exctations. in part because we sat in this private briefing with rod rosenstein, teputy attorney general, in which he would give us nothing about the content of his communications with trump. he wouldn t even tell us in that closed door meeting about who he consulted in writing the memo that recommended comey s firing. the reason for that is he said, listen, this is all subject to a potential criminal obstruction of justice case. knowing comey, knowing how careful he normally is, he ll make a little bit of news tomorrow. i have a feeling he s going to be just as careful as rosenstein was given the potential scope of mueller s investigation. let me ask you what dan coats, former ambassador, former senator, now dni dan coats news that broke last night. how does that impact how you re looking at this entire mess, possible obstruction of justice charge against the president of
appropriate for him to do that but it had to be in the right setting. i think all the contacts here are very interesting and it s extremely detailed. sort of comey-esque. knowing comey and covering him the last few years, he s meticulous. the detail, shimon. the details are incredible, down to the number of people serving food, the clock in the oval office. it s just very specific. all kind of lending credibility to what he is saying here. you know, i think this whole cloud, this notion of the cloud over trump began after cnn s reporting about the daus sossie. it was significant that the fbi director chose on his own then to go ahead and brief trump about the dossier and the contents. it was probably a very difficult thing for comey to do given some of the allegations. but nonetheless, it was extremely important to do that given that he was about to
is anybody criticizing his characterization how comey hand told emails? interestingly, in this two and a half page memo rod rosenstein cited several people. he talked about how they also criticized james comey s handling of this investigation. we do know in just the past few hours it was donald ire, deputy attorney general under president h.w. bush, he called this reasoning a sham. he said it was a complete sham that they are using this investigation of the clinton e-mail server as their cover to fire director comey. so at least one person cited as being behind this decision in this memo from rod rosenstein, saying no this is all just a cover. obviously something else behind this firing. it s also cloak and dagger. we have this video of the president s body man delivering the letter to fbi in the manila envelope. knowing comey was out of town. comey was not there. he s watching the news later on