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They had already decided who was going to be their secretary of defense. but he wasnt having these contacts. its jared kushner who had no diplomatic experience, but was the head of a business, not yet a part of the administration. >> ken, one of the things you mentioned was the possibility that congressional investigators and/or the fbi might have some classified evidence that informs them about this meeting at the mayflower hotel. and one of the forms of classified evidence that they might have...

Attorney general jeff session cleared out all the u.s. attorneys, all the federal prosecutors with no warning. with just a couple exceptions, he canned them all, all at once. the deputy to acting attorney general sally yates later explained that that mass firing of the u.s. attorneys with no warning, that had not been the original plan. he says, quote, the transition team recommended to the incoming administration that they not get rid of all the u.s. attorneys all at one time. and that recommen...

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At a comey memo. the president pulled comey aside at the end of the meeting whoch. who knew about that. you have to interview jeff sessions and mike pence. is it true the president asked you to leave the room? was the security guard in the hallway? what about the presidents secretary? talk to the nobodies and i dont mean tt wit the way it sounds. the clinton administration had to start paying thousands dollars of legal fees. this can drain you. >> this is now totally out of their control. is wha...

One was admitting that the russian investigation was on his mind when he fired james comey. another was allowing attorney general jeff sessions to play a lead role in the firing and interviewing new fbi candidates. sessions promised to recuse himself from anything relating to the russia investigation. the last straw, word the president pushed comey to pledge his loyalty. rosenstein says he was left with little choice. trump allies see this as payback and that is the political dynamic as this goe...

The real turning point which is the turning point in the space between the rest of the republican party and donald trump. were seeing in congress now what began as a subtle shift in rhetoric has become a more deliberate shift in rhetoric. senators, even house members and house leadership either making jokes about this or using critical language like downward spiral or drama to describe it. the decision to go to the special counsel has given congressional republicans the space to do this because ...

Has now told the senate intelligence committee hes not going to comply with the support. how does mueller react? how does the september react? if the senate goes ahead with to force the issue, how does jeff sessions respond? is he still recused? because he would have to enforce -- hed be the enforcer on anything with flynn. we have an early test in the first hours of this special counselship. >> and even if today were having a test over the next several days. his personal attorney is in town. pe...

Rosenstein to come up with some evidence. listen to this. >> he did not direct him to write the context of the memo. he asked him to put the comments that he had already made directly to the president in writing. again, i think that youre trying to nip a process. but the point here is that the findings in the letter, in the recommendation were original thoughts by mr. rosenstein. >> does that comport with your reporting? >> what i was told from my sources is that the president in his meeting wit...

Right. it would be helpful to hear from rod rosenstein about all of this. >> and the fact we havent heard from him i think is quite telling. >> hes also a sitting deputy director. >> sure, and hes new. understood. >> i can tell you from my reporting, the allies of the white house were encouraging them as soon as this whole thing blew up in their face to get rod rosenstein out in front of the press. and he didnt go. they sent kellyanne conway and others. >> what was jeff sessions doing in these m...

What is your take? >> what i said was it looks like -- a lot like nicaragua here in the united states with the multiple firings and the difficulty of getting an accurate and consistent story out from the white house. so i do think there is some fundamental threatening of the processes on which we relied for two and a half centuries to keep ourselves a free and a safe people. >> all right. lets talk about this. i want to get your take on rod rosenstein and what happened. the white house says that...