it certainly wasn't until i was probably in my early teens. >> when bob bush was a teenager, he was receiving president harry truman in ceremonies on the white house lawn. bush was 18. the age that most kids are graduating from high school. only a few months earlier, he had wayne marine medic on the island of okinawa. in the midst of a ferocious japanese attack, he crawled on to a battlefield, treated and revived a wounded lieutenant. >> then japanese threw hand grenades down. i threw my arm up like this. i had a 45 in the shoulder holster so that saved me but it took out this eye. it hit me really hard. >> bush picked up the wounded lieutenant's rifle, killing a number of japanese soldiers. >> it didn't mean anything to shoot them. it didn't. i never laid awake at night. they were the enemy. they were after me. and boy, that preservation of life is a big deterrent to how you feel about shooting somebody. it didn't bother me one bit. when i left there, there was more of them on the ground than there was me. that seems to be the way you grade that particular game, if you must call it a game. i

it wasn't until i was in my early teens. >> when bob bush was a teenager, he was-ing his medal of honoron the white house lawn. bush was 18. the age that most kids are graduating from high school. only a few months earlier, bush was a marine medic on the island of okinawa. in the midst of a japanese attacks, he was treat and revived a wounded lieutenant. >> then the japanese threw hand grenades down. i my arm up like this and that took the concussion and shaved my heard, but it took out this eye and hit me hard. >> push picked up the rifle and charged the enemy position. killing a number of japanese soldiers. >> it didn't mean anything to me. i never laid awake at night. they were the enemy and they were coming after me and that preservation of is a big det deterrent to how you feel drive-by shooting somebody. it didn't bother me and when i left there was more of them on the ground than there was me. that seems to be the way you grade that game. who gets the most points wins. >> they were the winners and the celebrations could have gone on for months, but they didn't. most gis were not

peter, tell me about the bob muller/james comey relationship. >> they are, in fact, obviously close. they did serve together in the bush administration as you guys were just saying. they have this formative experience in standing up to a president, standing up to a vice-president. they both threatened to resign and it was when bob muller made clear that he would resign with james comey who was then the deputy attorney general over this surveillance program that president bush realized how serious it was. president bush realized he had another saturday night massacre on his hands and he wanted to avoid exactly that. he backed off in order to, you know, address their concerns. so, it was bob muller who ordered the fbi agents at the hospital when jim comey was rushing to get there, but to see ash croft, the attorney general before the president's emissaries got there, it was bob muller who ordered the fbi agents, don't let jim comey be thrown out of that room no matter what happens. they were allies and friends in this situation. it is a very interesting choice in that regard. these are not people with a disinterested rel

bob mueller was fbi director under george w. bush and under a portion of barack obama's -- >> hold on. former u.s. senator from connecticut just leaving the white house, just walked out of the west wing, he was meeting for a while i take it with the president and other aides as well. he is apparently on the short list to be nominated as new fbi director. finish your thought. >> the president is, i don't want to say up against bob mueller, that is overdramatizing things, but he pairs to be without yes, without any kind of second-guessing in this city, and my suspicious wolf is you are going to see, and you know we have said this before, only to be surprised, i think you're going to be a very toned down reaction from the white house. given the fact that it was taken by surprise by this announcement. by this order signed by the rod rosenstein, naming bob mueller to this position. this would be a terrible time for the white house to go off half docked as they did when the travel ban was tied up and you saw statements later deemed very il

it up, during the 2004 incident known as the hospital visit, when jim comey and bob very high-stakes showdown with the bush white house and vice president cheney's office over the reauthorization of an nsa terrorist surveillance program code-named scouter wind and jim comey in the justice department had decided -- had concluded that the program was actually unconstitutional and illegal. and needed changes to be made in order for it to be continued. and vice president cheney's office argued vociferously that it not be changed and reauthorized and this concluded in march 2004 with this dramatic incident at the hospital bedside at george washington university hospital here in washington with john ashcroft, who was hospitalized at the time with gallbladder issues, when the white house chief of staff and the white house general counsel or white house counsel showed up at the hospital bed at about 7:00 p.m. in the evening to try to get john ashcroft to -- you would technically given up the attorney general's authority to jim comey at jeopardy while he was in the program and jim comey and bob mueller intervened a

decided to leave and go to the national war college to teach, and in 1991, when bob gates was nominated by george h.w. bush to be the cia director, that is when i contacted the senate intelins committee and testified against the gates nomination. that's not the first time he was nominated. he was nominated for the first time in 1987 by ronald reagan. this was after the sudden death of bill casey from a brain tumor. gates went before the senate intelligence committee and got a call at night, senator david bourne. the oklahoma chairman of the senate intelligence committee who had to tell bob, you have a problem. the committee does not believe you in terms of your disavows of nothing anything about being involved in iran-contra, can't get your name out of it inee, and bobgates winds to the white house the next day, thicked president and pulled his name out. four years later he was nominated against. a very controversial nomination because of my accusations of politicization, and led to more votes against bobgets registered against all cia directors combined, going back to 1947 when harry truman started the ci

bob: we've only got 90 seconds. go ahead to dana. it's before fahrenheit have an impact on president bush's popular numbers but it didn't lead to impeachment if you think this is the golden egg that's going to get you there, it isn't. >> bob: i don't want to see him impeached. i want to keep them around. >> jesse: i think he looks good, he's lost weight. i've interviewed him a few times, i think he's a sincere, honest guy. he's been on fox a few times. if i don't think he's a bad guy, i think is a professional propaganda artist. the left two films he's had have been flossed, i don't think it's good to move the needle and all. >> kimberly: i think it's so courageous of him to do this film, not. >> bob: that ends my segment, i'll see you all in a week by the way. ♪ >> jesse: time now, for one more thing, dana. it's before we told you about the struggling story in san diego area involving illegal immigrant who crashed his family's truck sending a 6-year-old boy to the hospital, the suspect is constantino acosta. he now faces the state charges we asked why have the feds prosecuted him? after behind-the-scenes pressure, we could tell you the at

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bob: we've only got 90 seconds. go ahead to dana. it's before fahrenheit have an impact on president bush's popular numbers but it didn't lead to impeachmenthink this is the golden egg that's going to get you there, it isn't. >> bob: i don't want to see him impeached. i want to keep them around. >> jesse: i think he looks good, he's lost weight. i've interviewed him a few times, i think he's a sincere, honest guy. he's been on fox a few times. if i don't think he's a bad guy, i think is a professional propaganda artist. the left two films he's had have been flossed, i don't think it's good to move the needle and all. >> kimberly: i think it's so courageous of him to do this film, not. >> bob: that ends my segment, i'll see you all in a week by the way. one more thing is up next. hey buddy hey dad i think we can do this. adam baily. adam baily. all umm...ed. you wouldn't want your painter to quit part way, i think you missed a spot. so when it comes to pain relievers, why put up with just part of a day? aleve, live whole not part. you want this color over the whole house? just turn on cars.coms on tprice dropswant? and get real-time notific

the same time i have heard from a lot of friends in dc who were at doj back in the bush years, they really like mueller. bob, mueller. trish: he's well respected for sure. >> on both sides. trish: yes, on both sides. the siller lining on all of this is you need to get all of the clouds out of the way. i'm tired of all of the inuendo, it's very frustrating and i think it's important that we do as a country get our arms around all of this and, you know, this may be very good news for donald trump because he will be able to put it all behind this. >> that's what he told judge jeanine. trish: he looks to strengthen ties with the muslim world. the president will be delivering major speech to muslim leaders urging we all agree. that does not automatically in and we all want him to be but -- trish: you see this as a test, very important time. >> does he read briefing books, is he overconfident, getting control of impulses? they study him. saudis are going to flatter him and flatter him and promise him the sun and the moon and the stars -- trish: i hear you. these are important questions. i would say, you know, you

but that you have the case of bob mueller during the george w. bush years, he threatened to quit unless the secret surveillance program was stopped. as you recall, the white house backed down at that moment. now we have a situation where the president clearly is sending a signal that he feels that despite the political fireworks tonight, tomorrow, around it -- he can do it. i just wonder, from your perspective, the intelligence community is up in arms at what is a pretty bold action by the president -- in the course of being investigated for -- or his aides, and the ties to russia. >> everyone i've spoken to tonight about the letter signed by the deputy attorney general,, rod rosenstein. they have a lot of statements in his judgment -- when he took the job and was confirmed in late april, he was tasked with doingg a review, a sort of fact-finding mission as to how the emails were handled and if the fbi director really maintained the trust and integrity of the workforce and to lead the preeminent law enforcement agency globally. what we have seen from

but that you have the case of bob mueller during the george w. bush years, he threatened to quit unless the secret surveillance program was stopped. as you recall, the white house backed down at that moment. now we have a situation where the president clearly is sending a signal that she feels that despite the political fireworks tonight, tomorrow, around it -- he can do it. i just wonder, from your perspective, the intelligence community is up in arms about what is a pretty bold action by the president -- in the course f being investigated for -- or his aides, and the ties to russia. >> everyone i'm speaking to tonight with about the letter signed by the deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein. they have a lot of states in his judgment -- when he took the job and was confirmed in late april, he was tasked with doing a review, a sort of fact-finding mission as to how the emails were handled and if the fbi director really maintained the trust and integrity of the workforce and to lead the preeminent law enforcement agency globally. what we have seen fr

in 1991, when bob gates was nomina nominated to be the cia director by bush that is when i contacted the senate intelligence committee and testified against the gate's nomination. what was interesting about the nomination is that is not the first time he was nominated. the first time was 1987 by ronald reagan. this was after the sudden death of bill casey from a brain tumor. gates went before the senate intelligence committee and got a call from senator boren from oklahoma, the democratic chairman of the senate intelligence committee, who had to tell bob, you have a problem. the committee doesn't believe you in terms of your disavow of knowing anything and i cannot get your name of the committee and bob gates went into the white house, talked to frank the next day and then the president and pulled his name out. four years later he was nominated again. it was a controversial nomination because of my accusatio accusations. it led to more votes again gates than had been registered against all cia directors combined going back to 1947 when truman created the cia. but he was eventually co

bob gates worked for a president, george h.w. bushatest coalitions in history with with james baker against samuel lebron in 1991. they did that because they had credibility. people understood them to be steady and stable and telling them the truth. our current president is spending down what little capital he had very, very quickly. so we're heading into a possibility of a situation in which he has no credibility on the international stage when he's going to need it. >> dickerson: back tondo says, there are a lot of things that aren't getting discussed. this sense of unpredictability, if i'm a republican, how do i handle the fact that you've got a president who is going to be doing some exciting things that you might have to answer for? >> exciting things? that's a nice way to put it. what david said. a big decision will be made now about the f.b.i. it's a serious, soab, low-drama person is put forward, everybody will be reheaved and go forward: if some sleaze ball is put forward, forgive melange waj, or some towedy -- toady, republi

firing of james comey as well as the decision to appoint a special counsel bob be mueller, former fbi director under the bushistration and obama administrationor a while. the move giving the white house less power over the justice department investigation of the russian/trump ties. that as a flurry of new stories painten an awful picture. lawyers saying there were more contacts with the russians than previously known. and more about michael flynn, as well. "new york times" reporting that the team knew flynn was under investigation before he was sworn in as as in a national s are advisory and also that flynn refused to sign off on a milt taker plan that turkey opposed even as his firm was being paid by a business associate of turkey's president. let's start with kelly o'donnell at the white house, mike viqueira on capitol hill for us. tell us more about the meeting next hour. >> reporter: with the sequence of events that we've seen, it's hard to believe that this began just last tuesday with the sudden firing by president trump of jim comey, the fbi director. and rod rosenstein, the newly installed deputy att

i remember president george w bush telling you -- i'm counting here -- four words, everything about him he said i make gut player. bob: yes. mike: without giving anything away, what was your measure of the trump? what was your feeling about him? what did he exerted to you? bob: the way, you know, easier to describe the creation of the universe. [laughter] bob: complex figure and someone who wants to make him simple i think is wrong. we asked about next and why nixon failed and he said because of his personality, and i was jumping in the chair and said what about the crimes and trump said, oh, yeah, that too. at the same time he has charm and he has directness. we asked him about kind of power, you know, what is power and quoted some things obama had said about power, that it comes to the united states because of its humility and restraint and trump said and it's one of those moments where he said, real power is, i hate to use the word, but real power is fear and . and i think this is the businessman in the white house, that you need to scare people , and i think it's a mode of operating. i think fear is useful. i thi

again, to go back to the bush years, when his then fbi director bob mueller took james comey's side over the counterterrorism policies that they went to visit the very sick john ashcroft about, there wasn't a beat in which george w. bush considered siding with anybody other than the fbi director and the deputy attorney general because career prosecutors, career law enforcement people are almost always on the sides of angels when you have to choose between a lot of unsavory and sort of complicated shades of gray. so it is going to be very complicated for this white house to articulate the reasons and really convince anything other than their hard core base of supporters that the russian investigation had nothing to do with today's decision. >> greta, before today, would you have said that he was an equal opportunity angerer of republicans and democrats to coin a phrase? >> i guess i would have said that from a political standpoint. from a legal standpoint, i would have said, well, he's doing it his own way only because that starting first with that press conference last july where he was

with that and i don't think that anybody can look back and think that, you know, bob mueller got in some hot water with the bushtened resignations that were reported at the time. comey seems to have operated a little bit differently, and it is, you know, looking back, i think with a very careful, clear regard for his reputation. and i think that's what there are some objections to. >> i thought it was a bad choice. >> what do you mean? >> you know, he was lauded on the left because we all knew about the great story about him and john ash croft's hospital room and how he defied the white house counsel. >> you think obama made a mistake? >> why do we know that story? the press knew about it. he is more interested in his reputation than doing the job put before him. >> donald trump called him a grandstander. >> i believe our president is right. >> i was just going to frame that quote for folks. jennif jennifer palmeri. >> i think the expost factor of the emergence of these memos, if he had a problem with what the president was doing we should have heard more from him at the time. that also seems to me a reputation

i witnessed a very good relationship between president bush and director bob muller.ong respect for each other and i think that's important for the country's interests. they're talking on a regular basis about national security threats and the fbi director does the briefings. so, you know, there are relationship and trust and other dynamics that go into that that are important. and again, we are all kind of reading and listening to these things about what the president's thinking has been over time. but when he called on the deputy attorney general to actually put his thoughts into writing i think that from my perspective was a very significant thing because it's a person who's directly supervising the director of the fbi who is making, you know, his own assessment of the situation. >> the bureau of course has a storied history as regards to trust between the bureau and the executive branch. you can go back to hoover of course and clinton, sessions and all of that. how worried are you about that trust being permanently damaged here, at least in the short to medium ter

the most strategic was the policy developed during the bush administration by former deputy secretary of state bob zellick who went on to be the president of the world bank. what he called the responsible stakeholder model. it was received well initially in 2006. he laid it out in a big speech and then went to china focused on this. essentially the essence of that strategy was that china benefited from the u.s.-led international order and system and therefore it is in china's interest to become a responsible stakeholder in that system, to strengthen the international system that is so greatly enabled its own economic success. now, in the early days of this strategy, when it was launched, there was a lot of promise. i remember having the opportunity to go over to china with secretary paulson when he led the strategic economic dialogue in the bush administration. we would meet with all the leadership in china, from the president on down. at that time every leader in these meetings used the term responsible stakeholder. they talked about this american concept as a framework for our relationship. but

bob mueller served as fbi director for 12 years, for two presidents, george w. bushrack obama. >> i want to thank your outstanding director. robert mueller. not just for the introduction, but because bob has led the bureau during incredibly challenging times. >> mueller has most recently been a partner in a private law firm and a visiting professor at stanford. he now will leave those positions to take on this new and important responsibility. gary tuchman, cnn, atlanta. >>> and the cnn analyst worked with mueller, who was his chief of staff in 2009. is he the right person for the job? >> absolutely, there is no one better suited in this country for this role at this time. >> why do you say that? >> because if you look at the authority that the deputy attorney general exercised here and what is required under the statute. the person has to be outside the department of justice, has a reputation for integrity and partial decision-making. and be guided by only doj policy, that is the department of justice policy and the law in exercising his authority. that is the perso

bob mueller. >> he is as good as it gets. his credentials are impeccable. he served in the bush administration, the obama administration. he is unassailable in terms of credentials, his background. >> lengths turn to nbc's edward lawrence live in washington. highly respected as we just heard there. certainly a game-changer somewhat when it comes to this appointment. >> reporter: exactly, frances. this was a surprise on capitol hill. lawmakers did not know this was coming. the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein appointed after three weeks of being in charge of the investigation. this gives robert mueller the ability to subpoena. he can also file charges. in addition to that, he can prosecute folks for criminal charges. mueller is no stranger to the fbi. he's likely to reach out to his colleagues there and get an update on exactly how the russian investigation is going up to this point. now, if there is nothing to find, then both house republicans and democrats will accept the answer from robert mueller because of his reputation. if there is something to find, his reputation is such that he would find it. frances? >>

bob gates. he was a defense secretary for george w. bushyour old boss, with some very wise advice. is that what you would be telling him? >> absolutely. there are few more taxing endeavours on any president than a foreign trim. they are choreographed to the second. it will take a level of planning and expertise and exhaustion i don't think we've seen from this white house to date. >> as we've been talking about all hour, this is first foreign trip planned by the grown-ups, jared kushner, powell, mcmaster. is this a real test for them? >> oh, my goodness, is it a real test. has the group of people that have lionized before they have accomplished a single thing. >> they would say what they accomplished was to present policy options for the syria strike. >> probably president obama would have gotten and arguably he would have made exactly the same move on that. but this is an entirely untested group of people. we have imputed to jared kushner, ivanka, gair cohen and dina powell essentially all these attributes we're going to see if they can pu

there was bush when he was president. my grandfather bob world war ii. artillery officer. pete: is that why you went into the artillery? >> yeah. my entire family had served world war ii. vietnam. my dad all combat operations. when 9/11 happened, i quit my job and joined the marine corps. that's right outside of camp fallujah in 2004. pete: did you two in iraq, right? >> two in iraq. 2007 in afghanistan when i ran for congress. i went over to afghanistan. came back in december. got off of active duty and then won my primary six months later. let's go talk. joe's office. we are already sitting there talking so come on in. >> chief's office. >> issues of importance from national defense arena toll -- >> did they expect you to do that in committee? >> no. >> never wanted to shy away from an issue, like the painting depicting police as pigs while everyone else was talking about it hunter just took it off the wall. >> i'm not the most delegate guy in the world. i'm not a politician. it was a painting that should not not have been in the u.s. capitol. mission accomplished now it

bob mueller, fbi director from 2001 right before september 11 to 2013 under george w. bush and barack obama, the second longest serving fbi director in american history, widely respected and applauded by members of both parties. joining me now, jeffrey tubin are chris swecker. gloria borger, david gergen who viesed four presidents and david avelon. jeffrey, he says i accept this responsibility. we'll discharge it to the best of my ability. how big of a development is this? and as evan said it is truly independent. >> it is a major development because of the nomination of any special counsel but the fact that it's bob mueller makes it even more significant, because -- i don't think this is an exaggeration. this is the single most respected figure in american law enforcement. it's not just the 12 years at the fbi. all of which went by without a scandal or a hint of personal controversy involving mueller himself. head of the criminal division of the justice department, u.s. attorney in san francisco, u.s. attorney in boston. this is someone who really embodies the best of the

bush told donors, i just don't like that guy, and former senator bob dole couldn't hide his feelings. >> i don't know. there are a lot of good candidates. i like nearly all of them except ted cruz. >> but that's just how republicans feel about him. what about democrats? >> you have to understand that i probably like ted cruz more than most other of my colleagues like ted cruz, but i hate ted cruz. >> senator al franken has a new book out in which he shares perhaps one of the deepest cuts against ted cruz, one that literally left the ever loquacious senator speechless, and that's thing 2 in 60 seconds. >>> minnesota senator al franken has a new book out in which he dedicated an entire chapter to texas senator ted cruz. according to a page tweeted by jonathan tyla, one section recounts senator amy klobuchar pre-clearing a ted cruz joke she was going to tell at the gridiron club dinner with cruz himself. amy smiled. here it is. when most people think of a difficult cruise, they think of carnival. but we democrats in the senate think of ted. ted smiled and then he offered a suggestion. w

so, who is bob mueller, the special counsel investigating this matter? he was nominated to fbi by george w. bush after taking the reins after the 9/11 terror attacks, which led to the largest criminal investigation in the fbi's history. mueller had worked for the justice department for years, was a u.s. attorney in the u.s. attorney's office in both san francisco and boston. so, what's his job going to be like now? how much power does a special counsel have? i'm joined by cnn's supreme court reporter ariane de vogue, who has a closer look. >> this was a big step, right? and it took a lot of people, including the president, by surprise. but the deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein, he relied on department of justice regulations to make this appointment, and those say that, look, if there's a conflict of interest or other extraordinary circumstances, this appointment can be made. rosenstein made sure to say this -- he said, i'm not saying that crimes have been committed, but based on the circumstances here, he thought it was important to make this appointment, and he chose mueller, like you sai

. >> guys like bob casey it certainly is a prime kansas date or target we see. i know the -- i don't want to sigh bushp administration targeting that. as we look ahead to whavrp the voteens up being what's the time frame. how long will this take. house bill went through in record time and we have not seen cbo score. will that affect the senate or will senate move ahead regardless. >> i think it takes a while. senate is starting its own legislation from scratch and republican source i spoke to this past week said that he would hope just bit end of the year something could get into law, of course, that outcome is itself not guaranteed. >> 2018 when you have the midterm elections that whole vod we voted to have obamacare for safe it it will be crucial. >> democrats will deal of it and hit republicans. >> campaign ad material as well. >> thanks for seeing you. >> and to mannasas, now, where the city is dealing with an $le 50,000 mistake. government officials realize they've been over charging businesses on their tax bills for the past few years. and but, the plan to fix the problem is not sitting well wit

bob robert mueller who is well known on capitol hill. one that many journalists know having covered 9/11 with bush and obama.s is someone that members of congress can go back to the constituents and say we will get to the bottom of it. >> he is as good as it gets. his credentials are impeccable. he has nothing to prove. he has been silent politically. it doesn't get better than robert mueller. >> many of us hoped he would be named as special counsel. >> reporter: this does not mean the other investigative bodies will not move forward. the fbi and inspector general and various agencies and committees. senate and house intelligence committees and senate judiciary committee and oversight as well. they will still try to get james comey before them over the memos. they do not think that will happen next week because much of the focus is going to be on the special prosecutor's investigation. chris. >> that's a strong point now. how will mueller appointment affect comey coming forward and investigating. it is good to have democrats and republicans agreeing on anything. special counsel is a good move if you thought

bush and obama. and the ratings at cnn and msnbc are buying your second homes. >> bob: that's nice to hear from you, greg. you're about to move into your triplex. i think that's wonderful. we're going to go on now and next on "the five," big new antidrug announcement from the attorney general jeff sessions today. critics are already saying it'll backfire -- which it will -- we'll have the debate up next. mom? dad? hi! i had a very minor fender bender tonight in an unreasonably narrow fast food drive thru lane. but what a powerful life lesson. and don't worry i have everything handled. i already spoke to our allstate agent, and i know that we have accident forgiveness. which is so smart on your guy's part. like fact that they'll just... forgive you... four weeks without the car. okay. yep. good night. with accident forgiveness your rates won't go up just because of an accident. switching to allstate is worth it. dearthere's no other way to say this. it's over. i've found a permanent escape from monotony. together, we are perfectly balanced, our senses awake, our hearts racing as one. i know this is s

bush took all his briefings from the fbi and cia in person. so george tenant and bob mueller were in that room outside the office before any staffers came in. so we would cross in the hallways, and he had as a central mission keeping this country safe after 9/11, but he had in his mind all the time how to tell the story of the integrity and the mission of the men and women of the fbi. he is of the men and women of the fbi. he has never acted above them, and i just -- this, to me, lands perfectly. >> jeremy bash, so far today, everyone i've talked to with the kind of experience nicolle has, the kind of experience you have in and out of government says the same thing. an organic talent search. if you would ask me to name one person ideally to run this investigation, everyone would have come out at bob mueller. you could feel some of the pressure go out of this today as people knew it was going to be in good hands. but at the same time, jeremy, it landed like an anvil. >> yeah, brian. you said it's a darker hour for the trump administration. i think it's actually a brigh

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bush but obama extended his term. this is truly someone everyone can get on board with. >> former fbi agent, you served i imagine under bobueller. your thoughts, your impressions? what kind of investigation do you expect him to lead right now? >> a strong investigation but also a very private investigation. i don't expect a lot of leaks and i don't expect a lot of news coming out of this investigation for a long time. i think that polarization of the investigation to date i think was a little too much. although i think that the investigators look at that as some level of white noise. they plow through that, but this provides a little bit of a political distance between the investigation and the noise that takes place. so director mueller is a strong man. i work for him for 12 years. very highly respected in the fbi. he probably knows the senior investigators on this investigative team by name. they probably know him. he knows the process and how it has to happen. he's going to get the ground running and this is an investigation under way for a long time. it is not going to take very long to really start getting down into

bush 41 campaign adviser mark. i mean, do you agree with them? do you think the media is being smug about the president? >> sure. cheryl. if bobas you know is like the patron state of investigative journalists. this is a damning testimony from him. basically acknowledging that the media is failing, completely failing. that if he was truly candid, he would acknowledge that they're not practicing political journalism, they're practicing political advocacy. and they're doing it with an agenda to try to destroy this. that's effectively i believe what he was acknowledging. cheryl: it's interesting because the liberal media didn't even take president trump speech in jerusalem yesterday. fox news took it. fox business took it. we were the only network. cbs, nbc, nobody took it. a speech by president of jerusalem. how arrogant is that? >> i don't even reference it as fake news anymore. i consider it e and o news. errors and omissions. even the washington post or new york times are using very, very weak sources or lack of sources to go on the record for their journalism, their articles. but then you've got these cable networks who are

bob muller is, he was a former fbi director himself, serving 12 years. he served under president busch iv 3 and served two more years, ten years under bush 43, two years underer he first became -- first became fbi dire

bush administration over warrantless wiretapping. and the white house denied that conversation. and it underturned out that it was the f.b.i. director at the time, bob mueller, kept his contemporaneous notes, and that backed up comey's account. so in a lot of ways, this is what's old is new again. the f.b.i. director was keeping contemporaneous notes on his conversations with the president. >> yang: and not just this conversation, matt. do we think he kept these notes throughout his conversation with the president? >> our understanding is he documented every interaction, every meeting and every phone call with the president. and on a number of occasions, expressed concerns about the-- about the emerging relationship between the white house and the f.b.i. director. remember, the f.b.i. director is normally kind of an arms-length relationship with the white house for precisely this reason because sometimes, you know, the f.b.i. can be investigating things that are politically problematic for the white house. >> yang: as you say, this could be a dramatic turning point in this relationship and what is going on between president trump and james comey. th

bush administration. what happens when a trump administration starts up? you have to shut down. every day is dealing with document requests. it is a nightmare. i think bob woodward wrote a great book about special prosecutors and takeaway was, don't ever agree to this. nothing happens on capitol hill unless senator leader mitch mcconnell decides to change his posture. i think the biggest thing, and manu hinted at this as well. last night up on capitol hill, first and foremost, i was the person who had to tell foreseparate republican senators what had happened. ne they weren't aware. the biggest question i got back from them, even those that have since put out statements supportive of the president's action is, why now? why are you doing this? you had a health care whin? a huge foreign trip in a couple of weeks. that can kind of reset your administration. why are you doing this right now? and one final thing, i just spoke to vice president mike pence, who gave an impromptu prmps on capitol hill. and he made clear, the administration has no desire despite their claims there is no collusion, noe evidence of collusion, to see a special prosecutor or a speci

bob corker who said it was executed to near perfection. adding president trump should be commended and james mattis defended president trump's tough talk on nato. >> having been in nato officer under president bush and president obama, this is a consistent message that we have given the nato nations where president bush wanted them to pay more for the common defense. they get the best defense in the world, the nato countries and weave all got to be willing to deal with it like a bank. if you want to take something out of it, you need to put something in. president obama said the same message to nato, you have to pay your fair share. finally during president obama's time all the nations made a commitment and wales said they would do that. what president trump is doing is consistent with both prior and democratic administrations. >> overseas their views were not as warm. in fact, frnch president macron compared him to vladimir putin saying all three see relationships in terms of a balance of power. i don't believe diplomacy by public abuse. he also called his initial white-knuckle hand shake as a moment of truth meant to ensure you are respected. you have to make sure you won't show small concessi

bush administration and the question is were they selected to effect an ongoing investigation. >> so you don't know if there are consequences for doing that? >> well, i think there are consequences. we have bob mueller in this case and bob is authorized to investigate criminality and not only the original links between campaigns and russians but also any efforts to impede the investigation. this fits squarely in connection with that authorization and the only question will be given bob muller's extraordinary experience and cape bltd that will the dus tjustice departmen to interfere in any way. the attorney general put himself in the hot seat by admitting when he wrote that memo that the president and the attorney general who is supposedly recused from this were agreeing with him to help him fire comey and then he made this false statement for comey's firing and in a way, he's the subject of an obstruction investigation himself since he was involved in that. >> i want to get you in here because why -- why rosenstein of all people who is said to be friendly or friends with comey, he could have picked anybody else. why do you think he picked rosenstein? i mean, why do you think he picked muller

bush wants america to know their stories. >> i want to make sure it's told correctly by the people who have been there and the people who have done it. >> reporter: bobl the stories he's done, it's all about the passion for like who are we as veterans and maybe we don't get seen. >> reporter: what do you want to be when you grow up? >> i want to be a kid. >> reporter: he knows he'll probably have a military created career teaching others how to walk a mile in his boots. at u.c. berkeley, lyanne melendez abc7 news. >> a bill is gaining momen the state capital. it would provide legal representation for military personnel who are hahn wraably discharged but have since been deported for minor crimes like drug use. >> thanks for joining us for abc7 news at 4:00. i'm larry beil. >> and i'm alma daetz. abc7 news at 5:00 starts now. >> there was never going to be a good time to fire him. >> the timing first of all is outrageous. >> bay area officials on the firing of the fbi director, the political repercussions are only just beginning. >> in-n-out in livermore, the health concern that shut it down. >> from dust to dust. protest signs are in full force, the

bush, obama administrations. he is james comey's immediate predecessor. the feeling clearly mutual. >> i must be out of my mind to be following bob mueller. >> reporter: special has the experience. and now the authority to take this where it need. david wright, abc news, new york. >> thanks, david. >>> deputy attorney general rod rosenstein set to brief the entire senate about circumstances surrounding the firing of fbi director james comey. tomorrow address the house. >> busy couple days on capitol hill. abc's mary bruce is there with reaction. >> reporter: president trump venting to the coast guard graduating class. >> look at the way i have been treated lately. especially by the media. no politician in history, i say this with great surety, has been treated worse or more unfairly. >> reporter: but back in washington, even members of the president's own party say we may be at a tipping point. >> i think it is reaching the point where -- it is of watergate size. and scale. >> reporter: the latest allegations rippling through the republican party. that news that the president may have asked then fbi director james comey to shut down his investigation into fir

bob mueller is going to quake. >> his back grouground is interesting. his tenure with the justice department dates back to the reagan era. he's got an alliance with james commey. >> standing up to the bush white house. >> that's exactly right. on the interrogations policy. and also the firm with which he was affiliated and has now stepped down. also has ties to paul ma n mana and jared kushner. to the extent you can be above reproach in this town, he's in that category of people. and he's like a pro and a grown up and he's in his 70s. he's not trying to build a career. >> but will be an exclamation point, probably the last big act of his career. he's a dead serious guy. but he's not going to be cowed by the political pressure. >> you throw every jim comey and it's almost like a boomerang. you get back his mentor. he was the one documenting what happened during the bush administration, during that whole thing with alberto gonzales. this is someone who's very no nonsense. and as you said, unimpeachable. >> and someone who knows if the issue becomes the jim comey memo, do you find them credible, knows the fbi protocols, knows how to share them. talk in the moment. the bottom line is this i

bob so here i am. three points that bear when you look at the first 100 days and previous administrations and where we are now. the bush presidency when we came in in 2001 there were a lot of people who questioned bush legitimacy. there are a lot of democrats upset that we won. there were a lot of democrats who were upset by what happened in florida and ron and i both know this, but the first couple of months the media made a lot of the legitimacy of president bush and you see that now with president trump. the second is the other wrong mentioned that personnel of policy, my chief of staff used to say that policy is personnel and personnel is policy. one of the things that has struck me by this white house is that there is nobody there. you walk in the white house and you see all these offices and their dark and there are new computer equipment and chairs and staffers that are waiting to be seated but they're not there. to put that into perspective, of the 16 executive branch agencies, we only have two deputy secretaries. you wonder who's doing the work. the lights are off and the works not getting done is something th