i don t know. i hope people will see me even if you disagree with my decisions as a fair minded person acting in good faith, careful, involving other people. i don t know. i hope it doesn t sound odd. it doesn t matter that much. i m a happy person. i care how my family feels about me. i love to be a great father and grandfather. people make their judgment over time. you have been very sensitive to the criticism that some people have made that you have an infatuation with your own sense of integrity. you acknowledge you have a big ego and don t like that criticism. i don t understand the disconnect. i think the ego is about your intense of integrity, don t you think? isn t that the biggest i see it as the same. i agree with you. but i m sensitive to it because i ve spent my life trying to make sure it s not ego driving my decisions and the decisions made here whether you agree or disagree with them weren t made by me alone. i put together a team of people who argued and fought
why might that be? why would they be more worried about michael cohen than robert muler? i ll resist the legal analyst hat. you have awesome legal analysts at cnn. i m not one of them. cohen s name is in the steele dossier. the fbi trying to verify if the dossier is true or not. is that in the russia claim? i can t answer that. you detail interactions with the president that made you uncomfortable. you promised honest loyalty. you agreed this michael flynn was a good man. now, you write that your experience in high school gave you a lifelong hatred for bullies. do you think president trump is a bully? do you hate him? i definitely don t hate him. there are that make me e i think inappropriate and i don t hate donald trump. i don t even dislike donald trump. a devil s advocate question of president trump. you are a person that briefed
something that should be the center of all of our evaluations of our leaders so i get that it s relevant to politics but it s more important than partisan politics. something you said to me in one of the interviews stood out. quote, if you ve been investigating something for a year and don t have a likely sense of where it will end up you should be fired. you wrote something similar in the book. exonerating hillary clinton of criminal behavior. let s apply that same standard to the mueller investigation. you oversaw the russia investigation for almost ten months. did you, do you have a general sense of how that investigation is going to end up? in some respects i did at the time but not completely. i suspect that the team that s investigating it now has a general sense. i have no idea what that is but again it s a general feeling on the current course and speed to end up in this direction or that direction. where did you think it was
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you don t talk about trump or hillary. that s what he got wrong. if i talk more i protect the institution. that s why he leaked again. heard him talk about i don t have faith that rod rosenstein would do the right thing in this case and the department of justice. he made a political judgment just like about lo realretta lynch. he didn t say it outright in the book and felt burned by rosenstein. he had just had a meeting with him and had talked about leadership or something and then fired the next day on the television. i feel that also provided the original memo with the fake reasons saying because he was too mean to hillary why he was fired. right. fake in terms of whether or not trump believed the reason. fake for rosenstein is justified it. we use the term leak. he didn t give classified