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Administration, from mccabe to rosenstein to comey, to basically pledge their loyalty to him personally. and not understanding that their loyalty is to the constitution or to the agencies they have served. that has again become one of the key buckets mueller is looking at in his probe. >> ashley, lets turn the corner into this memo, which is likely to be the lead story tomorrow, though predicting that kind of thing these days is fraught. especially with the fbi director now kind of on the record...

And hes always asking these people who serve in his administration, from mccabe to rosenstein to comey, to basically pledge their loyalty to him personally. and not understanding that their lowellty is to the constitution or to the agencies they have served. that has again become one of the key buckets mueller is looking at in his probe. >> lets turn the corner into this memo which is likely to be the lead story tomorrow, though predicting that kind thing these days is fraught. especially with t...

People who serve in his administration, from mccabe to rosenstein to comey, to basically pledge their loyalty to him personally. and not understanding that their lowellty is to the constitution or to the agencies they have served. that has again become one of the key buckets mueller is looking at in his probe. >> lets turn the corner into this memo which is likely to be the lead story tomorrow, though predicting that kind thing these days is fraught. especially with the fbi director now kind of ...

>> i dont believe it is. >> here to talk about it, all three reporters have been covering this news all day long, the aforementioned michael schmidt, "new york times" washington correspondent and an nbc contributor, and joshua gerber, white house reporter for politico. welcome to you all. mr. schmidt, since its your conclusion that we start with, fill in the blanks on this story. why were they both talked to when they were talked to? why were they staggered? why one in 2017, one in 2018, and wha...

Without talking to the president. but what the terms are remains to be seen. >> do you think theyre focusing entirely on obstruction if the only subjects they want to talk to the president about are the firing of flynn and the firing of comey? that would suggest theyre not interested in talking about, you know, the meeting in trump tower with donald trump jr., et cetera, the meeting with george papadopoulos, et cetera. >> our reports are that the main two buckets mueller has said they want to as...

Comey is sort of at the heart of the reason that mueller exists. comey is the one that wrote these memos about his interactions with trump and then when they were disclosed, it was revealed that trump had asked comey to end the investigation of mike flynn, deputy attorney general appointed mueller. so there are sort of two big buckets mueller is looking at. one of them is obstruction, did the president try to obstruct the russia investigation. the other one is russian meddling in the election. i...

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The aforementioned michael schmidt, "new york times" washington correspondent and an nbc contributor, julia ansley, nbc national security and justice reporter, and josh ger steerngs white house reporter for politico. welcome to you all. mr. schmidt, since its your conclusion that we start with, fill in the blanks on this story. why were they both talked to when they were talked to? why were they staggered? why one in 2017, one in 2018, and what have you learned about perhaps questions and conten...