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You said the president asked rosenstein on more than one occasion to, quote, put russia in the memo. what does that mean? what did the president want put in there about russia or about the president or the investigation? >> i don't know that they ever developed that idea beyond the president pchsz request, because rod, of course, indicated he didn't need to refer to russia in his memo. and that he didn't. he didn't put rushy in the memo. that's something that concerned us greatly, but it's one of those facts that we were looking at at the time and asking ourselves, what did the president inten...

Did not want to put the agency in. >> you talked about it on "60 minutes" about how you memorialized meetings with the president and memos, something that fbi agents are trained to do. some were turned over to mueller or perhaps all of them. did you document your discussions with rosenstein about the 25th amendment and wearing a wire as well? >> i documented my interactions with rod rosenstein, and those memos have been provided. >> so knowing what rosenstein said about the wire and the 25th amendment as well as rosenstein's role in firing of comey, do you think rosenstein should have recused ...

Issues. i think all of those things combined to make it a much more arduous process. nevertheless, i am very happy with the product that came out of that process. and glad to have the fbi seal of approval on it. >> one of the things that is not in the book which obviously has gotten a lot of attention is the conversation with rod rosenstein about the 25th amendment. this morning, you said you didn't put it in the book because you didn't want it to be a distraction. it's certainly a distraction now. if you didn't want to have it be a distraction, why bring it up at all? >> i didn't bring it up....

Deputy attorney general made about offering to wear a wire. both things that were shared with the press without my knowledge or consent or involvement. so now that those things have been discussed publicly, and i have been asked questions about them, i'm of course going to answer those questions truthfully. at the time of writing the book, those things did not come out in the media and i felt like they would be -- they're so inflammatory, and i think they have become a distraction to the bigger themes, the more important topics in the book. >> i want to ask, though, at the time in the book tha...

Thought the president of the united states might be involved in obstruction of justice, and might be doing that to cover up some sort of inappropriate relationship with the russians, i mean, it was a head-spinning moment. >> would you have recused yourself if you were in rod rosenstein's position? >> i was nots in rod's position and i don't want to answer a hypothetical like that. i will say that despite all of these conversations, you know, the mention of the 25th amendment and the offer to wear a wire, all these things that have become so kind of topical in the last few days, i think we have...