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Be a former u.s. attorney himself and a current msnbc contributor. dana bash is with us, a former attorney at intel. he also happens to be a security analyst. sessions, comey, these two interviews, why was it such a big story today, why such a big development? >> there were new things we learned today that shed new light on the investigation. first, the fact that bob mueller investigated comey and sessions, that's not surprising. but i think some of the reporting out tonight, for example, that sessions has been meddling in the fbi investigation about those text messages between russia investig...

That the president has been pressuring wray to have a political purge of the fbi, that's clearly inappropriate. there is a lot of activity here that i think should be of concern to investigators and congressional overseers. >> chuck, i know you've been thinking back to your former colleagues at the fbi. what do you think it's like to be mr. mccabe in the oval office and be asked who you voted for in 2016? what do you think it's like to be chris wray right now and be under this microscope when all the utter ds arances of his hav keep your head down and keep working? >> that's the message to the...

Asked andy mccabe who he voted for, that's clearly inappropriate. and more importantly, the fact that the president has been pressuring wray to have a political purge of the fbi, that's clearly inappropriate. there is a lot of activity here that i think should be of concern to investigators and congressional overseers. >> chuck, i know you've been thinking back to your former colleagues at the fbi. what do you think it's like to be mr. mccabe in the oval office and be asked who you voted for in 2016? what do you think it's like to be chris wray right now and be under this microscope when all t...

Jonathan swann, the reporter, has done a lot of good reporting on this topic of the president's conflict with the people at the justice department. so sure, it does seem like something he's now pressuring jeff sessions to pull off. >> adam, what's your reaction to this axios reporting tonight? >> i think it speaks highly of wray's character that he threatened to resign after this. but we've been talking a lot about the independence of the fbi. but the department of justice is also supposed to be independent. jeff sessions in his confirmation hearing last january said the attorney general is so...

Director is supposed to be independent from any politics, any political pressure. so certainly this is not the kind of story that the white house would want, given everything especially that happened with the former fbi director, james comey. >> pamela, thank you for being a trouper, we reesht you running in at the last moment, thank you so much. let's discuss this now. cnn's breaking news, national security analyst steve hollis, cnn legal analyst page pate, let's discuss. interesting reporting here by axios that pamela reported on. former fbi director james comey tweeted about this, he said, ...