wrote the memo recommending the firing of james comey. at the same time, you have them appointing a special counsel to look into the president while they are appointing their own staff members and department to investigate their own conduct. it s that hypocrisy that has the president at this level of frustration and it would be warranted if we made changes at the very top of the department of justice. harris: sessions, the attorney general, the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein, i remember a picture of the two of them at dinner at some point? what does all this mean when you look at how they ve handled all of this and what the president might do going forward? it s very clear to me that rod rosenstein is in charge and jeff sessions is doing what he says. when we asked the attorney general to define the scope of his recusal, he gets conflicting answers. it s this target where rosenstein is always able to steve s control. it s the same rod rosenstein that signed a fisa renewal.
page early in 2016 about russian intelligence contacts well before page has said he was interviewed. by september of 2016, the fbi had opened subinquirieses into trump campaign associates. in getting the first fisa warrant it did say that steele had political ties and some of the money for his reporting had political moltvations. in the fisa renewal, it had information to corroborate parts of the steele documents. the president says it s all a fraud. it helps him. let s deal first with the new revelations and the facts in the democratic memo. how does it advance the story? it did confirm one thing which was the steele dossier was not, in fact, the reason they opened the investigation and what their role might have been in this russia situation. but the new information here that advances the story is the fbi obviously found some
important part of making reforms to the fisa process, it probably should have been released earlier smp have been put before members before they voted on the fisa renewal and perhaps and maybe we ll hear there were changes made addressing some of these concerns. in my reading of this memo so far, rosenstein is mentioned but it s not clear to me what would be a smoking gun that would be cause for firing him. it s mentioned that rosenstein was one of several officials at the fbi, at doj who would have signed renewals or of fisa applications but it s not clear that he specifically signed one on carter page. he s one of six officials that s mentioned there. i ve been speaking with a number of sources on the hill over the course of the week. and one person on the democratic side was telling me yesterday that the prospect of rosenstein being the intended target here is very concerned because as we ultimately know, mueller reports to rosenstein. and rosenstein or whoever would replace the