Mar 08, 2017 · Rosenstein, 52, is a longtime prosecutor who served under Republican and Democratic presidents, George W. Bush and Barack Obama, and is expected to be confirmed, as he neither identifies strongly...
Sep 24, 2018 · Rod Rosenstein United States Deputy Attorney General President Donald Trump and U.S. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who oversees the special counsel investigation into Russia's role in the...
May 11, 2017 · Just last week, Rosenstein was relatively unknown to the American public. And only the week before that had he been appointed to the position of deputy attorney general, a role that put him at the...
Feb 01, 2017 · Feb 01, 2017 at 8:46 pm WASHINGTON — President Donald J. Trump will nominate Maryland U.S. Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein to be deputy attorney general, the White House said Tuesday. Rosenstein,...
Sep 24, 2018 · September 24, 2018, 10:30 AM · 3 min read. President Donald Trump and U.S. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who oversees the special counsel investigation into Russia's role in the 2016 presidential election, will meet on Thursday to discuss Rosenstein's future. A source told Reuters that Rosenstein had spent the weekend contemplating ...
If confirmed as deputy attorney general in a few weeks, Rosenstein would lead the DOJ's daily operations and oversee probes into ties between Trump's inner circle and Russia.
Rosenstein, 52, is a longtime prosecutor who has served under both Republican and Democratic presidents. Aaron P. Bernstein/Reuters. Attorney General Jeff Sessions loomed widely over the Senate confirmation hearing for Rod Rosenstein, President Donald Trump's nominee to be the second-ranking official in the Department of Justice.
The committee's ranking member, Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), argued that a special prosecutor was necessary to avoid even the appearance of a conflict of interest or political influence by the Trump administration. "To be clear, I do not say this because I question the integrity or the ability of Mr. Rosenstein.
Rosenstein wouldn't commit to appointing a special counsel, but he vowed to conduct an independent investigation overall. He admitted that he had not yet read the U.S. intelligence community's January 6 assessment of the Russia cyberattacks.