to fire james comey. the new york times reports that andrew mccabe thought that was the case after talking to rosenstein. the memo mccabe wrote about that discussion is in the hands of the special counsel. the memo says rosenstein told mccabe the president wanted russia mentioned in the investigation and firing comey. doing so could be a problem for the president. mccabe cited the handling of the e-mail investigation of hillary clinton. the president and allies used rosenstein s role to suggest he should have recused himself over the mueller investigation. the justice department declined to comment. president trump s personal attorney rudy giuliani out front of the mueller probe reinforcing the time line fline for getting investigation wrapped up. file his report by september 1st. will he fire him if he doesn t file the report? i don t think he is going to
mccabe thought that may be the case after talking to rosenstein. cnn confirmed the memo mccabe wrote about the discussion is now in the hands of special counsel robert mueller. that memo says rosenstein told mccabe the president wanted russia mentioned in the recommendation to fire comey. doing so could be a problem for the president. rosenstein cited the handling of the hillary clinton e-mail investigation. the justice department declined comment. rudy giuliani talking about the timeline of the russia investigation. giuliani echoing the president s line of attack with the threat to mueller s team. we ll challenge mueller to write whatever you got. take your best punch with all of your 13 democrats there. you couldn t find a republican? you have a group that is a lynching mob. let them do their job.
memo. we haven t seen it. the president said mccabe never took notes during the meeting. so with that said, how can the f.b.i. then be so sure the memo wasn t written after the fact because if it were written after the fact, would it not make it irrelevant? that s a huge concern here is verifying when this memo was written by mccabe. whether it was drafted after he and president trump had several meetings. whether it was drafted in a way to help james comey and impact the mueller investigation. these are questions that investigators will certainly have to look at to identify and verify the authenticity of this document. but it is certainly problematic for rod rosenstein if it does, in fact, exist and was written according to the timeline that mccabe provided. in this memo mccabe alleges that rod rosenstein had told him in their own conversations that president trump requested that he insert a line about the