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Stuffing and Everything Else going. Good morning emily and jason. Emily good Morning Griff and jason. Happy thanksgiving for you both. Im so thankful to be here filling in for ainsley and happy to be here with you two. We have a great morning in store for you. Jason this is fun. I love turkey day. I dont know if you think i delayed my start to turkey day. I have already had a little stuffing and the cranberries. I dont wait until 5 00 in the afternoon. You dont get a belly like mine by waiting f...

senator lindsey graham plans to fight the subpoena. o figh good morning. and welcome to "way too early." on this thursday, july 7th. im jonathan lemire. thanks for being with us. we have a lot to get to this morning. but we begin with breaking news from overseas. were following reports that british prime minister boris johnson may resign today. this news comes amid a wave of resignations in his government and calls for him to step down. and taking a look at the famed front door there...

pat cipollone will sit down for a deposition with the january 6th committee tomorrow. will he help connect the dots? and the georgia prosecutor makes it clear if her investigation uncovers crimes committed by former president trump, he will be held accountable. well have her exclusive interview with nbc news. plus, two former fbi directors spurned by trump get swept up in highly invasive and rare tax audits that are supposed to be random. >> targeted? >> the odds on that daily doub...

Occurred, the irs was run by a trump appointee. comey, who said trump demanded his loyalty in a private dinner, was fired four months after trump took office. it led to robert muellers investigation into possible links between the trump campaign and russia. it also led to mccabes promotion to acting fbi director before he, too, was fired one day before he was set to retire. in a statement to the "times," the irs notes any allegations of wrongdoing are passed along for further review. a trump spo...

I was looking at data, and i think in 2013, which was the last i was able to find data, it was like five in all of the federal cases, which is tens of thousands. it just rarely, rarely happens. often when it happens you suspect that prosecutors didnt really want to bring the case. like in police shootings where while they presented it to a grand jury but they didnt ask them to do anything. that is not the situation here. as the justice department has made very clear, theyre on board with the pro...

>> the president denies it. we need to find out what the facts are. i think "the new york times" story is indicative of a larger pattern, so many of the details and the narratives that weve learned about are being told by self interested parties, whether its james comey, andrew mccabe who gave this information to "the new york times." we have yet to hear from a neutral arbiter other than inspector general for its in report which led to mccabes denial today that he illegally leaked information. s...

President, about mccabes interview on "60 minutes," at least in part, he said this. "this was the illegal and treasonous insurance policy in full action." were those discussions that mccabe and rosenstein, according to mccabe, had, illegal and treasonous? >> they werent illegal and treasonous. they werent particularly good ideas which is why they didnt actually happen. i think we need to take ourselves back to what the situation the justice department and fbi officials were faciing n that moment...

The deputy attorney general rod rosenstein, hes still at least for now, the deputy attorney general, actually considered wearing a wire to secretly go into the white house and record what the president was saying and actually also, according to mccabe, discussed the possibility of invoking the 25th amendment to the constitution to remove the president from office. was any of this ever taken seriously? >> you know, i think it depends on who you ask. you know, when mccabe is doing these interviews...

This russia thing with trump and russia is a made up story.>> i this russia thing with trump and russia is a made up story. >> reporter: mccabe is accused of lying to investigators. thats now being looked at by the d.c. us attorneys office. he did keep notes detailing several of the interactions referenced in his book..s attor. he did keep notes detailing several of the interactions referenced in his book.. attorn. he did keep notes detailing several of the interactions referenced in his book. ...

Then, of course, you have james comey and the f.b.i. all of them the most corrupt f.b.i. in american history, peter strzok, andrew mccabe recommended for a perjury prosecution. we havent heard anything since april about that. and yet everyone associated with president trump goes to jail, gets convicted of something for lying to the f.b.i. im not defending michael flynn, im not defending the trump foundation, i would simply like to see the same standards applied to the clinton foundation, the com...