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The idea of possibliy resigning. Whats unclear is how serious that was. Whether he said Something Like i am willing to resign if the president wants me to or whether he said i intend to resign and im going to do it on monday. We dont know the exact nature of those conversations. Eli, i want to hear about your reporting. I want to show our viewers what phil rucker is talking about. Lets watch. I have a message for the president tonight. Under zero circumstances should the president fire anybody. ...

And i base this on conversations with people at the department at the time and i think if you read closely the "times" story, rod rosenstein wasnt kind of in complete command of the situation then. he was in a lot of ways a ship without port. i think he didnt understand the ramifications of his memo after he wrote it and used the excuse to fire comey. deeply criticized by alumni at the justice department. he took to it heart. he was floundering around in that week trying to figure out what to do...

Really having a tough time. and whether he was serious or not in his remarks about the 25th amendment, whether he was serious or not in his remarks about wearing the wire, he was a person in some ways a ship without port. was not sure where to go. >> you worked in the justice department. i worked in the white house. i attended a lot of nsc meetings. we made jokes. you dont put in a memo, jokes. >> that is not a suggestion that a deputy attorney general who really is in control of the situation m...