on tuesday? >> he was looking for an assessment. that would come from james comey's direct boss. the attorney general of the united states, deputy. rod rosenstein. >> interesting. there has obviously been some monday morning quarterbacking here in terms of what is going on with the communications operations. what can you give us? >> there's a lot of stories out there that the president was probably talking about wanting to fire comey around the white house. anyone he was talking to. clearly this was a very closely held operation. i was talking to some white house officials a few minutes ago, among all of the things that have been swirling around the white house and the things that have leaked, this is the one thing that didn't leak out. a lot of the communications team was not even in their offices at the time the news dropped. there was an ice cream social for a group of veterans.