Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20180531:04:41:00
Comey. joining us by phone is katie benner of "the new york times." can you explain the "times" story that's just broken? >> absolutely. the "times" broke a story showing andrew mccabe, former deputy director of the fbi, had conversations with rod rosenstein. the deputy attorney general. in which rosenstein said he'd spoken to the president about reasons to fire jim comey. and that the president had wanted rosenstein to write a letter that saying among the reasons why comey needed to be fired has something to do with russia. this worried the deputy director of the fbi who wrote a memo about th...