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But there was push back in the interest of defending what the fbi was doing. >> laura: who was his deputy back then? i can't remember who it was? what was it? you can't remember. >> right. >> laura: i can't remember as deputy. it wasn't andrew mccabe. >> no it was not andrew mccabe. that, i can tell you. >> laura: as we close this out at the end of this week james comey been on this book tour that seems like it's been going on for months but only really been going on a few days. do you agree that the damage to the bureau is somewhat significant given the fact that he led this agency and now he...

Will change but the policy will not. as you reflect on this sort of historic moment happening in cuba, what do you make of the psychological significance, at least, of not having a castro in power? >> i think the castros, i think raul is going to be gone from the official title, but he's head of the military and the communist party. his relatives control the economy and the national assembly. this is part of a succession that's been planned to keep power with the oligarch even though they have to step down and bring a figure head in. >> well, so speaking of venezuela, you have mike pence out t...

Caitlin owens is here. she broke the news that speaker ryan is retiring. and mike allen from axios is reporting that one republican is saying this is enormous for republicans. explain why. >> first of all, paul ryan. he was the vice president's nominee in 2012. he's the speaker now. he is an extremely good fund raiser for the party. then there's the -- >> shepard: he turned over more than $40 million to the republicans. >> right. this is a big deal for the party. this is a figure head. that has been largely successful at least in terms of fund-raising, in terms of party morale, support. it's a...

Steps. although that is a little unfair to the administration broadly because the truth is we know that, you know, the president's intelligence agency, the president until recently secretary of state rex tillerson, there's a number of people throughout this administration who have been pressing the president to take a much more forceful line on russia, whether it's the meddling in our elections where he is very, very reluctant to go, or something like this, starting with the sanctions we saw just the other week and today's expulsions. so, sometimes there is sort of a big bureaucracy pushing to...

What they think needs to be done to protect this country, and investigate what was done in the 2016 elections, that really has a lot of people's hackles up. >> james, according to the attorney general, jeff sessions, in his statement that he put out regarding the firing of andrew mccabe, he says that it had to do with an investigation, and what mccabe told federal investigators that he says was essentially not true, and it was pertaining to an investigation in allowing or authorizing people to speak to the media regarding an ongoing investigation inside the fbi. what are the rules in terms of ...