that was completely false. i think rosenstein wasn t in the job that long. he was literally falling apart inside the justice department. at one point he says to andrew mccabe there is nobody i can talk, to there s no one i can trust. i m all alone here, can i talk to jim comb snaechl i really admire the guy. he just wrote a memo that was being used to fire him. and people were staggered by that. so then he starts getting into this stuff, well, i could wear a wire in the white house. i could get evidence against the president obstructing. then he brought up this twenty-fifth amendment. he must have been talking about it because he said he had sessions and kelly already lined up to support it. the fbi people again, again trump says the fbi was out to get him. they went back to the fbi headquarters and said whoa here, wait a minute, this is completely out of bounds. so they went back to a second meeting. rosenstein again talks about wearing the wire. at this point he didn t say anything m
possibility of his departure was discussed. that much we know. who brought it up, who said under what circumstances should he be leaving, we don t know. but obviously rosenstein wasn t surprised, it would appear, by being summoned to the white house for this meeting this morning. now well, i have one other things to say, but if we re out of time always time for you, pete. the other thing is this, if rosenstein leaves, then what we re told now is that the supervision of the russia investigation would be overtaken by noel francisco, who s next in time for attorney general, but since the attorney general is recused and there is no attorney general, that would go to noel francisco is acting director, and the acting attorney general for all other purposes would be
former senior adviser to president obama s national security team. thank you for staying with us, laura. welcome to the two of you. laura, let me start with you. what s the view in the doj. do they expect rod rosenstein can make it to election day? when this all broke yesterday, i think officials were trying to do what they could to explain the motivations and intent here. no one is disputing what mccabe s memo says, that s where all of this is documented in contemporaneous notes. they re trying to say rosenstein wasn t seriously considering actually taping the president. you see it reflected in his two denials, one firmer than the other last night after a meeting at the white house. i think what you re seeing is them trying to figure out how best to contain it, realizing this is not good. sources tell a colleague that jeff sessions is upset and concerned about this news, victor. shan, before the reporting in
spokesperson were being hammered. the surrogates exploded a story that trump that rosenstein wrote a memo and gave backing for him wanting to get rid of comey. howie: comey mishandling of hillary clinton e-mail. right. there was so much on record about hillary clinton that that was so phoney you couldn t believe it for a second and rosenstein wasn t going to back up the president that he was the motivating force. howie: there was still this question, the whole got you game here and maybe it s unfair to character ice it that way, we all know this was really about donald trump being uncomfortable and being a hoax and he got rid of comey. there could be a multiple reasons. as you said, what if the russian investigation doesn t lead to anywhere, will the press look
spokesperson were being hammered. the surrogates exploded a story that trump that rosenstein wrote a memo and gave backing for him wanting to get rid of comey. howie: comey mishandling of hillary clinton e-mail. right. there was so much on record about hillary clinton that that was so phoney you couldn t believe it for a second and rosenstein wasn t going to back up the president that he was the motivating force. howie: there was still this question, the whole got you game here and maybe it s unfair to character ice it that way, we all know this was really about donald trump being uncomfortable and being a hoax and he got rid of comey. there could be a multiple reasons. as you said, what if the russian investigation doesn t lead to anywhere, will the press look