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The Columbus Blue Jackets go into a game Friday against the visiting Pittsburgh Penguins knowing that, for one night at least, it was mission accomplished.

The Columbus Blue Jackets go into a game Friday against the visiting Pittsburgh Penguins knowing that, for one night at least, it was mission accomplished.

>> that's an important point. one of the things hard to view as a layman outsider, as a citizen watching this stuff is how much negotiation there ought to be. how much the special counsel feels he must negotiate these terms with the legal team, whether it's about the exact circumstances how and where the president testifies or whether they actually need to disclose in advance to the president's legal teal the ground that they will cover. and feel limited to that. >> it seems like a natural courtesy. when you're a federal investigator or prosecutor and requesting an interview with the president...

But the president has been taking shots of him at well. and then there's jim rybicki. there are six people on the list that we know of who are in on the evidence, who have evidence of the president's behavior in that matter. of those six, four of them have now been ousted or sidelined at the fbi and smeared by the white house and republicans. four of the six. when comey came up with the evidence that the president had tried to obstruct justice on the russia matter, the preside-- he backup.

Fbi to shut down an investigation, a criminal and counterintelligence investigation into his own campaign. he concludes rightly that the president may deny he ever says those things to the fbi director. so he wants to document what the president did, he wants to have corroborating support in terms of what he witnessed in terms. president's behavior and statements so he preserves the evidence. he writes it down himself and tells other senior leadership at the fbi, contemporaneously, in the moment. when he testifies about that last june, he doesn't list those other officials he told by name but ...