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Them trumps exact words, but that he was resigning instead of carrying out trumps requested to do crazy [ bleep ]. they talked mcgahn off the ledge urging him to stay. things subsided until seven months later. >> the "new york times" out with a big story that donald trump ordered the fire iing of robert mueller. >> when "the new york times" broke the story of the demands of mcgahn. >> in january 2018, we reported that trump had asked mcgahn the previous sum isser to have mueller removed as the s...

Justice, was his fire iing part of -- was that -- did he cross the line into obstruction of justice when he fired the fbi director. so i think it is important. we all know that the memo that rosenstein wrote criticizing comey for the way he handled the hillary clinton investigation, we all know that donald trump did not fire comey because of that. we know that donald trump celebrated the way that comey handled that investigation in 2016. it was always an surbsurd on it face, the rosenstein memo ...

Michael flynn. >> you teed me up for all kinds of questions to jeffrey toobin. maybe it will be i refer you to trumps counsel but i know youll ask those questions if called upon. jim acosta, thank you. jeff toobin, to you. this notion that trump lawyers and dowd specifically was, the way "the times" put it, broaching this idea, dangling these pardons in front of manafort and flynn, what concerns might team trump have had ahead of these guys talking to mueller? >> i think it shows the ideas the p...

Criticism comes from the boss. people rather they not be criticized, but hes felling fbi people to embrace the criticism and try to do everything right and do everything brt. he insists the brand of the fbi hasnt suffered. he says the fbi remains very selective in recruiting agents approving only 5% of them. which as you know is is about the acceptance rate of highly selective universities and he says the fbis retention rate is .8%, which would be the envy of corporate america. >> part of the at...

President lotted today is the rank and file. those are the ones who helped prepare these for court. >> is there -- to the l extent this is going to be used as a political document, i played that clip from the president at the top because there were multiple reports that the president believes he can use this memo and the publicity to give him public support for dramatic action like fire iing deputy attorney general. given its intended use, which is a political and public relations use, should we...

Consideration that the president was given to firing mueller, they all flatly denieded it. so what do you make of that? >> well, thats right and his aides may not have known about it. sean spicer, sarah sanders, kellyanne conway, there are s l several people bedenying that i was ever on the table for the president, but the most striking thing is the comment from the president himself who said he never considered it. he read that the media had reported he was considering it, but had never been on...

That hes you know, its a bridge too far. the second problem and the third problem with related to each other because ultimately, i dont mean to jump the gun, but ultimately, if theres a shift in power in congress and theres a move, not saying its going happen, but there is a move towards impeachment, the very same people in congress who are having a negative reaction to this and saying theres a bright line or red line as far as the fire iing of bob mueller goes, theyre going to be the ones consi...

At least in the united states senate. >> senator, hillary clinton reemerged this week with a major speech at wellsley college and talked about the mood on the campus in 1969 when she was still a student. >> we were furious. about the past presidential election. of a man whose presidency would eventually end in disgrace with his impeachment for obstruction of justice. after fire iing the person runn the investigation into him at the department of justice. >> now, to be b clear, nixon was never im...

Refineries but gadhafi has shown he has no quams about fire iing into those areas. >> jim mass aida, thank you. nasty storm system is causing major problems in the northeast right now. its going to get worse. new jerseys governor declared a state of emergency, punishing ran threatens to unleash fierce flooding in several areas. >> theyre saying its supposed to rain all weekend. it will probably come into the house then. what are you going to do? you cant fight mother nature. >> nbcs ron allen ...

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