he said mccabe was totally controlled by comey. mccabe is comey. no collusion. all made up.s is the narrative from the white house and mccabe, who is policeing mccabe is the question. the president is saying he is lying. is anybody investigating mccabe? >> i think there is a lot of scrutiny that mccabe has found himself subject to in the past few months. he was fired by this president hours before he was due to retire and receive his pension. no secret he and president trump don't get along. president trump has criticized him long before he became president out on the campaign trail he went after mccabe and his wife and their relationship with the former virginia governor. so there are a lot of -- there is a lot of tension between the two leaders here. the former f.b.i. deputy director and the president. i do think that all of that is circumstantial and something that will be taken into account as mueller's team continues to look at both mccabe and president trump in the broader scheme of this investigation. >> julie: gabby, great to see you. thank you very much. >> thanks f

andy mccabe is also a witness. could andy mccabe -- is bob mueller sitting on everything that was in your story today, and is this already of interest, do you think, to the special counsel that rosenstein has a role in all this in terms of creating the cover story that only held up until the president blew his own cover story with lester holt? >> yeah, i have no doubt that bob mueller has a pretty clear picture of the comey firing through the lenses of all of the players, save for the president himself, and that's why the interview with the president is potentially so significant because you can draw inferences from all these people about what might have been in the president's head. but when you're getting to the quell of inat the point, that's why you want to hear from the person himself. we do know that the president gave rod rosenstein his draft firing letter of jim comey, and that mccabe actually got a copy of that draft from rosenstein and gave that draft to bob mueller along with copies of his memos. should

jill mccabe was running for state senate at the time. receivedr 26, had $675,000 in donations from the virginia democratic party and the leadership pac control by terry mcauliffe. an investigation conducted by the doj inspector general noted director comey required debbie director mccabe remove himself from a conference call regarding conference calls to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest. further investigation into mccabe deputy director and other officials sought to delay the release of these illicit emails for politically motivated purposes is worth it. warranted. the doj failed to investigate concerns around secretary of state clinton and the clinton foundation's connection to uranium one, which received approval to purchase uranium mines in 2010. throughout hillary clinton's tenure as secretary of state, a moneytion made over to and dollars in contributions to the clinton foundation which were not publicly disclosed in violation of an agreement secretary clinton had with the obama white house. when russian state interest

mccabe was fired in march after an internal investigation at the bureau and response to his firing mccabe issued a statement saying in part, quote, "i am being singed out and being treated this way because of the role i play. ted and the actions i took." the release of the report accelerated after my testimony of the house and intelligence revealed that i would corroborate director comey's accounts with the president. also, tonight there is mounting tensions between trump and his attorney general jeff sessions. sessions was at the white house today, there he is exiting and no information on why he was there or who he met with. the new york times report says the president who have been stewing over sessions' decision to recuse himself from the entire investigation had asked indeed that sessions reversed that decision and get revolved. earlier today, retiring republican congressman trey goudy offered this explanation. >> if i were the president and i picked someone to be the chief law enforcement officer and they told me later by the way, i am not going to be able to participate in the most

under fbi investigation that they killed -- gave to mccabe's wife in her run for office. and brought the case on clinton.

raise the question how mccabe viewed the president and his motivation. say a lot about both men. >> martha: here is one of the tweets that the president put out today. "not that it matters, but i never fired james comey because of russia. the corrupt mainstream media loves to push the narrative, but they know it is not true. "what everybody took off was a sound bite from nbc back in 2017. >> and in fact when i decided to just do it, i said to myself, i said, you know, this russia thing with trump-russia is a made up story, it is an excuse by the democrats losing an election. >> martha: jonathan turley, the question is, if that was in his mind that he wanted rod rosenstein to say that he was not under investigation, we know that that was stuck in his claw that he wanted james comey to say that as well. is there anything illegal about that? or is that obstruction in any way in of itself? >> two-point should be made, obviously this was self immolation, i do not understand why the president would say that. but in fairness to him, he went on in the same inter

a source told fox news about a confidential memo written by andrew mccabe. details on that and how it could play in the russia investigation. first, the president's attorney. rudy giuliani launched a new attack against special counsel robert mueller as the president's attorney sets his own deadline for mueller to wrap it up. >> file his report by september 1, mid-september. i don't think he is going to fire mueller. mueller is creating his own problems. i got scar tissue there. same thing with any dent or dings on this truck. they all got a story about what happened to 'em. i could feel the barb wire was just digging into the paint. two bulls were fighting, hit the truck. another ding, another scratch, another chapter in the story. chevy silverado. the most dependable, longest-lasting, full-size pickups on the road. it's the chevy memorial day sales event! get a total value of over $10,000 on this silverado all star when you finance with gm financial. find new roads at your local chevy dealer. with tripadvisor, finding your perfect hotel at the lowest price.

mccabe cited the handling of the e-mail investigation of hillary clinton. the president and allies used rosenstein's role to suggest he should have recused himself over the mueller investigation. the justice department declined to comment. >>> president trump's personal attorney rudy giuliani out front of the mueller probe reinforcing the time line fline for getting investigation wrapped up. >> file his report by september 1st. >> will he fire him if he doesn't file the report? >> i don't think he is going to fire mueller. mueller is creating his own problems. >> giuliani echoing the president's line of attack with the veiled threat to mueller's team. >> we'll challenge mueller to write whatever you got. take your best punch with your 13 democrats there. you couldn't find a republican? you have a group that is a lynching mob. let them do their job. boy, we're ready to knock the heck out of you with our report. >> giuliani defending the president's report that he tried to get attorney general jeff sessions to un-recuse himself on russia. giuliani said even i

the other part of this, the reporting on mccabe that we should remember is that mccabe was -- he's nowg rosenstein with this memo. he also was let go for reason according to the inspector general and that reason is he made false statements, so that is a thing we should keep in mind when we talk about mccabe's assertion on this as well. >> that's an important point and josh, to you, just looking at that. "the new york times" reporting certainly complicates things or there's a potential to complicate things for the . how believable is this stuff? >> the president himself came out right at the time and said i've been told several times i wasn't under investigation. you saw the lester holt interview there. he also told the russians in the oval office that great pressure had been taken off of him because he fired the quote/unquote, nut job james comey, so the president was making his intentions pretty clear at the time. he was channeling it in public comments n private comments, saying he wasn't under investigation. i'm not sure what the mccabe significance of that will end up being because

that reportedly raised a red flag for mccabe.ording to "the times," quote, to mccabe, that seemed like possible evidence that comey's firing was actually related to the fbi's investigation into the trump campaign's ties to russia and that rod rosenstein helped provide a cover story by writing about the clinton investigation. i want to bring in jeremy peters from "the new york times." seth waxman, former federal prosecutor. and elude jordan back with me. this one's a wow. so jeremy, walk us through this. within the past hour, we got this choice tweet from the president, quote, not that it matters, but i never fired james comey because of russia, exclamation point. the corrupt mainstream media loves to keep pushing that narrative but they know it's not true. so here's the thing. we don't have to push anything. one year ago, here's what the president of the united states on record on tv told lester h t holt. >> he made a recommendation but regardless of recommendation, i was going to fire comey. knowing there was no good time to do

. >> he lied about his conversation with mccabe. he knew all of mccabe's conflicts.ccabe should testify against him. he lied about his conversations with the president. he only told the truth becausehe the president -- we know donald -- i'm sorry, mr. president, we knew donald before. he lied about the fact that they talked about whether the a subject or target, then he immediately changed it. it's one lie after another. >> sean: rod rosenstein -- everyone forgot when he wrote that recommendation to fire comey. he said the fbi cannot be reestablished if he stayed at thenono home. >> why? because he's a liar. his conduct of the hillary clinton investigation was a total disgrace.gr if hillary clinton had been elected president, he wouldn't have lasted past day one. we know she would have fired him. i don't think she would deny that today. she was right. we should have fired him. when i say we, i mean the collectively, day one. >> sean: let's talk about -- >> let me say one more thing. this is the best president in my memory. even my hero, ronald reagan, he straight in

he went after mccabe.nk he will go after comey, loretta lynch, that tarmac meeting. >> sean: strzok and paid? >> yes. >> sean:n: bruce ohr? >> absolutely. ily want you to think about the timing of "the new york times" story. cross fire hurricane. they knew, the doj as well as the fbi, this report was going to come out. it came out tonight. they needed to see why and they went straight to "the new york times" and try to tell their side of the story, a very limited side. >> sean: "the new york times," while trying to justify and make excuses, all they really do is confirm everything you have reported. >> [laughs]] that's right. they confirmed everything that has been reported that we have reported and theyre have also ge away some information. they talked about at least 1 mole, one source, right? that means there may have been multiple. >> sean: you'll have a big story tomorrow onn the fbi informant that was in the trump campaign, right? am i jumping the gun? >> i hope so, yes. you might not be jumping the g

andrew mccabe has turned over awe confidential memo that he wrote about james comey's firing. mccabe details a conversation that he had with deputy attorney general rod rosenstein in the days after comey was dismissed. mccabe was reportedly concerned that rosenstein was providing a cover story for why the president fired comey. >> does rosenstein have a conflict of interest because he knows the president was thinking about russia when he fired comey. he may have to recuse himself here. >>> secretary of state mike pompeo meets with a former top spy. this is the highest level on u.s. soil in two decades. >>> when roseanne barr makes a racist comment about valerie jarrett, who deserves an apology? well, president trump, at least according to president trump. no one is more victimized by this than a 71-year-old white guy. he said nothing about the racism. what is he really saying here? let's begin our coverage from joe johns live at the white house. joe? >> reporter: good morning, john. what we have here are some fascinating new details about the interactions between top officials

according to mccabe's memo. rosenstein did not comply and focused on comey's handling of the hillary clinton e-mail investigation. >> he made a recommendation. but regardless of recommendation i was going to fire comey. i said, you know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a made-up story. >> reporter: the "new york times" report said it helped to provide a cover story for the fbi director's firing. this mning here at the white house the president is expected to set out in just a little while for texas. he is expected to attend a pair of fund-raisers in dallas and houston. he's also expected to meet privately with family members and victims of that recent school shooting in santa fe. john and alisyn, back to you. >> joe, thank you very much for all of that. we want to bring in cnn political analyst john avlon and michael zeldin, former special assistant to mueller. you know robert mueller's mind. you know how he is inclined. so when rudy guiliani says this about a date, how does mueller respond? listen to

andrew mccabe recounts a conversation. here's what he told "new york times." they said, but in the meeting at the justice department mr. rosenstein added a new detail. he said the president had originally asked him to reference russia in his memo, the people familiar with the conversation said. so, jack, the rosenstein memo about what's comb my's handling of the situation, but the president wanted him to mention russia. does it -- >> i think it bolsters the reasons that are out there and that have manifest. i don't know who, you know, in this country thinks the firing of james comey did not have to do a great deal with the issue of the russian investigation. the president has acknowledged that to lester hot. he has acknowledged that in any number of situations. rudy giuliani has acknowledged it. it's inelse escape bl the run investigation was pair mount on his mind when he chose to fire james comey. he told the officials in hi office that's why he fired him, the pressure was relieved by his so doing. i think -- you didn't ask me this, but i think andrew mccabe

mccabe's memo is now in the hands of the special counsel, robert mueller.ueller is looking into whether president trump tried to obstruct the investigation into russian and election meddling and ties to the trump campaign. comey's firing and the reason behind it are key to that. he said not that that matters. it matters quite a lot legally. the president and his team have changed their story several times about the firing. this new version today. but remember, just days after all of this actually happened, it was the president himself that told us what we're now reporting. listen. >> i was going to fire regardless of recommendation. he made a recommendation. he's highly respected. very good guy. very smart guy. the democrats like him, the republicans like him. he made a recommendation. but regardless of recommendation, i was going to fire comey knowing there was no good time to do it. in fact, when i decided to do it, i said to myself, i said, you know, this russia thing with trump and russian is a made-up story. it's a made up excuse for the democrats for

"the new york times" is reporting former fbi acting director andrew mccabe wrote a confidential memoails behind the firing of his predecessor james 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 this conversation afterward saying that he worried that there was something about russia and the firing of the fbi director jim comey that made him pause and, of course, now we know that the firing of jim comey is the center of the mueller investigation into russian interference in the election. >> and so rosenstein, according to the reporting, chose n

if you are mccabe. if you are the fbi, it sounds like, boy, i think there is more to the comey firing than the white house is letting on. and that is still a question. today. that is playing out right now with bob mueller testimony comey firing is front and center on the question of was the president trying to obstruct justice. >> daniel goldman this raises questions. mccabe has since been fired from the justice department. does this reporting cast new doubts or raise new questions about mccabe losing his job? >> i don't know that it's directly related to mccabe losing his job. the thing that strikes me about it is that it demonstrates that rod rosenstein is more centrally involved in this obstruction of justice investigation than we previously knew. and he is also overseeing this investigation. >> right. >> so those two things don't really work. and he has apparently consulted with the department of justice to -- and the ethics people there to determine whether or not he should recuse himself. and they

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so mccabe handed that memo over to robert mule eellemueller's t.d from the fbi months ago after finding he was not fully honest about the clinton e-mail investigation. i want to bring in the washington correspondent for "the new york times" and msnbc contributor charlie savage onset, tom dupree, and alexi and aaron are back here with us. there's a lot in this piece giving us new light on road rosenstein and what happened in the firing of james comey and looking at why he was firing and whether the president was trying to interfere in that investigation. >> that's right. one of the big chunks of robert mueller's investigations is not whether there was collusion with russia in 2016 but there president trump committed obstruction of justice in 2017 after he had become president by improperly trying to interfere with the investigation. and a big piece of that has been his interactions with james comey leading up to his firing of comey last may, a year ago now, as fbi director. >> yeah. >> so what is new, but also his conversations with comey before tha

what comey did is the same thing into mccabe did. wrote the secret memos to themselves documenting the meetings they have. anyone with experience in the corporate world known the self-serving memos written by you to the file have limited value. you're trying to make the version you want of the most favorable make and the other person look bad. and i don't think it's an accident that comey's book will be published on top of my book, killing the deep state. all the interviews from abc. hubby betrayed is having a higher honor. that's why think it's remarkable the book has already become number one in various categories in the amazon. it's one of the better selling books, maybe one of the best-selling books ever written on donald trump and his presidency. it will be constantly fought by the mainstream media which doesn't want you to hear what i wrote in killing the deep state. >> host: you have examples of comey and mueller working together on several projects. one is the marc rich pardon convicted of tax-writing trading with iran during

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mccabe lied under oath multiple times. loretta lynch tried to compromise the clinton e-mail investigation and comey to say it's notice an investigation. it's only a matter. then you have the fbi anti-trump lovebirds, strzok and page. they abused the president verbally, attacking him in texts. and strzok's fingerprints are all over everything. more on that in a second. another big story first to tell you about. the doj's attempt to slow walk, stone wall, obstruct congress from ever seeing over 1.2 million documents about the clinton e-mail server investigation and the russia witch hunt, which should be coming to an end. they're now asking the president to use his executive authority and instruct the attorney general, jeff sessions who should be doing it on his own to immediately turn over all documents that congress has subpoenaed and has a constitutional right co-equal branches of government and a right to oversight and separation of powers. it's unsane. it's unfair to you, the american people, that it has come to this as

take a little bit about people like mccabe and comey who were going after this president who seem tos? >> surely with mccabe, the story has come and gone in public in terms of how self-serves his actions were and how much appropriate scoring from the inspector general report. i guess what i would just say, when you have people at the top of the law enforcement profession whether it's comey or mccabe, you know, really at the highest reacheses of very professional, very well-respected law enforcement agencies, i don't like seeing them going out on book tours or talking about how they were abused or mistreated or what their motivations were for leaking, i just think there's a whole different field to the higher-level of law enforcement right now with those guys. which is going to be much more important in the long run then james connie's reputation or mccabe. >> that brings me back to a minute ago with this is political drama as much as legal drama. hasn't this helped in terms of going on offense and the spotlight if you well, being put on not just the investigation of the president but

. >> he lied about his conversation with andrew mccabe, mccabe should testify against them. he only told the truth when the president said -- we know donal donald, it was donald before -- he lied about the fact that they talked about whether the president was a subject or a target and he immediately changed it. it's one lie after another. >> sean: rod rosenstein everybody forgets when he wrote that recommendation to fire comey, he said the fbi cannot be reestablished if he stayed. >> because he's a liar. his conduct of the hillary clinton investigation was a total disgrace. if hillary clinton had been elected president, he wouldn't have lasted past day one, we know she would have fired him. i don't think she would even deny that today. she was right, we should have fired him, when i say we, i mean the collective we, day one. let me say one other thing. this is our best president in my memory. even my hero ronald reagan, he strained the economy out the way president trump did. but he didn't get this far ahead on foreign policy as fast as president trump has. look at what is g

. >> former deputy director andrew mccabe has turned a confidential memo over to the special counsel. it details a conversation he had with deputy attorney general rod rosenstein in the days after james comey was fired. "the new york times" says mccabe was concerned that rosenstein was providing a cover story for why trump fired comey. you'll remember rosenstein wrote the memo about how comey handled the clinton investigation. rosenstein told him the president wanted that memo to be about russia. joining us now, senior editor at the atlantic ron brownstein and row nat tow. let me start with you. let's start with rudy giuliani calling this investigation a lynching mob. listen to what he said. >> we'll challenge mueller to write whatever you got, take your best punch, with all your 13 democrats there, you couldn't find a republican? so you got a group there that's a lynching mob. let them do their job and boy we're ready to knock the heck out of you with our report which will be authoritative and backed up. it'll be backed up with law and facts and we'll let the american people decide t

friday night firing of andy mccabe, the first deputy fbi director ever fired in american history. also a potential witness against trump in the russia probe. that was all the exact outcome trump demanded including taking away his pension as more of a vindictive piece of that. rod rosenstein has talked tough about standing up to this kind of pressure. like you might remember, this much played answer about pressure from congressional republicans. >> there have been people who been making threats privately and publicly against me for quite some time. and i think they should understand by now that the department of justice is not going to be extorted. any kind of threats that anybody makes are not going to affect the way we do our job. >> not going to affect the way we do our job. which sounds like a good answer, but tonight, we can see rosenstein immediately responding to donald trump's demand to, yes, change how he does his job. he has passed a highly controversial conspiracy theory over to now another doj official who is going to have to come up sooner or later with an answer to al

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lying to fbi and mccabe was fired for lying to the fbi.et's see, oh, general flynn? why has he not been charged with a crime in this case? do not hold your breath for a investigation into loretta lynch, lisa page, peter strzok or any anti-trump deep state actors. what is behind this sadly in the united states of america today is a 2-tiered system of justice. it is simple, the deep state hates who you chose to be your president. they are hell-bent on seeing donald trump delegitimized and hopefully on their side removed from office. that means that they do not want him to succeed. that would mean even if americans suffer in the process. now breaking this week, a group of wealthy secret donors -- get this, they report as much as $50 million into an investigation of president trump after his 2016 election, based on the dossier. this is in the house intel committee report, get this, the top-secret anti-trump donors even utilize the services of christopher steele, the foreign national, the author of the dirty dossier that we know is filled with

comey's former deputy andrew mccabe wrote the memo and turned it over to the special counsel. in it, mccabe details a meeting with deputy attorney general rod rosenstein in the days after comey's firing. according to mccabe, rosenstein said trump initially wanted him to reference russia as a justification to dismiss comey. rosenstein did not end up doing that. this was first reported by the "new york times" and now this raises new questions about why trump fired comey and rosenstein's role in it all. the president already has something to say about this today tweeting this. not that it matters, but i never fired jims comey because of russia, the corrupt mainstream media loves to keep pushing that narrative, but they know it is not true. which, of course, requires us to cue up the nbc interview where the president said the opposite. >> regardless of recommendation, i was going to fire comey. knowing there was no good time to do it. and in fact when i decided to just do it, i said to myself, i said, you know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a made up story, it is an e

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further investigation into whether director mccabe and other officials sought to purposefully delayed the release of these illicit emails for politically motivated purposes is wanted. the doj failed to fully investigate serious concerns surrounding former president clinton, then secretary of state clinton, and connections to the company uranium one. throughout hillary clinton's tenure as secretary of state, a family foundation controlled by the chairman of uranium one made millions of dollars into the conservation which were not disclosed, i violation ofn an agreement secretary clinton had with the white house to publicly identify all donors. bill clinton was paid $500,000 for a speech in moscow by a kremlin linked moscow bank underwriting uranium one stock. a confidential informant who worked with the fbi was threatened with reprisal by the justice department under ag lynch when he tried to come forward in 2016. senate judiciary committee launched a probe to investigate their uranium one matter, including whether federal agencies such as the department of state knew the fbi was looki

and andrew mccabe talked to the special counsel.counsel knows what andrew mccabe knows, assuming he did turn over this memo to the special counsel as "the times" reports, that's one area for the special counsel to investigate further. the president is obviously not speaking the truth here about blaming the media for suggesting that russia was on his mind. even the president's attorney, rudy giuliani, said last week that one of the reasons why he fired james comey was because comey would not say the president was not a target of the russia investigation. so clearly russia was on his mind, and giuliani admitted it himself last week. >> the president, we know he reads "the times." it stirs up the idea that andrew mccabe doesn't like for many reasons. rosenstein doesn't have a reason to do this if jeff sessions hadn't recused himself, so he says, the recusal of jeff sessions was an unforced betrayal of the president of the united states. again, imagine that's your boss. he went after jeff sessions yesterday. now he's done this in fits a

former fbi official andrew mccabe feared that rod rosenstein helped provide president trump with a cover story for the firing of james comey. so he wrote a secret memo about it last spring. a memo that's now in the hands of robert mueller, as the "new york times" reported. more on what that secret memo said in just a moment. >>> it comes on a day where the president finally weighed in on the controversy over roseanne barr's racist tweet, and just couldn't resist making it all about donald trump. president trump say that undeniably racist tweet comparing valerie jarrett to an ape and decided he was due an apology tweeting, quote. bob iger of abc called valerie jarrett to let her know that abc does not tolerate comments like those made by roseanne barr. gee, he never called president donald j. trump to apologize for the horrible statements made and said about me on abc. maybe i just didn't get the call. there does seem to be something he didn't get. the president seems to think he's the victim here. he thinks he deserves an apology, even though he's never apologized for one word of this. >

mccabe, whether you're on the left or right, he's done a lot of lying. >> he has.or an objective source, several objective sources, jeff sessions, rod rosenstein, saying that mccabe lacks candor, that's the legal speak for he's lying. if he lied once, he will lie again. what is fascinating, this particular memo, we have no idea not only what is contained in it but whether or not it was c contemporaneously written. if we're dealing in a court of law, no judge would say this is credible ed. but we're dealing in the court of the public opinion. the jury are the electorate of the mid-terms and eventually the 2020 people that are going to be looking at voting again for president trump. when we're in the court of public opinion, the rules of evidence don't apply. that's what we're seeing from the mainstream media here. taking evidence that we can't really rely on, not only from mccabe's lack of credibility but lack of information and they're running wild with speculation. >> including what is in it. what we do know is that bob mueller has been apprised of it and has it.

all not surprisingly, the great men and women of the fbi are starting to speak out against comey mccabe and all a of the political corruption and poor leadership found within top ranks of the fbi comey was a corrupt leader inflicted great pain on the fbi. spy gate he's implying there are

andrew mccabe says the president wanted to fire james comey over the russia investigation. so why did rod rosenstein say otherwise? >>> the president refusing to condemn roseanne's racist tweet, but he does want his own apology for slights from the media. >>> and a remarkable story from ukraine. a russia reporter thought to be assassinated shows up at a press conference. saying a plot to kill him was foiled. a lot of people were in on the plan. the one person that was not, we will tell you in a bit. good morning. welcome to "early start." i'm dave briggs. >> i'm christine romans. may 31st. 4:00 a.m. in the east. the crucial question in the russia investigation. did the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein provide cover -- deputy attorney generjegeneral rosenstein provided cover for andrew mccabe? a secret memo in the hands of robert mueller. >> that said mccabe wanted russia mentioned in the recommendation to fire comey. doing so could be problematic for the president. rosenstein cited comey's handing of the hillary clinton e-mail investigation. the president and allies h

mccabe got her off the hook. republicans and real americans should start getting tough on this scam.

and we have andrew mccabe, house republicans have referred to him to the i.g. for multiple

. >>> the "new york times" has a breaking news report tonight about a memo written by andrew mccabe, this is a memo that has not been revealed before. in it andrew mccabe summarizes conversations he had with rod rosenstein about the firing of james comey. and rod rosenstein in that memo tells andrew mccabe that the president wanted rod rosenstein to include something about russia in rod rosenstein's memo on justifying the firing of james comey. >> well, it's now, according to that same news report, that the reason he wanted something in there was just to have them say, i'm not under investigation for the russian collusion. but the whole conversation was very inappropriate, and i think that the fact that mccabe wrote this memo is because he felt that there was something fishy going on. and that it shouldn't have happened. it's another piece of evidence that there was intent on the president's part to interfere in the investigation. i want to add one thing to what joyce said, i think it's time for rudy to zip up and stop talking because he's making things worse for the president, he's

former fbi official andrew mccabe feared that rod rosenstein helped provide president trump with a cover story for it firing of james comey. so he wrote a secret memo about it last spring, a memo that's now in the hands of robert mueller as a "new york times" first reporter. more on what that secret memo said in just a moment. plus new allegations from michael avenatti. he said there were secret recorded conversations and he wants them released to the public. thank you so much for joining us. so you said michael cohen recorded inappropriate conversations with his client. >> correct. >> basing that statement on what the. >> i'm basing that statement on two things, three things actually. based on a call i received from a reporter last week asking me about a specific recording about a communication that had occurred between michael cohen and mr. davidson relating to my client. that's the first thing. the second thing i'm basing it on are the admissions in open court today, relate today the fact these recordings actually exist and very likely relate to the president of the united states. and

now you have mccabe on may 10th interim active fbi. they've conicaled all these meetings, the appropriate ones what they thought was necessary if there would be a special prosecutor appointed. in this instance it's going to be important to understand you've got to be able to prove intent on obstruction of justice. i heard "the new york times" reporting as well. it's fairly detailed, but it doesn't use the specific verbiage. how did rosenstein tell him that? did rosenstein say donald trump told him you must put this in here and you've got to put this cover story or say i want to be clear from the russia thing? >> do you think this gets to obstruction, john? >> well, we don't have any one incident. it's no smoking gun, let's say that. what we do is we have a pattern of evidence that has emerged that i think this further documents that trump -- and i have no reason to doubt rosenstein. as i've said i've read the times story, he decided he did want want to put that in as a legitimate reason for the explanation of the firing that he was ask

i think -- let's say he lied, mccabe would tell you he lied, his number two guy. >> mccabe lied?our times, three times under oath. >> right. and he lied three or four times. i mean, and also refused to clear, to say that the president wasn't a target when, in fact, he had done that for hillary clinton. completely botched the clinton investigation. there's nobody that doesn't think his handling of that was disgraceful. now, how he can be put up as a model of credibility, i mean, they're dreaming. lou: no one is more displayed by what has happened to the fbi than my first guest tonight. james kallstrom served 30 years with the bureau, former assistant director of the fbi, and he says it's been ravaged by a lack of leadership, lack of discipline, corruption under the obama justice department. joining me now, jim kallstrom. good to have you with us. >> good to be here, lou. lou: let's start with, first, this outrageous act. we learn there's surveillance of the president's attorney in the weeks lead aring up to that extraordinary -- leading up to that extraordinary raid against his ho

what comey did is the same thing that andrew mccabe did. they both wrote these secret squirrel memos to themselves documenting meetings they had. well, anybody with any experience in the corporate world knows these self-serve memos written by you to the file have limited probative value. you're probably doing your basic cya, trying to make the version you want of the most -- trying to make the other person look bad. i don think it's any -- don't think it's any accident stat comey's book is going be published right on top of my book "killing the deep state" so he'll get al the interviews from action, "the new york times" will fawn over the book, be viewed as a marter and victim and portrayed has having a higher honor, why believe is the title of the book. none of them will dire interview know look at "killing the deep state" ask that's why i think that it's pretty remarkable, the become has already become number one in various categories on amazon, and is one of the better selling books, maybe one of the best selling books every written on t

the timing of this makes sense, mccabe's letter.n may of 2017, i think it was may 11th, the interview with lester holt, he says he fired comey because of the russia thing and then he says i relieved pressure off our relationship getting the russia thing off the table. mueller has this memo right now. what does it tell you about mueller's investigation where he's looking, specifically? >> it shows the sort of depth and breath of the obstruction questions. you know, there are the comey questions. there are also the sessions' questions. the other issue here, which we haven't touched on is the fact that rosenstein is the person overseeing the investigation. we are talking about his behavior as part of the comey firing, which led to mueller being appointed, rosenstein overseeing it all. today, in the hot seat because of that. >> you mentioned sessions. president trump went to bed last night with the u.s. attorney general on his mind. >> always on his mind. >> the sessions obsession. tweeting a quotation at 11:21 eastern time, the recusal