Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty)
As the deputy attorney general has said numerous times, if there comes a time when he needs to recuse, he will. However, nothing has changed.
— Ian Prior, a spokesman for the Justice Department, commenting on the fact that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has been interviewed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team regarding President Donald Trump’s firing of former FBI Director James Comey. It is unlikely that Mueller’s team views Rosenstein as a key witness, given the fact that he’s yet to recuse himself.
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