new signs today that the mueller probe could be close to wrapping up. a source close to deputy attorney general rod rosen tine telling nbc news he plans to stay on until mueller submits his report. that comes as reports circulated yesterday that rosenstein would leave once a new attorney general is sworn in. let s bring in the former deputy assistant attorney general and betsy woodruff. she is also an msnbc contributor. rosenstein reportedly ready to step down. this new reporting says he ll stay on until the probe is over. you know rob rosenstein. what s behind his decision? i would say exhaustion first and foremost. a normal deputy attorney general serves 18 months. he did two years. they say that it s a marathon,
her voting and as actions as a member of congress. final thoughts, willie? i think the shutdown continues to be a waste of time. we ve heard several people this morning say the only way out may be the president declaring a national emergency from jonathan swan at axios and a former republican congressman saying he views that as the own way out right now, too. that does it for us right now. stephanie rhule picks up coverage right now. hi there, i m stephanie rhule. this morning, breaking news. deputy attorney general rod rosen tine reported lid set to leave the justice department in the next few weeks. and how about the primetime plea, president trump and the democrats went on tv and beak repeated their stances on immigration. this is a humanitarian crisis, a crisis of the heart and a crisis of the soul. president trump must stop holding the american people
attorneys general after rod rosen tine. there will be 1,000 after them. the yankees kept playing after dimaggio retired. the red sox kept playing after williams retired. ted, not brian. thank you. in case anyone was confused. the halls of the department of justice we always say are filled with irreplaceable people all of whom eventually are replaced. there s also an incredibly strong gravitational pull by the department on those who work for it. by that i mean people who work there fervently believe in the rule of law. they re tethered to the constitution. and facts and law matter a lot. and so i suppose that whoever comes next is going to be of that ilk. i suppose whoever comes next will shepherd the mueller investigation. if i m wrong, then i m desperately wrong. but i actually tend to believe that s right. what is your 30-second version when you look at the kavanaugh hearings?
result of that. but the reaction is important. not just what he said. trump s reaction and congress reaction is not to condemn. it s two the defend and to try to undermine the integrity of the investigation. there s news and we can hopefully put it up on our screen that house republicans are trying to prepare paperwork to impeach rod rosen tine. we don t have the that. we ll try and get that to you. i mean, does that say it all to you that they don t want this man who is in charge of the mueller investigation to continue on? i think that when you look at the fact that this man said what he said about we don t try this on television, we don t try it in hearings. now there s some republican members of congress that want to have him removed. at the same time, you have a president that wants to put on the supreme court someone that says presidents ought not to be investigated. we re moving, moving very close to where there is no
what did you think of republicans yesterday and hair performance was peter strzok. they behaved like children. it was a humiliating day to be a republican. we saw it time after time. this was not about getting answers from strzok. even goodlatte said each member gets your five minutes but strzok doesn t get to answer. it minded me how mccarthy suggesting the benghazi was about hurting hillary poll numbers not actually an investigation of facts. when he admitted and lost the leadership. that s what we saw yesterday. this has been part of the incremental strategy of both trump, yes, those in congress who go along with him to undermine the integrate of the investigation. when we saw rod rosen tine stood, that clip you just played where i wondered is he on his way out, is he risking saying i m going to move in this direction and make a statement on behalf of law enforcement and the integrity of the country despite what the president and congress might do to me as a