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Did the president direct rob rosenstein to write this memo on james comey? >> no, the president had lost, again, confidence in director comey, and frankly he considered letting director comey go since the day he was elected. >> dianne feinstein said she was told something different. she was asked to review this. is she lying? >> he asked for a letter of recommendation based on the conversation they had monday. he asked that a letter of recommendation be put in writing. >> the president always said he had full confidence in james comey. why did he say that? >> again, he's questioning director c...

>> so it's the white house's assertion that rob rosenstein decided on his own, after being confirmed, to review comey's performance? >> yes, and i think america had decided on their own that director comey was not the person that should be leading the fbi based on numerous comments we've heard from the house, the senate, members of the fbi and across the board. >> rosenstein sa, it is said, w told something different. >> heskedim to put that recommendation in writing but they came to him on their own. the president lost confidence in comey from the day he was elected. >> on may 3rd, he said he...

Clinton administration, that they would be please that had trump fired him. in fact it is the opposite. this has been an explosive news story as we all could have known. and the other problem is that trump kept his decision making very close to the vest. he obviously talked to the deputy attorney general, he talked to a couple of other senior aides in the white house. that you a lot of key political advisers in the white house were not a part of these discussions oriole and were not sort of given the lead time to really prepare an effective strategy to respond. >> in the newsroom of the "washi...

Of course, james comey did more than t russian inigation, but we're told who the next fbi director will be. so there are confusing messages coming out of this briefing about the timeline, what we can really take at face value when we're given assessments along the way and what the back rung was. big questions unanswered, what were the three instances in which the president claims comey exonerated him. no answers on that. >> kelly o'donnell in the white house briefing room. our upper right-hand square is mike vacarra on capitol hill. mike, one of the senators who got a heads up, the phrase of t...

This generally? >> i'll have to get back to you on that. i'm not 100% sure. >> you said you would want the investigation to continue with the doj. would you want the white house to continue the investigation? >> we don't think it's necessary. you have a house committee, senate committee and the department of justice all working on this. i don't think there is a necessary need at this point to add that. you've got the deputy attorney general who, i would say, is about as independent as it comes due to the fact that he has such bipartisan support. >> you have such confidence that rank and file i...