including but not limited to white house staff don mcgan. but he's been venting to really anyone who will listen that sessions made a huge error. they said one of the few times they've seen him get genuinely angry was about jeff sessions. he's frustrated both by the russia recusal decision and also he's angry and feels hamstrung about the fact the executive order the president himself signed related to a ban on travel, temporary ban quote on quote from muslim majority nations, seven of them, was struck down by the courts. this was within the first week of the administration. it set the tone going forward and jeff sessions was tied to everything. >> and lastly your colleagues at the new york times, they just broke news which is fascinating about former fbi director not be to left eloan with the president. >> it's quite striking. based on reporting you have the fbi director concerned about the position apparently that the president might put him in based on any kind of inappropriate conversation. it recalls when the u.s. attorney for the south

engage with comey, perhaps minute by minute but in a series of conversations with kasowitz, with don mcgan and other aides, trump was told let it sit, you may be vindicated, they argued to him, if comey does not lean into the idea of obstruction of justice. so trump who thinks of himself, i have covered him as a long time as a political warrior, who wants to be his own spokesman. he suddenly on this thursday decided to sit back. >> rose: do the people that you talk to on that side supporters of donald trump, or members in good standing of the republican party who worried about where it might be, do they believe that there was today some successful of the to impugn james comey? >> there were certainly an effort, the republican national committee was active, kasowitz said in his statement that comey lied under oath in his view, he called comey a leaker for providing information to "the new york times." but it was not an all-out war against comey. partly charlie, the back story here is there is still real concern inside of the white house in the administration about robert mueller who is now