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That you decided to start the obstruction of justice and counterintelligence investigations involving the president? >> i think the next day i met with the team investigate the russia cases and i asked the team to go back and conduct an assessment to determine where are we with these efforts and what steps do we need to take going forward. i was very concerned that i was able to put the russia case on absolutely solid ground in an indelible fashion that were i removed quickly or reassigned or fired that the case could not be closed or vanish in the night without a trace. >> so this is andrew m...

I can't corroborate that there were two grand juries. we understand one grand jury that has been looking at this case and looked at it long ago was brought back. so the same people that looked at this long ago went months and then were brought pack. i can't speak to adam's reporting if there was maybe another grand jury. >> matt zapotosky covers the justice department at the "washington post." this is -- it's a sort of serpentine reporting in a way but it's also incredibly important and just fascinating. thanks for helping us understand it, matt. >> thank you. >> i now want to bring into the c...

Against andrew mccabe being a terrible person, he's demanded his prosecution, demanded his prosecution for specific things, demanded his conviction, and it's hard not to see how that might actually poison an effort to successfully convict somebody if -- i mean, the jury would have to believe this wasn't selective or politically motivated prosecution. and in this case i feel like the president's actions here might have made that a really hard case. >> look, both of those things are huge problems and are the kind of things that would typically wave the department off or get them to at least thin...

The fact that the case is so weak and it looks very likely -- i should say there's a strong chance that they could lose and you add to that the fact you have it coming so closely on the heels of the craig thing. all of those arguments add up for a case you would typically pass on. mccabe has said he's going to air all of the department's dirty laundry. that's the kind of case the department typically doesn't want to bring. so when you look at that and you say none of the normal factors argue for indictment, you say what's actually going on here, and the only thing that you're left with is sayi...

On the department. with respect to what happened today, it is very unusual. you can think of a few things. matt went through some of them that might have happened. one is they're continuing to investigate. they want to gather more evidence. that would seem very strange given that they had been gone for a few months. the other is that he is indicted and it's under seal, but that would be strange too. you usually do that when the investigation is continuing or when someone is a flight risk and you need to arrest them. that's obviously not the case here. and the other is that the grand jury eithe...