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Fbi needed the look because in context at the time. a president sitting asking for loyalty and asking him to go easy on flynn. comey complaining about the same. firing him. bringing up rosenstein. and you better put russia in there. he gets upset then he tells the world, i did it because of russia. are you really surprised? to see if he's compromised. >> well, here's the one thing on this. from what i read, if only his public statements were used as the predicate to open the investigation, candidly i will be very concerned. i have to believe that there were other things that they had access to...

They're investigating that they have oversight responsibility for and this is not the way to conduct that. >> house committee chairman said they took the allegations seriously and referred them to the speaker's office, shep. >> shepard: the justice department issued a strong statement. >> the fbi and just it's the department dispute the characterization and e-mails. they say rosenstein never threatened a criminal investigation. he said he would have the right to defend himself and calling them as witnesses to demonstrate that their allegations are false. on tucker carlson last night, the attor...

Rod rosenstein, who would go on to be mueller's boss. well, he was looking at rosenstein from the very beginning back when he was just a nominee for deputy attorney general. memos show that trump was asking comey about how republicans were holding up rosenstein's nomination. the memos also depict trump as very curious about barack obama's two attorneys general, eric holder and loretta lynch, asking comey to even compare the two. the comey/lynch relationship generates questions to this day. >> it seems to me like with loretta lynch, you worried very much about what misinformed people were going...

Of federal law enforcement and what it now means in what remains the criminal obstruction case lacking at his conduct, as well as others in the white house. james comey's memos have revealed in more stark detail than we've ever seen from contemporaneous notes, not what people say later, but what he wrote at the time, they reveal trump obsessed with high-ranked officials in the fbi and the doj, and that it started earlier and ran much deeper than many people knew. these memos show donald trump, for example, explicitly concerned about -- guess who -- rod rosenstein, who would go on to be mueller...