middle of a lot of stuff. he wrote the memo that was a pretext used to fire comey, he then got upset that the memo was released according to the new york times and decided to turn i guess on the president he was upset. isn t he a witness? he is. there s always been a question at some point rosenstein himself will have to recuse and he s talked to the ethics officers at the department of justice and mueller and that time isn t now. if there does come a time where he has a conflict he will step down. i have known rod rosenstein for 20 years. he does have a sense of humor. maybe this was a joke. the 25th amendment stuff on the other hand, remember this was a time where this even degrees of incompetence with president trump and this was a time when he was extremely incompetent and weird, so he fires comey and then goes on tv and tells lester holt i fired him because of the russian investigation. right. he invites russians into the
this, that this gave him another view into how much the president knew or did not know about the way the fbi should operate. we know this over the last year that the president has one view of how the fbi should operate, that is, as his own personal general counsel, versus the the constitutional view of how the fbi should operate, which is as an independent institution. so, you know, maybe at this point rosenstein his head is exploding, right? he s been used, he s sitting in on this, he believes the president is not competent to pick an fbi director. he s not the kind of guy to joke about wearing a wire, would you think? i mean, you know him. he is a former u.s. in baltimore. he is a very serious guy. a very experienced in law enforcement. and this notion, laura coates, you are our legal analyst, of invoking the 25th amendment
used those per sonas. the conspirators corresponded with several americans through the internet. there s no allegation in this indictment that the americans knew they were corresponding with russian intelligence officers. further on that point rosenstein add no americans were charged in the indictment and said it does not allege that election results were altered. he also said the investigation continues. we learn today rosenstein briefed the president, told him this was coming before the president left on his overseas trip. tonight the president s plan monday meeting with putin remains on the schedule. here is the on election interference with london this