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Them trump's exact words, but that he was resigning instead of carrying out trump's requested to do crazy [ bleep ]. they talked mcgahn off the ledge urging him to stay. things subsided until seven months later. >> the "new york times" out with a big story that donald trump ordered the fire iing of robert mueller. >> when "the new york times" broke the story of the demands of mcgahn. >> in january 2018, we reported that trump had asked mcgahn the previous sum isser to have mueller removed as the special counsel. that story set off trump. >> why did you want to fire robert mueller? >> fake news...

Justice, was his fire iing part of -- was that -- did he cross the line into obstruction of justice when he fired the fbi director. so i think it is important. we all know that the memo that rosenstein wrote criticizing comey for the way he handled the hillary clinton investigation, we all know that donald trump did not fire comey because of that. we know that donald trump celebrated the way that comey handled that investigation in 2016. it was always an surbsurd on it face, the rosenstein memo and now we have a piece of information that trump wanted rosenstein to mention russia and we know fr...

Michael flynn. >> you teed me up for all kinds of questions to jeffrey toobin. maybe it will be i refer you to trump's counsel but i know you'll ask those questions if called upon. jim acosta, thank you. jeff toobin, to you. this notion that trump lawyers and dowd specifically was, the way "the times" put it, broaching this idea, dangling these pardons in front of manafort and flynn, what concerns might team trump have had ahead of these guys talking to mueller? >> i think it shows the ideas the president ha to short circuit the investigation. whether the president can direct the fire iing, th...

Criticism comes from the boss. people rather they not be criticized, but he's felling fbi people to embrace the criticism and try to do everything right and do everything brt. he insists the brand of the fbi hasn't suffered. he says the fbi remains very selective in recruiting agents approving only 5% of them. which as you know is is about the acceptance rate of highly selective universities and he says the fbi's retention rate is .8%, which would be the envy of corporate america. >> part of the attrition most recently is is andy mckad. what about the fallout throughout the agency over that. >...

President lotted today is the rank and file. those are the ones who helped prepare these for court. >> is there -- to the l extent this is going to be used as a political document, i played that clip from the president at the top because there were multiple reports that the president believes he can use this memo and the publicity to give him public support for dramatic action like fire iing deputy attorney general. given its intended use, which is a political and public relations use, should we expect that there would be some kind of rebuttal, that the fbi would issue a public statement clari...