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Even really recuse himself when it came to firing of comey. he was incredibly involved in the whole process. and answering the basic questions today, he could not even do, so what we saw today was really sessions was performing for an audience of one. he was behaving more like a personal lawyer. >> let me go to -- by the way, its interesting where they agree, where sessions supports and corroborates comey, but on this recusal issue, comey made much more of it than jeff sessions did. comey indica...

Personal lawyer. >> let me go to -- by the way, its interesting where they agree, where sessions supports and corroborates comey, but on this recusal issue, comey made much more of it than jeff sessions did. comey indicated, apparently, that there was classified information that he was possession of that informed the need for jeff sessions recusal and jeff sessions explained it had nothing more, according to the book, it says if youre involved in somebodys campaign and theyre being investigated,...

Jim comey and the president of the united states is saying the other one is essentially lying right now? >> i do think that former director mueller comes with great bipartisan credentials in the senls that hes highly regarded on both sides of the aisle. i have that same type of confidence as i do in mr. comey. ive said before, i may not have agreed with the decisions mr. comey made but ive never questioned his integrity. i dont think anyone questions the integrity of mr. mueller, either. >> broa...

Go ahead with criminal charges. he has all these powers. lets take obstruction of justice. its not going to be easy. that is not something easy to prove. it is incredibly difficult to prove. >> mr. trump has made it a lot easier to prove than one could imagine. first of all, people have been focussing on the memo that comey created. the fact of the matter is if you look at the circumstances surrounding this, the fact that he didnt fire his national security director until 18 days after he was wa...

Hes going to be looking at that whole complex of issues. the comey memos are just a piece of the puzzle. >> thank you very much. i want to go back to pamela brown. this major development of the special prosecutor coming just 24 hours after we learned about these memos and we snow that there are now multiple memos, thanks in part by your reporting, pamela. obviously, this is crucial. what role these memos will play. >> that is the big question. who has seen the memos, who has looked at the memos....

He now has subpoena power. there was always a question as to whether the house or the senate would use their senate power to investigate the russia hacking and collusion scandal. now we have someone with a great deal of professional ethics who has subpoena power. this is a very different investigation now. this is a serious investigation and he can take it wherever he feels it ought to go. so the whole game has changed and now its a serious matter. and ill say this. until the comey memos came ou...

As jeff zeleny pointed out, sean spicer has been saying theres no need for a special counsel. >> as recently as monday. >> right. this isnt going to be welcome news at the white house. this means that this investigation is going to be long and deep and its not going to be over quickly. and i think you can only look at donald trump for that. i agree with john avalon the that something happened with that comey memo that probably made rod rosensteining change his mind. on capitol hill now, i would ...

Because we know that mr. comey says he kept them because he was appalled or concerned with what the president was saying. il say we havent gotten to the leaks. we have not gotten to an answer that he didnt share that information with anyone until after he was fired. >> correct. thats the big question and what do these memos look like? >> right. >> we havent read them. we havent heard his testimony and heard his explanations. theres more to uncover here, yes, but i think the most important point ...

In the process and in the outcome. in that sense, i do think that a lot of credit goes to mr. rosenstein. you know, who was so vilified because he got dragged in by the president and jeff sessions writing that statement when comey was firebird. this w b -- fired. he had the way in making the appointment. he turned to mueller, because he must have assumed, as others have said, bob mueller is so highly respected that he did not feel this would influence the outcome. >> john, what do you think happ...

News that happened between now and friday. >> those are massive bombshells in this accelerating news cycle but i think the presence of the comey memo forces the handled. the calculus has changed on capitol hill. i do think that while this is a great reminder that we are a nation of laws, not men, that clearly rod rosenstein felt it needed to be taken not in coordination with the trump white house. the white house did not send the stabilizing signal. the justice department did. the attorney gener...