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Thought the president of the united states might be involved in obstruction of justice, and might be doing that to cover up some sort of inappropriate relationship with the russians, i mean, it was a head-spinning moment. would you have recused yourself if you were in rod rosenstein s position? i was nots in rod s position and i don t want to answer a hypothetical like that. i will say that despite all of these conversations, you know, the mention of the 25th amendment and the offer to wear a wire, all these things that have become so kind of topical in the last few days, i think we have lost sight of the fact that rod rosenstein decided to appoint special counsel mueller. by doing so, i think the entire country owes him a debt of gratitute. rod did the right thing by putting the right person in charge of the investigation. with regards to the mueller probe, to the launch of it, did rosenstein give mueller a specific list of people to look into? i don t know the answer to that. ....
Rosenstein s role in firing of comey, do you think rosenstein should have recused himself from oversight of the mueller probe? i don t know. that s something that the deputy attorney general has to determine for himself. i can say this. it was an incredible time. and the simple fact that the deputy attorney general and the acting director of the fbi were trying to figure out how to navigate a situation in which we thought the president of the united states might be involved in obstruction of justice, and might be doing that to cover up some sort of inappropriate relationship with the russians, i mean, it was a head-spinning moment. would you have recused yourself if you were in rod rosenstein s position? i was not in rod s position and i don t want to answer a hypothetical like that. i will say that despite all of these conversations, you know, the mention of the 25th amendment and the offer to wear a wire, all these things that have become so kind of topical in the last few days ....
Rod rosenstein decided to appoint special counsel mueller. by doing so, i think the entire country owes him a debt of gratitude. rod did the right thing by putting the right person in charge of that investigation. with regards to the mueller probe, to the launch of it, did rosenstein give mueller a specific list of people to look into? i don t know the answer to that. i can t speak to the direction that rosenstein may have conferred. do you know, was the president s family being looked into either before the appointment of mueller or after? that s something i don t feel comfortable talking about as it goes to kind of could go to an ongoing investigative matters. did you continue to receive updates about the russia investigation even after robert mueller was appointed? no. we put a process in place to insure that our investigators, the fbi personnel on that team, would take their direction from ....
What did the president want put in there about russia or about the president or the investigation? i don t know that they ever developed that idea beyond the president s request, because rod, of course, indicated he didn t need to refer to russia in his memo. and that he didn t. he didn t put russia in the memo. that s something that concerned us greatly, but it s one of those facts that we were looking at at the time and asking ourselves, what did the president intend with that comment. it s been reported that an early draft of the memo, though, included the president thanking comey for telling him he was not a target of the russia probe. yeah, there was an early draft of a letter that the president was relying upon. that s the letter i have referred to in the book in which that was given to me by the deputy attorney general. i would rather not discuss the actual details of that letter because it s it could impact the ongoing investigation. if the president wanted it, i mean ....
your book was delayed by the fbi. your attorney suggested they were possibly trying to silence you. is there anything the fbi censored about president trump or the fbi or russia you that think the public needs to know? no. the process with the fbi was extensive. we took several months to get through a manuscript that normally according to fbi policy typically takes about 30 days. i understand that the issues i talk about are particularly relevant, they re timely, they re national security issues. i think all of those things combined to make it a much more arduous process. nevertheless, i am very happy with the product that came out of that process. and glad to have the fbi seal of approval on it. one of the things that is not in the book which obviously has gotten a lot of attention is the conversation with rod rosenstein about the 25th amendment. this morning, you said you didn t put it in the book because you didn t want it to be a distraction. it s certainly a distraction now. ....