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Investigation a matter, which instead of an investigation. there was the meeting she had with former president clinton on an airport tarmac, which you note didnt see that consequential to you but it did get a tide of critical media attention, which was important. and then theres something that you very carefully describe as an unverified intelligence report suggesting that she had offered assurances to the clinton campaign about the investigation, improper assurances or that she was somehow cont...

You said a prosecutor would need to review all the evidence of the presidents intent behind those actions in order to do that. do you think these memos are part of the evidence that a prosecutor, robert mueller or somebody else, should be considering when determining the presidents intent? >> yes. in this way -- im sure the special counsels considering my recollection of those events, which are reflected in these memos, but its my recollection that is the evidence that would be used if there was...

Doesnt agree with him on that. while you were director of the fbi and he was your deputy, was there clarity under your leadership about talking to the press, about the issue of leaks, about who could authorize people to discuss things with reporters? >> i think so. there were two people who could authorize disclosures, the director and deputy director. andy had the authority to speak to the media and authorize communications with the media. >> do you think he improperly spoke to the media in tha...

Matter, as sparking an investigation or did he seem more concerned in terms of embarrassment or the wave he might have to personally answer to it for his wife or to his family? >> i dont know. it may have been both. but my sense is he was focused most on the personal piece because he was he would bring it up with me repeatedly and at least twice he mentioned his wife if there was even a 1% chance it was true. it could be both. i remember most vividly the focus on the personal.

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Of that president trump would replace robert mueller. so, i think the investigation to the extent it existed at all would return to the regular justice department. the pending cases, like the one against manafort would be prosecuted by someone, but in terms of the investigation, i think it would probably just peter out. and you know, thats a very -- and the president may know that and think, good. thats a reason to fire him. >> look, were learning something or a lot of people are learning someth...

You lose, shake hands. steve: the lesson that okay, you won, you won really big. but sometimes the best lessons in life are when do you lose. and then its like im never going to let that happen to me again. >> thats right. two parts. one part is overcome ago loss and coping with it. learning something is the big point. and the other thing is, are we taking away from the kids that are winning. >> i have to disagree with this. im sorry. you mentioned sportsmanship and i agree we should celebrate w...

But, you know, i think america is learning something. despite of donald trump, you know, we dont look at the white house for moral leadership anymore. we look at each other. we look at others for moral leadership. we look at the wives, at the girlfriend for moral leadership. ive been posting about this this weekend, and i have been so -- my eyes have been opened. my heart has been warmed in a way by the avalanche of people who are sharing their stories the same way we saw with the "me too" movem...

Homicide plan that to do something like this, he doesnt want to crawl away and live in a home in illinois afterwards. he wanted credit for this. he wanted people to know who exactly that he was. that really does go to a strong powerful sense of grand youscy, even coming from secretive, you could have the same two traits in one individual. he wanted to kill a lot of people, damage that hotel and get credit for all of it. >> thats very clear. some of the motive obviously unclear but we are learnin...

There was a suggestion in there by both the sheriff and the fbi that some of the interviews are cooperative, people are providing information. maybe including the woman who was the girlfriend of the shooter. was the girlfriend of the shooter. mentioned, shes not in custody and talked about not wanting to disclose her location because one would not want to talk about someone whos cooperating. that to me is important. if you have people, whether its a neighbor or somebody at a gun range, whether i...