Jun 04, 2020 · Former U.S. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein testifies at hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill, June 3, 2020, in Washington, D.C.
Jun 03, 2020 · Former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is set to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday morning about on the origins of the Russia investigation.This marks the first ...
Jun 03, 2020 · Former deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein arrives to testify before a Republican-led Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on "Crossfire Hurricane", the FBI's probe into Russian election ...
Jun 03, 2020 · During testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee, the former deputy attorney general Rod J. Rosenstein defended his decision to appoint Robert S. Mueller III as special counsel for the Trump ...
Jun 04, 2020 · After years of pushing the Russia collusion narrative, all of the major networks avoided on-air coverage of the Senate Judiciary hearing of former Acting Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who ...
The ongoing legal saga surrounding Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn led to some fireworks at the hearing. Sen. Ted Cruz, a Texas Republican, attacked presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden for "unmasking" an intelligence report mentioning Flynn in 2017.
Washington (CNN) Senators rehashed the Russia investigation Wednesday at a testy hearing with former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who defended special counsel Robert Mueller, but disavowed misconduct related to surveillance of an ex-Trump campaign adviser. The partisan backdrop was intriguing: Republicans on the panel asked ...
Much of the hearing centered on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which was used in 2016 and 2017 to wiretap Carter Page, a former foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, the Republican chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, peppered Rosenstein early on with questions about a memo Rosenstein wrote in August 2017 that authorized Mueller to investigate several Trump campaign advisers, including George Papadopoulos.
Republicans on the committee homed in on "the dossier," a set of opposition research memos written in 2016 by Christopher Steele, a retired British spy with extensive experience in Russia. Steele was indirectly funded by Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton's campaign, and his memos accused Trump's campaign of colluding with the Kremlin, which wasn't one of Mueller's findings.