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I want to bring ryan in. ryan, jack mentioned what the president said to lester hot. let s bring that back, play that and then we ll discuss. here it is. regardless of recommendation i was going to fire comey, knowing there was a real good time to do it. 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, it s an excuse by the democrats having lost an election that they should have won. ike, ryan, your turn. russia, this is another example of him saying, russia was on my mind here. yeah, jack laid it out. this report by the new york time gives one more data point where trump told someone he was taking this action because of russia. we don t know a lot more of russia, the times report ....
Brach. jack, thank you very much. dana and ryan stick around. president trump has a long list of grievances against abc. a really long list but should the president really be expecting any apologies when he never seems to apologize for anything that he has said? ....
Funny about it. and roseanne is not a victim. she is paying the price for what she did. and in that, she s got something in common with another 9 os superstar. one whose legacy is tarnished as well. how the mighty have fallen. much more on that in a little bit in the show. i want to get to some significant breaking news. this is on the russian investigation. i want to bring in dana bash, jack questioniinn and ryan. dana you first, the former fbi direct andrew mccabe, in a secret memo he felt that attorn here s the kicker, mueller has the memo. that s big. it is potentially big, don. there s no question. a couple things though to unpack ....
Times. they said, 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, the people familiar with the conversation said. so, jack, the rosenstein memo about what s comb my s handling of the situation, but the president wanted him to mention russia. does it i think it bolsters the reasons that are out there and that have manifest. i don t know who, you know, in this country thinks the firing of james comey did not have to do a great deal with the issue of the russian investigation. the president has acknowledged that to lester hot. he has acknowledged that in any number of situations. rudy giuliani has acknowledged it. it s inelse escape bl the run ....
Fact that it wasn t just about the conflict that jaime comey had and overseeing the hillary clinton e fail investigation but he officially talked about russia as well. we ll see how sort of inflaming those and how bad those are for the president ultimately when we see what robert mueller has. i think in the short-term, we also have to remember that andrew mccabe is somebody who had a conflict with rod rosenstein, who didn t always see eye to eye with a lot of people inside the fbi, and obviously we also know that he is the subject of his own inspector general report that didn t do so well. so, there are a lot of conflicting characters and story lines that robert mueller understands he has to sift through. talk about let s unpack this more, jack. andrew mccabe recounts a conversation. here s what he told new york ....