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He is feeding questions to congress that they are to ask rosenstein in his december house testimony. those questions being reported is whether or not seasonally mueller has a bias bias against him because the president didnt choose him as the interim fbi director. so you see again through this the thought processes of a president who is hell bent on making sure that this investigation is going slow and against him. >> all right. carrie, michael, thank you both very much for all that expertise. s...

On everything ive seen at least, theres -- i have not seen reason to think that processes were violated. >> a senator earlier today, i believe it was democrat of oregon, suggested he thinks all of this is just the president trying to create a pretext, put out this memo, and then use that as an excuse to fire the special counsel robert mueller. do you agree? >> its quite possible, yes. the president seems to be taking different steps to protect himself. that seems to be his priority, and hes got ...

Theyre -- when wray says -- wrays drawing this line and i think it will be difficult for him to stay where he is leading the fbi if the president makes this move and the president is somebody who i assess not to be an honorable man and he probably doesnt understand that people have principles and draw lines sometimes and sometimes thats necessary and wrays done that. i dont know what hell do in the end, i think it is very difficult for him to stay having drawn this line if the president ignores ...

Time to the public, to investigators, to congress, that becomes i think a legal problem. >> its he said, she said. hope hicks is denying the account. "the new york times" says that mr. carollo told colleagues immediately after this happened, he notified the legal team and took con tem plp plannious note. >> thats pretty telling, that was a detail that jumped off the page to me. when you look at people who are used to certain processes and protocols and rules. suddenly being in the middle of some...

Corner. are you worried about the collateral damage done to the fbi in the eyes of the public? >> well, to a certain extent perhaps, but at the same time, listen, the american public, theyre not stupid. theyre able to recognize when there is a wrong that has been done. and i think once they read this memo, then theyll use their best judgment to come to a conclusion that, hey, there was some problems here. >> right. do the problems, if americans see this memo and they come to that conclusion that...

Processes that the fbi and other intelligence agencies use, to bring about the information for their applications to the fisa court. when you go to the fisa court, there are generally two things youve done. either you are suspected of having worked with a foreign intelligence agency or a foreign power, or you are a member of a terrorist group like isis or al qaeda. there is no in between. they dont use this for political purposes. when they get a fisa warrant on you, they are pretty sure they ha...

That is why we have a president of the united states to try to protect those processes and procedures that have been put in place. when that starts to break down, when the president says im going to release it no matter what the fbi says, or what the justice department says, then it creates what i consider a constitutional crisis. >> and is it inevitable that people will start with holding -- cia directors or i dont want to put it on any cia director, but directs and fbi directors will say -- th...

Said and maybe bold it and underline it and add a few exclamation points here. because this is really uncharted territory. the rule the house is using to put this memo public, if thats the decision the white house ultimately agrees to, has never been evoked before. its been clear in my conversations with a number of sources on the hill that there are really trying to understand what the process is. understand all those scenarios. the lawyers are working overtime to make sure they do this by the ...

Embattled fbi deputy director andrew mccabe abruptly resigned ahead of his march retirement. theres a lot to discuss with republican mike rounds of south dakota. thanks for being here. >> appreciate the opportunity. >> have you seen this republican house memo? >> i have not. >> are you interested in this republican house memo? >> when the time is right, if they release it, well take a look at it. our focus on the senate is what the senate is working on. we know theyre interested in the house on ...

Out without going after people who have oversight over the investigation? >> brooke, can i add something here. >> james first, james first. go ahead. >> just really quickly, and i understand we cannot look at this in a vacuum and pretend that there arent political implications, im not trying to do that. but my job obviously here is to call law enforcement balls and strikes. in the 110-year history of the fbi, there have only been eight full-time appointed directors. every one of them had their o...