4/11/2018

CONGRESS/DEVIN NUNES/FBI/GOP/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The latest fight between congressional Republicans and the Justice Department over FBI documents has Republicans threatening to hold Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein in contempt of Congress — and openly floating the notion of impeaching him — which could provide a new pretext for President Donald Trump to potentially fire Rosenstein himself. House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes, a California Republican, said Monday [4-9-18] he was prepared to move to impeach both Rosenstein and FBI Director Chris Wray if they do not turn over an unredacted two-page document, called an electronic communication, that details the rationale for launching the counterintelligence investigation into Trump and Russia in July 2016. And senior Republicans on the key committees in the House bluntly warned that it was time to hold the senior officials in contempt.”

Jeremy Herb and Manu Raju, “House GOP targets Rosenstein as Trump weighs his firing,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, April 11, 2018, 5:50 pm