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Andrew mccabe who briefly led the fbi after comey was fired. sources say the memos are in mueller's team hands. rosenstein has issued two statements of denial. last night he insisted i never pursued or authorized recording the president and any suggestion that i have ever advocated for the removal of the president is absolutely false. laura jarrett is working if story for us. there's chatter about whether rosenstein was allegedly joking when he made the comments. was this sarcasm? >> depends on who you talk to. i've talked to at least one person in the room who said to me look, i've known him ...

>> if he decides to do it he needs to do it as part of a transaction otherwise there would be not much point in doing it. he wants relief from criminal exposure of himself and his children and he would have to negotiate that with mueller and i don't think even mueller has the power to do it. it's a question of whether rosenstein or sessions might be involved because there are non-russia criminal allegations here so it's a very complicated matter. he's right about one thing, i don't agree with a lot of the things he says but the president said the other day -- of course he called it a witch-hun...

More about it, joe? >> reporter: are you going to starbucks? >> both from laura jared of cnn as well as "the new york times" and it is about a memo that was written by the former acting fbi director and andrew mccabe relating to his impressions of a meeting he had in turn with the deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein, and some information apparently in this memo about whether rosenstein had, in fact, provided cover, if you will, for the president when he fired the fbi director james comey. it also raises some questions, if you will, about whether that very same situation would have been eno...

Signals that the republican establishment, the leaders of the house, the committee chairman, they're taking a different tone, a different message when it comes to the mueller probe in the justice department. you see it even with devin nunes, the ally house committee chairman. he and gowdy are working more closely. it's mark meadows, north carolina congressman. the allies of president trump in congress, they're pushing for rosenstein to perhaps be impeached. they're railing against the mueller investigation. >> okay. what's their grounds in your reporting tonight for tomorrow's paper? what is t...

Smart things to do when you're on the downside of a fight and the other side had more firepower than you is create a similar situation on your side, make it look like an equal story. so if you're going impeachment against rosenstein at the same time democrats are talking impeachment of president trump, it somehow clouds the whole public record. what that what we're watching here, a brilliant sort of army of retreat fighting a war of retreat? >> there are certainly different armies within this republican party. mark meadows, the north carolina congressman, head of the freedom caucus, he talks t...