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This was a dossier approved by four judges. the fbi had important information outside the dossier they supplied to the court. and i thought this was a pretty big deal, that the fbi opened sub-inquiries to a number of trump campaign associates. so while all this was going on, the fbi was also looking at other trump associates in this collusion investigation. >> after the memo was released, president trump lashed out on twitter, calling the democrats' memo a, quote, total political and legal bust and saying, it's, quote, so illegal. so shimon, is this an issue of legality? >> if you talk to anyo...

Welcome back to "hardball." with the release of today's memo fbi director christopher wray now stands at odds with the president who appointed him. trump is now claiming that the leadership in the fbi and the doj, department of justice, are biased against him. he said that today. well, in an op-ed piece in the "new york times," pulitzer prize winning reporter tim weimer calls that memo a cudgel created to attack everyone who obviously has been in charge of the federal investigation of team trump. he says the president may try to fire them all but he won't win the war despite the degradations t...

Welcome back to "hardball." with the release of today's memo fbi director christopher wray now stands at odds with the president who obviously appointed him. trump is now claiming that the leadership in the fbi and the doj, department of justice, are biased against him. he said that today. well, in an op-ed piece in the "new york times," pulitzer prize winning reporter tim weimer calls that memo a cudgel created to attack everyone who obviously has been in charge of the federal investigation of team trump. he says the president may try to fire them all but he won't win the war despite the degr...

That he needs to fire the deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein who is overseeing the mueller investigation. that's multiple news reports. i don't know if that's true or not. are you expecting that? >> um, i would certainly hope that wouldn't be the case. this memo is a transparent, political hit job. when it is released, if it is released, people like you and many other journalists and the people who are named, and the institutions that are named like the federal bureau of investigation and the justice department, will have an opportunity to point out what a second-rate piece of work it is....

Reports as anticipating that this classified memo release will provide him the pretense that he needs to fire the deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein who is overseeing the mueller investigation. that's multiple news reports. i don't know if that's true or not. are you expecting that? >> um, i would certainly hope that wouldn't be the case. this memo is a transparent, political hit job. when it is released, if it is released, people like you and many other journalists and the people who are named, and the institutions that are named like the federal bureau of investigation and the justice d...