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Joining us once again is chuck rosenburg, former u.s. attorney and worked side by side with former fbi director james comey. he was the chief of staff at the fbi. chuck, thank you for sticking with us. appreciate it tonight. >> you bet. >> so the opening anecdote, the opening, what is it, recounting the opening in this bombshell "new york times" reporting tonight is this. i'll read it the way michael sh mig -- schmidt wrote it. trump gave firm instructions, stop the attorney general jeff session from recruiting himself in the justice department's investigation whether they helped the russia ca...

The justice department to open an investigation. longstanding analysis of presidential power says the president does not need grounds to fire the fbi director, mr. dillon is a veterans department lawyer and had been so before joining the trump white house and assigned a junior lawyer to examine this issue. they determined the fbi director was no different than any other employ ne the executive branch and there was nothing prohibiting the president from firing him. but mr. dillon who had earlier told mr. trump he needed cause to fire mr. comey never corrected the record withholding the conclusi...

So ten pages of questions that have been obtained by the "new york times," reporter michael schmidt tonight, and published in the "times" tonight. just as i was sitting down to start the show. these are apparently -- these are reportedly the questions that mueller is wanting to ask the president about. it remains an open question as to whether or not the president will sit for an interview with mueller or will have any sort of other interaction with the special counsel's office. that has obviously been a matter of a lot of nashing of teeth and some negotiation. i don't know what it means about...

Dillon is a veteran lawyer and had been so before joining the trump white house and assigned a junior lawyer to examine this issue. they determined the fbi director was no different than any employee. there was nothing prohibiting the president from hiring him but mr. dillon who had earlier told mr. trump he needed cause to fire mr. comey never corrected the record with holding the conclusions. again, just remarkable in this reporting from michael schmidt tonight. he said there is somebody that worked and potentially still works in the white house office who intentionally lied to the president...