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department right after president trump fired comey and before robert mueller was named special counsel. cnn has learned deputy attorney general rod rosenstein and top fbi officials thought president trump needed to be reined in. sources say then acting fbi director andrew mccabe took the extraordinary step of opening an obstruction of justice investigation. joining us now to discuss, alley honing, a former state and federal prosecutor and michael isikoff, the chief investigative correspondent for yahoo news. let me start with you, elie. this reporting that there was an obstruction of justice investigation open, what does it mean and does it impact the probe? this is what the fbi does. the fbi holds the rule of law sacrosanct. i think when they were in the weird in between phase when comey had been fired and there was no special counsel, i imagine lifers were thinking