just asking questions, making suggestions, that makes sense if it only happened once or twice, but remember all the people he s messed with surrounding this probe and how hard he has worked to make sure as many of you as possible see the entire deal as a miscarriage of justice. trump reportedly calling on his acting ag to try to get a trump supporter put in charge of the investigation into hush money payments. there s one. the president reportedly peddling misleading information about the firing of michael flynn, telling his press secretary to say trump asked for a resignation because it sounded better. there s another. and there s trump asking jim comey to end the investigation into flynn. and there s getting rosenstein to concoct a basis for removal of comey and then revealing that he was always going to fire comey because of this probe. none of those is a supposition. the last is the most damning and he told it to you, to your face. i was going to fire comey.
what he would like done. that the president sort of struggles in his efforts to truly obstruct the investigation. he makes a lot of noise. he says things. people will not carry out his orders. and ultimately, he moves on to something else and sours on the person. it s the same exact thing that happens with jim comey. almost nearly to the day, february of 2017, asking comey to end the investigation into flynn. comey not doing that, writing about it in a memo and then when that comes out, mueller being appointed, the theme here in the reporting is the president has done a lot of things but not necessarily been successful at many times his own worst enemy, not very adept at getting the system to do, at least based on what we know, what he wants. your piece makes a point in the very beginning about the numbing effect of donald trump s constant efforts at trying to obstruct or intervene in these
series of dubious events, including the president asking james comey to drop the investigation into flynn, and then telling him firing james comey relieved great pressure. mccabe said rosenstein was onboard into launching investigations into the president, and he also offered to wear a wire into the white house. we talked about why the president had insisted on firing the director and whether or not he was thinking about the russia investigation, and did that impact his decision and in the context of that conversation the deputy attorney general offered to wear a wire into the white house. he said i never get searched when i go into the white house. i could easily wear a recording
i feel bad for him and his family, too, but i think this was probably the right decision. renato, i want to get to the president s attorney, yoouj who rudy giuliani is contradicting himself on whether trump asked the former fbi director whether he could drop the investigation into flynn. he said the president was asking him, directing him in his words to let the michael flynn investigation go. he didn t direct him to do that. can you comey said he took it as direction. that s okay. taking it that way by that time he had been fired. okay, now giuliani is saying the president never said that to comey. watch. the president didn t say to him go easy on flynn or anything about flynn. he s saying that. do you think there s a strategy behind this complete 180, renato? i don t. i have to tell you i was in the
sensitive search warrant from his office e-mail account to his personal e-mail account. that was concerning. look, i think that on top of all of that i think that the bureau felt that it had to send a message that there was going to be a zero-tolerance policy for this kind of behavior and let down in the quorum in the bureau. i feel bad for him and his family, too, but i think this was probably the right decision. renato, i want to get to the president s attorney, yoouj who is contradicting himself on whether trump asked the former fbi director whether he could drop the investigation into flynn. he said the president was asking him, directing him in his words to let the michael flynn investigation go. he didn t direct him to do that. comey said he took it as direction. that s okay. taking it that way by that time