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Are defending anybody. >> the memo came hours after top fbi official andrew mccabe was, quote, removed as deputy director, taking terminal leave using vacation time until he reachedes his retirement in a matter of weeks, his days at the fbi are done. >> the president did not play a role? >> the president was part of the decisionmaking process and refer you to the fbi where christopher ray served as director, last week, i will repeat again today the president has full confidence in him and put the decisions in his hands. >> democrats blasted both the decision to release the memo and mccabe's de...

That, on its face, looks to people like obstruction of the justice. now, donald trump denies doing that. one of the things robert mueller's team is going to have to do is corroborate the comey memos and comey statements and do that by speaking to the people that comey talked to at the time and also potentially to white house officials who spoke to donald trump about it. sorry, go ahead. >> no, i was going to ask you, ken, is that what makes don mcgahn so important to all this? i know he's not a household name but we've come on the air before and talked about how the white house counsel don of,...

>> are you far of the decisionmaking process on handing over power to the vice president or whoever while he's sedated? >> i'll be make bing recommendations on that with the chief of staff and national security council and everybody else. i won't make that decision. i will be a part of that discussion. >> dr. jackson, thank you. you say that the president was the one who requested the cognitive test that it wasn't necessarily needed for someone of his age. did you -- did he tell you why he wanted it done? there's been a lot of speculation out there about his cognitive state. did -- was he upse...

South korea. hallie? >> the story of what happened to otto warmbier has horrified so many folks and including president trump. i think what we saw before the syrian strike when it was the faces. it was seeing the faces of the foreign policy that seemed to have the most impact on the president or at least played into his decisionmaking process. do you think now that there is a sort of face and a family to this that we may see from president trump less of the i'd be honored to meet with kim jong-un. >> seeing faces -- >> having that emotional connection. >> back when he made the decision about t...

What's notable about kazowitz, his firm is the firm of joe lieberman, the president, himself, said was one of the finalists for the fbi director, has worked for for each of the last four years. new reporting today the white house may have moved on past joe lieberman, i'm told by sources here that are familiar with the decisionmaking process that he's not completely ruled out but they have broadened the search to try to look at others as well. the fact that he is bringing on kazowitz and officials at the white house say they may have others join the team does sort of demonstrate the seriousness...