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Normally in a meeting like this its documents like a deposition. its documents they want to present to the person. >> yes. hes known as a note taker. its ironic because hes thought of as a comic figure. because he was beaten by the press so much at press conferences. but he took a lot of note, and then he would go back and talk to the president about it. even if this is related to the russia investigation, there are a lot of questions pertaining to that investigation, he would have gone back to ...

Hes going to keep searching until he finds someone to devour. and he is going to search, and notes and all these things. if its not about russian collusion, which is what jim says, then whats it about? and you can go forever and find something wrong, and i think this is a kind of witch-hunt in search of a witch and i think its a disservice to the country. >> thank you, i was trying to. >> youve been in the white house where there was an ongoing investigation that went from one point a to point b...

Its like a deposition, they have documents they want to present to a person? >> yes. hes known as a note taker. its ironic because hes thought of as a comic figure. he took a lot of notes and would go back and talk to the presidentb. even if this is related to the russia investigation, there are a lot of questions pertaining to that investigation, he would have gone back to the president and asked for specifics. he may have written things down that prosecutors dont know about and will prove usef...

National security council chief of staff, lieutenant general keith kellogg was interviewed in september. also today, nbc news learned the senate intelligence committee has subpoenaed former trump advisor carter page. page says he plans to testify, but the committee expects hell invoke his fifth amendment right. with us for more on all of it, shannon petty piece, white house correspondent for bloomberg, and paul butler. paul, i think you lawyers call it exposure. what possible exposure does sean ...

>> john, also we found out that sean spicer, former press secretary, he was interviewed by bob muellers team on monday. sean is an avid note taker, apparently. how much could spicer potentially contribute to the special counsels probe? >> oh, i think he could be an enormously important witness for a whole variety of reasons. if you think about it, he was privileged to be present at a number of occasions. for example, on the occasion when the president was speaking with a group of people and aske...

Adrienne, thanks for joining us. >> thanks for having me, steve. >> steve: you saw this today. does it make you hate james comey more or less? >> well, im certainly the last person in the world that will defend the way that james comey handled the investigation of hillary clinton. first of all, this is not new information. we knew several months ago that he had written some sort of memo, statement, in regards to what he ultimately said in july when he said, you know, case closed, im -- the f.b.i...

Opinions before they issue a judgment. going back to what james comey has said, he said, is with a copious note-taker. i wrote everything down. we dont know why this memo was written the way it was before he came out, but anybody that would say that james comey was not tough on hillary clinton wasnt following the investigation. >> steve: well, whatever -- the main conclusion is that he wrote things down that would help james comey and you cannot trust a single thing he says. adrien adrienne, tha...

House press secretary, were involved in many of those meetings as they were crafting the responses to this investigation. so certainly sean spicer has, you know, an inside window into what was going on inside some aspects of those meetings in the west wing. and wolf, we also know that he was a very diligent note taker. he was known from his time here in the white house and before that, in fact, of taking a lot of notes, detailed notes from this meeting here. so we do know that bob mueller has no...

Obstruction of justice case that we have been talking about so much about what robert muellers team is looking into in addition to the collusion stuff. so looking into the firing of jim comey, looking into anything sean spicer knows about the meeting the day after with the russians in the oval office, foreign minister lavrov and ambassador ciskislyak, and when president trump called comey a nut job and said it relieved great pressure. this is the time that sean spicer had deep knowledge about th...

Or might forget something that he felt weird about, he thought wassicy, he could point to notes from that time. im not saying thats what happened here, that would be one reason other than writing a memoir. >> this could have been his m.o. he was a meticulous note taker it may not be specifically trump related. it is something that every single person that knew him seemed to be aware of. >> people will wish they were nicer to sean, he was in a lot of meetings. >> you do get to settle some scores....