Schiff: I’d View Trump Firing of Rosenstein Another Act of Obstruction

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BLITZER: "Do you believe Congress should investigate these allegations against Michael Cohen?"
SCHIFF: "Well, look, I think — we have Michael Cohen testify before our committee and there were a lot of unanswered questions. If there are issues that have come up and further reason to believe that eerm he wasn’t fully truthful for us or may have been involved in criminal activity it should be investigated by the Congress. It may not be if it is involving violation of the campaign finance laws. That may not be an issue for the intelligence committee. It may be an issue for the oversight committee or one of the committees that is looking at elections. But nonetheless, clearly the Congress would have an interest if any of the top officials of our government or those affiliated with the president are engaged in criminal activity."
BLITZER: "So just to be precise on the issue of shelving or holding a report that Robert Mueller might — may come up with and not letting it go to Congress, not letting it be made public for example, your fear is that if Rod Rosenstein is fired by the president, someone new coming in could do what the president wants and just kill the whole thing and never know what the conclusions are? Is that your fear."
SCHIFF: "That is my fear. People need to understand it is not Bob Mueller’s job to tell the country what happens. It is his job to decide who should be prosecuted and who has violated the law. But if the special counsel decides that the president has violated the law, and that it is not appropriate for him to seek an indictment of a sitting president, Bob Mueller would make a report to Rod Rosenstein and Rod Rosenstein would decide what to do with it. Is that report made public? Is that report provided to Congress? You get rid of Rod Rosenstein and who knows what happens to that report. So that is a deep concern to me. And I would view the firing of Rosenstein as every bit as much an act of obstruction as anything else the president could do."