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comey and for 24 hours we get a steady diet of, here, everybody look at this rod rosenstein memo. that s why we fired him. it was because he was unfair to hillary clinton and because he didn t follow d.o.j. rules about talking publicly about ongoing investigations. that s why we fired him. and then, of course, he does the lester holt interview, the president does the lester holt interview and says, russia was on my mind. he goes into the oval office and tells the russians comey is a nutjob, i face great pressure because of russia and that s been taken off. then rod rosenstein says in a roomful of justice department officials and andy mccabe, weirdly at the beginning the president wanted me to mention russia. so you can see why to mccabe, as he s trying to figure out what the heck is going on, he s thinking, well, gees, it sounds a lot like the president might not have actually fired jim comey because of the clinton investigation. and you take that memo because you re trying to get to t

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evidence that he s innocent. and mr. rosenstein could have the final say whether that argument has merit. could you speak to that? is there any precedent for the person in charge of the investigation being one of the people who wrote the story that the president s lawyers, a person being investigated, is pointing to to prove their innocence? so, this is an i m sure joyce will tell you. this is kind of a worst nightmare for a prosecutor. you do not want to become a fact witness and become the center of attention in these things. it is also bad for an fbi agent to do that. and often here s where i get really worried it leads to recusal and i m not suggesting that rosenstein is going to recuse himself. what i m concerned about is that the white house is going to say he s now super conflicted. he needs to go. i m concerned about that. i think that rosenstein is going to do the right thing. he is clearly going to have to be interviewed if he hasn t already by mueller s team and no

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to do it. and in fact, when i decided to just do it, i said to myself, i said, you know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a made-up story. with us from the new york times, justice reporter matt apuzzo who broke that story last night and from the washington post phil rucker also former u.s. attorney law professor at the university of alabama, joyce vance and former fbi assistant director for counter intelligence frank figliuzzi, all msnbc analysts, four of my favorite people on the planet. matt apuzzo, take me inside this story. so, we know jim comey kept memos. you have the first account i ve seen a memo that andy mccabe took because he was concerned that there was a russia connection, and the president revealed it in his own interviews days later. yeah, memos for everyone. it was a crazy time last may, right? the president had just fired jim

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mr. rosenstein played a key role in the dismissal, writing a memo that rebuked mr. comey over his handling of an investigation into hillary clinton, but in the meeting at the justice department, mr. rosenstein added a new detail. he said the president had originally asked him to reference russia in his memo. to mr. mccabe that seemed like possible evidence that mr. comey s firing was actually related to the fbi s investigation into the trump campaign s ties to russia. and that mr. rosenstein helped provide a cover story by writing about the clinton investigation. trump lashed out on twitter this morning writing, quote, not that it matters, but i never fired james comey because of russia. the corrupt mainstream media loves to keep pushing that narrative, but they know it isn t true. but it s not just the media pushing the narrative, mr. president, it s you. regardless of recommendation, i was going to fire comey knowing there was no good time

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