honestly describe something that was above just ordinary carelessness. leaving a document on a counter at a restaurant or something and criminal misconduct. it was between those two. you don t have a phrase that would have been i still don t. you might expect i ve kind of suppressed the effort since then to try to figure it out. after you were fired president trump tweeted there might be tapes of the private conversations. you said you asked your friend to then leak some information about your interactions with the president. not classified information but information about your interactions with the president and you say you did this, testified you did this to try to force the creation of a special counsel. why? why would a special counsel be needed? why would the department of justice and fbi not be able to continue to do the job? i thought that the department as currently supervised would not be aggressive enough to go serve process to get the tapes? jeff sessions is too
these classified memos? listen. i know when i created some of them they were classified but i don t know how many of that group. you say you did this. you testified that you did this to try to force the creation of a special counsel. why? why would a special counsel be needed? why would the department of justice and fbi not be able to continue to do the job? because i thought that the department, as currently supervised, would not be aggressive enough to go serve process to get the tapes. because jeff sessions is too weak? he had recused himself. rod rosenstein was too weak. new attorney general i didn t have confidence in given what i had seen around my firing. so i thought something has to be done. because there were lots of discussions in public then about appointing a special counsel. brian: jake tapper pressed him, you just said in an interview interview i think with george stephanopoulos about the president the russians having something on him. why would you say t