them down at the hearing. i m told she undergoing extensive litigations. he met with all of the doj components. they are doing mock hearings with senior doj officials trying to get him ready for this. we ll see what he says about his conversations. we ll watch it very very closely. much more on the breaking news right after this. welcome to the place where people go to learn about
what s happened at the fbi. the president has long criticized the fbi and the special counsel s russia investigation, rosenstein oversees the special counsel investigation, there are questions about what this report in the new york times means moving forward and if the president will use it to try and justify firing rosenstein, critics say that would be a mistake, some republicans are already talking about the possibility of it. if these allegations are true, they re very serious allegations and i would say yes that mr. rosenstein would be well advise today step aside and the president and the attorney general would be would be well within their rights to terminate employment. as for the deputy attorney general, he says the reporting in the new york times is factually inaccurate and based on anonymous source who is are bias against the department of justice, a source in the room and initial comments were made told fox news that they were made sarcastically, senior doj
remarks were not meant seriously according to a senior doj official at a meeting on may 16 of 2017. quote, rosenstein was arguing with andrew mccabe about the president according to a senior justice department official. well, what do you want me to do, andy? wear a wire, rosenstein asked at the meeting which also included fbi lawyer lisa page and four doj officials according to this senior official. this official and a source in the room characterized rosenstein s remark as sarcastic. another told nbc news rosenstein was making a serious comment and the anner to mentioned senior doj official also tells nbc news there was a brief mention of the 25th amendment within a note written by deputy director andrew mccabe and that rosenstein did not raise the matter. tonight rosenstein released this statement. quote, i never pursued or authorized recording the
that what lisa page and peter strzok were doing there was not trying to control the leaks but to get information out that they wanted to influence this narrative so it s very troubling again, all of this ties in not just lisa page and peter strzok maria. what s important and significant about what devon nunes told you earlier is more than 70 witnesses appeared before the house intelligence committee all of them were asked the same question. what evidence do you have of russian collusion with donald trump or the trump campaign? what evidence do you have of conspiracy? what evidence do you have of coordination? and they batted a thousand in their response. these are folks like susan rice and samantha powers, senior doj and department officials and intelligence and law enforcement officials and they all said we don t have any so what we have known and what i want the public to see from these transcripts is that our law enforcement intelligence communities have known for a while that there
parts of the northeast. take a look at the map and show you what s going on. we have the storms right here. we also have storms across parts of texas. it s going to be especially tomorrow right around the big been stretching over towards the west in towards hill country. get ready potentially for flooding. a lot of drought going on across parts of texas. across parts of the northeast today pretty big showers as well we have to deal with down across the southeast, we will see heavier rain across parts of south florida. not that bad across places like atlanta and in towards birmingham. we will see those showers in across parts of texas. towards the northern plains, take a look at this 101 for a high today in bismarck. 92 in minneapolis. the heat is on see a little mormomore monsoonal rain. ed: senior doj staff bruce ohr about be interviewed about the author of anti-trump dossier. dozens and dozens of revelations. could be a big bombshell