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Rosenstein's role in firing of comey, do you think rosenstein should have recused himself from oversight of the mueller probe? >> i don't know. that's something that the deputy attorney general has to determine for himself. i can say this. it was an incredible time. and the simple fact that the deputy attorney general and the acting director of the fbi were trying to figure out how to navigate a situation in which we 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 russia...

Rod rosenstein decided to appoint special counsel mueller. by doing so, i think the entire country owes him a debt of gratitude. rod did the right thing by putting the right person in charge of that investigation. >> with regards to the mueller probe, to the launch of it, did rosenstein give mueller a specific list of people to look into? >> i don't know the answer to that. i can't speak to the direction that rosenstein may have conferred. >> do you know, was the president's family being looked into either before the appointment of mueller or after? >> that's something i don't feel comfortable...

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's 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 russia 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 intend with that comment. >> it's been reported that an early draft of the memo, though, included the president thanking comey for...

>> your book was delayed by the fbi. your attorney suggested they were possibly trying to silence you. is there anything the fbi censored about president trump or the fbi or russia you that think the public needs to know? >> no. the process with the fbi was extensive. we took several months to get through a manuscript that normally according to fbi policy typically takes about 30 days. i understand that the issues i talk about are particularly relevant, they're timely, they're national security issues. i think all of those things combined to make it a much more arduous process. nevertheless, i...

It's propaganda. >> he responded to questions when he was asked by interviewers on his book tour. and savannah pressed him on that point. i want to play a piece when she asked about when the president accused him of trying to stoke a coup, if you will. >> i think the important part of that comment that rod made and the comment about the 25th amendment is not -- there was no effort underway. nobody wore a wire into the white house. nobody was plotting to stage a coup or remove the president. the point is the stress and the complexity of the issues that we were discussing at the time. >> what do...