MSNBC contributor and former Obama advisor David Axelrod said embattled Attorney General Eric Holder was "carrying out his responsibilities" in the James Rosen case and should not resign on Friday's Morning Joe, three days after calling the naming of the Fox News correspondent as a criminal co-conspirator by the Justice Department "disturbing."
With President Obama's poll numbers sinking in the wake of the IRS scandal, Benghazi and Holder's actions regarding Rosen, Axelrod seemed to change his tune, albeit in a jumbled sentence.
"I don't think what Eric Holder did, anything that he did was, you know, against ... This notion that somehow he had, you know, criminal, that we should have a prosecutorial look at this," Axelrod said.
Holder told Congress May 15 he would not support prosecution of the press to force information disclosure, but reports soon emerged that he personally vetted search warrants for Rosen's email and phone records to uncover a leak of information about North Korea's nuclear program.
Republicans and Democrats have called for Holder to step down.
