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Fbi needed the look because in context at the time. a president sitting asking for loyalty and asking him to go easy on flynn. comey complaining about the same. firing him. bringing up rosenstein. and you better put russia in there. he gets upset then he tells the world, i did it because of russia. are you really surprised? to see if hes compromised. >> well, heres the one thing on this. from what i read, if only his public statements were used as the predicate to open the investigation, candidl...

Theyre investigating that they have oversight responsibility for and this is not the way to conduct that. >> house committee chairman said they took the allegations seriously and referred them to the speakers office, shep. >> shepard: the justice department issued a strong statement. >> the fbi and just its the department dispute the characterization and e-mails. they say rosenstein never threatened a criminal investigation. he said he would have the right to defend himself and calling them as w...

Rod rosenstein, who would go on to be muellers boss. well, he was looking at rosenstein from the very beginning back when he was just a nominee for deputy attorney general. memos show that trump was asking comey about how republicans were holding up rosensteins nomination. the memos also depict trump as very curious about barack obamas two attorneys general, eric holder and loretta lynch, asking comey to even compare the two. the comey/lynch relationship generates questions to this day. >> it se...

Of federal law enforcement and what it now means in what remains the criminal obstruction case lacking at his conduct, as well as others in the white house. james comeys memos have revealed in more stark detail than weve ever seen from contemporaneous notes, not what people say later, but what he wrote at the time, they reveal trump obsessed with high-ranked officials in the fbi and the doj, and that it started earlier and ran much deeper than many people knew. these memos show donald trump, for...