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President trump delivered his first commencement address since taking office at liberty university in lynchburg, virginia, earlier this afternoon. he encouraged students to challenge interests and failed power structures. and a search to replace former fbi director james comey is in high gear. six candidates were interviewed today including acting fbi director andrew mccabe. new details emerging about the one-on-one president trump had with former director james comey there. dinner taking place one day after the white house was warned about general flynn's ties to russia. joining me now is nbc...

Can do it. you will be successful. i have seen so many brilliant people, they gave up in life, they were totally brilliant, top of their class, they were the best students, the best of everything, i have seen others who didn't have that talent, the most successful people in the world, they never gave up, just remember that, never stop fighting for what you believe in. carry yourself with dignity and pride, demand the best from your self and be totally unafraid to challenge entrenched interests and failed power structures. does that sound familiar, by the way? the more people tell you it is not...

Because they're people that can't get the job done. but the future belongs to the dreamers, not to the critics. >> reporter: the dreamers, indeed. dream big, is what the president was trying to say there. meanwhile, the president also not only spoke to the students here, there's about 50,000 people that were here. i have to tell you, the stadium seats about 30,000 plus, there were probably about 10,000 on the field, thousands all around the hills and the concourses. it was really amazing to see. the president also, again, not only told the students to thank their participants for their contrib...

If memory serves he was convicted as agent of foreign power which is often how government gets short of full conviction i might be wroeng but that's typically a lighter sentence and this is typical operating procedure for russian intelligence, they are looking at a very long time horizon, they see someone like page or someone else who in 2013 might not have been obvious target but are looking for people who are swimming in the united states power structures. >> didn't he work for the bank that jared kushner met with. >> that to me is the most interesting part of this whole story because he was...

Or somebody else who in 2013 might not have been an obvious target, but they're looking for people who are sort of swimming in the important milieus in the united states' power structures. >> didn't he work at a bank that jared kushner met with? >> that to me is the most interesting part of this whole story. because he was working for ved bank, the head of which trained or was at the fsb school, the internal russian intelligence service school and clearly has ties to intelligence. so the kushner veb bank tie is the one that interests me more than mr. buryakov. >> this reminds me i feel like i'...