as early as today or monday. but the justice department officials have now effectively ruled that out again. here at fox news, we ve reported based on our context that all the indicators are that the special counsel was effectively in the end game, trace. trace: the end game is coming. catherine herridge, good of you as always. thanks so much, a lot of breaking news. again, to recap what katherine was saying, the senior doj official has told fox news that any reporting the special counsel will give their report, deliver their report to the doj next week is not going to happen. next week in vietnam is the summit. round two of the summit between president trump and kim jong-un. that will happen in vietnam next week. we had breaking news about r. kelly. remember, he s now been indicted on ten counts of aggravated sexual assault. that could bring a 30 to 70-year prison term for him. much more breaking news on that.
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as the temporary in the acting capacity as attorney general. he doesn t have to go through senate confirmation. they go through a variety of different circumstances to support that. it s interesting, a senior d.o.j. official tells us that the president, i should say the white house actually asked for oral advice before sessions was ousted about whether this was okay. this had been in the works for sometime. the d.o.j. official declined to provide specifics about the details of the conversations and whether the white house was specifically contemplating whittaker or somebody else. they provided oral advice and this is consistent with that advi advice. whittaker is in iowa. he is there for an elder fraud conference today. acting attorney general fulfilling the duties. we haven t seen evidence that he will step aside.
weekend. ellison, as you know, you have reported earlier, that mr. rosenstein is denying the allegations saying that if he said that, he said it in jest. it was a cheeky comment. right. so the big question right now seems to be less did he say it and more how did he say it? the report in the new york times says that those suggestions were serious ones. they write this, quote, it is not clear how determined rosenstein was about seeing them through, he did tell andrew mccabe, that he might be able to persuade attorney general sessions and john kelly to mount an effort to invoke the 25th amendment. a source in the room when rosenstein s initial comments were made told fox news they were made sarcastically. other outlets are reporting that as well. a senior doj official who has direct knowledge of the meeting from rosenstein and others, they told fox news mccabe and rosenstein were having a heated conversation, essentially going back and forth with mccabe saying that rosenstein who
amendment. he said this is factually inaccurate. he said this relied on anonymous sources who he says have a bias against the department of justice. the source in the room when the initial comments were made told fox news that they were made sarcastically. a senior doj official who has direct knowledge of the meeting from rosenstein and others, they told fox news that former fbi deputy director andrew mccabe and rosenstein were having a heated conversation going back and forth. mccabe saying that rosenstein was getting in the way of aggressively investigating the administration. in that back and forth, the source claims that rosenstein said what do you want me to do, andy? wear a wire? now the new york times reports that rosenstein s suggestions were serious ones. they write, quote, it is not clear how determined he was about seeing them through. though he did tell mr. mccabe that he might be able to persuade attorney general jeff sessions and john kelly, then secretary of homeland sec