And rosenstein would remain in office for now, but if rosenstein is out, who would then take on rosensteins current job of supervising the Mueller Probe . We have nbcs Pete Williams, our justice correspondent, nbc News White House correspondent Kristen Welker, Washington Post White House Bureau chief, phil rucker. And adam schiff on the house intelligence committee. Thanks to all of you. First of all, Pete Williams, if you can pick it up where i have left off of all of your great reporting today. We know there are different signals coming on what is going to happen to Rod Rosenstein. Exactly, andreandrea, two contradictory stories about whats happening here. There was one and possibly two meetings in may of last year, Rod Rosenstein suggested that people wear a wire when pemeeti with the president to talk about who the new fbi director should be, and perhaps invoking the 25th amendment to declare the president unfit for office. After that story came out, the Justice Department pushed b
Discussed replacing potentially President Trump even wiretapping him. Of course, some sources telling msnbc news look, he was having those conversations sarcastically, the conversations taking place after the president fired former fbi director james comey. Rod rosenstein came out with a statement denying the New York Times report. But theres no doubt that all of that created a lot of consternation here within the white house, within the trump administration, and for the president. He referenced it when he was in missouri over the weekend, talked about the fact that there was something going on within the Justice Department. There was no doubt that that only added to the president s ire when it comes to some of the Law Enforcement officials and, of course, the broader russia probe which Rod Rosenstein oversees. So we are watching very closely to see what happens here. Its worth noting, craig, that senator Lindsey Graham over the weekend was very firm in the wake of that New York Times