if it s 3 1/2 pages derived from 100-page fisa application that the committee has not permitted the professionals who are responsible for that information and who gathered that information to actually look at it and determine whether it will have an impact on our national security to release it. it seems to me that priorities are not in the right order. we ought to be focused on what is going to do damage to our national security and what do the professionals and the intelligence experts say about that? if you re rod rosenstein, would you be nervous? rod rosenstein is a professional who has served multiple administrations. i think hopefully he s keeping his head down and doing his job. lisa monaco, appreciate it. thank you very much for all that analysis. more breaking news from capitol hill. trey gowdy is announcing today
attorney general, rod rosenst n rosenstein, who gets to decide whether or not the public interest requires that to be made public. that makes the deputy attorney general, mr. rosenstein, the central key actor in the drama that is about to unfold. and it seems to me, reasonably clear, that much of the effort to besmirch his reputation in advance of that decision making is intended to try to color it and push mr. rosenstein in a particular direction. i don t think it will work but i do think that that s rather transparently what s happening. besmirch his reputation. that s a perfect way to put it. i don t know if you heard adam schiff here, the top democrat on the house intelligence committee. here is what he told axios about rod rosenstein. what i m more worried about at the moment is that he fires rod rosenstein. that he knows the blowback that would accompany firing special counsel so he fires rod
and again in 2000 and robert mueller is an employee of the department of justice. he has to follow department of justice rules and regulations, one of which is don t indict sitting presidents. that s a pretty good reason. even if he wanted to. let s flash forward to the man whose shoulders will be bearing this, and someone you know, rod rosenstein deputy attorney general. it will be up to him to take mueller s findings and what to do with them. he along with christopher wray visited the white house machined night to try to convince them not to release this memo. he would be caught in the crosshairs if this memo goes public. do you think the republicans, do you think trump are trying to undermine him publicly before he has big decisions to make down the road? what do you think? i think it s pretty clear, the department of justice regulations say if mueller can t indict the president, he s supposed to file a report with the attorney general. in this case it s the acting
taken, they must take that into consideration and that could potentially hurt this country. we know that wray and deputy attorney general rod rosenstein, trying to get the chief of staff not to release this. that, of course, is a private meeting, lisa. now we re reporting on the fbi, putting out this public statement, pretty rare move from what i m understanding, expressing grave concerns about the memo s accuracy, which now puts christopher wray, the head of the fbi, directly at odds with the president of the united state states. look, the fbi director is somebody who needs to be able to withstand exactly that type of
and rosenstein is saying the right thing before what? before what we know is coming. the big days of testimony on capitol hill. from jim comey next week and soon after from sessions and rosenstein or maybe, i don t know, maybe it s a combinaon oall those dynamics. after weeks of letters about espionage, anonymous leaks and complaints about those underlying leaks, tonight we have at least one major player speaking out under his own nail name in the light of day. joining us now, eric tucker, the justice department reporter for the ap who broke this story. thanks for joining tonight. thank you for having me, ari. i appreciate it. you broke this story. it is significant for many reasons. can you tell us more about how it came together and how it was that rod rosenstein basically gave you this first on-the-report interview about this hot topic.