general sessions. it's kinds of like if your boss asked you to write a note about someone, an employee evaluation. you don't think that the employee is doing a great job but you know your boss is going to use this note that you write to fire the guy. so that's what he -- that's the position he was in. today i heard some waffling about whether he really thought that comey should have been fired. but when you read that memo he wrote, it is pretty clear that he thought comey needed to go. >> of course, ari, that memo was the underpinning for the firing of comey, later rescinded by the president in the lester holt interview. >> that's correct, brian. that's an area that's going to be difficult for jeff sessions because you can't claim something is privileged that has already been released to the public. it is no longer private. and yet the memo and the sessions letter suggested a chain of events that no longer are believed to be true because of the president's own words. so even if you are a donald