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Fired, that the case could not be closed or vanished in the night without a trace. >> you wanted a documentary record that those investigations had begun because you feared that they would be made to go away. >> that's exactly right. >> you feared that those investigations would be made to go away. we are now a year and a half down the road from that conversation andrew mccabe was describing there on "60 minutes" last night. since that conversation a year and a half ago, the president has in fact made every effort to try to make the investigations go away including trying to destroy the career...

From it, they would not be able to do that without creating a record of why they made that decision >> you wanted a documentary record -- >> that's right. >> that those investigations had begun because you feared they would be made to go away? >> that's exactly right. >> this morning scott pelli said he described meetings at the justice department where officials seriously discussed the legal process of removing the president using the 25th amendment about four months into the trump presidency. >> there were meetings at the justice department in which it was discussed whether the vice presiden...

Are we with these efforts and what steps do we need to take going forward? i was very concerned that i was able to put the russia case on absolutely solid ground in an indelible fashion that, were i removed quickly or reassigned or fired, that the case could not be closed or vanish in the night without a trace. i wanted to make sure that our case was on solid ground and if somebody came in behind me and closed it and tried to walk away from it, they would not be able to do that without creating a record of why they made that decision >> you wanted a documentary record -- >> that's right. >> th...

Remarkable it is to have an on the record interview with the man who ran the fbi in the early days of the russia investigation describing essentially all of our reporting but now doing it on the record. let's take a listen to more about why he says he was so desperate to preserve the evidence and information, worried that it can all be wiped away. >> i was very concerned that i was able to put the russia case on absolutely solid ground in an indelible fashion that were i removed quickly or reassigned or fired, that the case could not be closed or vanish in the night without a trace. i wanted t...

>> the next day, i met with the team investigating the russia cases and asked the team to go back and conduct an assessment to determine where are we with these efforts and what steps do we need to take going forward. i was very concerned that i was able to put the russia case on absolutely solid ground in a fashion that were i removed quickly or reassigned or fired the case could not be closed or vanish in the night without a trace. i wanted to make sure our case was on solid ground and if someone tried to close it, they would not be able to do it without a record of why they made the decisio...