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LOU: DURING ROD ROSENSTEIN’S
TESTIMONY TODAY, REPUBLICAN
SENATORS WERE GUSHING,
COMPLIMENTARY AS THEY COULD BE
AT ROD ROSENSTEIN DESPITE HIS
ROLE UNTIL OBAMAGATE.
LISTEN TO THEM.
>> MR. ROSENSTEIN THE, I KNOW
YOU’VE DEDICATED YOUR, ALMOST
YOUR ENTIRE ADULT LIFE TO
SERVING AT THE DEPARTMENT OF
JUSTICE, AND I KNOW YOU LOVE AND
REVERE THAT INSTITUTION AND THE
PEOPLE THAT WORK THERE.
AND RIGHTLY SO.
>> THANK YOU, MR. ROSENSTEIN,
FOR YOUR SERVICE.
>> YOU WERE COMPLICIT IN THE
WRONGDOING, WHICH I DON’T
BELIEVE WAS THE CASE.
>> I’VE ALWAYS FOUND YOU TO BE
AN HONEST MAN, AND I DON’T THINK
YOU WERE PART OF ANY CONSPIRACY
TO GET THE PRESIDENT.
LOU: WELL, MY GOODNESS, THEY
WERE JUST TAKING UP HIS TIME,
WEREN’T THEY?
WE’LL FIND OUT WHAT TOM FITTON
THINKS, THE PRESIDENT OF
JUDICIAL WATCH JOINING US NOW.
TOM, THAT WAS A WONDERFUL, WARM
MOMENT IN COMMITTEE HEARING
HISTORY, BUDGET -- WASN’T IT?
>> YEAH.
YOU COULD TELL THOSE SENATORS
DIDN’T CONSULT WITH ME BEFORE
QUESTIONING MR. ROSENSTEIN.
YOU KNOW, LOOK, HE TURNED OVER
THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT TO THE
PRESIDENT’S POLITICAL ENEMIES TO
MISUSE AGAINST HIM AND OTHER
INNOCENTS.
HE DEFENDED THE INDEFENSIBLE
TODAY.
HE KNEW -- WE ALL KNOW NOW THAT
THE FLYNN INVESTIGATION WAS
CORRUPTED, AND IT WAS CORRUPTED
DURING THE MUELLER OPERATION.
YET HE CONTINUED TO DEFEND THE
MUELLER OPERATION, AND
SPECIFICALLY HE WAS INVOLVED
WITH THE TARGETING OF THE
PRESIDENT.
I HAVE THE DOCUMENT, JUDICIAL
WATCH UNCOVERED, ACTUALLY THE
DEMOCRAT ASKED HIM ABOUT IT,
DIDN’T FOLLOW UP ON IT.
THIS IS WHAT ANDREW McCABE
WROTE ABOUT A MEETING HE HAD
WITH THE DEPUTY ATTORNEY
GENERAL, MR. ROSENSTEIN.
AS OUR CONVERSATION CONTINUED,
MR. ROSENSTEIN PROPOSED HE COULD
POTENTIALLY WEAR A RECORDING
DEVICE INTO THE OVAL OFFICE TO
COLLECT ADDITIONAL EVIDENCE ON
THE PRESIDENT’S TRUE INTENTIONS.
HE SAID HE THOUGHT IT MIGHT BE
POSSIBLE BECAUSE HE WAS NOT
SEARCHED WHEN HE ENTERED THE
WHITE HOUSE.
I TOLD HIM I WOULD DISCUSS THE
OPPORTUNITY WITH MY
INVESTIGATIVE TEAM AND GET BACK
TO HIM.
OF COURSE IT HAPPENED.
YOU HAD THE DEPUTY ATTORNEY
GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES
TALKING TO ANDREW McCABE, THE
TOP FBI OFFICIAL AT THE TIME,
ABOUT WEARING A WIRE AND SPYING
ON THE PRESIDENT THE OVAL
OFFICE?
THE SAME DOCUMENT, MORE
DOCUMENTS WE HAVE FROM
ROSENSTEIN’S OWN E-MAILS SHOW
THAT CONVERSATION ABOUT THE 25TH
AMENDMENT TOOK PLACE.
AND, OF COURSE, ALL PART OF THAT
DISCUSSION WAS MUELLER.
SO THE COUP WAS ABOUT WEARING A
WIRE, INVOKING THE 25TH AND
APPOINTING A COUNSEL.
AND THE SPECIAL COUNSEL WAS
APPOINTED, THAT’S FOR SURE.
LOU: WELL, YOU KNOW, ROD
ROSENSTEIN IS I SUCH A NICE
FELLOW -- IS SUCH A NICE FELLOW,
AND HE HAS --
>> VERY PERSONALLY, I’VE MET HIM
ONCE OR TWICE.
[LAUGHTER]
LOU: I’M, I’M JUST SAYING.
WANTED YOU TO HEAR WHAT HE HAD
TO SAY ABOUT THE FBI AND THE
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.
>> OUR LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES
ARE FILLED WITH MEN AND WOMEN
WHO ACT WITH INTEGRITY.
IT WOULD HAVE BEEN PREFERABLE,
SENATOR, TO HAVE A MORE
POLITICALLY-DIVERSE GROUP, BUT
IF THEY FOLLOWED THE RULES,
THEIR POLITICAL IDEOLOGY
WOULDN’T MATTER.
I’M FAIRLY CONFIDENT THAT THE
POLITICAL BIAS DID NOT ENTER
INTO THAT INVESTIGATION.
LOU: SO THERE YOU ARE.
NOTHING THERE.
ACCORDING TO ROD ROSENSTEIN.
NO WONDER EVERYBODY’S GUSHING
OVER HIM.
YOUR THOUGHTS.
>> WELL, THE I.G. WASN’T
CONFIDENT, LOU.
I MEAN, HE SUGGESTED THAT
STRZOK’S DECISION MAKING THAT
STIFLED THE INVESTIGATION INTO
THE WIENER LAPTOP AND THE
E-MAILS WHILE TARGETING TRUMP
WAS POLITICAL.
HE COULDN’T RULE IT OUT.
AND, OF COURSE, THEY CAUGHT
STRZOK AND PAGE WITH THESE
POLITICAL TEXTS, AND THEY WERE
SECRETLY REMOVED FROM THE
MUELLER OPERATION.
AND THAT WAS HELD BACK FROM
CONGRESS FOR FOUR MONTHS.
ROSENSTEIN SAYS THAT, YOU KNOW,
THEY WERE MONITORING MUELLER,
THEY KNEW EVERYTHING HE WAS UP
TO.
THEN WHO’S RESPONSIBLE FOR IT,
IF NOT HIM?
YOU CAN’T HAVE YOUR CAKE AND EAT
IT TOO.
AND I APPRECIATE THE SENATE’S
FINALLY GETTING AT LEAST SOMEONE
TO TESTIFY, BUT WHY HASN’T
MR. ROSENSTEIN TESTIFIED BEFORE
A GRAND JURY?
CERTAINLY AS A WITNESS.
MY GOSH.
AND THEN HE SIGNED ON TO THIS
FISA WARRANT THAT WAS WITHDRAWN
BY THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT AS
BEING INVALID.
HE WAS UTTERLY RESPONSIBLE FOR
EVERYTHING THAT WENT ON, AND HE
HAD NO EXCUSE.
WHEN YOU LOOK AT THAT FISA
WARRANT, YOU COULD SEE IT WAS
JUNK.
THEY WERE TARGETING PRESIDENT
TRUMP, AND HE JUST RUBBER
STAMPED IT.
AND GIVEN THE OTHER
DISCUSSIONS --
LOU:
[INAUDIBLE]
>> YEAH.
YOU KNOW --
LOU: SORRY, GO AHEAD.
>> AND GIVEN THE OTHER
DISCUSSIONS HE WAS HAVING, LOU,
AS DOCUMENTED WITH McCABE AND
COMPANY, YOU CAN SEE WHY HE
DIDN’T CARE ONE WIT WHETHER THE
PRESIDENT WAS BEING SPY ON BY
THESE CRAZIES IN THE FBI,
STRZOK, PAGE AND McCABE WHAT A
NIGHTMARE --
LOU: IT COULD BE --
>> WHAT A NIGHTMARE.
COMEY AT LEAST --
LOU: YOU WOULD INCLUDE COMEY IN
THAT, RIGHT?
>> YEAH.
AND COMEY LEAKED MATERIAL IN
ORDER TO GET ROSENSTEIN TO HIRE
MUELLER, OR TO HIRE OR A SPECIAL
COUNSEL GENERAL.
IS SO YOU’VE GOT THIS CRIMINAL
ACTIVITY BY THE OUTGOING FBI
DIRECTOR, ROSENSTEIN’S RESPONSE
IS TO LET’S INVESTIGATE TRUMP.
LOU: WELL THE --
>> DON’T TELL ME HE WASN’T
ANTI-TRUMP.
HE CERTAINLY SOUNDS LIKE IT.
LOU: YOU WON’T HEAR THAT FROM
ME, TOM, I ASSURE YOU.
AND I WAS EXPECTING TODAY TO SEE
THAT HILLARY CLINTON WAS
TESTIFYING UNDER OATH TO ONE OF
YOUR ATTORNEYS AT JUDICIAL
WATCH.
WHAT HAPPENED?
>> NO, SHE WASN’T TESTIFYING.
SHE WAS APPEALING HAVING TO
TESTIFY UNDER OATH.
HER ATTORNEY WAS IN COURT
YESTERDAY ARGUING AS HILLARY
CLINTON’S LAWYER.
THERE WERE THREE JUDGES HEARING
THE CASE.
ONE OF THE JUDGES WAS VERY
AGGRESSIVE IN QUESTIONING HER
LAWYER, BUT WE -- OUR LAWYER,
BUT WE HELD OUR GROUND.
THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT ALSO MADE
AN APPEARANCE, LOU.
AND YOU KNOW WHAT THE JUSTICE
DEPARTMENT SAID TO THE COURT
YESTERDAY?
WE’RE JUST --
LOU: SCARE ME.
>> WE JUST WANT TO, WE JUST WANT
TO PUT IT BEHIND US.
LOU: IS THAT NOT AMAZING?
DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN --
>> THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT ON
BEHALF OF --
[INAUDIBLE CONVERSATIONS]
LOU: YEP.
I CAN REMEMBER VIVIDLY WHEN
PRESIDENT TRUMP SOMETIMES LOOKED
CHAGRINED WHEN AT RALLIES IN
2016 THEY WERE, THERE WERE
CHANTS AT HIS RALLIES
OCCASIONALLY OF "LOCK HER UP,"
AND AND HE ALWAYS LOOKED, AS I
SAID, CHAGRINED.
AND I THINK HE CAME INTO OFFICE
THINKING THAT HE COULD BE
FRIENDS WITH THE LOYAL
OPPOSITION.
AND I HAVE TO SAY IF ANY
PRESIDENT SHOULD UNDERSTAND
CLEARLY WHAT THE DEMOCRATIC
PARTY HAS BECOME, ONE WOULD
THINK IT WOULD BE MR. TRUMP.
WHAT DO YOU EXPECT TO HAPPEN
NOW?
IN THE CLINTON CASE?
>> WELL, THE COURT’S GOING TO
DECIDE WHETHER OR NOT TO CARVE
OUT AN EXCEPTION TO THE RULE OF
LAW AGAIN FOR HER.
I HOPE THE COURT DECLINES TO DO
SO.
SHE OUGHT TO TESTIFY.
I DON’T WANT HER SPECIFICALLY
TARGETED, I JUST WANT THE RULE
OF LAW TO PREVAIL.
I WANT A REAL INVESTIGATION TO
TAKE PLACE.
I WANT THE E-MAILS TO BE TURNED
OVER, AND WE’RE NOT GETTING MUCH
HELP FROM THE DOJ AND STATE
DEPARTMENT ON THAT.
LOU: YEAH.
IT IS DISAPPOINTING TO HEAR THAT
THE STATE DEPARTMENT AND DOJ ARE
NOT SUPPORTIVE OF EQUAL
APPLICATION OF LAW.
>> RIGHT.
LOU: THAT’S DEEPLY FRUSTRATING.
TOM FITTON, GREAT TO SEE YOU.
WE THANK YOU SO MUCH AND, AS
ALWAYS, I WANT TO POINT OUT WE
THANK YOU AS WELL FOR ALL THAT