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Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Attorney for the Southern District of new york elly honing. Julia, start with you. Did somebody tell the president he could take over this investigation . Where is it coming from . Seems to just be coming out of his adlib interview as he frequently does. Sort of spins from the cuff here. Seems that this is coming from a place of increased rhetoric from President Trump. He wants to show that he has control over the situation. In fact a lot of times likes bringing up the russia investigation. Perhaps that plays to his base ...

Aggressively attacking obama, and officials around the president were, thought this would be a good way to retaliate, and mcmaster obviously disagreed and presented a compelling case to trump not to pull the trigger and single out obama and deny him access to the briefings that all of his living predecessors were entitled to receive. so effectively, cooler heads prevailed back then. mcmaster, of course, left the job in april. you see that trump in more recent months has been more willing to act in ways he wa apparently unprepared to act back in 2017. >> explore that a little. that may apply to...