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Be a former u.s. attorney himself and a current msnbc contributor. dana bash is with us, a former attorney at intel. he also happens to be a security analyst. sessions, comey, these two interviews, why was it such a big story today, why such a big development? >> there were new things we learned today that shed new light on the investigation. first, the fact that bob mueller investigated comey and sessions, thats not surprising. but i think some of the reporting out tonight, for example, that se...

That the president has been pressuring wray to have a political purge of the fbi, thats clearly inappropriate. there is a lot of activity here that i think should be of concern to investigators and congressional overseers. >> chuck, i know youve been thinking back to your former colleagues at the fbi. what do you think its like to be mr. mccabe in the oval office and be asked who you voted for in 2016? what do you think its like to be chris wray right now and be under this microscope when all th...

Asked andy mccabe who he voted for, thats clearly inappropriate. and more importantly, the fact that the president has been pressuring wray to have a political purge of the fbi, thats clearly inappropriate. there is a lot of activity here that i think should be of concern to investigators and congressional overseers. >> chuck, i know youve been thinking back to your former colleagues at the fbi. what do you think its like to be mr. mccabe in the oval office and be asked who you voted for in 2016...

Jonathan swann, the reporter, has done a lot of good reporting on this topic of the presidents conflict with the people at the justice department. so sure, it does seem like something hes now pressuring jeff sessions to pull off. >> adam, whats your reaction to this axios reporting tonight? >> i think it speaks highly of wrays character that he threatened to resign after this. but weve been talking a lot about the independence of the fbi. but the department of justice is also supposed to be inde...

Director is supposed to be independent from any politics, any political pressure. so certainly this is not the kind of story that the white house would want, given everything especially that happened with the former fbi director, james comey. >> pamela, thank you for being a trouper, we reesht you running in at the last moment, thank you so much. lets discuss this now. cnns breaking news, national security analyst steve hollis, cnn legal analyst page pate, lets discuss. interesting reporting her...

Deantonio, author of "the truth about trump." so glad to have both of you on. thank you for coming on the program. michael, you first, tonight axios is reporting attorney general sessions at public urging of president trump has been pressuring the fbi director, christopher wray, to fire deputy director andrew mccabe, but wray threatened to resign if mccabe was removed. does this sound like a donald trump move to you? >> oh, its 100% a donald trump move. you know, he doesntforget when people upse...

In the blank, in this case the fbi. or the cia has a bunch of people who are associated with nazis. what hes saying to his base is, you cant trust these people, im here to help you, but ive just got all these basically traitors, for lack of a better phrase, inside the fbi leadership, inside the intelligence community, who are fighting against me and who are trying to make the whole russia -- i mean, its ridiculous. but its not funny. because its extremely damaging to some really important instit...

The deputy fbi director expected to retire soon. i think that tells you something. >> it certainly does. she ran to the studio to fwet to us. so we know youre out of breath. lets be transparent. thank you for get. this is new reporting to get on the air. youre the best person to do it. listen, the white house are they worried about the optics of the second fbi director being fired and trumps first year? was that a big concern? >> according to to the reporting there was concern of pressuring wray...

Of breath. lets be transparent about it. thank you for getting here, this is new reporting to get on the air, we wanted to put you in front of the camera and have you report it. pamela, the white house, are they worried about the optics of the second fbi director being fired and inn trumps first year? was that a big concern there? >> according to the axios reporting, there was concern of pressuring wray and concern that perhaps wray would leave his job and the optics of two fbi directors leaving...