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Opening Arguments
"general rod rosenstein" Discussed on Opening Arguments
"With mister Trump's representative and understand his availability, please let us know and we will then do our best to be available as well, right? Because they wanted to sit on on Trump's deposition. Note also that it is defendant's position that director ray should be deposed before mister Trump. So please let us know your thoughts on when you would like to take direct race deposition and we will consult with the FBI about his availability. To which McCall immediately responded, like within an hour, respectfully, Mike, we are entitled to set the order and set the date for the third party depositions we notice. We noticed former president Trump's deposition 16 months ago, and we would like to proceed with it. If, as the Department of Justice has suggested, it intends to petition for a writ of mandamus with respect to judge Jackson's order governing president Trump's deposition, we would like that to happen sooner rather than later. I reiterate our request for your availability in late April and early May. We will certainly consider your availability if you provide it. And he also got in a little dig at president Trump and his theoretically packed schedule. He said, I am sure we are all familiar with president Trump's current employment situation and ample resources. He did not mention that the burping on truth social and the constant golf. Yeah, so look, reading between the lines here, this is structs lawyer calling the DoJ's bluff to seek a writ of mandamus from the D.C. circuit. And long-standing listeners know mandamus is the thing you get when a government official has no discretion to do anything. And so the cases that the DoJ cites do indeed stand for the proposition that you can get a writ of mandamus from the appellate court to quash a deposition that's improper and that makes sense, right? Because there's no discretion for the court to allow an improper depot to continue. I have never, ever, ever seen a writ of mandamus granted for the timing on the scheduling of depositions because you know that kind of seems like the thing that is 100% at the discretion of the parties. Right. So perhaps that's why the Justice Department only got around to following through on its threat to seek that rid of mandamus a few days ago. In a footnote they had several theories as to how this request was timely, most notably that quote less than one week has passed since defendants learned that the plaintiffs had scheduled former president Trump's deposition from May 24th. And because no deposition of mister Trump or director ray has been taken to date the case remains pending. Okay. Yeah. It's so, all right, in terms of this threat and this is going to dissolve in a couple of minutes. But let's play it out. The DoJ has a pretty good argument on mandamus if it's persuaded that the court indeed lacks the authority to compel his deposition to go forward. And that's because I thought when I first looked at this, that the case law would distinguish between, you know, current executive branch officials and presidents and former executive branch officials and presidents. And, you know, Donald Trump didn't do all that much work when he was in office, and now, you know, he's just sitting around rage tweeting from Mar-a-Lago, so, you know. I think you made rage burping. He's not back on Twitter as of yet, although the campaign season is young. We got to get that to stick, right? We could bake them change the little button to burp. But look, I will be dead in the cold cold ground before I say that he is true thing. Girl same. All right, but look, if you were thinking that, as I was, you would be wrong because there are multiple cases, including a 9th circuit decision in which the panel granted mandamus to block a deposition of former secretary of education, Betsy devos, also on the villain list. Oh yeah. Sorry, I have a long rapid trail about grift to go down, but we're at a time. Yeah, did you guys know that Betsy devos married into the amway air family? And that's how she got to be a billionaire. And the bane of educators existence in U.S. America. In any event, the 9th circuit, no friends to Betsy devos, granted mandamus, blocked her deposition, extended the protection on the grounds that the important work of high officials even after they leave office, right? And okay, give them credit for this one, right? So this was the 9th circuit's rationale. They said, if allowed the minute cabinet secretaries leave office overwhelming and unnecessary discovery could also discourage them from taking that office in the first place or leaving when there is a controversy. And fair enough. Now, you know, I would draw a line. I don't think it's a bright line. I would say, you know, if you're three years out from a presidency that was not particularly stressful to begin with, maybe that should be considered differently. But that's the rule it applies equally to former officials as it does to current officials. Right. So the Justice Department on Thursday night filed a motion requesting that judge Jackson ruled by the time you're hearing this on Tuesday. But judge Jackson was fueled by rage and also I think she might be just about to take senior status. So she didn't really need that much time, which led to this hilarious set of minute orders. First on Friday morning, judge Jackson denied the government's motion for reconsideration, noting correctly, that it seemed to be an end run around the apex doctorate. She wrote, on August 10th, 2022, the court ruled pursuant to the apex doctrine that any request to depose FBI director Christopher wray or former president Donald J Trump must await the completion of the depositions of former FBI director bowditch and former Deputy Attorney General rod Rosenstein. Thereafter on February 23rd, 2023, after full briefing by the parties as to what had transpired in those proceedings. The court issued a lengthy oral ruling on the question of whether the depositions of director ray and former president Trump could proceed. It ordered in its discretion and in accordance with the applicable law that they could both go forward under very strict restrictions as to time and subject matter. The court is somewhat surprised to learn that since then the parties have done nothing more than wrangle over the order of the two depositions. It was then they knew they had up. The government seems chagrined that the court did not order that the deposition of the FBI director be completed first, but it may recall that it was the court's view that it was director ray, the only current high ranking public official in the group of proposed opponents whose ongoing essential duties fell most squarely under the protection of the doctrine in question. The defendant's instant motion repeats arguments that were made and fully considered before and does not set forth grounds warranting reconsideration. The court's ruling was appropriate in light of all the facts, including the former president's own public statements concerning his role in the firing of the plaintiff. However, in order to get the parties who apparently still can not agree on anything over this impasse, it is hereby ordered that the deposition of Christopher wray proceed first rendering the instant motion moot. I love that you read that because all I could think of what I saw to the docket was ouch. Yeah, that's some big pissed off mom energy. Yeah. And it gets better. After ordering a party's not to behave like children, structs lawyers, I guess they were feeling left out the judge Jackson hadn't yelled at them yet, specifically. Filed a motion to clarify that minute order that Trump did in fact have to go first. That does not seem like a motion to clarify. No, it did not seem like a motion to clarify to the court either. So this time it took judge Berman less than a day to respond. That was filed Monday morning and by Monday evening. That's when you're listening or when we're recording this, you could almost hear the like, I will turn this car around her in her voice. She pissed. She says, the instant motion is not a proper motion for clarification since the courts may 12th, 2023 minute order did not address the dates of the depositions at all. It is a new motion asking for additional relief, which will be granted in part and denied in part. The very lengthy account of the ins and outs of the scheduling negotiations between the parties does little to assuage the court's concerns that the parties are being unnecessarily contentious. You knuckleheads. The court shares the plaintiff's frustration that the government waited to challenge the ruling ordering that both depositions take place until now, but it is also unpersuaded that there is any case related justification for plaintiffs continuing efforts to pursue the former president's deposition before the others. Since the court lacks complete information about the lawyer schedules and the witnesses schedules, it is not in a position to order that any particular deposition take place on any particular
Opening Arguments
"general rod rosenstein" Discussed on Opening Arguments
"Mueller wasn't even appointed a special counsel until May 17, I do not understand how Comey could have been involved in the prosecution at all, but perhaps that's my own naivete again. Yeah, that is because you are not considering the fact that linear time has a well-known liberal bias. Oh, well, good point there. You got me. Anyway, remember, the Russia investigation was initiated because Trump campaign a George papadopoulos had bragged to an Australian diplomat. I know they called him the coffee pie. Anyways, so the coffee boy bragged to this Australian diplomat that Russia was going to release hacked Clinton materials to help the Trump campaign, which it then did. So Flynn scoffs that this is hearsay upon hearsay and indeed, if it were offered in a court of law as proof that Russia actually did hack the DNC emails, he might be right. But that's not the standard to open an investigation, which is why the DoJ's inspector general report concluded that the quantum of information articulated by the FBI to open the individual investigations on papadopoulos, Carter page, Michael Flynn and Paul Manafort in August of 2016, was sufficient to satisfy the low threshold established by the department in the FBI. So when Flynn's lawyers say that the investigation quote lacked legitimate investigative predicate, they are lying. Yeah, and I want to emphasize here that this report was prepared by Bill Barr's Department of Justice. That's why you have some of that editorializing. Not crazed leftist or alternatively federalist society. But you repeat yourself. Merrick Garland. No, look, I guess if your uncle Frank is drunken enough Kool-Aid that Barr is now also part of the deep state given that he sort of cooperated in a self aggrandizing sort of way with the January 6th committee. But look, Bill Barr's Republican DoJ office of the inspector general. Validated the voluntary plea bargain secured by the Republican prosecutors, operating a conjunction with the Republican special counsel Robert Mueller, who was appointed by Republican attorney general Jeff Sessions, and overseen by Republican Deputy Attorney General rod Rosenstein, or you know, as Flynn's lawyers call them a cabal of angry Democrats. Well, they would. Anyway, I should mention before Jesse been all sues us for defamation here. Flynn's lawyers did not call them a cabal of angry Democrats in the pleading. That's at Donald Trump thing that I'm sure they have called, but I want to be clear for the record what the complaint actually says. Bring it on, Jesse. I think he's got other fish to fry. Anyway, Flynn's lawyers are similarly selective with the facts alleged in this bleeding. For instance, they point to Flynn traveling to Moscow and sitting with Putin at a gala as an example of protected First Amendment activity. And he even claims he was quote acting as an information gathering agent for the United States not for Russia because he did disclose the trip to the U.S. government and talked about when they asked him about it. He fails to mention though that he was paid $45,000 by Russia today to deliver a speech at that fun little dinner and that Russia today is classified as an outlet of the Russian government, which is a minor minor detail that he just failed to forgot to mention. Nor does he mention his belated registration as a foreign agent of the Turkish government, which is a tacit acknowledgment both that he'd violated the foreign agents registration act and that he'd been acting as an agent of a foreign government just months before he became the national security adviser. It takes what I'm going to describe as a lot of nerve to claim that quote general Flynn's status as an adviser to a presidential candidate is not a proper justification to investigate him as a Russian spy. Yeah, I mean, I think from where I come from, we call that chutzpah. But it does help perhaps you bite. Yeah, it does help if you've had your capacity for shame, surgically removed. Yeah. Which he clearly has. So Flynn also claimed that, quote, the supposed ties to state affiliated entities apparently amounted to speaking fees that general Flynn received as part of his speaking circuit after leaving government service, which is amazing. Yeah, nobody ever gets bribed that way. Yeah. Yeah, no. Literally the day of the 2016 election, Flynn published an editorial in the hill calling for Fethullah Gulen's extradition without disclosing that he was being paid by the Turkish government and while he was being paid by the Turkish government, he set in on multiple classified briefings with Donald Trump who was then a candidate. So this guy was a walking national security risk before he got caught making secret deals with the Russian government, something he characterized in his brief as, quote, perfectly appropriate, diplomatic talks. And that's despite the fact that he was a civilian with no diplomatic role negotiating to undermine the foreign policy of the sitting president. Nor does he explain why he made repeated public denials of those perfectly appropriate talks, or why he lied about them to the FBI. Oh, sorry. I mean, he forgot about them. Yeah, yeah. That's the obvious explanation. Who could possibly remember all of the foreign autocrats that are paying you buddy to say what you just buy pure happens to happen to put an editorial in public. Yeah. I mean, look, the complaint is ridiculous, which is why I read them from the front to the back. And it bears noting that this is ridiculous in exactly the same way that Trump's idiotic RICO suit against Hillary Clinton was ridiculous. You guys remember that one. Although it was mercifully a hundred pages shorter and it only sues the federal government. So I guess he's not likely to get the same $1 million sanctions penalty because the government's not generally in the habit of doing that. But incidentally, this represented here by Jared Robert, and he is an attorney in the office of kraken alumni, Jesse beadle. Who represents Trump in a bunch of idiotic partisan bullshit suits. He's like, okay, credit work do. He is like a couple clicks above Alina haba in the pecking order, but his record is not great. And Roberts, who is apparently like the guy in Jesse beetles outfit, who is a barred in Florida, where this dumb thing is filed is also the attorney of record on Clinton's appeal to the 11th circuit in that RICO case. Yeah. He's appealing the sanctions because he doesn't actually want to pay the $1 million. So anyway, hi Jesse bean all, small world. Again, opening arguments,
Opening Arguments
"general rod rosenstein" Discussed on Opening Arguments
"So procedurally you had just teed this up. I think there's a really good point that the Lisa page and Pete struck lawsuits are two separate tracks. They have not yet been consolidated together. But they have some rather significant factual overlap. And so judge Amy Berman Jackson issued this order last August that affects both cases. So that says it relevant part. For the reasons, stated during today's proceeding, defendant's motions to quash the deposition of FBI director Christopher wray is granted insofar as it asks for the depositions to be sequenced. But otherwise, it remains held in abeyance. That means she's going to hold off on ruling for now, and she said the same thing about Donald Trump, right? So no, you don't get to depose the immediately, but cut back, right? Her order continues. The deposition of the former FBI deputy director David bowdich must be completed before the challenge to depositions, along with the deposition of former Deputy Attorney General rod Rosenstein, both parties must file supplemental platings no longer than four pages love that. Addressing whether and how any information gathered in those depositions bears upon the resolution of the apex doctrine issue raised in the motions to quash. Okay, so what she's saying here is, did you get all of the information that you assert you need from Trump and ray after you've deposed Rosenstein about it? And, you know, spoiler alert, this is one of the many ways in which the government is going to continue to resist an order deposing Chris wray. Anyway, she continues. Furthermore, in order to address the questions of executive privilege that bear upon the resolution of these motions, plaintiffs must file a notice, transmitting a transcript of the Rosenstein deposition and listing with as much particularity as possible the subject matter areas and substance of the questions he would propose to ask at any deposition of the former president and the FBI director. The defendants must respond to that notice, identifying all questions to which they intend to assert executive privilege, specifying as to each whether they asserting the presidential communications or deliberative process prong of the privilege or both, put up in that we will get to it. Finally, the parties must submit simultaneous briefs setting forth their legal arguments as to the applicability of executive privilege. So that's the end of the order, going to talk more about it. If you're thinking, is any of this the kind of conduct that courts impose on regular deficit? No. It regular litigation practice. You just notice up a deposition. The parties agree when and where they're going to be deposed. You have a conference room somewhere. You have a court reporter. The party sit in there with just their lawyers, no judge, the court reporter, and you fight about this afterwards. So this is imposing a very, very heavy procedural set of constraints on those future depositions. And there is still more here. So judge Jackson also ordered the government to cough up Sarah is found logs, but you can see 6 months ago that the parameters of this argument really taking shape. And it is the exact same arguments we have gotten familiar with over the past 6 years where Trump has just completely distorted executive privilege. You know, which was always a limited judicially created doctrine into this his view of the sort of broad blanket of immunity that, you know, covers a former president after he's left office that is just, you know, I don't know, heckling people from his golf cart. Exactly. And we should point out that the Biden administration and the Garland Justice Department have been only marginally less aggressive about this privilege. They're not changing their position very much, even though, yes, DoJ going to DoJ. So, okay, for instance, instructs response to this minute order, he noted that the government quote invoked the presidential communications privilege and or the deliberative process privilege to preclude testimony about any other discussions ray had with president Trump even as to general topics. Yeah, okay, so time to pull that pin. Let's unpack that a little bit. So both the presidential communications privilege. And the deliberative process privilege are subsets of this vague category called executive privilege. And, you know, as you just hinted at, this fun item number, I don't know, a billion in the government doesn't work the way original is pretend it does file, but look, executive privilege is not mentioned in the constitution, so you better use that portion of the constitutional claim. It doesn't say executive privilege doesn't hit at it, right? There's nothing even close anywhere in the text. It was not a phrase in common use in law stuff until after World War II, right? One source that I read said that it was not first invoked by name until the Eisenhower administration, right? And on top of all of that, it's not a law passed by Congress. And I found this out. Even though it would be self serving, executive privilege is even comprehensively set out in an executive order, right? Like written by the president himself. So despite all that, Republican presidents in particular seemed pretty sure that executive privilege not only exists, right? And they rely on it, but is, quote, constitutionally based, that's from multiple Trump pleadings. Despite the fact that, you know, it contradicts their whole big belief system of jurisprudence. Anyway, what is executive privilege? Yeah, the place that modern courts typically look to for guidance is a 2001 George W. Bush executive order. Number one three two three three. And that order, if you're a number lover, I don't know, you might remember, we've mentioned this before. It is actual, yeah. I don't know. But that executive order one three two three three is actually one about the presidential records act, so that's why we've talked about it. In discussing how the act is to be implemented because various narrow officials will now get documents that could be privileged. That executive order lays out four pretty broad categories of executive privilege and courts kind of use this as the rubric as they're analyzing privileged claims. So the first is military diplomatic or national security secrets. So that's typically referred to by courts as the state secrets privilege. The second are communications with the president or his advisers.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"general rod rosenstein" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Least 19 people have been killed by the heavy flooding some relief could come tomorrow as dry weather is in the forecast. Former Deputy Attorney General rod Rosenstein is drawing a stark line between classified documents investigations of President Biden and former president Trump. You have to differentiate between the political consequences and the practical cops wins for the special counsel. Appearing on NBC's meet the press, he noted the special counsel in each case, will reach their own conclusions without being influenced by political pressure. He also dismissed the suggestion these investigations are like two car wrecks where one is an accident and the other is on purpose, Rosenstein went on to stress the importance of waiting to hear the facts before jumping to any conclusions. There's more push for change in New York sports after the incident involving Buffalo Bills player demar Hamlin. Jennifer Paul Sony reports. New York assemblyman Angelo Santa Barbara calling for CPR training to become mandatory for all youth sports coaches under the current state education law high school coaches must know CPR, but the new measure would require everyone who coaches children to know the lifesaving technique, hamblin who collapsed during a Monday Night Football game was resuscitated by CPR and the use of a defibrillator now out of the hospital and still recovering. A new report says the richest 1% of a mass nearly two thirds of all the new wealth created since 2020. That's according to the charity group oxfam. I'm Michael kassner. Italian actress Gina Lola bridgetta has died she was 95. Family members shared the news of her passing on social media calling her one of the brightest stars of Italian cinema. They left me threatening. What could I do? Three, 5? Yes. Three fathers. What a beautiful story. She rose to fame alongside Sophia Loren in the 1950s and 60s, the sultry screen legend made her English language film debut in 1953, appearing with Humphrey Bogart in John Huston's beat the devil. She was also a politician and a photojournalist, nabbing an exclusive with Fidel Castro. Unlimited paid time off is the new must offer recruitment
WCPT 820
"general rod rosenstein" Discussed on WCPT 820
"The national action network's annual breakfast. Biden traveled to king's ebenezer baptist church in Atlanta Sunday to deliver the morning sermon. My message in nation on this day is we go forward. We go together when we choose the mocktail we're autocracy. A beloved community over chaos. I'm Donna warder. The Republican chairman of the House oversight committee says they have a lot of questions about those classified documents found a President Biden's home and former office, former deputy U.S. attorney general rod Rosenstein says it's too early to tell yet how this compares to the Trump docudrama because they don't know yet what Joe Biden knew exactly. What did the president know about those documents? Was he aware that they'd been moved that he in any case in the past 5 years has he handled those documents? Was he aware of them? We just don't know that yet. So I think given that, we really can't speculate just based on what's in the public record. He was on NBC's meet the press. Republicans are demanding The White House turnover are all information related to its searches of President Biden's home and former office. Ukraine says Russian missiles hit an apartment building in dnipro Ukraine over the weekend, killing dozens of people, the Kremlin says they don't target residential buildings. They're suggesting the dnipro building strike was the result of Ukrainian air defense. She was a big star in the 1950s, Gina Lola bridgetta died today in Rome. She was 95. This is AP news. An appeal to Beijing to tell the world more about its COVID situation. The AP's Charles De Ledesma has this story. The World Health Organization is appealing to China to release more COVID-19 information. The health body wants to know more about China's wave of COVID-19 infections after the government announced nearly 60,000 deaths since early December, following weeks of complaints, it was failing to tell the world what was happening. The Saturday news was the first official death toll since Beijing abruptly dropped antivirus restrictions in December, despite a surge in infections that have flooded hospitals that left the WHO and governments appealing for information. Well, the U.S. South Korea and others imposed controls on China visitors. I'm Charles De Ledesma. They have found a leopard safe after she escaped her enclosure at the Dallas zoo. I'm Rita foley, AP news. This is a 20 a.m. W CPT willow springs and streaming worldwide at WWC PT 8 20 dot com. We are Chicago's progressive chalk, where facts matter
Bloomberg Radio New York
"general rod rosenstein" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Another surge of Pacific moisture is expected to wallop California this morning. This after the storm battered states saw more rain and gusty winds over the weekend, some parts of California have gotten more rain in the past two weeks than all of last year, at least 19 people have been killed as a result. The White House has approved California's request for a major disaster declaration after governor Gavin Newsom's office puts request in more from Ryan baker. Newsom says storms have taken a toll on this date. By some estimates 22 to 25 trillion gallons of water have fallen over the course last 16, 17 days. The major disaster declaration helps Californians impacted by the storms and makes federal funding available to individuals in businesses in Sacramento and Santa Cruz counties. Additional counties may be included once storm conditions allow officials to assess damage. Former Deputy Attorney General rod Rosenstein is drawing a stark line between classified documents investigations of President Biden and former president Trump. You have to differentiate between the political consequences and the practical consequences for the spectrum council. Appearing on NBC's meet the press, he noted the special counsel in each case, will reach their own conclusions without being influenced by political pressure. He also dismissed the suggestion. These investigations are like two car wrecks where one is an accident and the other is on purpose, Rosenstein went on to stress the importance of waiting to hear the facts before jumping to any conclusions. An Ohio man believed to be one of the last surviving tuskegee airmen has died Trey Thomas with more. The family of Harold Brown shared word of his passing on social media late last week. Brown spent two months as a prisoner of war after his plane was shot down in German territory during World War II. In 2007, president George W. Bush and members of Congress presented Brown and the rest of the pioneering African American aviators known as the tuskegee airmen with a congressional gold
Northwest Newsradio
"general rod rosenstein" Discussed on Northwest Newsradio
"It's 7 minutes after. Republicans are demanding answers from The White House on classified documents found at the home and former office of President Biden. Correspondent John stillness with the latest from Washington. In a letter to The White House, new Republican chairman of the House oversight committee James comer of Kentucky says he wants to see all information related to the searches by the Biden team, including visitor logs at Biden's home in former office in order to determine who might have had access to classified material. Speaking on CNN State of the Union, comer couldn't say if the president committed a criminal act. Well, we don't know exactly yet whether they broke the law or not. I will accuse the Biden administration of not being transparent. Why didn't we hear about this? On November 2nd, when the first batch of classified documents were discovered. Comer says they're concerned is what seems to be how the Justice Department is handling the Biden document scandal and their rate of Donald Trump's home last year. Why are the president's laws are still allowed to go rummage through looking for documents after a special counsel has been appointed. It doesn't make sense. It's not fair. We just won't equal treatment. The new ranking member on the committee, Democrat Jamie Raskin tells CNN's Jake tapper, comparing Biden to Trump is apples to oranges. Government investigators had to go to court in order to get a subpoena to go to Mar-a-Lago to get dozens of boxes of classified material and government documents. Former Deputy Attorney General rod Rosenstein on NBC's meet the press with chuck Todd says there's one key question that must be answered. Was President Biden aware of those classified documents. And how does that get proven? Do you think he's going to have to sit for an interview? Well, that would be a logical step if I were conducting this investigation. I want to go right to the source and ask the president directly whether or not he was aware of those documents. So far, roughly 20 documents with classified markings have been found. Some marked top secret, including 5 more classified documents at Biden's home on Thursday, the same day attorney general Merrick Garland appointed a special counsel to investigate. Democrats like senator Debbie stabenow admitting the Biden documents are a problem on NBC's meet the press. Well, it's certainly embarrassing, right? I mean, it's embarrassing that you would find a small number of documents, certainly not on purpose. And while congressman Adam Schiff, like many Democrats are making clear, there are differences between the way Trump and Biden handled their situations. He tells ABC's this week, Congress has a right to get some answers from The White House. Yes, I think the Biden administration ought to cooperate with any appropriate inquiry from Congress. John stillness, Washington. It's 9 minutes after Congress will be squarely in focus this week is treasury chief Janet Yellen says the U.S. is expected to hit its debt limit by Thursday. Washington correspondent Sagar Meghani reports. Yellen says she'll then have to take extraordinary measures until Congress either raises the debt ceiling or suspends it again. She says failing to meet the country's debt obligations would hurt the economy, pointing to an impasse 12 years ago that led to America's first and only credit rating downgrade. Like now, that came when Republicans had just won a House majority. White House spokeswoman karine Jean Pierre says the nation's credit can not be held hostage. It's not and should not be a political football. House speaker Kevin McCarthy uses a different analogy. If you have a child and you give them a credit card and they spend the limit, so you increase the limit again and again and again, when does it end? We've got to change the way we are spending money wastefully in this country. GOP leaders say they'll only raise the debt ceiling if that comes with a spending overhaul. Democrats noted debt default could lead to a deep recession and are urging Republicans to work with them. We don't want to put any fiscal problems to our economy and we won't. But what we're fiscal problems would be continuing to do business as usual. Sagar Meghani, Washington
Bloomberg Radio New York
"general rod rosenstein" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
". President Biden will speak at the church where Martin Luther King Jr. served his pastor today ahead of the federal holiday. Jim Forbes has that story. President Biden will be the first sitting president to speak during Sunday services at ebenezer baptist church in downtown Atlanta. Senior adviser for public engagement and former Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance bottoms called it an inflection point. Bottom said the president was invited to deliver a remarks by democratic senator Raphael Warnock, who currently leads the congregation. I'm Jim Forbes. Former Deputy Attorney General rod Rosenstein is drawing a stark line between the classified documents investigations of President Biden and former president Trump. You have to differentiate between the political consequences and the practical consequences for the special counsel. Appearing on NBC's meet the press, he noted the special counsel in each case will reach their own conclusions without being influenced by political pressure. He also dismissed the suggestion these investigations are like two car wrecks, where one is an accident and the other is on purpose. Rosenstein went on to stress the importance of waiting to hear the facts before jumping to any conclusions. One GOP congressman says if he were in New York representative George Santos position, he'd resign, appearing on ABC's this week, representative of Don bacon, said he wouldn't be able to face his voters. Santos has been in hot water since the election after he admitted to fabricating much of his background. The Nebraska Republican went on to say that while this was ultimately an issue between Santos and his constituents, he doesn't think his chances of reelection will be that promising. The major disaster declaration California governor Gavin Newsom requested from the Biden administration is being approved amid devastating winter storms. Governor Newsom asked President Biden to approve the declaration as a state reels from a series of deadly atmospheric rivers. His request was granted on Saturday with the death toll in the Golden State at nearly 20. I'm Tammy trejo. The CDC and FDA are looking into concerns that the Pfizer COVID vaccine can cause strokes in those 65 and older the CDC notes that overall the data suggests its very unlikely there's a true clinical risk. The agencies use a safety monitoring system that identified a preliminary signal that they found important to share with the public while they continue to evaluate the data. A pregnant woman and one other are shot in New Jersey after a 9-1-1 call of gunfire led police in a different town to find the victims. Jonathan o'halloran reports. It happened around 5 30 Saturday night on inman avenue and route one north in woodbridge, police received a 9-1-1 call of shots fired in the area, woodbridge police discovered a car with gunshots nearby, a short time later nearby Lyndon police discovered a pregnant woman and a male who suffered gunshot wounds in the parking lot of The Home Depot on west Edgar wrote. Police believe the two were shot in that previous incident in woodbridge and fled towards London. Middlesex county police, along with the two towns involved, they're still searching
Bloomberg Radio New York
"general rod rosenstein" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Bloomberg radio. Federal criminal investigations against a former president bring some unique concerns. In the case against a former president, obviously, with the extraordinary, we raise unique concerns. And so I would hope that Merrick Garland and his team would be very careful about scrutinizing that evidence, not just checking the box, but making sure that they're prepared to stand behind the decision that they make. That's former Deputy Attorney General rod Rosenstein, appearing on CBS's face the nation. He pointed out that there were multiple levels of issues the Department of Justice needs to consider in its investigations of former president Trump. Those include making sure the evidence brought against him is sufficient that the investigation is a good use of federal resources, Rosenstein stated that he wouldn't have appointed a special counsel given the stage the DoJ has reached, but that he couldn't tell from the outside. Representative Hakeem Jeffries as Democrats will defend the track record of the Biden administration if it comes under assault, appearing on CNN State of the Union, the New York Democrat said it was part of the plan to push back against Republican overreach in the house. Jeffrey is seeking to become the leader of House Democrats after speaker Nancy Pelosi announced she'd be stepping down. However, Geoffrey's highlighted the importance of finding common ground with the GOP, saying the time for politics ends in the immediate aftermath of a campaign. The FBI's assisting with the investigation into a mass shooting at a gay bar in Colorado Springs, please say the gunman entered the LGBTQ nightclub just before midnight and immediately opened fire with a rifle. 5 were killed at least 18 others injured in the attack. Officials have identified the suspect as 22 year old Anderson Lee Aldrich is in custody and being treated for injuries. Authorities say they're working to determine if the shooting was a hate crime. Someone in Kansas is $93 million richer. Lottery officials say a Powerball ticket with all 6 numbers in last night's drawing was sold in the sunshine state, since there was a winner Monday's jackpot in the multi state lottery will be worth $20 million. I'm Tammy trejo. Wisconsin governor Tony Evers is ordering flags on all public buildings across the state to fly at half staff Monday to pay respect to the 6 people killed in last year's Waukesha Christmas parade. Brad Siegel has more. Has scheduled a public ceremony to mark the one year anniversary of the tragedy last Wednesday, the man convicted of the murders, was sentenced to 6 consecutive life terms and more than 700 years behind bars for driving his SUV into the parade. The Waukesha Christmas parade will return on Sunday the 4th of December. I'm Brad Siegel. Original Power Rangers actor Jason David Frank is dead at the age of 49, TMZ reports he died by suicide while living in Texas, Frank is best known for his role as Tommy Oliver in mighty morphin Power Rangers that debuted back in 1993. He was originally cast as the green ranger, but later assumed the role of the white ranger and leader of the crime fighting group. Frank was also trained in a variety of martial arts and had a brief career as an MMA fighter. The Santa Fe county sheriff's office is releasing the police report from the rust movie shooting. Criss-cross has that story. The 550 page report comes more than a year after the deadly incident on the New Mexico set of the western the report reveals a series of text messages actor Alec Baldwin sent to the husband of cinematographer halena Hutchins following her death. He insisted that both he and Hutchins believed the gun was empty. 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The Charlie Kirk Show
"general rod rosenstein" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"It's very different. That's why they're that's why it goes through a different approval process within the fbi jay because it's so invasive that were basically what i use them for us to go up and spy on terrorists that we were trying to either take out arrest in. That's the purpose of this tool and they use it on a presidential campaign so just to give you a little side by side of what they were doing with that. And here's the other thing. They didn't just do it once they did it. Four times into president trump being president. That means his own attorney. General rod rosenstein at the time signed off on a warmth to spy on that president even though the information was bogus. And that's when jeff sessions recused himself for whatever right because you just unwilling or unable to get involved at all in that so the where did it go wrong for them. Where did this start to fall apart. Because i i can't imagine so. They i i'm just i'm just starting understand kind of what their thought process was did they. They spied on trump and carter page the intelligence apparatus started to get all this information at some point. Were they like. There's really nothing here. Are we to exposed. Where did all of a sudden they're criminal conspiracy start to fall apart. Well enter chairman newness right and the leader of the the investigation into russia gate or the russian active measures right and he brought me on then to investigate the stuff with my background as an investigator. intelligence community. And i said. I said to devon at the time said look we gotta do two things you follow the money. So let's get bank records. Somebody's paying for this stuff. And the other thing with search warrants. I said you don't have to be a lawyer to figure this out if they have an informant. Goget the informed files and see if that guy's credible how much does he get paid. While did he lie. Does he know the candidate. Does he know president trump. Does he hate it. All that information is stored somewhere so we started to attack those avenues together. The money which we now know where it came from and the credibility. So let me ask you though. And i don't remember what the impetus for devon to start caring about this. So where did someone was a whistle whistleblower and the fbi. Were we starting to get suspicion. I don't quite remember that. Yeah sure so. If you're around. If you remember the steele dossier i was leaked by the media. January of seventeen by buzzer beater. Whatever presenting that coupled with the in december of the of the classified leaks of the. Mike flynn phone calls. Right shoe investor. Sure a wackily. So those two events together caused a republican led congress at the time the republicans had the majority and they said we need to do an investigation into the unlawful unmasking. And also this steele dossier stuff started together and that's when it was basically okay. Spring of seventeen. They said we're gonna launch an investigation. You guys need to create a team to do so. Endeavour was charged with that since he was a chirp housing intel. So there's a lot of Intelligence stuff and it seemed to be a good fit to go. There are food system is fundamentally broken. And it's making us sick at a scale and the people at uprising food are fixing. I'm telling you when they sent me this box of uprising food. In fact i'm at. I'm wondering where my next one is. I've asked them. It's this box of bread. And it's unbelievably good uprising. Mission is to liberate all of us from fundamentally broken food system that stealing our health. The real devil is the snow effect of silent inflammation. They've cracked the code on healthy bread..
The Lawfare Podcast
"general rod rosenstein" Discussed on The Lawfare Podcast
"Just the brookings institute alone has right not gonna be a fundamental deterrence to their behavior if you want to Attack them or impose consequences back to deter that type of behavior in the future. You need to instead focus where we're strong which often is in the financial sector. They're week to change behavior. All right. so let's talk about these indictments When you guys brought the p. l. a. indictment and for those who do not remember this was the first case where we and by we here. I mean you since. You were the Assistant attorney general for national security at the time named names of individual hackers working for foreign intelligence agencies to steal. Us intellectual property and the indictment was an uncommonly good read just as a as a matter of of prosecutorial storytelling about something. You know how this operation had happened. It was it followed A pretty amazing bit of private-sector forensic work on What has a on by the citizen lab and you know And you know other kind of private sector groups on on this particular advanced persistent threat And there was a lot of criticism of it including from my law. Fair colleague jack goldsmith which you know the nature of the criticism was. Hey you're never gonna get custody of these people you're giving up significant intelligence Secrecy in order to do this. It's not gonna change china's behavior and so other than sort of the us government thumping. It's chest what does it do. So i've been thinking about this debate in you and jack had a kind of public back and forth about this and i. I've been thinking about this a lot. Because of course you could make exactly the same criticism of bob muller for the hacking indictment and the the internet research agency social media indictment in the russia investigation case. Both of which we don't have custody over the people it's presumably not going to you know vladimir putin's not going to say. Oh my god. They've prosecuted people. I can't keep hacking people anymore so we now had a couple year. Few years of these indictments happening And the responses to them happening. And i'm interested for your thoughts on first of all. What is the history of this type of indictment so far. And what is the evidence that it does anything other than make us all feel good so i think you're right and then back up that that is where the justice department is now. They're moving full speed ahead with this approach that began with the the first public. Indication was the indictment of those five members of unit six one three nine eight a specialized unit of the people's liberation army. You can say ugly guerrilla gig by the moniker ugly gorilla there to make you Make you happy. But my favorite part of that indictment. I always think too i think Former director comey talked about china chinese economic espionage. Being so noisy it was like a guerilla going around your house in this case literally what he called him so ugly guerrilla when. Run your house so so you can draw a line from there to the justice department now continuing a strategy of figuring out who did it making it public and in seeking to us not just the criminal justice system and i'll a back up on that but but not leaving the criminal justice system off the table and instead using an all tools of government power to raise the cost. And you see that. Not just with the case. That director mueller Brought in his role a special counsel which i would argue vital to not just Whether or not we bring them before a court of law but to educating us about what the threat was and now you've seen that with a case that was moved from the special counsel to the national security division. The current deputy attorney general rod rosenstein announced a new policy at the justice department. Which said we are going to our policy. Presumption is is around september. Twenty fifth gonna make public science of election interference that we see before the election then under seal at easter district of virginia not brought by the special counsel was a case that was returned. An a complaint that said they laid out how the russians activity wasn't just in the past but charge someone with attempting to interfere in the twenty eighteen election. This is the atlanta luciano of her case. Exactly in that that strategic announcement that we're gonna make it public and then follow following through shows that they're committed to this approach and let me back up on why. That is the right thing to do. Yes so i like. I have no doubt that it exposes information. It put stuff out there. It really like i mean shows that there was this operation which has important collateral domestic political effects since the president denies the premise right. But i'm interested in it from a cybersecurity code war point of view. What does it get you so one. This is about bringing it out of the shadows one. It educates those who need to protect these systems on what the threats are by giving it in real incredible detail so when a company is trying to figure out how much to budget on putting in new systems to protect itself from cyberattack or and in twenty fourteen this was still very much the mindset needs to move from a mindset of thinking. Hey if i just get the right. it guy. i don't understand what they say. But if they just get the right guy they're gonna fix this so In keep the person out of my system changing that mindset to one that recognizes there is no government or private sector system that can keep a dedicated adversary like the second largest military in the world out of your system so you need to move more towards a risk management resilience mindset by the way a change that the government Needed to go through as well which we saw in the office of personnel management so when educating number two alpha use this example for non-lawyers you've Many lawyers who listened to your podcast but think of an easement. So this is the idea in common law that if you let someone walk across your lawn long enough they get the legal right to walk across your lawn and that's why we put up. No trespass signs won't international. Law is fundamentally a law of customary law and while we were accepting the gorilla banging around the house where everybody could tell that it was china and they were stealing and weren't even hiding their tracks. I mean they weren't even using proxies. They weren't even using service that hid their identity. Real you knew. It was coming from china when you're a company as long as we were tolerating saying nothing keeping it classified keeping an intelligence space. We were making international law. Doing nothing did something. It created international law. That said it is okay to use your military and intelligence services just like traditional.
The Lawfare Podcast
"general rod rosenstein" Discussed on The Lawfare Podcast
"Behind secret dad orders time re cannot rely on the department alone to make these changes on quotes the house judiciary committee consequently oust that it will investigate the former administration surveillance of quote members of congress the news media and on quote this host dated the recording of this podcast. So please bear that in mind as you listen to follow so quinta i want to start with you. Bring us up to speed. I thought we were done discussing. Mike flynn and the investigation of him. How did this all come back. It is a pretty tangled tale. So i will give you the overview as best. I can essentially all. This has come to light more or less over. The past month was sparked by a series of disclosures from the justice department under attorney-general merrick garland to various news organizations. So the washington post cnn and the new york times that the department had in some cases sought in some cases sought and obtained a phone and email records from various reporters at those news organizations in the case of the washington post reporters. It's seems based on the timeframe from which the data was requested that the investigation may have involved a story. The post reported about a conversation between jeff sessions who is at the time on the trump campaign with russian ambassador sergei kislyak about the campaign or perhaps about obama administration efforts to counter russian interference in the two thousand sixteen election. The subject of the cnn. requests is unclear but the the justice department is seeking records for pentagon reporter barbara starr and then when it comes to the new york times. The times indicates that the subject matter the department was investigating seems to involve a story that the paper published about fbi director. James comey's decision on how to handle the clinton email investigation which involved a mysterious document of russian origin that was misleading and nature And which led komi so. He said to change the way he had handled the email investigation. That it's pretty tangled. We can get into that more letter if you like. Essentially according to the new york times the trump administration has pursued leak investigation into whether komi was a source for that story and so the suggestion is essentially that these records from reporters at the department may have sought those records as part of that leak investigation. So that's sort of part one of the story part two of the story or maybe part one a is that it later turned out that the times and us cnn the executives and lawyers at those organizations were placed under a gag order over requests for records of their reporters and then the other part of the story is that on june tenth. The new york times broke the story that in two thousand seventeen two thousand eighteen. The justice department had successfully requested. That apple handover email meta data and account information from a variety of people linked to the house. Intelligence committee So now chairman. Adam schiff a representative eric. Swale well as well as committee. Aides and family members including at least one minor and apple also received gag order according to chairman. Shift the justice department environment may that the investigation was closed. But this news. I think really revitalized the discussion. That had been circulating so far about these Requests information from reporters. Congress pretty predictably was irate. I would say And there was a great deal of discussion about sort of what. What would happen. Next on june eleventh. A justice department inspector. General michael horowitz announced that he would be investigating these investigations after these demands from congress. There's also some some sort of odd little loose ends here about whether or not Attorney general bill barr previous attorney. General jeff sessions and a deputy attorney general rod rosenstein were aware of these requests at the time. They they all say that they don't recall and also i should know that the justice department apparently according to the washington post also requested information firm. Then white house counsel don mcgann in february two thousand eighteen. Well he was gel white house counsel so all of this is is a bit confusing. There is a lot we don't know But that is. I think that the picture as we now understand it as of monday. June fourteenth at our unfortunately so gabe before any of this broke. You wrote with bruce brown your colleague at the reporters committee a piece for l'affaire in which you gain of advice are reckon policy recommendations to the attorney general about how to handle media leaks investigations in the future as well as handle these past ones talk a little bit about when if ever it is appropriate for in your view for a such media subpoenas or subpoenas for foreign any male records of of press people to take place so i think in this case so before addressing the the that question in one thing here. That's particularly important to note with these requests with with other requests is that there is a set of internal policy guidance at the justice department that governs when in how members of the department can seek information from a members of the press in leak investigations in one of the key provisions. There and this was a change. Actually to the guidelines. Following controversies Under the obama administration When the justice department sought records from the phone records from the associated press in the actual content. For for james rosen. There was a change. Those guidelines requiring were putting in place at presumption of notice to the affected journalist or news organization before seeking to compel the production of meditated. Like this you know or other types of investigative steps the presumption of notice can can only be overcome. If the attorney general make certain determinations and those the exceptions to that presumption of notice are supposed to be pretty narrow grave harm. National security significant harm to an investigation Or threats to life and limb in. What's really important to know here is whether the presumption of notice provision in the guidelines was strictly followed the question about when it's appropriate disease records journalists the justice department itself recognizes that such investigative steps are particularly sensitive that if they're overbroad you can identify sources beyond just the source that you're trying to identify specific Leak investigation you can give visibility into what the newsroom is thinking about. And because of that there are these these guidelines in place at the justice department. That are really there. You know to ensure that investigative steps like these occur only in the most extraordinary situations pete you were part of the russia investigation and were still involved in it. At the time that the administration shifted. How should we understand this spree of subpoenas both on the congressional side and on the media side to what extent is. Is this what you would expect to see given. Jim commes publicly expressed at the time anxiety about the leaks. I mean he did say in public that he was very upset about the leaks and in congressional testimony that he was investigating them aggressively. Is this a a reasonable reflection of that or do you look at this pattern of of data record acquisition and say. I had no idea this was going on. I think that the question answer two ways the first is that the leaks that we saw in two thousand sixteen in two thousand seventeen particularly surrounding russia in the trump campaign and then administration were unprecedented in volume compared to anything i saw over the course twenty or career and having said that i think response government in response to those leaks investigating.
600 WREC
"general rod rosenstein" Discussed on 600 WREC
"25 told the top of the hour 809 41, Sean, our number. You want to be a part of the program. We're not gonna let up. We're not going to stop. History needs to be properly recorded. Not that I have. Ah, whole lot of faith anymore in the door. Um, quote, never ending investigation. Special Counsel. Whatever. I just don't But you know, we are because of the final call it a document dump in D. C. Finally, the declassification these documents. In the final waning days of the president's administration are extraordinarily revealing, and this is stuff which again just makes one scratch their head and wonder. Two years waited for its inspector General Horowitz to get the report. There are numerous referrals in that report for well the same exact things that people like Roger Stone and Manafort and others were You know, harassed for years about, but nothing's been done. Nobody's been held accountable anyway. We now understand that in the spring of 2017 Andrew McCabe, deputy FBI director apparently was summoned to the Justice Department for a high level Sunday morning meeting led by then Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. Never. He signed the fourth and final FISA application, by which time we already had Christopher Steele on record. We now know as a result of the classified documents and the sub source of steel steel, admitting that the only reason he was pushing his stupid dossier that he knew is full of crap. Was to help Hillary Clinton divert attention away from the email server issues. Yes, they were real crimes. Yes, there was a real violation of the espionage Act. 18, USC 7 93 and yes, Subpoenaed emails were deleted and bleach bit was real and hammers and devices and sim cards and all that happened. That would put any one of us we the little people. I guess All of us will be in jail. That irredeemable, deplorable, smelly Wal Mart shopping people that we are anyway. McCabe showed up thinking it was a coordination and logistic issues meeting for the special counsel, then taking over Robert Mueller. And he found himself to be the subject of the discussion. And Rosenstein wanted McCabe to recuse himself as the I guess. Temporary FBI director from the Russia probe because McCabe's wife had run from office that was pointed out by President Trump many times in Virginia. And yet, Clinton ally Terry McCall of, you know, raising massive sums of money that you don't really get for a state local race. Um because of, well, at least the appearance of impropriety may also remember that you know McCabe in the I G report saying that he lacked candor. And that's where the inspector general made a referral or what was the whole charge. Say, you know, Stone, Manafort, Look at Roger Stone lying to Congress. Well, that got him 29. Man in tactical gear and frogman and a predawn raid guns drawn CNN cameras rolling and the hell that they put him through the exact same thing anyway, you might. This is McCabe denying it. Rejecting the IG report, Michael Horowitz said no reason alive, But anyway, here's what McCabe said at the time. I never intentionally misled anyone about anything, and I certainly have not committed a crime. I was asked questions on two separate occasions about an article that had appeared months before I was asked questions completely unprompted in the middle of other farm or intense and challenging issues that were swirling around me at the time. Um, when I've thought after the fact that those answers may have been inaccurate or mistaken, I reached out to those folks to make sure that they understood exactly what I meant and understood exactly what the situation was. Well, if you you know, you just listen to this guy going, okay? Not with the report said. That's not what we've learned, you know is we've learned a lot anyway. John Solomon is with us. He's he's been poring through these now declassified files in the final days of Trump's presidency. With apparently some update here. John Solomon. Yes, I'm going to be with you. Listen, these documents are amazing. I've said it before. These are too I think. FBI integrity What the Pentagon papers were to the Vietnam War. Every time you read them, you discover something else. I was just reading and preparing for short today. This incredible, Jule That's around the time that you were. McCabe is meeting with Rosenstein right after Comey's fired and out of the blue. I just read it for the first time. The first time I've ever seen this, Rosenstein tells McCabe, uh, right after Comey's fired The president didn't fire me just because of Russia. He had intended to fire him all along. Going back to January. When they first came in office. He didn't think that Comey was a good FBI director. Why is that significant? We gave a president To special counsel Mueller to investigate the firing of James Comey as obstructing the Russia investigation, when in fact the contemporaneous evidence now shows The idea to fire Comey started long before Russia just every time we read these documents were gonna learn something new about just how misled we were. How much deception in the official annals of government? Was carried out in how often the president was mistreated by false facts. I mean time and time again, a false narrative was pointed put out there. And the exculpatory facts were always hidden by the bureaucrats by them key players in Congress and we're on Lee now getting the truth. Four years later, it's It's incredible. Well, what's frustrating is guys like Durham. He's had access to this information the whole time. Is he not? He has absolutely he knows every says Low hanging fruit. John, This is not complicated stuff here. You know if we're gonna prosecute General Flynn for perjury trap, where? Where I sent them in something I wouldn't do in the Bush or Obama administration's and even the FBI agents didn't think it was lying. But they send a cent sign this paper that says you did. You lied, even though we didn't think you lie or we're gonna go after your son and your family. That's right. Listen, we're going to release in the next couple days. A new document. It's going to be the transcript of Carter Page talking to an FBI informant two months before they seek the FISA warrant two months before. The FBI knew from that interaction with Carter Page that Carter Page was not someone who had changed the Republican platform to help rush him. He said it we wasn't involved in. He was not someone that was trying to get Hillary Clinton's emails, all the allegations that Christopher Steele had put in his dossier. We're already debunked by an undercover informant wearing a wire catching Carter page, unaware that he was talking to an FBI informant. Making statements that were exculpatory statements of innocents and the FBI..
WTVN
"general rod rosenstein" Discussed on WTVN
"Know about this is the Sean Hannity show. 25 told the top of the hour 809 41, Sean, our number. You want to be a part of the program. We're not gonna let up. We're not going to stop. History needs to be properly recorded. Not that I have. Ah, whole lot of faith anymore in the door. Um, quote, never ending investigation. Special Counsel. Whatever. I just don't But you know, we are because of the final You call it a document Dump in D. C. Finally, the declassification these documents. In the final waning days of the president's administration are extraordinarily revealing. And this is stuff which again just makes one scratch their head and wonder. Two years waited for its inspector General Horowitz, forget the report. There are numerous referrals in that report for well the same exact things that people like Roger Stone and Manafort and others were You know, harassed for years about, but nothing has been done. Nobody's been held accountable anyway. We now understand that in the spring of 2017 Andrew McCabe, deputy FBI director apparently was summoned to the Justice Department for a high level Sunday morning meeting led by then Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. Never. He signed the fourth and final FISA application, by which time we already had Christopher Steele on record We now know as a result of the classified documents and the sub source of steel. Steel, admitting that the only reason he was pushing his stupid dossier that he knew was full of crap to was to help Hillary Clinton divert attention away from the email server issues. Yes, they were real crimes. Yes, there was a real violation of the espionage Act. 18, USC 7 93 and yes, Subpoenaed emails were deleted and bleach bit was real and hammers and devices and sim cards and all that happened. That would put any one of us. We the little people. I guess all of us will be in jail that irredeemable, deplorable, smelly Wal Mart shopping. People that we are anyway. McCabe showed up thinking it was a coordination and logistic issues meeting for the special counsel than taking over Robert Mueller. And he found himself to be the subject of the discussion. And Rosenstein wanted McCabe to recuse himself as the I guess. Temporary FBI director from the Russia probe because McCabe's wife had run from office that was pointed out by President Trump many times in Virginia. And yet, Clinton ally Terry McCall of, you know, raising massive sums of money that you don't really get for a state local race because of well at least the appearance of impropriety may also remember that you know McCabe in the I G report saying that he lacked candor. And that's where Inspector General made a referral or what was the whole charge. Say, you know, Stone, Manafort, Look at Roger Stone lying to Congress. Well, that got him 29. Men in tactical gear and frogmen and a predawn raid guns drawn CNN cameras rolling and the hell that they put him through the exact same thing anyway, you might. This is McCabe denying it. Rejecting the IG report, Michael Horowitz said no reason alive, But anyway, here's what McCabe said at the time. I never intentionally misled anyone about anything, and I certainly have not committed a crime. I was asked questions on two separate occasions about an article that had appeared months before I was asked questions completely unprompted in the middle of other farm or intense and challenging issues that were swirling around me at the time. Um, when I've thought after the fact that those answers may have been inaccurate or mistaken, I reached out to those folks to make sure that they understood exactly what I meant and understood exactly what the situation was. Well, if you you know, you just listen to this guy opening, okay? Not with the report said. That's not what we've learned, you know is we've learned a lot anyway. John Solomon is with us. He's he's been poring through these now declassified files in the final days of Trump's presidency. With apparently some update here. John Solomon. Yes, I'm going to be with you. Listen, these documents are amazing. I've said it before. These are too I think. FBI integrity What the Pentagon papers were to the Vietnam War. Every time you read them, you discover something else. I was just reading and preparing for a show today. This incredible, Jule. That's around the time that you were. McCabe is meeting with Rosenstein right after Comey's fired and out of the blue. I just read it for the first time. The first time I've ever seen this, Rosenstein tells McCabe, uh, right after Comey's fired The president didn't fire me just because of Russia. He had intended to fire him all along. Going back to January when they first came into office. He didn't think that Comey was a good FBI director. Why is that significant? We gave a president To special counsel Mueller to investigate the firing of James Comey as obstructing the Russia investigation, when in fact the contemporaneous evidence now shows The idea to fire Comey started long before Russia just every time we read these documents were gonna learn something new about just how misled we were. How much deception in the official annals of government? Was carried out in how often the president was mistreated by false facts. I mean time and time again, a false narrative was pointed put out there. And the exculpatory facts were always hidden by the bureaucrats by them key players in Congress and we're on Lee now getting the truth. Four years later, it's It's incredible. What's frustrating is guys like Durham. He's had access to this information the whole time. As you know, he has absolutely he knows every says Low hanging fruit. John, This is not complicated stuff here. You know, we're gonna prosecute General Flynn for perjury trap. Where? Where I sent them in something I wouldn't do in the Bush or Obama administration's and even the FBI agents didn't think it was lying. But they send us a sign this paper that says you did. You lied, even though we didn't think you lie or we're gonna go after your son and your family. That's right. Listen, we're going to release in the next couple days. A new document. It's going to be the transcript of Carter Page talking to an FBI informant two months before they seek the FISA warrant two months before. The FBI knew from that interaction with Carter Page that Carter Page was not someone who had changed the Republican platform to help rush him. He said it we wasn't involved in. He was not someone that was trying to get Hillary Clinton's emails, all the allegations that Christopher Steele had put in his dossier. We're already debunked by an undercover informant wearing a wire catching Carter page, unaware that he was talking to an FBI informant. Making statements that were exculpatory statements of innocents and the FBI. When you read this transcript, then you look at what the FBI did in the subsequent application, you realize knowingly willfully Multiple members of the F B. I misled the FISA court. It's not even in doubt anymore. Yeah, I mean, it's and look when we say premeditated fraud is that now we know from these documents in these final days, declassification that in fact they had interviewed Christopher Steele early on and steals, admitted the reason he was pushing the dossier. Was to distract on behalf of Hillary Clinton's campaign because he hated Trump, You know, hence, we can go back to August, the 2016 and the warning even by Bruce, or that he's got a political agenda and that he's tied to the Clinton and Clinton's paying for this crap. On that. Even the sub source in January 2017. They all knew and still call me put his signature on three of the four warrants Rod Rosenstein, the final one, which is inexplicable to me, because everybody knew by then it was at that point was a hoax. And still, they went forward with even the charging dictates Rosenstein of Robert Mueller. It's just remarkable. And you know you're looking at a zoo. I go through these notes. You see, Rod Rosenstein really appears in the FBI knows to be such a weak character. There's a moment in the conversations with Andy McCabe..
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"general rod rosenstein" Discussed on News Talk 1130 WISN
"Want to be a part of the program. We're not gonna let up. We're not going to stop. History needs to be properly recorded. Not that I have. Ah, whole lot of faith anymore in the door. Um, quote, never ending investigation. Special Counsel. Whatever. I just don't But you know, we are because of the final call it a document dump in D. C. Finally, the declassification these documents. In the final waning days of the president's administration are extraordinarily revealing, and this is stuff which again just makes one scratch their head and wonder. Two years waited for its inspector General Horowitz to get the report. There are numerous referrals in that report for well the same exact things that people like Roger Stone and Manafort and others were You know, harassed for years about, but nothing has been done. Nobody's been held accountable anyway. We now understand that in the spring of 2017 Andrew McCabe, deputy FBI director apparently was summoned to the Justice Department for a high level Sunday morning meeting led by then Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. Never. He signed the fourth and final FISA application, by which time we already had Christopher Steele on record. We now know as a result of the classified documents and the sub source of steel steel, admitting that the only reason he was pushing his stupid dossier that he knew is full of crap. Uh, it was to help Hillary Clinton divert attention away from the email server issues. Yes, they were real crimes. Yes, there was a real violation of the espionage Act. 18, USC 7 93 and yes, Subpoenaed emails were deleted and bleach bit was real and hammers and devices and sim cards and all that happened. Would put any one of us we the little people. I guess All of us will be in jail. That irredeemable, deplorable, smelly Wal Mart shopping people that we are anyway. McCabe showed up thinking it was a coordination and logistic issues meeting for the special counsel, then taking over Robert Mueller. And he found himself to be the subject of the discussion. And Rosenstein wanted McCabe to recuse himself as the I guess. Temporary FBI director from the Russia probe because McCabe's wife had run from office that was pointed out by President Trump many times in Virginia. And yet, Clinton ally Terry McCall of, you know, raising massive sums of money that you don't really get for a state local race. Um because of well least the appearance of impropriety may also remember that you know McCabe in the I G report saying that he lacked candor. And that's where Inspector General made a referral or what was the whole charge. Say, you know, Stone, Manafort, Look at Roger Stone lying to Congress. Well, that got him 29. Man in tactical gear and frogmen and a predawn raid guns drawn CNN cameras rolling and the hell that they put him through the exact same thing anyway, you might. This is McKay denying it. Rejecting the IG report, Michael Horowitz said no reason alive, But anyway, here's what McCabe said at the time. I never intentionally misled anyone about anything, and I certainly have not committed a crime. I was asked questions on two separate occasions about an article that had appeared months before I was asked questions completely unprompted in the middle of other farm or intense and challenging issues that were swirling around me at the time. Um, when I've thought after the fact that those answers may have been inaccurate or mistaken, I reached out to those folks to make sure that they understood exactly what I meant and understood exactly what the situation was. Well, if you you know, you just listen to this guy going, okay? Not with the report said. That's not what we've learned, you know is we've learned a lot anyway. John Solomon is with us. He's been poring through these now declassified files in the final days of Trump's presidency. With apparently some update here. John Solomon. Yes, I'm going to be with you. Listen, these documents are amazing. I've said it before. These are too I think. FBI integrity what the Pentagon papers were to the Vietnam War. Every time you read them, you discover something else. I was just reading and preparing for short today. This incredible Jule. That's around the time that you were. McCabe is meeting with Rosenstein right after Comey's fired and out of the blue. I just read it for the first time. The first time I've ever seen this, Rosenstein tells McCabe, uh, right after Comey's fired The president didn't fire me just because of Russia. He had intended to fire him all along. Going back to January. When they first came in office. He didn't think that Comey was a good FBI director. Why is that significant? We gave a president To special counsel Mueller to investigate the firing of James Comey as obstructing the Russia investigation, when in fact the contemporaneous evidence now shows The idea to fire Comey started long before Russia just every time we read these documents were gonna learn something new about just how misled we were. How much deception in the official annals of government? Was carried out in how often the president was mistreated by false facts. I mean time and time again, a false narrative was pointed put out there, and the exculpatory facts were always hidden by the bureaucrats by them. Key players in Congress. And we're on Lee now getting the truth. Four years later, it's It's incredible. Well, what's frustrating is guys like Durham. He's had access to this information the whole time. Has he not? He has absolutely. He knows every says Low hanging fruit. John, This is not complicated stuff here. You know if we're gonna prosecute General Flynn for perjury trap where? Where I sent them in something I wouldn't do in the Bush or Obama administration's and even the FBI agents didn't think it was lying. But they send us send sign this paper that says you did. You lied, even though we didn't think you lie or we're gonna go after your son and your family. That's right. Listen, we're going to release in the next couple days. A new document. It's going to be the transcript of Carter Page talking to an FBI informant two months before they seek the FISA warrant two months before. The FBI knew from that interaction with Carter Page that Carter Page was not someone who had changed the Republican platform to help rush him, He said it we wasn't involved in it. He was not someone that was trying to get Hillary Clinton's emails, all the allegations that Christopher Steele had put in his dossier. We're already debunked by an undercover informant wearing a wire catching Carter page, unaware that he was talking to an FBI informant making statements that were exculpatory statements of innocents. And the FBI. When you read this transcript, then you look at what the FBI did in the subsequent application, you realize knowingly willfully multiple members of the F B. I misled the FISA court. It's not even in doubt anymore. Yeah, I mean, it's and look when we say premeditated fraud is that Now we know from these documents in these final days, declassification that in fact they had interviewed Christopher Steele early on and steals, admitted the reason he was pushing the dossier was to distract. On behalf of Hillary Clinton's campaign because he hated Trump, You know, hence, we can go back to August, the 2016 in the warning even by Bruce, or that he's got a political agenda and that he's tied to the Clinton and Clinton's paying for this crap. On that. Even the sub source in January 2017. They all knew and still call me put his signature on three of the four warrants Rod Rosenstein, the final one, which is inexplicable to me, because everybody knew by then it was at that point was a hoax. And still, they went forward with even the charging dictates Rosenstein of Robert Mueller. Yep, it's just a remarkable and you know you're looking at a zoo. I go through these notes. You see, Rod Rosenstein really appears in the FBI knows to be such a weak character. There's a moment in the conversations with Andy McCabe McCabe rights just down later in his own. No togetherness McCabe's version of events, but he said that at one point, uh Rosenstein pulled him aside and said, Would you reach out to the fire James Comey and find out if he thinks it's a good idea. The name of special prosecutor..
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"general rod rosenstein" Discussed on KSFO-AM
"The Sean Hannity show. 25 tool. The top of the hour. 809 41, Sean, our number. You want to be a part of the program. We're not gonna let up. We're not going to stop. History needs to be properly recorded. Not that I have. Ah, whole lot of faith anymore in the door. Um, quote, never ending investigation. Special Counsel. Whatever. I just don't But you know, we are because of the final call it a document dump in D. C. Finally, the declassification these documents. In the final waning days of the president's administration are extraordinarily revealing. And this is stuff which again just makes one scratch their head and wonder. Two years waited for its inspector General Horowitz, forget the report. There are numerous referrals in that report for well the same exact things that people like Roger Stone and Manafort and others were You know, harassed for years about, but nothing's been done. Nobody's been held accountable anyway. We now understand that in the spring of 2017 Andrew McCabe, deputy FBI director apparently was summoned to the Justice Department for a high level Sunday morning meeting led by then Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. Never. He signed the fourth and final FISA application, by which time we already had Christopher Steele on record We now know as a result of the classified documents and the sub source of steel. Steel, admitting that the only reason he was pushing his stupid dossier that he knew is full of crap to was to help Hillary Clinton divert attention away from the email server issues. Yes, they were real crimes. Yes, there was a real violation of the espionage Act. 18, USC 7 93 and yes, Subpoenaed emails were deleted and bleach bit was real and hammers and devices and sim cards and all that happened. That would put any one of us. We the little people. I guess all of us will be in jail that irredeemable, deplorable, smelly Wal Mart shopping. People that we are anyway. McCabe showed up thinking it was a coordination and logistic issues meeting for the special counsel, then taking over Robert Mueller. And he found himself to be the subject of the discussion. And Rosenstein wanted McCabe to recuse himself as the I guess. Temporary FBI director from the Russia probe because McCabe's wife had run from office that was pointed out by President Trump many times in Virginia. And yet, Clinton ally Terry McCall of, you know, raising massive sums of money that you don't really get for a state local race. Um because of, well, at least the appearance of impropriety may also remember that you know McCabe in the I G report saying that he lacked candor. And that's where the inspector general made a referral or what was the whole charge. Say, you know, Stone, Manafort, Look at Roger Stone lying to Congress. Well, that got him 29. Man in tactical gear and frogman and a predawn raid guns drawn CNN cameras rolling and the hell that they put him through the exact same thing anyway, you might. This is McKay denying it. Rejecting the IG report, Michael Horowitz said. No reason alive, But anyway, here's what he cave said at the time. I never intentionally misled anyone about anything, and I certainly have not committed a crime. I was asked questions on two separate occasions about an article that had appeared months before I was asked questions completely unprompted in the middle of other farm or intense and challenging issues that were swirling around me at the time. Um, when I've thought after the fact that those answers may have been inaccurate or mistaken, I reached out to those folks to make sure that they understood exactly what I meant and understood exactly what the situation was. Well, if you you know, you just listen to this guy going, okay? Not with the report said. That's not what we've learned, you know is we've learned a lot anyway. John Solomon is with us. He's been poring through these now declassified files in the final days of Trump's presidency. With apparently some update here. John Solomon. Yes, I'm going to be with you. Listen, these documents our amazing I've said it before. These are too I think. FBI integrity What the Pentagon papers were to the Vietnam War. Every time you read them, you discover something else. I was just reading and preparing for short today. This incredible, Jule That's around the time that you were. McCabe is meeting with Rosenstein right after Comey's fired and out of the blue. I just read it for the first time. First time I've ever seen this, Rosenstein tells McCabe, uh, right after Comey's fired But the president didn't fire me just because of Russia. He had intended to fire him all along. Going back to January. When they first came in office. He didn't think that Comey was a good FBI director. Why is that significant? We gave a president To special counsel Mueller to investigate the firing of James Comey as obstructing the Russia investigation, when in fact the contemporaneous evidence now shows The idea to fire Comey started long before Russia just every time we read these documents were gonna learn something new about just how misled we were. How much deception in the official annals of government? Was carried out in how often the president was mistreated by false facts. I mean time and time again, a false narrative was pointed put out there. And the exculpatory facts were always hidden by the bureaucrats by them key players in Congress and we're on Lee now getting the truth. Four years later, it's It's incredible. What's frustrating is guys like Durham. He's had access to this information the whole time. As you know, he has absolutely he knows every says Low hanging fruit. John, This is not complicated stuff here. You know if we're gonna prosecute General Flynn for perjury trap, where? Where I sent them in something I wouldn't do in the Bush or Obama administration's and even the FBI agents didn't think it was lying. But they send the scent. Sign this paper that says you did. You lied, even though we didn't think you lie or we're gonna go after your son and your family. That's right. Listen, we're going to release in the next couple days. A new document. It's going to be the transcript of Carter Page talking to an FBI informant two months before they seek the FISA warrant two months before. The FBI knew from that interaction with Carter Page that Carter Page was not someone who had changed the Republican platform to help brush him, He said it we wasn't involved in it. He was not someone that was trying to get Hillary Clinton's emails, all the allegations that Christopher Steele had put in his dossier. We're already debunked by an undercover informant wearing a wire catching Carter page, unaware that he was talking to an FBI informant making statements that were exculpatory statements of innocents. And the FBI. When you read this transcript, then you look at what the FBI did in the subsequent application, you realize knowingly willfully multiple members of the F B. I misled the FISA court. It's not even in doubt anymore. Yeah, I mean, it's and look that when we say premeditated fraud is that Now we know from these documents in these final days, declassification that in fact they had interviewed Christopher Steele early on and steals, admitted the reason he was pushing the dossier. Was the distract on behalf of Hillary Clinton's campaign because he hated Trump, You know, hence, we can go back to August, the 2016 in the warning even by Bruce or that he's got a political agenda and that he's tied to the Clinton and Clinton's paying for this crap. On that. Even the sub source in January 2017. They all knew and still call me put a signature on three of the four warrants Rod Rosenstein, the final one, which is inexplicable to me, because everybody knew by then it was at that point was a hoax. And still, they went forward with even the charging dictates Rosenstein of Robert Mueller. It's just remarkable. And you know you're looking at a zoo. I go through these notes. You see, Rod Rosenstein really appears in the FBI knows to be such a weak character. There's a moment in the conversations with Andy McCabe, where McCabe writes this down later, in his own note against us. McCabe's Version of events. But he said that at one point, uh Rosenstein pulled him aside and said, Would you reach out to the fire James Comey and find out if he thinks it's a good idea to name a special prosecutor..
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"general rod rosenstein" Discussed on KLBJ 590AM
"Over south South south like south like Carol, That was good. I like the way you pretend to know sports and catch six all nine and time for the rush up voice. Last week, former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein blasted the zero tolerance immigration policy was used on his watch, he said it should never have been proposed or even implemented. Now, he said. This after in Justice Department watchdog report claimed the policy was the driving force responsible for thousands of Children being separated from their parents. Here we go again with this live Rosenstein said he's been asking himself what could have been done differently. The zero tolerance immigration policy is at the top of his list. Democrats are coming back in the power and the gravel ng is a sight to behold Anybody Like Rosenstein, who yearns to get back into the left good graces has to pretend that they opposed everything Trump ever did, and begged to be forgiven for their trespasses against a Democrat agenda. For the record. The reason illegal immigrant parents were separated from their Children was due to the 1997 floors settlement. Between leftist immigration activists and the government. Under Bill Clinton 20 years before Donald Trump became president, you could look it up now, according to news reports, caravans of migrants ready to illegally breach our borders are already forming in South and Central America. Because they know President Biden will welcome them with open arms. You see, Democrats have a zero tolerance policy against enforcing America's immigration law. So it's going to get me back to business as usual. Learn it. Love it. Live it. I guess that used to it 2021 marks the 35th anniversary of the American Eagle Coin program. And these historic gold coins will never be the same again. Why the U. S. Mint has unveiled a new design for the 2021 American Gold Eagle coins. This means now is your last chance to get in American Gold Eagle coin with the original Eagle design.
Todd and Don
McCabe will defend opening Russia probe in testimony before GOP-controlled Senate panel
"Former FBI Deputy director Andrew McCabe is set to testify on Capitol Hill today in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee. It's the fourth part of oversight hearings on Crossfire Hurricane which was the counterintelligence Trump Russia investigation. Senate Judiciary Chair Lindsey Graham and the committee have already heard testimony from former FBI director James Comey, former acting attorney General Sally Yates and former deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. Tanya J. Powers. Fox News,
WBZ Afternoon News
Fired U.S. State Department watchdog tells lawmakers he was impartial
"A former top justice department official defending the Russia investigation during a hearing before lawmakers Senate Republicans begin their investigation into the F. B. I. twenty sixteen Russia probe and the surveillance of a trump campaign aide with the former deputy Attorney General rod Rosenstein with newly declassified records and a watchdog report that found widespread errors in the surveillance warrants Rosenstein said he would not have signed the paperwork if you had known then what he knows today Rosenstein who also appointed special counsel Robert Muller testified the two year probe was not a hoax committee Democrats said the hearing should have focused on policing issues and Kobe
WTOP 24 Hour News
Rosenstein to testify as part of Graham's Russia investigation probe
"Former deputy Attorney General rod Rosenstein of Maryland will testify next week at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the justice department's Russia investigation that come from South Carolina Republican senator Lindsey Graham who chairs the committee Rosenstein's appearance in a week will come at the first federal oversight hearing of the committee's new investigation Rosenstein is a pivotal figure in the Russia probe because he's the one who appointed Robert Muller's special counsel the committee hearings are part of a broader effort by allies of president trump to call into question decisions and actions made during the Russia
AP News Radio
Graham calls Rosenstein as first witness in Russia inquiry
"Hi Mike Rossi a reporting the Senate Judiciary Committee lines up its first witness as it looks into the Russia probe Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Lindsey Graham says former deputy Attorney General rod Rosenstein will testify on Wednesday as the committee opens an investigation of the FBI's Russia probe Rosenstein is a key figure in may twenty sixteen he appointed Robert Muller's special counsel to investigate potential ties between the trump campaign and Russia Rosenstein also authorized reviewing FBI applications to monitor a former trump campaign adviser Carter page last December the justice department inspector general concluded there were serious mistakes and omissions in F. B. I. applications to monitor page Mike Rossio Washington
AP News Radio
Graham calls Rosenstein as first witness in Russia inquiry
"Hi Mike Rossi a reporting rod Rosenstein will testify about the Russia probe on Capitol Hill next Wednesday former deputy Attorney General rod Rosenstein will testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee next week as the panel looks into the justice department's Russia investigation senator Lindsey Graham the committee chairman said Thursday Rosenstein will testify about the new revelations contained in a report from justice department inspector general Michael Horowitz the report released in December concluded the Russia investigation opened in July twenty sixteen for a legitimate basis but it also says there were serious mistakes and omissions in F. B. I. applications to monitor a former trump campaign adviser Carter page might cross CO Washington
Larry Elder
Rod Rosenstein to testify before Senate panel on Russia probe
"Former deputy Attorney General rod Rosenstein will testify next week before a Senate panel looking into the F. B. I. investigation of the trump campaign Judiciary Committee chairman senator Lindsey Graham says Rosenstein will testify next Wednesday it marks the first public hearing and rams probe of crossfire hurricane the name for the investigation of Russian interference and since disproven allegations of collusion by the trump campaign Rosenstein says he's grateful for a chance to testify about information that's come to light about possible abuses of the FISA warrant process crossfire hurricane has been blasted by the president's supporters as an effort to unseat a duly
Financial Issues with Dan Celia
AG Barr: Mueller 'Could've Reached a Conclusion' on Obstruction
"Attorney general William bar sitting down with CBS news says the former special counsel, Robert Muller could have and should have reached a decision on obstruction in the two year Russia investigation. But when he didn't make a decision, the deputy attorney general, rod Rosenstein, and I felt it was necessary for us as the head of the department to reach that decision
Business Beware
Rod Rosenstein Bids Farewell to Justice Department
"To the Justice department. Attorney general Jeff Sessions told us follow regular order and ensure the nonpartisan administration of Justice, and that is what we did every day deputy attorney general rod Rosenstein, leaving the department of Justice at a ceremony celebrating his career Rosenstein, speaking with reporters rule of law requires us to ignore partisan politics to tune out the new cycle and base our decisions on credible evidence. Many people have the luxury of dismissing facts that are inconsistent with their pre existing beliefs, but we face the exacting scrutiny of the federal courtroom. And some kind words about Rosenstein from current attorney general William bar, exceptional intelligence sound judgement. Crafted from experience composure, even under the most intense pressure and scrutiny. This is USA radio. News. News
Financial Issues with Dan Celia
Rod Rosenstein Resigns After Embattled Tenure as Deputy AG
"Deputy attorney general rod Rosenstein who appointed special counsel Robert Muller to investigate Russian interference in the twenty sixteen. Presidential election submitted his resignation letter to the White House, Monday effective may eleventh. You're listening to USA radio news
Ben Ferguson
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein resigns, effective May 11
"Here, rod Rosenstein, has w Turney rod Rosenstein is resigning has resigned. He has his submitted his resignation letter to the White House is effective may eleventh as soon as we get more information on this. We will give you the the date on that. But again, rod Rosenstein, deputy attorney general rod Rosenstein has put in his resignation
America in the Morning with John Trout
Mueller report recounts 10 'episodes' involving Trump and questions of obstruction
"Special counsel Robert Muller's report into Russian interference in the two thousand sixteen presidential campaign is now in the hands of congress and the American public. But while the investigation is over the nearly four hundred fifty page report is creating more questions. Bob Costantini reports from the White House attorney general bars statement based on the molar report out that while it was quite clear. Russia's internet research agency, affiliated with the Putin government trying to influence the campaign in favor of Donald Trump. Indeed as the report states, quote, the investigation did not identify evidence that any US person knowingly or intentionally coordinated with the IRA's interference operation, unquote. Put another way the special counsel found. No collusion. The report itself suggest the June two thousand sixteen meeting at Trump Tower arranged by Donald from junior with Russians claiming to have dirt on Hillary Clinton was one of many contacts studied under what's commonly referred to as collusion. Otherwise, quote, the Russian contacts consisted of business. Actions offers of assistance to the campaign invitations for candidate Trump and Putin to meet in person invitations for campaign officials and representatives of the Russian government to meet and policy positions seeking improved US Russian relations in quote, President Trump's initial public reaction was breath during an event hosting wounded warriors here and they're having a good day. I'm having to do it was called, no collusion. No obstruction. The attorney general Robert Muller handed off the idea of whether the president or someone close to him tried to obstruct Justice in the Russia investigation after finding ten potential episodes. Although the deputy attorney general disagreed with some of the special counsels legal theories and felt that some of the episodes examined did not amount to obstruction as a matter of law. We did not realize solely on that. In making our decision. Democrats on Capitol Hill will certainly try to look at those episodes further including the firing of James Comey and some of the president's tweets urging potential witnesses to not rat on him related to the obstruction of Justice aspect of the Muller reports bar over this bit of empathy for President Trump. There is substantial evidence to show that the president was frustrated and angered by his sincere belief that the investigation was undermining his presidency propelled by his political opponents and fuelled by illegal leaks. Robert Mueller lifted up. Bar deputy attorney general rod Rosenstein to look into whether the president or someone close to him could have engaged in obstruction of Justice. They decided no among the obstruction of Justice lines of inquiry Muller mentioned in the report are the firing of James Comey attempts to influence witnesses and the president's order to White House counsel dumb again that he tell deputy AG rod Rosenstein, the fire Muller Mcgann who spoke with the team for as much as thirty hours apparently refused to do. So in an effort to save the president from an appearance of structure of Justice add to that the alleged efforts by the president ticket. Michael Cohen to stay loyal once Cohen head criminal legal problems in New York Muller ends with a hint for congress to decide if it should charge the president with obstruction on the way tomorrow Lago. President Trump tweeted from Air Force One I had the right to end the whole witch hunt. If I wanted I have fired everyone, including Muller if I wanted I chose not to I had the right to use executive privilege. I didn't however the report makes a point of comment regarding obstruction. The president's to influence the investigation were mostly unsuccessful. But that is largely because the persons who surrounded the president declined to carry out orders or accede to his requests. And now it's up to congress to take the next step. Linda Kenyon, has the view from Capitol Hill. Michael if you thought it was over thank again special counsel made clear that he did not exonerate the president, and the responsibility now falls to congress told the president accountable for his actions. That's Representative Jerrold Nadler, the powerful chairman of the House Judiciary committee. He's leading one of the many investigations that will continue in the wake of the mullahs report. A report that found no collusion, but did not absolve President Trump of obstruction of Justice attorney general William bar who presented the report at a news conference was roundly criticized by many Democrats, including Nadler who said bar was far from Jek give bars words and actions suggest he has been disingenuous and misleading in saying the president is clear of wrongdoing. Nadler says the redacted Muller report is clear the President Trump. Committed multiple misdeeds report outlines disturbing evidence that President Trump engaged in obstruction of Justice and other misconduct. Senator Richard Blumenthal. A member of the Senate Judiciary committee says the misconduct on the part of the president is stunning. But that's only part of the story. Details in this report about the Russian attack on our democracy are truly chilling also calls into question, the objectivity of the attorney general Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell, one of the only Republicans to make any public comment on the release of the mullahs report depicted, the attorney general the special counsel, and the deputy attorney general as beyond reproach all three of them about as close to a-political as you can imagine strong disagreement from Adam Schiff, the chairman of the house intelligence committee. Attorney general did a grave disservice to the country by misrepresenting significant parts of the mullahs report and shift says the attorney general also blast over the actions of the president of the United States there. Unquestionably
This Morning with Gordon Deal
Political fight over Mueller report intensifies
"Meanwhile, the escalating political battle over the report centers on reductions, which lawyerly editing process, Mr. bars redacting at least four categories of information before issuing it to congress and the public Devlin Barrett who covers the Justice department and the F B I at the Washington Post says the fight over blackout boxes is likely to lead to months of battles between congress and the Justice department. Devon, what's up here? The attorney general is is looking at a number of different types of material that we would be redacted and what I try to describe in the piece was just how some of those categories are fairly flexible, particularly the grand jury material category. And we really don't know how he's going to. Decide those reductions, but because this is such a politically charged issue. It's just an incredibly tense and people are already accusing him of acting in bad faith before they even see what he's done. He's working with Robert Muller on this. Correct. That's right. And he's working with Robert Muller, and he's working with deputy attorney general rod Rosenstein, who's been supervising this this investigation from the beginning. All right. So I mean, this thing could come out and be virtually three hundred eighty eight pages are so out of the four hundred that are completely blacked out in theory. Right. A lot of grand jury stuff. I'd imagine this with all those subpoenas that were issued well in theory, but there's a couple of things to remember one bar has publicly pledged to be as transparent as possible now transparency is often in the eye of the beholder. The other issue is grand jury material can be interpreted different ways. I think prosecutors genuinely interpret the category, very broadly. But I think when there's this much attention on such a high profile case, especially a case in which congress also has. Vested interest in knowing what happened in the course of the investigation. I think there's some pretty good arguments to define grandeur material material narrowly,
Nightside with Dan Rea
NBC's Savannah Guthrie Grills Sarah Sanders
"Savannah Guthrie, I've NBC I went after Sarah Sanders saying well doesn't the president needs to apologize now. Because he didn't file fire Mueller, and it became it was Sarah Sanders turned on her like a Honey badger. Let's let's play cut right now. Robert Muller deserve better from the president that this kind of language and behaviour, frankly, I think the American people deserve better. They didn't deserve for the election of this president to try to be wait a minute. But the president's rhetoric about a public servant doing a job. Are you kidding? The president's rhetoric matches. They are literally the media and Democrats have called the president an agent of a foreign government. We're talking to that is an accusation equal to treason, which is punishable by death in this country. Want to quote from the report here this not I will this is William bar. According to the report quote. The investigation special counsel's investigation did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities in a footnote related to that to that quote. The footnote says that in assessing potential conspiracy charges the special counsel also considered well, the members of the Trump campaign coordinated with Russian election interference activities, the special counsel defied coordination with an agreement tacit or express between the Trump campaign and the Russian government on election interference. And it just did happen. This is again, we will see the full report. We want transparency we want transparency. There's there's one other point here that I wanted to make on the obstruction of Justice after reviewing the special the special counsel may not know determination after reviewing the special counsel's final report on these issues consulting with department officials, including the office of legal counsel and applying the principles of federal prosecution that guide are charging decisions deputy attorney general rod Rosenstein and I- meaning William bar. The attorney journal concluded that the evidence developed during the special counsel's investigation is not sufficient to establish that the president committed and obstruction of Justice crime in making this determination. We noted that the special counsel recognize that quote, the evidence does not establish that the president was involved in an underlying crime related to Russian election interference unquote, and that while not determinative. The absence of such evidence beers upon the president's intent with respect to
Paul W. Smith
President Trump, Robert Muller And President discussed on Paul W. Smith
"President Trump and his advisors are celebrating the conclusion of the special counsel Robert Muller's report. Here's correspondent, Omar Jimenez. Your nearly two years. Finally details are starting to emerge from special counsel, Robert Mueller's investigation Sunday attorney general William bar sent a letter to congress summarizing the main conclusions from Muller's report critically Muller did not find president Donald Trump's campaign or associates conspired with Russia during the two thousand sixteen US presidential election, also attorney general bar and deputy attorney general rod Rosenstein decided the evidence was not sufficient to support a prosecution of the president for obstruction of Justice. And then at one point bar quote smaller directly writing while this report does not conclude that the president committed a crime. It also does not
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Nadler: Mueller Report Is "Limited To Crimes," Congress Has Responsibility To Look At "Broader Picture"
"We do know the special counsel is not planning to issue any more indictments. According to a senior Justice department official the conclusion of the report which has cast a shadow over the first two years of the Trump administration is already shaping new political battles the president's allies are signaling he is vindicated as Democrats demand full transparency and vowed a press four with their ongoing investigations into the president. His administration and his businesses. Let's get straight to the man at the center of cherry chairman in the house, congressman, Jerry Nadler of New York. Thank you so much for joining me this morning surfers on our reporting that there will be no further indictments in the Muller probe. That means the end no member of the Trump campaign was charged with conspiring with the Russian government to influence the election Duke sept- that no member of the Trump team engaged in that kind of criminal conspiracy with Russia will I don't know first of all we don't know what indictments forthcoming from other investigations that have been spun out by the special prosecutor to the southern district of New York with these district Virginia. But his main mission was about Russian you think you think he he Muller would would send that to other parts of the Justice department. Don't know that's one of the things we will have to see when we read the report. And that's one of the reasons that I think it's. So crucial that the entire report and the evidence underlying it be released to the public transparency is key here. I mean, obviously, we know we know there was some collusion. I mean, we know that the president's son in campaign manager involved in a meeting with the Russians. To receive a stolen. They thought was to receive a stolen. Information's information is stolen by the Russians from the Democratic National Committee as part of the Russian government attempt to help Trump in the election. That's the way the Email invited into the meeting put it none of what you just said has risen to the level of criminal indictment special counsel. No it hasn't. As far as we know. But we know there was collusion. Why? There's been no indictments. We don't know. Let me say further, we know a number of things we know what I just said we know that the president. Pressure pressured, the FBI to go easy to stop investigating Flynn and various other people. We know that he fired the FBI director. To as he put it to the NBC to take care of the Russian thing in order to stop the investigation of various people associated with him. We know that he concocted the lie about the purpose of that Russian meeting. We know that. He. A lot a lot of his top associates have been indicted and convicted, and we know that he has relate engaged in a relentless attack against the FBI, very slow. So on that note. Mr Chairman what you're describing is evidence to back up. What you said before that you believe the president has obstructed Justice. You still believe that? Well, there have been obstruction of Justice. Whether they're clearly whether they're criminal obstructions another question, but we have. Special. Prosecutor is limited in scope. His job was limited in scope and limited to crimes with congress has to do is look at a broader picture, we are in chart. We we have the responsibility of vindicate of protecting the rule of law of looking instructions of Justice at looking at abuses of power and corruption in order to protect the rule of law. So that our democratic institutions are not greatly damaged by this president. I'm not married into do. Right. And on that very note if Robert Muller comes out in his report, and suggests very strongly states flat out that he agrees with you that the president of struck dead Justice or that the president may have committed some crime that guidelines don't allow to be indicted will you begin impeachment proceedings? It's way too early to speculate about that. Remember, the it is true that the Justice department thinks that they can indict the sitting president no matter what the evidence as a matter of law. And that's what makes it even more important that all the evidence be given to congress and the American people because while the normal rule is and it's a good rule that if you're not indicting someone because you don't have enough evidence. A you don't then smear their name by by saying they did these terrible things if you're not in ninety someone because you can't as a matter of law, then you can't hold the president accountable. The only other institution they can't as congress, and you should not then hide the evidence because that converted into a cover up, right? Congress needs that evidence and the American people need that evidence that information to make judgments, well, let me ask you about that. Because I am glad that you brought that out the deputy attorney general rod Rosenstein has made clear that he wants to quote, prevent the disclosure of information that would unfairly tarnished people who are not charged with crimes, but. We just heard when you saying that people should see the entire report the evidence underlying it Democrats were pretty upset in two thousand sixteen when then FBI director tapes, call me publicly accused Hillary Clinton of wrongdoing, but then said, well, she shouldn't be indicted. So why shouldn't allegations that don't reach an indictment threshold and talking about the president. But everybody else, stay confidential. Well, because we need to know what was going on here. And it's not just a question of of indictments. It's a question of of protecting the rule of law and of obstruction of Justice and abuses of power and protecting our government and our whole system and it's been subjected to unprecedented attack. Our law enforcement agencies have been subjected to unprecedented smear campaign by the president against the FBI the special prosecutor other one forcement agencies. We have to know the facts so that we can so that we can protect our to know the facts, but do you want to know? Well, the American public has not worried about judgments the underlying notion of the protocol of not getting putting out evidence and people that aren't indicted is to protect reputations and so forth that was the concerned again about Hillary Clinton. This is the same should be applied for Trump officials. Well, we're not talking about indictments. We're talking about what about the American people finding out what went on, and what has gone on a very different question. We have to know. And I want to ask you about Robert Muller's report overall, and the whole notion that you and other Democrats, including the house speaker, I've talked about with transparency if the Justice department is not going to hand it over to you fully and say that it can be fully. Put out to the American public. Are you? Absolutely sure that you will issue a subpoena. Well, we'll try to negotiate and we'll try everything else first. But if we have to yes, we will certainly issue subpoenas to get that information, and you're going to be willing to take that all the way up to the supreme court if you have to absolutely. And by the way, the already hearing that the president may wanna claim executive privilege in some of this. And the fact is he has no right to claim executive privilege any evidence of wrongdoing executive privilege cannot shield evidence of wrongdoing, and that was made very clear by the nine nothing decision of the supreme court in the Nixon case where the order the tapes reveal even though those tapes were personal conversations with the president and some of his advisers executive privilege cannot be used to shield wrongdoing. How long are you going to give the Justice department to turn it over? I can't give you a specific answer that days weeks months. Can you give a general? It will be months. Okay. So you're likely to see the main conclusions of the mullahs report as soon as today will you accept them at at face value. Well, we're likely to see what bar characterizes as the main conclusions of the report and will accept them but subject to see all the underlying. We have to make judgments the American people have to make judgments as to how founded those conclusions are or bars summary of the conclusions are, and that's one reason we have to see the entire report and the evidence under an underlying it are you suggesting that bar might mislead about what? No, no, I have no reason to say that. But I am suggesting that people make judgements and those judgments could be right or wrong. Making a judgment is to. Characterizing observation. And and what about when you get to the point where you actually do see the whole report from from Robert Mueller will you trust those results. Do you have full, faith and confidence? I have a great deal of confidence in the people who worked with them. I think they've done. Very good people. So my expectation is that yes, I would address that. But like any other product of human hands, we have to look at the underlying. Evidence and make our own judgments as to as to their judgments. So on that note, let's say he doesn't find that the president obstructed Justice. We you stop your investigation in the house on well, he can't he cannot find that the president did or did not obstruct Justice because his mandate is to look for crimes and the policy. The Justice department is that you cannot look for any criminal acts by the president cannot make that judgment. He can give evidence one way or the. Yeah. Exactly because you don't get you can't reach that conclusion. And the other point is our mandate as congress and the committee for that matter is much broader special prosecutor's looking only at crimes we have to look at protecting the rule of law at obstruction of Justice at abuse of power and a much greater level than simply crimes. Chairman, Jerry, Nadler, thank you
WBZ Morning News
Trump appears upbeat as Mueller probe ends
"Special counsel submitted. His report on the Russia collusion investigation to attorney general William bar last night. And now it's up to the attorney general to decide when and how to release the report's conclusions Muller was appointed. By deputy attorney general rod Rosenstein, twenty two months ago to investigate Russian interference in the two thousand sixteen presidential election and investigate claims of collusion between the Trump campaign in Russia. Something CBS correspondent Mola langey tells us the president has vehemently denied, it was no collusion. I didn't need Russians to help me when I awoke President Trump has repeatedly denied he had any help from the Russians and has consistently attacked the Muller probe. No collusion. No, nothing all the phony which forty which during the nearly two year. Pro- Muller has charged six of the president's associates with crimes ranging from lying to the FBI to tax evasion. Muller also indicted twenty-five Russian nationals on charges related to hacking or disseminating false information. But it could be a while before the public learns if any of the reports detail. Dell's attorney general William bar will send a summary to congress as soon as this weekend, and then decide which parts to reveal my goal and intent is to get as much information out as I can consistent with the regulation. The White House also wants to see the report prior to congress and local makers are calling for the immediate release of the entire report. Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren tweets released, the mullahs report to the American public. Now Representative Jim McGovern says we deserve to know the full unabridged truth, we will settle for nothing less congressman Steve Lynch says what happens next depends on the evidence. Here's WBZ's Don huff with a number of indictments and guilty pleas. Lynch says the special counsel's investigation has gone a lot further than initially expected Lynch, adding the Mueller investigation was limited to Russian election meddling congress. He says can dig deeper what the Knicks of Republicans and Democrats in congress in the house and Senate. It'll have to. Proceed to impeach mentor. Any any other censure? Then it would have to be based on the evidence. Lynch tells nightside's Dan Rae. He can't say whether this will end with
The Frankie Boyer Show
Trump's best outcome from Mueller report? Severe political damage
"There are indications that Russia's special counsel Robert Muller could hand in his report on the Russia investigation as soon as next week. The few hints to suggest mothers work is finally winding down for acting attorney general Matt Whitaker told reporters he believes the investigation was close to being completed. Team has been partnering with US attorneys offices on newer cases, a sign that a hand off to regular prosecutors is in the works. Sources say expect report to come before the attorney general rod Rosenstein departs sometime in mid March
The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer
Donald Trump denies NYT report he tried to interfere in Michael Cohen probe
"That President Trump tried to interfere in the federal investigation of his former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen. The president is now denying New York Times story that he asked then acting attorney general Matt Whitaker to put a Trump supporter in charge of the pro supporter. US attorney Jeffrey Berman had already recused himself from the investigation. And the times reports the president soured on Winokur when he was unable to make this happen. Auspey congressman Roque of the oversight committee and our correspondents analysts have full coverage of the day's top stories us, go straight to our White House. Correspondent Caitlyn Collins. Caitlyn take us through this truly remarkable report alleging that the president tried to influence the Michael Cohen investigation. Yeah. Wolf if you're starting to sense of pattern here. I'm not sure anyone can blame you an explosive report in the New York Times that claims that the president asked then acting attorney general mad. Whitaker to reach out to the US attorney in the southern district of New York and try to get him to unrequir- himself from overseeing that investigation into Michael Cohen hush money payments to women an investigation that is tied to the president. And this report wolf that the president today denied. Stunning report in the New York Times, claiming President Trump asked then acting attorney general Matt Whitaker to put someone who is supported Trump in charge of investigating hush payments made by his former fixer Michael Cohen. I think he's done a great job. Bombshell. Trump to nine today. No. Gave you that us. More fake news. A lot of a lot of fake fake news out there. No, I did the person Trump wanted in the job US attorney for the southern district of New York. Jeffrey Berman had ardor himself from overseeing the pro according to the times it's unclear how Whitaker responded, and there's no evidence he took steps to intervene despite telling us OC, it's that he knew part of his job was to jump on a grenade for the president still Whitaker remarked that the New York prosecutors required adult supervision, according to the times while Berman is recused from this probe. He has not recused from another that could touch Trump one looking into the president's inaugural committee the times adding Trump soured on Whitaker after his inability to make the change and he has since been replaced by Bill bar, but Whitaker could be facing bigger problems. He recently told a congressional committee under oath that the president had never pressured him regarding any. Investigations at no time has the White House. Ask for nor have I provided any promises or commitments concerning the special counsel's investigation or any other investigation. Whitaker is now under scrutiny by house. Democrats. Potential perjury today at DOJ spokesperson said he stands by his testimony and Trump is standing by him to very very straight shooter. I watched him during the hearing some of it. I thought he was exceptional since Trump told advisors deputy attorney general rod Rosenstein, assured him the Cohen investigation had nothing to do with him. The New York Times reports he has since wondered if Rosenstein was deliberately misleading him to keep him calm. The extensive report is also claiming Trump's told advisers and February twenty seventeen they should say he asked for Michael Flynn's resignation because quote that sounds better pressed by Sean Spicer, if it was true Trump reportedly. Responded say that say that I asked for his resignation, according to the times White House lawyers were so concerned about what Spicer said from the briefing room podium that they compiled an entire memo laying out his misstatements the White House counsel reviewed and determined that. There is not an illegal issue. But rather a trust issue. The report coming amid headlines that former deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe who was fired last spring briefed congressional leadership about the counterintelligence investigation. He launched into President Trump purpose of the briefing was to let our congressional leadership know exactly what we've been doing opening a case of this nature. Not something that an FBI director, not something that acting FBI director do by yourself, right? And that no one raised concern congress, and I told congress what we had done anyone object. That's the important part here. So that no one of Jack not on legal grounds, not on constitutional grounds. And not based on the facts. Now wolf the times also notes the president has had private conversations with Republican lawmakers about a campaign to attack the Muller probe something he's done over eleven hundred times and could very well serve as a public relations strategy in addition to a legal one will developments. Indeed, art, Caitlyn facts very much. Let's bring in our Justice reporter Laura Jarrett, and our chief legal analyst Jeffrey to then the Lord is President Trump's alleged request of Winokur to replace the person leading the cone investigation of struck to what some are suggesting could be obstruction of Justice the legal question in this case as always what was the president's intent if he wanted to have Berman on the case because he thought he was a better lawyer. And he thought that the US attorney zombie was not doing a good job that might be legitimate. But if he wants Berman on the case because he thinks he's going to protect him. Somehow, that's where we tread into the land of whether he's doing it for corrupt reasons and where obstruction could come into play. But the other point is that the New York Times lays out more. More than just the fact that he wanted Berman on the case, they lay out a month long campaign of trying to undermine the Muller probe. And