deputy director andrew mccabe, whom the president targeted before he was dismissed. the associated press reporting that mccabe kept personal memos about his interactions with the president, which are now in the hands of the special counsel and are similar to the file made by james comey about his own conversations with president trump. this led to this tweet from the president: "spent very little time with andrew mccabe but he never took notes when he was with me. can we call them fake memos?" we have a terrific starting panel as we start our week here. philip rucker, tamara keith and sam stein and we'll call this byline, we begin, "trump is not consulting with top advisers, including chief of staff john f. kelly and chief white house lawyer don mcgahn on his russia legal choices or his comments about the probe," according to