let me play for you someone who talkened about the details, which is andrew mccabe on sunday saying russia was something roger stone knew that donald trump wanted as part of the reason. let s take a look. he didn t want to put russia in this memo? he did not. he explained to the president he didn t need russia and the president responded i understand that, i m asking you to put russia in the memo anyway. yeah, this is the exchange that took place between rod and the president on may 8. so if rod knew the president wanted it to be russia and rod went forward with the comey/clinton explanation and didn t include russia, why would rod be surprised at all by what came from them? because what we are dealing is
characterizing his emotions. rod was clearly i m just here to understand the facts. you describe him in this way. readers are thinking are you describing someone who was cracking? you have this fascinating package where you say in the book michael flynn told you you know what i said about kislyak because you guys were probably listenin listening. what is the deal with that? that was what he was charged on was lying about that. he told you he knew you were listening and he still lied about it which isn t in debate because he admitted lying about in the court? that s what the man said.
james comey because of russia and other reasons and he wrote a public memo stating only one reason dash pretest that it was only about the clinton case. roger stone knew the president had a whole scope of reasons upon which reasons for firing james comey. the president presented those reasons to roger stone in the infamous draft lesser that was never sent. rod s memo only cites one reason for the firing of james comey. i think that rod believes in the ruth of his memorandum and i take him at his word. if you re asking me did the president have other reasons in mind, i think we have good reason to believe that s the case. you took the letter from rod that donald trump initially wrote that took issue it mentioned you. it did. did it mention other doj or fbi officials besides james comey. i won t reveal any other details. did it mention russia? i won t talk about the details of the letter beyond what the president discussed it.
the removal of james comey may have been inappropriate. does that mean you were concerned roger stone was part of that? i had many conversations with roger stone during that period. i contemplated several steps. rod was supportive of our efforts, i took that support of a good sign that rod was i m going to press you on this lawyer to lawyer. go for. it you ear talking post-firing. it sounds like you re saying roger stone did the right thing post-firing. i m asking about pre-firing. look, i can t i can t tell you what rod is thinking. but did you think gosh, they just fired my boss, i m worried they re impeding and obstructing justice and the person who engineered the firing is roger stone. i read the memo like everybody else did. i had my own concerns about it.