduled for mid march. we ll be right back. stay with us. we ll be right back. stay with us what do you do for ? -not this.