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You name it, but they did not use that same critical eye during the obama years. your response? >> while thank you to be with you. i actually just got back from south carolina, where he spent a lot of time talking with conservative activists. other very strong supporters of president trump. certainly, and unfortunately, there is a great deal of mistrust with the mainstream media. there is a disbelief of many of the things that are being reported. especially as it relates to more critical coverag...

>> there was the applause and this is what president trump said in a meeting with senators about health care a while ago from the associated press. one called the house bill mean, mean, mean, and we need to be more generous and more kind. are you worried no matter what bill comes out of the senate that the white house might change the goal post on you as they did the house. >> its interesting to hear both comments from the president, if in fact, he is being quoted accurately. im sure he may disa...

This massive piece of legislation seeks to restructure our economy is being written behind closed doors without input by anyone in an effort to jam it past not only the senate but the american people. >> that was senate majority leader describing with accuracy what he is now running to pass the health care bill. those comments weroctober of 2009 and hes talking about obamacare. there was tons of public input and more than a year of hearings. by contrast mcconnell is writing his bill in secrecy e...

Take away. >> also that seems to have been the moment when that idea of obstruction of justice first entered comeys mind. from that very moment he then leaves that meeting, goes and commits the, you know, his account of that and his memory of that meeting to writing with the clear thought in his head that he might need this later, this is something that was completely inappropriate. he felt he was -- he had been asked to do something or lose his job for it. and what we saw him do was sort of put...

Has been fraught from the very beginning. >> he had his work cut out, meaning comey. how he revealed that dossier to the president-elect, but, what was it about trumps reaction that compelled coe noi document their conversation? heres more. so in that context, prior to the january 6 meeting, i discussed with the fbis leadership team whether i should be prepared to assure president-elect trump we were not investigating him personally. that was true. we did not have an open counterintelligence cas...

So, you know, this relationship has been fraught from the very beginning. >> he had his work cut out, meaning comey. you heard from james comey says about how he revealed that salacious russian dossier to the president-elect. but what was it about trumps reaction that compelled comey to document their conversation? so heres more. so in that context, prior to the january 6 meeting, i discussed with the fbis leadership team whether i should be prepared to assure president-elect trump we were not i...

Reporters. there were questions, of course, about whether the white house is going to push back or dispute the accuracy of anything that comey puts in his testimony, and sara basically said they were reviewing that right now and would keep us posted. this is sort of fitting what weve seen from this white house. very little comment officially in terms of reacting to developments regarding the russia investigation, regarding comey. so far they have mostly been kicking things over to president trum...

Way of him opening up the line to patronage." there is a lot in this document. >> jon: also noting that he said he is creating records as he is talking to ensure accuracy, i began typing on a laptop in an fbi vehicle outside of trump tower the moment i walked out of the meeting. creating written records after my one-on-one conversation with president trump. >> melissa: obviously, we are going to be drilling down on this document and looking at everything. i would say this is his recollection, he...

Them to you. he says, i felt compelled to document my very first conversation with the president-elect in a memo. this was the meeting before he became president on january 9th. to ensure accuracy, i started typing it on a laptop in an fbi car outside trump tower the moment i walked out of the meeting. creating written records immediately after one-on-one conversations with mr. trump was my practice from that point forward. it had not been my practice in the past. i spoke to president obama twic...

Certainly. the question is did he have the mens rea. did he have a guilty mind. i think you can make that conclusion when you hear that he asked books everyone to leave the room so that he can talk privately with jim comey, especially the a. ghmplt and his son-in-law. then having the one-on-one dinner again with nobody else? he clearly was attempting to persuade james comey in a setting where no one else could hear him. >> he goes into great detail on that. he says who was standing by the grandf...