Feinstein: Rosenstein Refused to Answer Why He Wrote the Comey Firing Memo

‘So we’re left to our own deductions’

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BLITZER: "The new special counsel. You were just briefed by the deputy attorney general rod Rosenstein. Senator Claire mccass ki, your colleague, said Rosenstein told You were just briefed by the deputy attorney general rod Rosenstein. Senator Claire mccass ki, your colleague, said Rosenstein told senators he knew the FBI director James Comey would be fired before he sent that memo to the president. Did he explain why he actually sat down and wrote that letter?"
FEINSTEIN: "No, and — he did not. He refused to answer those questions around that memo. So we’re left to our own deductions, but that didn’t happen in the committee. A number of questions were asked. deductions, but that didn’t happen in the committee. A number of questions were asked. I asked one, others asked one about it, and he was very circumspect and very reluctant, which surprised me, to directly answer the question."
BLITZER: "Did he —"
FEINSTEIN: "I mean we can make a deduction, but he did not make an affirmative or a negative response one way or another."

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