1. He has said so.
2. I would have done the same thing.
So what. If Rosenstein had an issue with the statement he could have addressed it privately with his boss (the President) and the communications office could have issued a follow-up clarification.
Read what you just posted there and think about it again in the context of what transpired. You're saying the Deputy AG should address a matter privately after the President of the United States rolled it out in public on national television? That makes no sense.
As any competent lawyer will tell you, the time to address these things privately with a lawyer is BEFORE you make an ass out of yourself on national television, not afterwards.
Here's the only way Rosenstein could have dealt with this privately: "What the 'eff were you doing giving that kind of interview with NBC News anyway, you moron?"
I have waited patiently for the latest Rosenstein-McCabe story to play itself out before responding to your latest nasty anti-Trump lecture.
I excerpted the above because it is from your own mind and typing fingers, even though you put it in quotes as though Rosenstein might have said it.
You profess to "love" the president and yet, as this imagined statement makes abundantly clear, you are a breathtakingly harsh critic of him. That you could even imagine a deputy-level appointed official speaking to the President of the United States that way is shocking.
Look, if you despise President Trump, fine. That is your right. But just stop pretending to be a fan, because your act is tiresome.