CBS News
December 14, 2017
WASHINGTON — Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, facing congressional questions about anti-Donald Trump text messages exchanged between two FBI officials assigned to the Russia probe, defended special counsel Robert Mueller on Wednesday and said he had seen no cause to fire him or received encouragement to do so.
At a House Judiciary Committee oversight hearing, in an exchange with Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-New York, Rosenstein said that if there were “good cause” to fire Mueller as special counsel, “I would act.” Nadler, however, asked if there’s been no good cause so far.