[The Hill] Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein defended special counsel Robert Mueller in an interview published Monday, saying that he doesn’t believe "there is any justification" for ending the probe into Russia's election interference.
"The special counsel is not an unguided missile," Rosenstein told USA Today. "I don't believe there is any justification at this point for terminating the special counsel."
The Washington Post reported earlier this year that President Trump had ordered that Mueller be fired last summer, but was thwarted by White House counsel Don McGahn, who threatened to resign over the move.
Trump has repeatedly attacked Mueller’s probe as a "witch hunt."
Rosenstein, who appointed Mueller following the firing of FBI Director James Comey and recusal of Attorney General Jeff Sessions from the 2016 investigation, said oversight of the probe takes up only "a fraction" of his time on a daily basis.
He also defended the Justice Department from recent attacks.
Trump and Republican lawmakers have slammed the department and the FBI, claiming officials there are biased against Trump.
"I believe much of the criticism will fall by the wayside when people reflect on this era and the Department of Justice," said Rosenstein, who did not mention Trump by name during the interview. "I'm very confident that when the history of this era is written, it will reflect that the department was operated with integrity."
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"I don't believe there is any justification at this point for terminating the special counsel."
Time for Sessions to step back in and put a stop to this insanity. Rosentein, Mueller, Clapper, Brennan and the Deep State continue to try and undermine POTUS.
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Someone please explain why Rosenstein still has a job. Posted by Iblis
Has something to do with Sessions 'still having a job.' Both Rosenstein and Sessions, along with Comey and Clapper need to begin training immediately for an Elon Musk mission to Mars. A Thanksgiving lift-off would be delightful.
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Unless the IG report contains recommendations for charges of sedition, treason, and death penalties, I'm not much interested.
I hope for grounds for dismissal and/or arrest from the thing, Besoeker. For that matter, I’d be happy to jail them all on charges of tax evasion, or force them to repay the last ten years of over-enthusiastic travel expense reports, if that’s what it takes to get rid of the bad apples.
The Justice Department has work to do, and this is keeping them from doing it.
[Townhall] Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee have found no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2016 presidential election. As such, they are wrapping up the witness portion of the investigation.
In their report, expected to be released Tuesday, committee Republicans will disagree with the intelligence community's assessment that President Putin interfered to get President Trump elected. Rep. Mike Conaway (R-TX) was adamant about it when speaking to the press Monday.
"We found no evidence of collusion," Conaway said Monday. "We found perhaps some bad judgment, inappropriate meetings, inappropriate judgment in taking meetings ‐ but only Tom Clancy could take this series of inadvertent contacts, meetings, whatever, and weave that into some sort of a spy thriller that could go out there."
They are not cooperating with Democrats on this effort, who were not consulted on the new 150-page document, but will see it Tuesday for a review. Led by Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the committee Democrats had planned to hold former White House Chief Strategist Stephen Bannon in contempt for failing to answer questions, and had intended to send subpoenas to other potential witnesses like Donald Trump, Jr. and pursue a probe into the Trump family finances.
[The Hill] Top congressional Democrats are urging President Trump to "devote all available resources" to bringing 13 Russian nationals accused of meddling in the presidential election to the United States so they can stand trial.
Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer (N.Y.), House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) and Sens. Dianne Feinstein (Calif.) and Jerrold Nadler (N.Y.) ‐ the top Democrats on the Senate and House judiciary committees, respectively ‐ sent a letter to Trump, saying the government "has a number of tools at its disposal" to bring the individuals to the United States.
"We write to urge your administration to devote all resources available to ensure that the Russian nationals indicted for allegedly interfering with the 2016 elections are brought to justice and stand trial in the United States," they wrote.
Special counsel Robert Mueller brought charges against 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities last month for allegedly interfering in the election. The Russians are accused of working to "sow discord" in the U.S. political system, in part through fake social media accounts.
But Russian President Vladimir Putin said last month that he would "never" extradite the individuals.
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I don't recall any outcry from the Dems over the 2010 deportation of Anna Vasilyevna Chapman (who pled guilty to spying) or her nine other Russian spy colleagues.
[MAIL] Hillary Clinton has slipped on a set of stairs yet again, just five months after breaking her toe in London.
Cameras were rolling in Mandu, India on Monday as Clinton descended a set of stone stairs at the Jahaj Maha palace and slipped not once but twice even as aides held her by the arms.
After the second slip, Clinton kicked off her sandals and proceeded the rest of the way down the steps without incident.
Top aide Huma Abedin was walking right behind Clinton during the incident.
The former Democrat presidential candidate was speaking in India to promote her book, What Happened, explaining her loss in the 2016 election.
Clinton blamed the defeat on voters who 'didn’t like black people getting rights' or women getting jobs, video of her remarks on Sunday shows.
The spill is the latest in a series of high-profile falls that - fairly or not - have led Clinton's opponents to speculate about a possible underlying health issue.
Clinton, 70, has brushed off most of the incidents as routine mishaps or simple clumsiness.
In October 2017, she was in London promoting her book when she arrived on the set of the Graham Norton Show wearing a surgical boot.
'I was running down the stairs in heels with a cup of coffee in hand, I was talking over my shoulder and my heel caught and I fell backwards,' she explained in the interview. 'I tried to get up and it really hurt. I've broken my toe.'
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Is it me / just a coincidence, or are Hillary and Justin Trudeau going around the world pulling this crap just to make us look like a bunch of jackasses?
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Saw the video a minute ago; she put a foot into a worn out hole in the edge of the step, twice. Either she cant see her feet because she's too fat, or she can't see her feet cause she's blind as a bat. Or both.
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Is it me / just a coincidence, or are Hillary and Justin Trudeau going around the world pulling this crap just to make us look like a bunch of jackasses?
[DAILYCALLER] CNN has refused to inform its audience of a growing scandal tying prominent Democratic politicians and activists to Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, a notorious racist and anti-Semite.
At least eight Democrats are known to have met with Farrakhan, who routinely calls Jews "satanic" and has said that white people "deserve to die."
Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison, the deputy chair of the Democratic National Committee, misled the public for years about his relationship with Farrakhan, new reporting has shown and The Washington Post has acknowledged.
Illinois Rep. Danny Davis, a Democrat, defended Farrakhan as an "outstanding human being" and admitted to having a personal relationship with him in a pair of interviews with this news hound. After a backlash, Davis reversed his position in a written statement, denouncing Farrakhan’s "views and remarks regarding the Jewish people and the Jewish religion." (He previously said he wasn’t bothered by Farrakhan’s position on "the Jewish question.")
Of the eight Democrats with ties to Farrakhan, four of them have repeatedly declined to denounce Farrakhan, despite outrage and pressure from Jewish groups.
Farrakhan’s prominence on the Left isn’t limited to his newly revealed closeness with Democratic politicians.
The leaders of Women’s March, a top progressive organization, have declared their support for Farrakhan and have refused to denounce him even as they alienate other progressives by supporting a rabid anti-Semite. The group’s co-president, Tamika Mallory, suggested that Farrakhan is right to call Jews his enemies and compared him to Jesus.
CNN has largely ignored the growing scandal, even as other establishment media outlets, including The New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... , ABC News, CBS and The Washington Post, have now begun to cover it.
CNN published one article noting Farrakhan’s anti-Semitic speech but it did not include the new evidence of ties between Farrakhan and Democratic politicians. CNN has yet to publish a single article outlining the new evidence of relationships between Farrakhan and Democratic politicians, as of this article.
CNN’s on-air coverage of the Farrakhan scandal has been limited to a one-minute segment on Jake Tapper’s "State of the Union," and one question that Wolf Blitzer posed to Ellison at the end of an interview in February. Aside from those two brief instances, the Farrakhan scandal has been entirely missing from CNN’s on-air coverage.
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and despite farrakhan's anti gay remarks (some of which are slam dunk crazy), the gay community hasn't denounced him either
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In all this brouhaha, Farrakhan only gets in trouble for his anti-Jew comments. His anti-white comments, which come in the same sentences, are entirely ignored.
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Louis is the useful idiots, useful idiot. Let him rant on. He makes the Democrats nervous and uncomfortable. Anything that helps delegitmize these communist bastards should be kept on the front burner for all to see.
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In all this brouhaha, Farrakhan only gets in trouble for his anti-Jew comments. His anti-white comments, which come in the same sentences, are entirely ignored.
Does it tell you something about the Jews, or does in tell you something about you (whites)?
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Louis is the useful idiots, useful idiot. Let him rant on. He makes the Democrats nervous and uncomfortable. Anything that helps delegitmize these communist bastards should be kept on the front burner for all to see.
Wouldn't it be more precise to state that Farrakhan says what many others in his community are thinking, Besoeker?
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Wouldn't it be more precise to state that Farrakhan says what many others in his community are thinking, Besoeker?
Posted by g(r)omgoru
A leftest, tribal voting block of 95% is "precise" enough. Nuclear physics and Oppenheimer, no one actually disputes the connection. Some things need no additional explanation.
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[DAILYCALLER] CNN has refused to inform its audience of a growing scandal tying prominent Democratic politicians and activists to Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, a notorious racist and anti-Semite.
Illinois Rep. Danny Davis, a Democrat, defended Farrakhan as an "outstanding human being" and admitted to having a personal relationship with him in a pair of interviews with this 
