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And trump agreed to do it at the personal request of vladimir putin. putin and trump had a phone call on may 2nd where putin said would you be willing to see lavrov when he comes to the united states? and trump said, of course, yes. and we know what happened now. >> phil, your piece also talks about press coverage or the lack thereof, the news agency tasked photographer. they were the first to beam the pictures out to the world. kind of a p.r. advantage because their first round of photos show a...

On may 2nd where putin said would you be willing to see lavrov when he comes to the united states? and trump said, of course, yes. and we know what happened now. >> phil, your piece also talks about press coverage or the lack thereof, the news agency tas photographer. they were the first to beam the pictures out to the world. kind of a p.r. advantage because their first round of photos show a jovial group, a smiling and laughing american president. why was that important? >> it matters because i...

Theyre contesting president trump did nothing wrong in what he said in that meeting with the russians, but theyre not contesting the facts of the story, the crux of the story which is that the president shared highly classified sensitive information that had been given to the u.s. by one of our partners with the russians in that meeting. and to take off the second piece of your question there, about that meeting, it was really a remarkable meeting. its something that mattered a lot to moscow, to...

The fbi directors memo. through it all, comey continued to show his independence. on march 4, trump tweeted accusing obama of wire tapping him. next day, "new york times" reported comey asked department of justice to dejekt those accusations. march 8th, comey said he would serve his full term as director, less than two weeks before confirming the fbi investigation into russia. >> youre stuck with me for about another six and a half years. i would love to be invited back again. i have been author...

House. everyone was working tremendously hard over the weekend because they wanted to have a good week, and then this story dropped, and so they feel like had he cant catthey cant. its not their fault, its more president trump doing what he wants to do, so we shouldnt blame reince priebus or steve bannon. those people were not revealing that classified information. the presidents meeting with russian officials came just hours after he abruptly fired fbi director james comey after he was thinki...

Thanks juror joining us. >> thanks for having me. steve: may 2nd when you killed usama bin laden. now we are hearing from his son hamza. what is he up to. >> this isnt the first time he has been out and about doing stuff in 2005 he was involved with the owe pooingly assassinating benazir abeauty toe from pakistan. is he trying to make waves here. apparently is he charismatic and people like who-to-hear from him. he has a younger generation coming around. calling for the same stuff that isis want...

According to someone familiar with the conversation, that roger stone had spoken to the president and that he advised the president that he ought to fire james comey. and the white house, as we were saying earlier, the white house has denied this, and the president has tweeted about him denying it, but i stand by my story. and i would also add, wolf, that we -- if we were better readers of the tea leaves, in fact, and by that i mean, donald trumps tweets, we should have seen this coming, in a wa...

True and they knew -- and they knew what the repercussions would be. this leads me to believe this is donald trump, this is donald trump who wanted to do this. >> and another reason to believe that is -- i mean -- >> no, no. but theyre blaming it on rod rosenstein and jeff sessions. >> and why was he chosen? because he had a great reputation to do a duplicate investigation that was already being done. theres every reason to believe that rosenstein is being set up here. now, he may have let himse...

Twitter. lets put up some of the tweets weve seen from him over the course of the last couple of hours. writing in part the democrats have said some of the worst things about james comey, including the fact that he should be fired, but now they play so sad. he adds james comey will be replaced by someone who will do a far better job, bringing back the spirit and prestige of the fbi. and then he writes comey lost the confidence of almost everyone in washington, republican and democrat alike. when...

Bin laden. >> the death of bin laden. >> it was less than a second. probably half a second. just walking and shot him. i was standing above him when he took his last breath. i heard it audibly. >> bret: thanks to those navy seals. all the intelligence officers, u.s. military members, and leaders, who fight terror for us every day. thank you for inviting us into your home tonight. that is it that is it for this "special report." the fair, balanced, and unafrai unafraid. "the story" hosted by mart...