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Story. "the new york times" reports the fbi opened an investigation into whether the sitting president was secretly working for russia against the united states. at the heart of the probe, mr. trump's firing of fbi director james comey and evidence that he linked it to the russia investigation. >> i said, you know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a made-up story, it's an excuse. >> the president responds by harshly criticizing comey and other fbi leaders. we'll have "new york times" reporter michael schmidt and ben wittes on what this could mean for the mueller investigation going f...

Real either. here is the tweet. when lester holt got caught fudging my tape on russia, they were hurt badly. fudging his tape on russia? what the president is referring to is his may 2017 interview with lester holt. an interview where he contradicted his own white house on the reason for firing former fbi director james comey. his administration claimed comey was fired due to recommendation from deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. criticizing comey's handling of the clinton email investigation. but that is not what president trump told lester holt two days after removing comey. here is the...

Political opinions of ongoing elections. these were extreme opinions so i don't think we'll see much about that. look, i wonder whether we'll see anything about the close relationship between comey and mueller. we know these people were joined at the hip. if comey criticized i think the president will get ammunition for criticizing comey's protege and whether he should be the one to investigate comey. we may see more ammunition coming from that but one thing you can be sure is clear from what's already happened and this will be a partisan fight. blumenthal on one side and the president and his...

Did it. >> laura: here's what i think -- >> may i respond? that point, joel's first point. first of all, there doesn't already have to be a crime. you've got to have an investigation before there is a crime. there does have to be a criminal investigation. it's now clear. remember the charter says that mueller could look into anything in the investigation that james comey announced when he testified before congress. it's now been made explicitly clear that comey, if you want to criticize somebody, i am all for criticizing comey. comey had already launched a criminal investigation of several mat...

>> here is what i think. laura may i respond to that point. which was joe's first point. first of all there does not already have to be a crime. you gotta have an investigation. there does have to be a criminal investigation. it is clear, remember the charter said that -- mueller can lock at anything in the investigation that james comey announced when he testified before congress. it has been made clear that comey if you want to criticize someone i'm for criticizing comey. comey laufrped a criminal investigation including two important matters relate to manfort. whether he had colluded and ta...