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I could not have imagined a worse commentary today by the president of the united states. >> frank figliuzzi, thank you. hallie jackson was in the room as well. seated not far from our friend jonathan lemire. hallie, what was the reaction like when you were getting these answers in realtime? all i can do is ask the russians. i dont see any reason why it would have been the russians. >> right. why it would be. frantic typing and note taking, as you might imagine as every reporter was sort of furi...

A hit on his own parents. for one thing, in his button-down shirt and wire-rimmed glasses, he looked more law student than murder suspect. and besides, for two weeks, theyve watched his careful note taking, his whispered asides to attorney fleisher. he felt that he was wrongfully prosecuted, and the only way that we could tie up a lot of things, and actually prove things, or disprove things, was by him testifying. bailiff: --the statement youre about to give will be the truth, the whole truth, a...

What can he come out of the room and say. >> that was controversial before the indictments came down. go to the meetings with no note taking and no american give witness to what was said. everything is as plans and there is not going it be changes. what i dont understand is with respect to how he loves to appear with anyone, including allies in nato, very tough. i am the alpha male. exploit weakness and yet he doesnt want to appear tough at all in russia. great opportunity for him to go over the...

Is going for a one-on-one meeting with no witnesses. we saw this in the oval office, when the president had foreign minister lavrov of russia actually come into the meeting. there was no u.s. presence in terms of the media and we heard the narrative of the russian state first. the only real note-taking and accountability was from the russian media. this is a damaging and damning scenario coming up for the united states, particularly as we saw the senate intel committee roll out their report last...

Administration. >> is it bolton and pence versus pompeo? >> he is a very good note taker. i dont believe anything was unintentional or uncoordinated. >> mentioning libya. >> its actually kind of a master stroke. >> you talked about muscle memory. having been in the trump tower offices with the candidate trump and watching the way that thing flowed. careful note taking is not one of the things -- >> its bolton. not the president. >> its not one of the things that goes on in there. and i think the...

You can see versus you cant see. here is what they can do. they can say here are the procedures we want to go through. the department justice can. rod rosensteins staff. not him personally but their staff can say you can come over, view the documents, no note-taking. you can only read them and we can discuss them. but there is no note-taking and you cant have copies. >> melissa: but let me challenge that. >> that solves the problem. >> melissa: they are serious people as you say but they are als...

Questions are going to occur to us all evening long, of course. was note-taking allowed on the part of mr. dowd and his co-counsel, or was this all something they couldnt wait to get outside the room and spew it onto paper to the best of all their recollection? >> no. its our understanding that note-taking was allowed. this isnt the s.a.t.s. i think youre allowed to come in and take notes in that kind of situation. i think that was the point of the meeting. the point was to get across to them, h...

And i was really struck, as mike and i pored through these today and tried to both write them out and provide that kind of context, we were really struck by the fact that some of these were obvious as you said. the trump tower meeting, that was a no-brainer. but some of these, especially at the end, they really signal that bob mueller has not closed the door on the question of coordination between the trump campaign and russian officials. he has more questions that he wants answered. hes obvious...

Eric holder, jim comey, ive always found andy to be not only a trustworthy individual but a man of honor and integrity. and i think it cant be said enough about that. >> i want to read you one of the many tweets of our president over the weekend about mccabe and specifically mccabe shares with comey and some of you know reflexively, and thats note taking, contemporaneously dictating notes to file. the president kind of expressed doubt -- spent very little time with andrew mccabe but he never

For a number of years on the highest level of the fbi and what people dont understand in those jobs as you pointed out when he was the assistant director of counterterrorism and i was the assistant director of counterintelligence and we were both assistant director of operations, you split the job and he was running one side of the fbi and i was running the other. whether it was meetings with eric holder, jim comey, ive always found andy to be not only a trustworthy individual but a man of honor...