more resources, also some justice department officials say that, but then you have andrew mccabe, s so often in these stories, you will get different people telling different versions. it certainly raises questions about those headlines at the very least. >> jon: the president just spoke with nbc's lester holt, and here's part of what he had to say. >> you met with the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein, did you ask for a recommendation? >> what i did is i was going to fire comey, my decision. >> you made the decision before they came to you. >> i was going to fire comey. there is no good time to do it, by the way. they were around -- >> you accepted their recommendation but you already made the decision. >> i was going to fire regardless of recommendation. >> jon: so it was not deputy attorney general rod rosenstein, it was the president's, the presence decision. >> and that completely blows out of the water the whole narrative that we were getting