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Emotional. he said he was ordered to write the memo justifying the firing. he said he was having trouble sleeping. mccabe writes says there is no one here i can trust, all of which fits into the reporting that we read and talked about on this show around that event and time period. the washington post said trump had a meeting with the top two justice officials and gave sessions and rosenstein a directive to describe in writing the case against comey saying mr. rosenstein was caught off guard when he used the memo in the firing. chuck, remind people who andy mccabe is in this story. he will joi...

Justice department tenure into the awkward role of supervising the mueller investigation after he wrote the memo justifying comey's firing that sources say he crafted voluntarily. now, critics have argued that the comey memo makes rosenstein a potential witness in the obstruction case. so it is interesting to note, anderson, then in the following days after comey's firing rosenstein was involved in these discussions with other fbi officials and was at the very least aware that the fbi was opening this probe into trump for the firing of comey. it's not clear why the fbi first moved to open up t...

If you look at the comment from a source in the justice department, this source only said that rosenstein never said that he wanted to rein in the president. he was just discussing ways in which to conduct the investigation. >> why would rosenstein okay opening a probe when it was his own memo that the white house was using to justify firing comey in the first place? >> reporter: that's a good question, and it's a bit puzzling. for the deputy attorney general, this obstruction investigation into trump and the appointment of the special counsel certainly turned his entire justice department ten...

He crafted voluntarily. critics argued that the comey memo makes rosenstein a potential witness in the obstruction case, so it is interesting to note then in the following days after comey's firing, rosenstein was involved in these discussions with other fbi officials and was at the very least aware that the fbi was opening this probe into trump for the firing of comey. it's not clear why the fbi opened up the case just before the appointment of a specific. however, the investigation of the president could have been seen as an impetuous to investigate. >> pam brown, i appreciate this. rod rose...

It could quickly become one. he's bringing with him on air force one rod rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, it's interesting to say the least, but there should be some time during that 2 1/2 hour flight to have a heart to heart talk. >> the president has been at odds with rosenstein for obvious reasons, that he runs the vefls v investigation into the russian meddling in the election of 2016. and he's also mad at rosenstein because there was a story about rosenstein a year ago being so angry at the way things had happened with comey's firing, they even broached the idea of secretly taping...