Article snippet: Posted at 6:00 pm on August 6, 2017 by Susan Wright It’s not a fishing expedition. That’s the word of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who was making his first appearance on Sunday morning news talk television. While discussing special counsel Robert Mueller, the Russia probe, and concerns that he was extending the investigation beyond the matters of collusion and obstruction: He went on to stress that Mueller understands the specific scope of the investigation. People have been shrieking, ever since news began to circulate that Mueller was looking into Trump’s family financials. So maybe that part isn’t true? New Jersey Governor Chris Christie vouched for the character of Robert Mueller, calling him a “good man” and saying that while there was a tendency for investigators in these cases to feel an obligation to produce something, his experiences with Mueller, when he was a U.S. attorney and Mueller was the director of the FBI was a positive one, and he trusts him not to take the investigation to places it’s not meant to go. And while loyalists are losing it over news of a grand jury, Governor Christie pointed out that calling a grand jury was a “normal step taken by a careful prosecutor.” There’s a lot of misunderstanding going on, in regards to the flow of a special counsel investigation, apparently. Rosenstein went on to say that should Mueller find something during his investigation that would require he expand the scope beyond the original specifi... Link to the full article to read more