what did the president want put in there about russia or about the president or the investigation? >> i don't know that they ever developed that idea beyond the president's request, because rod, of course, indicated he didn't need to refer to russia in his memo. and that he didn't. he didn't put russia in the memo. that's something that concerned us greatly, but it's one of those facts that we were looking at at the time and asking ourselves, what did the president intend with that comment. >> it's been reported that an early draft of the memo, though, included the president thanking comey for telling him he was not a target of the russia probe. >> yeah, there was an early draft of a letter that the president was relying upon. that's the letter i have referred to in the book in which that was given to me by the deputy attorney general. i would rather not discuss the actual details of that letter because it's -- it could impact the ongoing investigation. >> if the president wanted it, i mean, was it rosenstein defying