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Documents ive ever seen. and we were still able, that end of the day, to take that document and destill it down into an unclassified version we were able to share with the public that care that he had sum and substance very important conclusions we had drawn. so i see no reason why folks at d ooj couldnt do the same thing like with the mueller report. >> part of what youre eluding and others have as well, its a strange situation. youre talking about investigations with robert mueller and 99.99% ...

Described seeing a letter president trump purportedly drafted himself as an attempt to justify the firing of former fbi director james comey may of 2017. >> something that i havent discussed before and im very careful, i have to be careful in the way that i talk about this. but i have seen the letter that the president wrote purportedly himself justifying the firing of jim comey. >> what does it say? >> in a rambling four-plus pages it goes through all the different reasons why he is firing the ...

Himself justifying the firing of jim comey. >> what does it say? >> in a rambling four-plus pages it goes through all the different reasons why he is firing the director of the fbi. now, im not going to go through all those with you but i will tell you that one of them is he claims he wanted to fire the director of the fbi because of his failure to fire me. that was a letter written long before the i.g. had concluded their investigation and drawn their i believe false conclusions in that report....

So, truly remarkable. >> since youve brought up the inspector generals report, they did say that on four instances that you were not fully candid with questioners about your interactions with "the wall street journal." can you respond to that? >> well, all i can say at this point, andrea, because of the ongoing legal matters that im still handling, is that i deeply disagree with those conclusions. i think ive been clear about that. i never at any time intentionally misled the inspector general, ...

President trump purportedly drafted himself as an attempt to justify the firing of former fbi director james comey may of 2017. >> something that i havent discussed before and im very careful, i have to be careful in the way that i talk about this. but i have seen the letter that the president wrote purportedly himself justifying the firing of jim comey. >> what does it say? >> in a rambling four-plus pages it goes through all the different reasons why he is firing the director of the fbi. now, ...

And we were still able, that end of the day, to take that document and destill it down into an unclassified version we were able to share with the public that care that he had sum and substance very important conclusions we had drawn. so i see no reason why folks at d ooj couldnt do the same thing like with the mueller report. >> part of what youre eluding and others have as well, its a strange situation. youre talking about investigations with robert mueller and 99.99% of those are with citizen...

Intelligence officials that some times the things that they find are different than the world view he holds. he has been very public about saying they got it wrong. you cant always trust them. it is the stuff that keeps it up at night. it is trying do the right thing. i dont like the idea of saying well, they have come to conclusions they dont like. i think the most justifiable reasons for parting ways might be that clip from the security forum you showed where he sort of publicly is exs a per r...

Do you think that he looks into this, the actions that the president was taking? >> no, i dont think hes going to get involved in this. i think he feel like -- and i think, correctly, as maggie pointed out, when you asked her earlier, what makes this story so significant is that its a pattern. its this constant effort to obstruct the mueller investigation. now it appears also to obstruct the southern district investigation. but all of that is under the purview of mueller. mueller is investigatin...

I know you have taken issue with the report and its conclusions. you said there are explanations for those inconsistencies, but you cant talk about them because of an ongoing civil case. dont you owe the public, though, at this point and readers some sort of explanation if youre asking them to believe you now? because that is the knock against you. >> sure. >> everybody points to, look, the inspector generals office is highly respected. >> yeah, which, you know, that is the knock thats so incred...

To report to congress about, two, he said his words, there may be discretion about what he can actually put in this report, right? so will the public see the full mueller report? how much transparency will there be? >> well, bill barr pledged to be as transparent as he could so well see. i dont think the public will see muellers actual report unless it leaks, which is a possibility depending on how many people get their hands on it. i think barr if he does live up to that pledge will have to sho...