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4","inlineTextStyles": [{"range":{"length":866, "start":0},"textStyle":"_ anf-ts- 1"})],"layout":"bodyLayout", "role": "body", "text": "Muellerd€™s team has said in court that they inform Rosenstein of all their major decisions in advance, and that he would have the authority to overrule them.\nRosenstein approved Muellerad€™s assembly of an all-star team that at its height totaled 17 prosecutors.\nIn August 2017, Rosenstein wrote a memo to Mueller listing many people and topics he was authorized to investigate (the publicly released version is heavily redacted).\nRosenstein held press conferences announcing Muellerd€™s two major indictments of Russians for election interference d€" the social media propaganda indictment in February, and the email hacking indictment in July.\nHe was also reportedly involved in Muellerd€™s decision to refer an investigation into Michael Cohenaée€™s guilty plea to tax, August.\n", "textStyle":" anf-cts- 1", "type"™:"text"}, {"additions": [{"URL":"https://www.cnn.com/2017/12/13/politics/rod- nstein hous ros jJudiciary- Cohen to federal prosecutors in Manhattan, bank fraud, and resulting in campaign finance charges in committee/index. html", "range": {"length":29, "start ":272},"type"™:"link"}],"identifier"™:" anf-body-5", "layout": "bodyLayout", "role": "body", "text":"Finally, helped pr the author Rosenstein has also mptively protect Mueller from firing. 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