tonight. we re seeing two russia stories unfolding side by side. one that trump wants you to see, release the memo. and one he doesn t, bob mueller tightening his grip. on the first story, trump s own fbi director making waves tonight with his rare public rebuke saying this memo is reckless and even dangerous and mueller s story moving forward with key interviews, including that man, his former advisor. i m mark carillo and this is ma mark cassowi krshs s. corolla was going to be the sean spicer of trump s criminal defense team. then he quit. now news breaking trump will interview him and he is a man who saw inside donald trump s
the memo. it s just another piece of the friction and the very different views between rod rosenstein and president donald trump. very different views is one way to put it, and another is that rod rosenstein has a clear understanding that there s a thin line between his current role as mueller s supervisor but also that if rod rosenstein gets canned over russia, he will then be like mccabe and comey, another part of this group of people dealing with this president s very unusual and often times reckless approach to an open criminal probe. that s rod and don mcgahn obviously understand you can be out real quick. turning to the other big story on the memo and your reporting, betsy, in the daily beast, devin nunez won t say if he worked
nobody s asked me to take a loyalty pledge other than the oath of office. tonight s news is clearly a new example of donald trump allegedly asking about the allegiances of top officials investigating him at a time he knew he was the subject of a criminal probe. don t get tired of these stories, the fact that they re repeating makes them worse, not a subject for fatigue. we can add to that other accounts from nbc news as well as the washington post about trump asking fbi director comey for a loyalty pledge. he asked specifically for loyalty in the context of asking me to stay. reports are saying that trump kept doing that, asking everyone
who touched this investigation with loyalty. let s to the run down, comey aid jim baker, he s been reassigned, now the news rod rosenstein is facing these attacks, he is literally the target of this memo fight tonight, that republicans want released and jeff sessions, trump blasted him for recusinrecusing, yes, from russia probe. it s quite a crackdown and big news for the night. joyce, is this reported loyalty request by trump of rosenstein inappropriate? you know, this is a continuation of the disturbing trend that we have seen, ari, where this president completely fails to understand that the loyalty and the obligation of