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A member of that committee, congressman ted lieu from california is now circulating a letter among his colleagues asking for an explanation of this new policy of separating little kids from their parents, asking for homeland security's view of whether taking kids away from their parents might violate international human rights law. he asks about homeland security's plans to ensure that families are some day reunified, and about homeland security's efforts to ensure that separated children are not placed ultimately with human traffickers. joining us now is congressman ted lieu, democrat of cali...

Out there that the white house counsel, don mcgahn, said this letter cannot go. and he made sure that the president met with sessions and rosenstein who oversaw comey, and that's when the memo from rosenstein was created and a letter endorsing that from sessions was signed. >> so, so out there could never be publicly released, but not so out there that it didn't end up somehow -- >> rosenstein had a copy of the letter when he wrote his memo. he knew what was in that when he wrote the memo. now, the question about rosenstein in all of this is that this is the person overseeing mueller and there...

What was the memo and what's potentially important about it? >> the memo was about rod rosenstein's explanation, the deputy attorney general, the person overseeing the mueller investigation. it's about his explanation of his role in helping the president fire comey and how the president had asked him to include russia in the letter and that rosenstein had not done that. and the question being, what was it about russia that the president wanted him to include? was it simply the fact that comey was leading the russia investigation and that he wanted him gone? or was it more narrow? was it that t...

Didn't notice. we don't know the circumstances. >> it was not -- he said, look, i didn't need to do that. he did not need to go that far he did not believe to provide a rationalization for why comey should go. there a lot of reasons why people thought comey should be fired, some of them legitimate about the way he handled the clinton e-mail investigation. but the question about the president and comey's firing has always been what did it mean about the russia investigation. what were the true motivations about the president. and that's what bob mueller wants to ask the president about. what wa...

Week. a member of that committee, congressman ted lu from california is circulating a letter from his colleagues asking for an explanation of this new policy of separating little kids from their parents, asking for homeland security's view of whether taking kids away from their parents might violate international human rights law. he asks about homeland security's plans to ensure that families are some day reunified, and about homeland security's efforts to ensure that separated children are not placed ultimately with human traffickers. gianniing us now is congressman ted lu, democrat of calif...