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Expected tough questions about how to best care for our veterans. but did i not expect to have to dignify baseless and anonymous attacks on my character and integrity. the senate minority leader said if anyone to is to blame the mail strum around dr. jackson it's president trump. >> the president is what caused this problem by not properly vetting, by making these decisions on the fly, by making sure they don't count. >> as the jackson withdrawal was still settling, the president's embattled e.p.a. administrator was in the hot seat in congress. bombarded with questions about political favors a...

Copy of it i don't know whether it was september, october. some time in that period of time. >> bret: when did you learn that the dnc and hillary clinton campaign had funded christopher steele's work? >> i still don't know that for a fact. >> bret: what do you mean? >> i have only seen it in the media. i never knew exactly which democrats had funded. i knew it was funded first by republicans. >> bret: that's not true. >> i'm sorry? >> bret: that's not true that the dossier that christopher steele worked on was funded by republicans? >> my understanding his work started funded as opo research f...

And opened a counter intelligence investigation at that point. the meeting that you are talking about occurred in the spring. >> bret: april. >> before there were any public revelation of russian hacked emails. but the fbi didn't learn about it in late july. >> bret: okay. so what is the crime or the collusion that launches the investigation? >> collusion is not a word that i'm familiar with. >> bret: what is the crime? what is the evidence basically that launches? >> the question is you open a counter intelligence investigation to understand are any americans in cahoots with the foreign intel...

To keep it tight, it was worked in the counter intelligence division at headquarters. you can reasonably disagree with that if you are an fbi person. could have put it in washington field office. could have put it in new york. the decision that counter intention made it will be kept tighter and leak-proof which it was criminal intelligence division. >> bret: no grand jury. >> i'm not allowed to comment on the way in which the grand jury was used. i will say this though she was not interviewed in front of a grand jury which is another judgment call that prosecutors and investigators make all th...

Loretta lynch email. you didn't write it b. it here in this book because you said it's classified. the "new york times" wrote a lot about it did the fbi public affairs coordinate that story. >> not to my knowledge. i'm not going to comment on any stories because i'm not allowed to confirm or deny classified information. >> bret: all right in the infamous oval office meeting with president trump when he asked you to stay behind one-on-one. you write in the book that you felt awkward. you didn't like it. >> correct. >> bret: you had been one-on-one with president obama in the oval office? >> cor...