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To say it? if you could do it all along, why do you have to put in a mem memo? >> congressman jordan, first of all, because of general sessions recusal from the special counsels investigation, i was also recused from that investigation. so i was not -- >> im not asking that. im asking, you said you were fully briefed -- >> you were asking you why at the time rod rosenstein -- >> im asking you why two and half months after the broadest order you can have, why did rod rosenstein say, "hey, you can...

Contemporaries. if so he didnt just come to this conclusion im going to recuse. and if i rememberectly e were me replinsho looked upon that as the responsible thing to do at the time given a list of things that you just enumerated. rudy giuliani, the presidents attorney has said there is no way that this president could be committing obstruction of justice. we will see how it plays out. >> katie: moving along now coming to questions over the drafting of the trump tower mem memo, donald trump jr....

This mama that you are trying to release now has classified information, i think youll agree that it does, the intelligence agencies he say that it says, why is there not also hurting american national security and subverting the rule of law? >> we did something that the republicans werent willing to do.. we ask the department of justice to review it. if theres anything in there that would hurt the rule of law or national security, we want unredacted. it seems odd that the president now wants to...

Leak? i agree with ari that republicans need to be about governing. i was with the president today and hes dealing with a host of issues, not the least of which is north korea and national security issues and domestic issues. the memo leak is problematic and this was a guy who said under oath today that when pressed on why he did not report this, pressed on why he didnt, he said "i wasnt strong enough." i think what ari says sets up the problem. james comey had one goal with getting the memo rel...

Leak? i agree with ari that republicans need to be about governing. i was with the president today and hes dealing with a host of issues, not the least of which is north korea and national security issues and domestic issues. the memo leak is problematic and this was a guy who said under oath today that when pressed on why he did not report this, pressed on why he didnt, he said "i wasnt strong enough." i think what ari says sets up the problem. james comey had one goal with getting the memo rel...

What was the intent of what was said inside the oval office? if you really felt pressure at that moment, wouldnt he have mentioned that? it felt keynoted it as they get out of jail free card. it was likely in the moment where president trump said theres nothing here. >> trish: i think the danger here perhaps for donald trump is that james comey may be a little ticked off. he may not have liked how that went down, getting fired and learning about it on tv. you wonder how much of that does that pl...