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You know, my mother attended the watergate hearings. part of the reason why she got into journalism. side note, not relevant here. natasha, donald trump yesterday, when he was talking to reporters, he was telling them he would be willing to go talk to the special counsel under oath. he also said something that was really interesting that devlin barrett at the "washington post" noticed. and take a listen to this sound bite. heres where it is. >> because heres what well say and everybody says, no...

Disclosure about his conversation with andy mccabe is the latest example. >> i want you to, if you can stick around, i want to bring in one of the reporter whos broke that story we were just telling you about on then acting director andrew mccabe. devlin, you published it the moment i was getting on air. can you tell me the timing and the circumstances under which mccabe gets called to the white house and this meeting happens? >> sure. so it happens at a really key time in the course of events l...

Fact we know he is actively looking at the question of obstruction? >> so i assume, look, with the obstruction investigation, there are four bodies of information. one there are all the people at the fbi who know anything. andy mccabe is certainly one of those people. number two, theres all the documents at the fbi. number three, all the people at the white house who know anything. >> right. >> number four, theres all the documents at the white house. those are your four bodies of information. a...

Harang him over his wifes political affiliation and campaign contributions. >> final question for you, ben, do you think mueller want to talk to andy mccabe given the fact we know he is actively looking at the question of obstruction? >> so i assume, look, with the obstruction investigation, there are four bodies of information. one there are all the people at the fbi who know anything. andy mccabe is certainly one of those people. number two, theres all the documents at the fbi. number three, a...

Devlin, you published it the moment i was getting on air. can you tell me the timing and the circumstances under which mccabe gets called to the white house and this meeting happens? >> sure. so it happens at a really key time in the course of events last year. thats shortly after james comeys fired as the director of the fbi. and mccabe goes to the white house were told that he speaks to the president in the oval office and in that ha conversation, one of the things that the president asks is, ...

Replace comey said he didnt vote. according to several anonymous current and former u.s. officials sourced in the report. mccabe, who has spent more than two decades at the fbi, found the conversation with trump disturbing, said one former u.s. official. and one person said that trump/mccabe conversation is of interest to special counsel robert mueller. both the white house and the fbi declined the to comment. devlin, this is your reporting. all these pieces were just reporting them at this poin...

Fbi, with michael cohen, his personal lawyer. who swears personal loyalty to donald trump. and donald trump expects personal loyalty from agencies of government that have been independent since the inception of the united states of america. devlin, your story in front of the "washington post" today gets to the root of that, when you have an acting fbi director being asked by the president of the united states who he voted for. in the prior fall election. in your reporting, what sense do you get ...

The fbi? and as much as the president clearly has a lot of dislike and a long-running dislike for andrew mccabe personally, it also raises the question was the president trying to get some sort of assurance as to what the fbi would be doing in a post-comey environment. >> mike barnicle in. >> devlin, his longstanding antipathy toward mccabe, what is the root of that? did he know mccabe prior to running for president or becoming president? >> not at all. it stems from the late days of the campaig...

Deeply irresponsible. and were talking about tampering with the institutions of government that have always been independent. the federal bureau of investigation. the department of justice, they do not belong to the office of the president. they belong to the united states of america. they are charged with operating independently and theyre being tampered with daily. >> all right. the "washington post" devlin barrett, thank you very much. carol lee, thank you as well. well be reading the exclusi...

Because telling the truth is always easy. there is nothing to be caught up on, theres nothing to trip over when you tell the truth. in terms of them being as you say, buds, theyre not. they have a good professional relationship. they have mutual respect for one another. they are not friends. i think jim comey mentioned that maybe he and bob mueller saw each other socially in all the years they have known one another, once or twice. so its easy to tell the truth. it will be an easy interview for ...