did turn over this memo to the special counsel as "the times" reports, that's one area for the special counsel to investigate further. the president is obviously not speaking the truth here about blaming the media for suggesting that russia was on his mind. even the president's attorney, rudy giuliani, said last week that one of the reasons why he fired james comey was because comey would not say the president was not a target of the russia investigation. so clearly russia was on his mind, and giuliani admitted it himself last week. >> the president, we know he reads "the times." it stirs up the idea that andrew mccabe doesn't like for many reasons. rosenstein doesn't have a reason to do this if jeff sessions hadn't recused himself, so he says, the recusal of jeff sessions was an unforced betrayal of the president of the