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George w. bush. randy cay. >> reporter: no question these two former fbi directors have a history. it dates back to 2004 when james comey refused to authorize an nsa surveillance program called stellar wind under george w. bush. comey learned members of the bush administration were headed to then josh ash croft's hospital room to get him to reauthorize the spying program. he called robert mueller to alurt him. >> i told him what was happening. he said i'll meet you at the it hospital right now. >> he was serving as the acting head of the justice department while ashcroft was in the hospital. h...

And then we can make a determination about just what that shows. >> it wouldn't be extraordinary for those kind of memoranda to exist, kon them rainuous memoranda right? >> it wouldn't be extraordinary and it's been publicry reported that director comey kept a lot of notes about meetings he thought was significant. i think that very celebrated incident he had in the hospital with the former attorney general ash croft. he also had documented in detail kon them rainnous notes so it wouldn't surprise me if that was true of director comey. or if there was person nell concern that the president was...

Last hour we saw with our own eyes the attorney general jeff sessions arriving here at the white house, which at least to our knowledge was not a prescheduled, at least not a preannounced visit here. it came following the president's interviews with at least four individuals who were in effect finalists for the fbi director job that exists right now. joe lieberman, the former vice-presidential candidate among them as well as the acting fbi director andrew mccabe. so, we saw sessions arriving here. it's not entirely clear how this information was communicated to the white house. perhaps coming ...

President, standing up to a vice-president. they both threatened to resign and it was when bob muller made clear that he would resign with james comey who was then the deputy attorney general over this surveillance program that president bush realized how serious it was. president bush realized he had another saturday night massacre on his hands and he wanted to avoid exactly that. he backed off in order to, you know, address their concerns. so, it was bob muller who ordered the fbi agents at the hospital when jim comey was rushing to get there, but to see ash croft, the attorney general befor...

Congressional renewal and congress decided not to renew that law. it expired in 1999 and ever since we used justice department has used this special counsel provision. what it says is when the justice department either believes that it would be a conflict for the justice department or that it would be in the public interest to bring in someone from outside, that's what they can do, and that's the decision made today by rod rosenstein. he made the decision as the deputy attorney general because attorney general jeff sessions had taken themselves out of making any decisions about the russia inve...