now when the president reads this? he says he doesn t believe anything comey says but he s going to believe this? sure. these words do stick with president trump. there s been reporting about when rex tillerson suppose lid called him a moron. that really stuck with him. so the degree to which look, honor is important to president trump. he considers himself an honorable man. he sees everyone around him lying about him. and it s deeply frustrating him. dishonorable coming from john kelly, chief of staff, that s a very tough word. i m sure it s going to be something that s said. thank you all very much. you re going to hear more of the story directly from jim comey. he will ob cnn talking with jake one week from today on the lead at 4:00 eastern. next, a strour doorman speaking out amid reports he was paid to keep quiet about his claim that trump party an illegitimate child. the payoff behind that next. targeting rod rosenstein. the white house has a plan for trump allies to
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an ami publication is vetted twice internally before they go ahead with the story. you d have to imagine if they paid the guy $30,000 or whatever money was paid to anybody bringing the story to them, there must be some validity, once they pass through that process. the new yorker quotes a source saying the national enquirer who worked there, we didn t pay thousands for nonstories let alone ten of thousands. this was $30,000, would they have paid that for a story they really did think was completely untrue? you can only draw conclusions by what happened and didn t happen. right, you re saying they would go through a process and they would use that to make a decision, it s worth buying or not worth buying it? sure, yeah. they would have had to have thought there was validity to it? at that point, sure. i appreciate your time. form formerly of communications for american media. is the point man for the russia investigation on ice? new details of a white house effort
transparency is very important to the legitimacy of our national security activities but it also needs to be done with care to enable us to use those sources and methods in the future. all right. let s talk rod rosenstein, deputy attorney general. this memo targets him, his role. aspects of the russia probe that led to, as you mention, fisa, surveillance on trump campaign officials. it is worth reminding everyone whatever bob mueller finds, rosenstein is the gate keeper to decide who does he take it to, how does he make it public? is this the president s way of really, you know, sticking it to putting the pressure on without actually having to fire bob mueller? look, i m not going to speculate on what the motives are here. what is clear from what we ve seen thus far is that this memo,
rosenstein, puts in his own person, who then becomes bob mueller s boss who says you can t look into this or into that and you need to end your investigation here. if rod rosenstein goes do you think that s a valid worry, that he would fire him? the i think it s a highly valid worry, what we ve been seeing in the press, report about his dissatisfaction with the deputy attorney general. in my experience the deputy attorney general is a stand-up guy. he makes mistakes sometimes, like we all do, but always acts in what is the best for the american people at heart. he could appoint someone with