on or he may move on, he s pushed parts of this investigation to other prosecutors that can carry it on for a long time. i don t think we re near the end of this even if he shuts town his shop any time soon. shepard: alex little, current criminal defense attorney with us from nashville. thank you. thank you. shepard: rod rosenstein is, as it turns out, staying at the justice department a little while longer even though he planned to leave by about now. that s what a source tells fox news. president trump has slammed rod rosenstein for his role in launching the special counsel robert mueller s investigation. rosenstein appointed mueller after the president fired james comey. rosenstein is the main link between the special counsel and the department. but william barr has special oversight over the investigation. facebook will stop telling
suggests that there are people out there defending rod rosenstein on a matter of principle for what he is doing, not for politics? nobody with actual credibility to the president of the united states within trump world is defending him to any real degree except to the extent of public relations and and political calculation in terms of timing, as you mentioned earlier. it s not a day that ends in the letter y if the president of the united states isn t speculating about firing rod rosenstein. but i would be remiss if i didn t point out that according to people who they ve talked to who are close to the president, even though he doesn t like rosenstein and wants him gone sooner rather than later, it s nothing compared to the intense bitterness he has towards his attorney general, jeff sessions. that s the real target of his ire. carrie, here is what we know, if rod rosenstein is, in fact, fired, it looks like the next person in line would be the
james comey. reporter: we ll see how history judges that. a lot of his own supporters and advisers believe that s one of the worst things the president did, because of course, it set off the special counsel s probe in the first place a year ago this month. but the president, of course, doing what he often does in these situations, doubling down, acknowledging no mistakes here, but trying to make the case and obscure this investigation and muddy the waters by raising the prospect of spygate. one question the president did not answer, wolf, as i and other reporters tried asking him direct directly, that is the future of rod rosenstein, the deputy attorney general. he ll be with the president this afternoon on long island as he s talking about ms-13 and other gangs. but what the future of rod rosenstein is, of course, he oversees the entire mueller investigation. the president asked probably a half dozen times, did not answer