Rod Rosenstein defends Mueller probe, calls it 'appropriate and independent'

During an interview Wednesday with The Wall Street Journal, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election is "appropriate and independent," and when everything is over, "the public will have confidence that the cases we brought were warranted by the evidence, and that it was an appropriate use of resources." He would not speculate on when the investigation might be finished, but did note that the...