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And rosenstein would remain in office for now, but if rosenstein is out, who would then take on rosensteins current job of supervising the Mueller Probe . We have nbcs Pete Williams, our justice correspondent, nbc News White House correspondent Kristen Welker, Washington Post White House Bureau chief, phil rucker. And adam schiff on the house intelligence committee. Thanks to all of you. First of all, Pete Williams, if you can pick it up where i have left off of all of your great reporting today. We know there are different signals coming on what is going to happen to Rod Rosenstein. Exactly, andreandrea, two contradictory stories about whats happening here. There was one and possibly two meetings in may of last year, Rod Rosenstein suggested that people wear a wire when pemeeti with the president to talk about who the new fbi director should be, and perhaps invoking the 25th amendment to declare the president unfit for office. After that story came out, the Justice Department pushed b
Im natalie allen. And im george howell. Newsroom starts right now. We are following two stories in u. S. Politics right now. One of thof them Deputy Attorne general of the United States Rod Rosenstein reportedly discussing secretly taping President Trump and questioning his fitness for office. It is a big story. A lot of people talking about that for sure. The our story were following involves the president s nominee for the u. S. Supreme court. And the woman accusing him of Sexual Assault, this when they were teenagers. Christine blasey ford now has a little more time to decide if she will appear before a Senate Committee after Chuck Grassley extended the deadline. Republicans had given her until 10 00 p. M. Friday washington time saying if she did not let them know by then whether she would testify on wednesday, they would vote on monday to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the high court. Fords attorney fired off a letter friday night calling that deadline arbitrary and asking for another
last tv interview that the attorney general did i was still his top communications aide at the time it was with nbc news, it was with lester holt and lester pressed him on th january 6th investigation. and he told lester holt with a clarity and conviction that have rarely heard him say he said leicester everyone anyone criminally responsible for the events surrounding january 6th will be held accountable merrick garland is a man of fe words, but he says what he means and he means what he says that is a view from insid the doj, i want you to take listen to how carole running put it the attorney general merric garland and the deputy attorne general lisa monaco embraced the strategy of, look, let s d a lock him up case let s build up from the riot figure out if there is somebod higher and higher an