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In history. before resorting to his classic -- witch hunt, how he referred to robert mueller probe of russian interference in the 2016 election. >> no, were not undercutting. were cleaning everything up. this was a terrible situation. what im doing is a service to this country. and i did a great service to this country by firing james comey. >> reporter: history will offer the final judgment. but firing comey as fbi director led to the special counsel and the cloud of controversy hanging over th...

Two lawmakers. devin nunes and trey gowdy. leaving democrats with no seat at table and no way of knowing what information will be shared. >> my hope would be that any such briefing needs to be both bipartisan and my hope and prayer is that the fbi or the department of justice would not in any way be forced to reveal confidential information. that would go against 75 years of practice. >> reporter: former fbi director james comey blasting the president for the order. tweeting, the fbi use of conf...

He went after john brennan, the former cia director. tell us what else he said. >> reporter: wolf, the president wanted to flesh out a little bit of what hes been saying for several days, essentially where he has escalated what is basically a rumor into now a full-blown conspiracy that hes leading. but he was asked directly is he undercutting the investigation? are you trying to discredit everything thats going on here? and the president brought up james comey on his own. take a listen. >> this ...

I happen to share editors with clapper. i dont know him personally. i know the wonderful reports i had from the ed tr of what a fine man he was to work with. candid and open as he was putting together the story of a book he hadnt planned to write. and wrote it because of the way the presidency was won. >> the president is attacking james comey. watch this. >> i think james comey has a lot of problems. were not under cutting, were cleaning everything up. this was a terrible situation. what were d...

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This was a terrible situation. what were doing is cleaning everything up. its so important. what im doing is a service to this country. >> he may say theyre cleaning everything up but the tweet shows how hes coming down on the fbi. "look how things have turned around on the criminal deep state. they go after phony collusion with russia, a made-up scam and end up getting caught in a major spy scandal the likes of what this country may have never seen before. what goes around comes around." the pr...

Rosensteins status at the doj tonight. >> do you have confidence in iran rosenstein? >> what your next question? >> a day after refusing to say he has confidence in deputy attorney general rod rosenstein, president trump a again skirted questions. >> no, no, we are not undercutting. were cleaning everything up. what i want from rod, from the fbi, from everybody, we want transparency. >> for the past year, rosenstein has been a frequent target of president rons frustrations with the justice depar...

Is already out there declaring that bad things happened. lets watch. >> when they look at the documents, i think people are going to see a lot of bad things happened. i hope its not so. because if it is, theres never been anything like it in the history of our country. this was a terrible situation. what were doing is were cleaning everything up. its so important. what im doing is a service to this country. everybody wants to solve, but a lot of bad things have happened. we now call it spy gate....

Here. the pres. says he wants the truth. >> we now call it spygate, youre calling it spygate. a lot of bad things happened. i want them to get together, hopefully they can work it out among themselves. we are cleaning everything up. what i went is total transparency. >> no one should trust anything they say coming out of that meeting. >> im not in control of the invite list. if youre going to show up, show up with an open mind and closed lips. >> seems like a stretch to believe there will be clo...

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