Rod Rosenstein tells Republicans he won’t be ‘extorted’ by impeachment threat

Deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein has forcefully rejected a Republican threat to relieve him of his job, saying the Justice Department “is not going to be extorted”.“We’re going to do what’s required by the rule of law and any kind of threats that anybody makes are not going to affect the way we do our job”, Mr Rosenstein said during a panel discussion.The top law enforcement official was reacting to conservative Republicans drafting articles of impeachme