it was so good last night. >> thank you. >> new york times reporter mata is with us and mike barn kal and national affairs analyst john heilemann is with us as well. joe is off this morning. we're going to start with the firing of former fbi deputy director andrew mccabe. and president trump now raising doubts about whether mccabe kept personal notes about their oval office meetings. two people familiar with the case tell "the washington post" that mccabe memorialized his interactions with the president in memos which, if true, could become key pieces of evidence in robert mueller's russia probe. on sunday morning, the president lashed out at the report, tweeting, spent very little time with andrew mccabe, but he never took notes when he was with me. i don't believe he made memos except to help his own agenda, probably at a later date. same with lying james comey. can we call them fake memos? hours later a lawyer for andrew mccabe tweeted, we will not be responding to each childish, defactory, disgusting and false tweet by the president. the whole truth will come out in due course, bu