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Pushed back on this idea that this letter was problematic at all in fact he said there was little or no pushback in the white house when trump was drafting it. at the same time "the new york times" reported that mcgann took the letter, made heavy edits and gave it back to miller. and then it was given to the doj. it's hard to believe that there was really no problem with this letter. >> again, julia, there can be no question that the president's instinct and what his intent was was to fire comey because of russia. we now have a draft letter. he was dictating and his interview with lester holt ...

It aloud to others. later rod rosenstein was give an copy of the original letter and agreed to write a separate memo for trump about why comey should be fired. that focussed on the handling of the hillary clinton e-mail investigation. joining us michael schmidt, julia ioffi. michael, let me start with you. mueller has this letter in his possession. what do we know about what the president said originally in the draft letter? >> basically the president was at med minister the weekend before. he was supposed to play golf but it got rained out. he started stewing about comey and starts writing a ...

The relationship tweeb washington and the kremlin. russia claims the u.s. is planning inspections of diplomatic building in the united states calling it, quote, illegal, and unprecedented, aggressive action. however, there are reportedly no indications that the u.s. was planning any such searches. it comes after the u.s. state department announced last week that it is forcing russia to close three diplomatic buildings located in washington new york, and san francisco, and that it is planning to secure and maintain the property. that decision came in response to russia forcing staff cuts to the...

This -- the transatlantic alliance peeling apart. >> thank you so much for the kind words about my father. lovely. >> so, julia, let me ask you this. we, of course, are getting these reports this morning. cnn had another report that the russians thought they were passing information around in their intel community, that they thought they had financial information they could use to leverage trump in his inner circle. i want to ask you, when you hear these reports from russian intel agencies back and forth, that we intercept, how much of this do you take seriously how much do you think maybe the...

Kellyanne conway was on fox news. she said i'm not going to comment objen any of this, beca there isn't any reason to. the president himself has commented on twitter, tweeting russian officials must be laughing at the u.s. and how a lame excuse for why the democrats lost the election has taken over the fake news. nbc news first to report that 36-year-old political newcomer is under fbi scrutiny right now on collusion because of the campaign and russia. aides concede right now, as i spoke to them over the weekend, they're preparing for a new reality, willie, joe and mika. as for the war room, f...