Morning Minute: End for Rosenstein? - 4.16
The Sean Hannity Show
Sean Hannity
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🗓️ 16 April 2018
⏱️ 3 minutes
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The end seems close for Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein according to his own words... is it true?
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| 0:00.0 | The inspector general of the US Department of Justice released a report of investigation |
| 0:08.0 | of the certain allegations related to the former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe. |
| 0:14.2 | We're sifting through that even as we speak, but the conclusion is we concluded that McCabe's |
| 0:19.5 | decision to confirm the existence of the Clinton Foundation investigation through an anonymously |
| 0:26.0 | source quote, as was in the Wall Street journal, it's like 40 pages. |
| 0:30.1 | It goes deep. |
| 0:31.2 | It does a deep dive into this, recounting the content of a phone call with a senior department |
| 0:37.3 | official in a manner designed to advance his personal interests at the expense of department |
| 0:42.3 | leadership was clearly not within the public interest exception. |
| 0:48.9 | And it just a huge, huge disparity in terms of what recollections were between McCabe |
| 0:55.8 | and Komi. |
| 0:56.8 | Rod Rosenstein is now running around telling people he expects to get fired any minute. |
| 1:02.6 | And he's telling confidants that he expects that now who would leak that, but Rod Rosenstein |
| 1:08.2 | himself anyway, in conversations that he's quoted with friends, he's saying, here I stand |
| 1:15.0 | a reference to Martin Luther King's famous quote, here I stand. |
| 1:18.1 | I can do no other. |
| 1:20.2 | And coincidentally, the former FBI director James Komi, who Rosenstein fired repeated |
| 1:25.8 | the same phrase to George W Bush in a conversation that has been widely reported in that Komi |
| 1:31.3 | describes in his, in his book that is released Monday, we have a lot more information on that |
| 1:35.4 | book. |
| 1:36.7 | One source who spoke to Rosenstein said, he seemed fully aware that he may soon lose his |
| 1:42.2 | job and he's at peace with the possibility confident he had done his job with integrity. |
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