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Off steam. one white house official told me, don't you think he suggested firi firing rosenstein about ten times today. it is hard to dismiss it all as just ventilation and blowing off steam. >> the president was ready to do this because it crossed the red line that he said, or talked about with you and your colleagues in an interview. >> correct. or he thought it had. turned out it didn't. he felt it violated the quote-unquote red line which is what he said in an oval office interview which is what he said with my colleagues and myself about the scope of mueller's investigation. that her char...

Don't think starr is bob mueller, number one. number two, i think we have a real question here about how rosenstein -- he's in a very peculiar position. he wrote the memo that just field the firi -- just field t justified the firing of comey, but i think he thought the president would say, no, i fired him because he was investigating the russian matter. i think he is in a peculiar position and conflict as well. if they came to him and said, fire comey he would probably end up being resign or fired himself. that would -- that probably could only happen if we changed the attorney general. i thin...

Lead many of us to believe, myself included, that the president engaged in inappropriate conversations with director comey leading up to his firi, but nothing came out of today's testimony that would be a smoking gun that would lead anyone to to believe he engaged in illegal conduct or obstruction or justice. today's investigation or committee hearing was a good step forward to get beyond this frenzy. it's time to get back to work on capitol hill. >> i get that. there are people including a former watergate prosecutor who said there's quite a good case for obstruction of justice, this is imped...

Them and bad things about them. how do you think fbi agents will respond to this firi? do you think this could have the effect by decapitating the agency, could that have the effect of derailing the investigation? >> no, it can't. an investigation has a life of its own. we have found when you're the fbi and you're looking at a president, investigations we get investigations. the fbi went after nixon and helped bring him down. the fbi went after ronald reagan's national security team in the iran contra when the white house was selling weapons to iran, skimming the profits and slipping them to g...

Opening statement where jurors and family members heard dylan roof in his own words for the first time, dylan roof talked about his own mental competency. he dedicated his entire two minute opening statement to saying why he was essentially not crazy. he said he was representing himself because he didn't want his lawyers to present his mental health evaluation, proving that he is sane. it's been the one issue that dylan roof really seems to care about. firi his defense team and his ers saying he's also afraid of anything that might come out that could embarrass his family. meanwhile, prosecuto...