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Are defending anybody. >> the memo came hours after top fbi official andrew mccabe was, quote, removed as deputy director, taking terminal leave using vacation time until he reachedes his retirement in a matter of weeks, his days at the fbi are done. >> the president did not play a role? >> the president was part of the decisionmaking process and refer you to the fbi where christopher ray served as director, last week, i will repeat again today the president has full confidence in him and put th...

That, on its face, looks to people like obstruction of the justice. now, donald trump denies doing that. one of the things robert muellers team is going to have to do is corroborate the comey memos and comey statements and do that by speaking to the people that comey talked to at the time and also potentially to white house officials who spoke to donald trump about it. sorry, go ahead. >> no, i was going to ask you, ken, is that what makes don mcgahn so important to all this? i know hes not a ho...

>> are you far of the decisionmaking process on handing over power to the vice president or whoever while hes sedated? >> ill be make bing recommendations on that with the chief of staff and national security council and everybody else. i wont make that decision. i will be a part of that discussion. >> dr. jackson, thank you. you say that the president was the one who requested the cognitive test that it wasnt necessarily needed for someone of his age. did you -- did he tell you why he wanted it...

South korea. hallie? >> the story of what happened to otto warmbier has horrified so many folks and including president trump. i think what we saw before the syrian strike when it was the faces. it was seeing the faces of the foreign policy that seemed to have the most impact on the president or at least played into his decisionmaking process. do you think now that there is a sort of face and a family to this that we may see from president trump less of the id be honored to meet with kim jong-un...

Whats notable about kazowitz, his firm is the firm of joe lieberman, the president, himself, said was one of the finalists for the fbi director, has worked for for each of the last four years. new reporting today the white house may have moved on past joe lieberman, im told by sources here that are familiar with the decisionmaking process that hes not completely ruled out but they have broadened the search to try to look at others as well. the fact that he is bringing on kazowitz and officials a...

Election, not just as to what they did, but how to prevent it. >> the meeting was originally called to talk about the tick talk. how it all went down. the firing of james comey and mr. rosensteins role in that. did he speak to that, his responsibility and his decisionmaking process in the firering of mr. comey? >> i think he spoke to it by asserting that the record is a paper record with a chronological set of documents. what i will say, and i dont believe for a moment this is classified, is tha...

That to me is insulting. there have been a lot of people fighting hard in many theaters, just because theres been a couple of big bomb drops and tomahawk strike in syria, were saying were doing more in eight weeks than ever before. thats just wrong and its incorrect. >> don, just so i can interject as martin knows me well. i certainly dont mean to intimate that generals are suddenly not concerned about civilian casualties by any means because i spend a lot of time with the military and i know th...

Believe the president as these seasoned decisionmaker and talking about syria, he has those financial minds in there. how can they help them. >> hes thinking decisionmaking and leadership. from trumps perspective, leadership qualities transfer, hes not about as much of the expertise of foreign affairs but how is this going to work for me. hes sending a signal hes not yet committed to a policy and again, that might be -- i want to make the right decision in this moment and a week from now ill hav...

Been, i think, worrying about the new administration is the way their national security council has been so much influx. the role of the national security council is to coordinate, bring about a whole of government effort, unified message and a stable message, particularly on volatile issues in national security. and for whatever reason, we really havent seen that. we saw over the course of one week, rex tillerson the secretary of state, we saw him turn 180 degrees on whether or not the fate of ...

Plussing to getting that through the congress, and a congress that didnt want to have to vote on it. a few of us have been trying, tim kaine, myself and a handful of others, but weve never been able to generate sufficient political will to actually force a vote on this. >> congressman, let me ask you to go back to the initial point that you raised which is the decisionmaking process that led to this. obviously, this does represent a major shift in course by the administration. not just to escala...