just because somebody has been dishonest in other areas of their life, they can see corroborate details and the president has actually had the opportunity for andrew mccabe to corroborate and bolster their credibility. what rosenstein chose not to include in the actual paper, when he chose not to do so, it did demonstrate autonomy and refusal to bow down. what that tells you is the chronology is important here. that was written on may 7th. the president had the interview with lester holt on may 9th. rod rosenstein decided to have a special counsel appointed largely because he realized that based on his particular input in that memo about comey, he anticipated there being a discussion about his conflict of interest. he has contemplated it, he has handled it and always been an issue and it s right now a very
on that note, let s bring in our lead off panels, robert costa and moderator washington week on pbs and our correspondent for bloomberg and the two times pulitzer. and matt, i will begin with you not just because of what you publish tonight, talk about your reporting and more specifically and andrew mccabe s possible fears in realtime of what it was he was witnessing, it turns out he for shadowed this in his resignation. absolutely, and of course, if you go back to last year in the after math of the comey s firing, the white house pointing to this memo by rosenstein saying this is all about comey s handling of the clinton
coming up, axios alexi mccammen has a look at this morning s one big thing. and the secret memo from former fbi director andrew mccabe on the firing of his former boss, jim comey and now in the hands of bob mueller s team. and as michael schmidt lays out his report on the memo and the alleged request president trump made about comey s firing and senate republican mike lee. we came with big appetites. with expedia, you could book a flight, hotel, car, and activity all in one place.
team to limit some of the questions that mueller wants to ask, including those about comey s firing. and really the overall picture, the overall investigation into obstruction. michael cohen, the president s long-time attorney, back in court today. what did we learn from that? reporter: this is the continuation of the document production, the review of the documents that michael cohen s attorneys have objected the government from seeing. so they have an outside person called a special master reviewing these documents. so essential hi today there was an update. we learned that there s a million documents or so that have been reviewed. but i think what s most interesting that occurred in court today is the sideshow that has taken up here. and that is the michael avenatti wanting to intervene in the case, wanting a seat at the table. avenatti, stormy daniels attorney, she is part of this investigation. and so he s been asking the judge to admit him into court to allow him to have a s
he has to say whoa is me and i m being victimized? the level of narcissism when it comes to the ability that the president has on this specific issue of racism which is still present in this country, he could have led on this issue, and he chose instead to talk about himself, and that s probably the most disturbing thing to me about what he said. you heard the president s attorney, rudy giuliani, the former new york mayor say that robert mueller would be, quote, doing a comey if he doesn t release his report by mid september. the president himself has expressed his belief that mueller s investigation is meddling in the midterm elections. should the special counsel release his findings if it s close to the elections? well, first of all, the irony of rudy giuliani questioning the timing of mueller s release of investigation? i didn t hear rudy giuliani talking about comey and what he did in the days leading up to the 2016 election, and all of a