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Fbi field office in l.a. comey promptly boards the fbi plane to fly back to washington, and hours later, the man whose taking over as acting fbi director meets with president trump in the oval office. >> i was speaking to the man who had just run for the presidency and won the election for the presidency and who might have done so with the aid of the government of russia, our most formidable adversary on the world stage. and that was something that troubled me greatly. >> reporter: the very next day, mccabe begins working with agents to launch both a criminal and counterintelligence probe. age...

At the exact same time, russians are taking center stage inside the oval office. on may 10th, one day after comey's firing prompts mccabe to consider probes against the president, trump hosts russia's foreign minister and the russian ambassador to the united states at the white house. the president lashes out about comey, according to a document summarizing the meeting, read to "the new york times." i just fired the head of the fbi, the president says. he was crazy, a real nut job. at that same meeting, the president reveals intelligence to the russians from a recent israeli counterterrorism o...

Against clinton. we may be entering a similar phase. mueller does not end up charging a conspiracy case. the rule says he has to file a confidential report. it is not clear how mueller or the attorney general would communicate to the public if they found negligent or misconduct or wrong doing or people around him that did not rise to the level of the crime. we are facing similar situation. >> let's put it up on our screen. the timeline of that eight days in may and what we know. we have james comeyfi's firing may 9th. after that president trump tells reporters that comey was not doing a good j...

No, this doesn't work in this situation, and to be able to step beyond what we typically see in a counterintelligence investigation, and try to make the details public. they'd argue it matters for the american people. >> julia ainsley, breaking it all down for us there on a monday morning. julia, thank you. we should point out, the fbi's decision in may of 2017 did not happen in a vacuum. follow me here. they had already investigated four trump campaign members the previous summer. michael flynn, paul manafort, carter page, and george papadopoul papadopoulos. plus, there were his comments on t...

That they believed, because of the circumstances surrounding the firings of comey, they needed to look at it. they needed to look at why he would do something that was so ham-fisted, so obvious, and so jaundiced. that's different than saying that they thought they had reasons that he was treasonous. you're trying to set a high bar, so they have to back off it. >> no, but there's a comma and more information, which is that undermine the national security interests of the united states. the president -- >> but niger, doesn't -- >> -- the constitution! >> but doesn't it undermine our national sec...