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>> julie ainsley is with me for nbc news. jeff, let's tastart with you. sarah huckabee-sanders just stopped the briefing and what did we here about this andrew mccabe stepping down. >> it was the first question out, and while he's receiving criticism from president trump, the white house press secretary sarah sanders says the president was not involved in the decision to step aside and said the president would not -- was not a part of the decision making. take a look. >> we've seen the numerous reports as all of you have, and any specifics, i can tell you none of the decision was made by that ...

Mueller finally fly, the hearing with attorney general jeff sessions had a few later moment moments. >> jason bourne or james bond movies? >> no. >> bret: that was the arkansas senator, he compared the russian investigation to a plot line in a spy novel. the attorney general also clearly wanted his old job back today. >> as a former senator you bring unique perspective to this investigation because you have been on both sides. >> i have indeed. all in all it's better on that side. nobody gets to ask about your private conversations or your staff. >> bret: [laughs] he finally got that question ...

More of a positive closing argument, staying on message -- >> well, staying on message, because doesn't want to make any mistakes. >> yeah, but then we have hillary clinton. >> also, character. >> he has to, because hi temperament and fit rns in question. she can't, because her character -- >> so she's -- so it is a flip. so hillary clinton is making the negative argument, talking about donald trump, reminding people of what he said about women. reminding us of his tree. this was not, i would wager, and make you can tell me if i'm wrong, this was not where the clinton campaign wanted to be at ...

>> yeah, but then we have hillary clinton. >> also, character. >> he has to, because hi temperament and fitness are in question. she can't, because her character -- >> so she's -- so it is a flip. so hillary clinton is making the negative argument, talking about donald trump, reminding people of what he said about women. reminding of his history. this was not, i would wager, and maybe you can tell me if i'm wrong, this is not where the clinton campaign wanted to be at this point. >> exactly. >> if hillary clinton wins, what happens to comey? the director of ten years -- usually serves ten year...

You should have chased him down even farther. i mean, there's no happy middle ground here. i think the message was that there are topics that are off limits to donald trump, and, and, you know, my job is to ask the questions, his job is to decide how he wants to answer them. >> although i didn't get the question out. but -- >> i think you were pretty clear in what you were asking him. on the subject of a rigged election, the ohio secretary of state, the man who is in charge of elections here in the state of ohio, john husted, has been very vocal in saying you know what, there's no voter fraud....