nothing bipartisan about the russian effort. they went for democrats to install donald trump as preside president. let me play that. this is rod rosenstein on friday at what paul butler called the clapback. let s listen. we follow the rule of law which means that we follow procedures and we reserve judgment. we complete our investigations and evaluate the relevant evidence before with we reach conclusion. that s how the american people expect their department of justice to operate and how our department is going to operate. very quickly before i come back to our two reporters, a prosecutor in the position rod rosenstein is in, can you explain to us as a former prosecutor how do they continue to operate with this kind of political pressure where one political party has said the investigation itself is a crime and should stop. how does a prosecutor operate?
with the sun is fake news. take a listen. didn t criticize the prime minister. i have a lot of respect for the prime minister. unfortunately, it was a story that was done which was generally fine, but it didn t put in what i said about the prime minister. i said tremendous things. fortunately, we tend to record stories so we have it for your enjoyment if you like it. it s called fake news. we solve a lot of problems with the good old recording instrument. the recording instrument to him saying the thing he said. but the sun responded we stand by our reporting and the quotes we used, including those where the president was positive about the prime minister. they re conceding to him. they said no, no, no. we did put the positive stuff in the paper and the audio and were delighted that he retracted his original charge against the paper.
this industry works because journalists have each other s backs professionally. what happens in the uk where fox allows other news outlets to be insulted that way and validate what the president did an embarrassment to that news organization. there s good people that work at fox and they should be ashamed of themselves for being used by him in that way. the authoritarian government, they reward state media, media that will play ball and punish anyone critical of the leader. you now have the white house punishing cnn, not just refusing to take responsive questions, but retracting an interview that john bolton had scheduled. we got the list of who was to be on the sunday show. he was on the libs. it gets retracted. dave tapper tweets out, he had been locked in for the state of union. then the president attacked cnn, our correspondent tried to ask
who attacked our election and they want to impeach him, can that work. the republicans know there s more evidence to support the impeachment of donald j. trump than rod rosenstein and riepz is steeling himself so we saw the clapback on friday. it reminded when when president obama said there are no red states or blue states, just the united states. rod rosenstein says said on friday when the russians are attacking the united states there s no republicans or democrats, we re all americans and then he said president trump needs to understand. in other words, you gon learn today when you meet with putin that that man tried not to subvert our democracy only. the indictment reveals there was
appointment. there are fractures on the right as they see this preferred access that fox gets. some of the other ones may i mean, the danger is that you then it splinters and they turn back on the white house. the idea that the conservative president that we ll stand up to the white they have the experience of the one interview that he granted to our own lester holt. yeah. [ overlapping talking ]. because 23 tif the president a conversation with a functional journalist, he s going to indict himself. that s what they re afraid of. remember, we also have to look at the quality of the people that he s speaking to at fox news. there are real reporters at fox news. just like there are real reporters in other places. sean hannity is connected to the investigation. tucker carlson at this point given what his ratings are, i think it s important that we remember the president is literally propping up a business in a world as well. you talk about choosing he s