but he keeps his own counsel, even with his friends. with rod, you scratch the surface, and you get more surface. he was confirmed 94-6 for his current job in april 2017. but the shine wore off quickly after the mueller appointment. and then trump became further enraged with rosenstein after the michael cohen raid. so i just heard that they broke into the office of one of my personal attorneys, good man. and it s a disgraceful situation. and an increasingly tenuous one for rosenstein. are you afraid of president trump firing you? no, i am not, congressman. but rosenstein s job always seemed in jeopardy, especially in september, when he denied reports that he had seriously suggested wearing a wire to record conversations with an out of control president, should he need to be removed from office. yes. are you planning to fire rod
rosenstein? i m talking to him. we ve had a good talk. he said he never said it. he said he doesn t believe it. he said he has a lot of respect for me. and he was very nice and we ll see. rosenstein survived, hanging on once again. rod is he s like shockingly fatalistic. now leaving, possibly as the special counsel finishes up on his own terms. i m headed straight back to washington. but you let the president know that his favorite deputy attorney general was here. [ laughter ] and will be gone as soon as a new attorney general is confirmed, probably around mid february. gloria borger, cnn, washington. a new report revealing president trump tried to conceal details of his face-to-face meetings with russian president, vladimir putin. details on the potential risks this brings to u.s. national security when we come back. you are live in the cnn newsroom. (whispers) with the capital one venture card. you ll earn unlimited double miles on every purchase,
on anybody else. so from my perspective, senator, that memo is about what it s about. i do not know what was in anybody else s mind. but in comey world, rosenstein is seen as a trump collaborator, not an independent actor. so what s the motive? i think the movie actitive ip his job. what s rosenstein s rep there? there s conflict there. he s someone people are suspicious of. but in these interesting times, people are looking at him thinking he might be the last best hope that we have to ensure that bob mueller is allowed to do his job, which is a strange place to be in. rosenstein is 53, married, with two teenage daughters. he s a dad, his world has changed a lot because of this. my younger daughter was 14 at the time when she heard i was going to become deputy. she asked me a very important question. she said, dad, does this mean you ll get your picture in the paper? [ laughter ] and i said, no. [ laughter ]
confirmed. cnn s chief political analyst, gloria borger, takes a look back at his stormy relationship with the president. if the president is your boss, this is not what you want to hear when he s asked if he ll fire you. you figure that one out. rod rosenstein, the man who hired special counsel, robert mueller, has lived life on the edge as deputy attorney general, with multiple near-death experiences as a frustrated president lashed out at the russia investigation. the entire thing has been a witch hunt, and there is no collusion. oddly enough, rosenstein started out as a teacher s pet. highly respected. very good guy. very smart guy. the democrats like him. the republicans like him. rosenstein s stock rose even higher when after just two weeks on the job, he wrote a now infamous memo at the request of
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