to do it. and in fact, when i decided to just do it, i said to myself, i said, you know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a made-up story. with us from the new york times, justice reporter matt apuzzo who broke that story last night and from the washington post phil rucker also former u.s. attorney law professor at the university of alabama, joyce vance and former fbi assistant director for counter intelligence frank figliuzzi, all msnbc analysts, four of my favorite people on the planet. matt apuzzo, take me inside this story. so, we know jim comey kept memos. you have the first account i ve seen a memo that andy mccabe took because he was concerned that there was a russia connection, and the president revealed it in his own interviews days later. yeah, memos for everyone. it was a crazy time last may, right? the president had just fired jim
was said to them, what their impression was and what the president s intent was. the interesting twist here is rod roysenstein becomes a potential fact witness while he s overseeing the investigation of obstruction. so, this becomes very, very complicated. my gut tells me that rosenstein s trying to do the right thing. he is literally between the proverbial rock and hard place. i think he s trying to eke out the end of the special counsel investigation, keep it alive, and trying to keep lots of people happy at the same time. but this is an interesting twist today, nicolle, and wloehether not rosenstein took russia out of the firing reasons for comey because he thought trump would get in trouble or whether he truly believed there was other valid reason to fire comey, we don t know yet. fil phil rucker, i want your