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rosenstein s own role in that decision to fire former fbi director jim comey. there have been many a question about how wide the scope of this inquiry is. how much rope would mueller be given and whether the deputy ag or congress or the president at some point would reel him in. rosenstein made it pretty clear today f it wasn t already, that mueller was on his own. if that means the deputy attorney general has to step aside and rekuz, he ll do it. this is important historically because there s always been a distinction between investigating one item of government misconduct versus the actual management of an entire presidential administration. think about investigating the watergate burglary versus the wider investigation of that cover-up. or the investigations of the iran/contra foreign policy deal versus wider investigations over whether there were deliberate efforts to mislead congress or lie to the american people. so, we re no longer talking tonight about the speculations and the

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