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Matters, speaking about prostitutes even though hes denying there were ever hookers, even though hes denying the notion of golden showers and taking part in those activities. fact he speaks about them freely and comes back to them over and over again comey, and now that we know certain things that are now part of the public record, things related to, for example, the stormy daniels case. what kind of a picture does one take away from all of that about whether or not we should have some reason to...

Too. quote what can can i do to relieve the cloud? kept coming back to it making it hard to do business for the count rae. we will do the work well. again comeys testimony to congress about the presidents call to him march 30 ths closely tracking what these notes say he told dana boente about the presidents call. and for this second to last one, lets go back to the comey exchange with feinstein. there will boo eea little overlap but watch this until the end. >> you describe two phone calls you r...

A.m., moments ago "i believe the james comey leaks will be far more prevalent than anyone ever thought possible. total total illegal? very cowardly." ? >> there is a question whether he violated the fbi handbook you get permission before you leak any documents you obtain during your tenure. i dont know anybody in the legal environments who thinks this is not classified, this is his own notes of his conversation with the president. the president firing back something i guess his lawyers would tel...

Given he had already been fired? >> general flynn at that point in time was in legal jeopardy. there was an open fbi criminal investigation of his statements in connection with the russian contacts and the contacts themselves, and so that was my assessment at the time. i dont think its for me to say whether the conversation i had with the president was an effort to obstruct. i took is t as a disturbing thing but im sure the special counsel will look what was the intention there and whether thats...

Goody. >> the fact that he said to comey, yeah, the satellite people, might want to know about that. thats one of the first times youve heard the president or only times youve heard the president say oh, yeah, oh and russia interfered with the election, thats bad. he hasnt said that as often as he said this other piece. >> and it was telling that james comey said he couldnt recall any conversations with the president where the president was concerned about the russia hacking, the russia interfer...

Enough which is improper but perhaps not nefarious. >> theres no parsing. >> however, the question becomes well, why did the president raise it in another consideration with comey later and what did he ask of dan coates, the director of national intelligence and admiral mike rogers, the head of the national security agency because this was critical, it got buried, these two men clearly the president brought up something they did not want to talk about in public. >> to the best of of my recollect...

>> so he lied about that? >> well, i didnt say that. i mean, i will tell you i didnt say that. >> so he said those things under oath. would you be willing to speak under oath to give your version of those events? >> 100%. >> with us to share reporting and insights, sara murray, carl of the "new york times," ma manu raju and you heard the president his offer to answer questions under oath, part of his response to the riveting comey testimony. the former fbi director told conversation in a series ...

Says that i didnt do anything wrong. >> it was clear that again comey was trying to work this issue, because he understands where this is going to, this is months at least. these investigation also go on and he knew the white house was likely to attack his credibility. on a number of occasions he called the president a liar, talking about he said he was fired, he went home, he was watching the administrations reasons and -- >> although the law required no reason at all to fire an fbi director, t...

Mpl lets close heading around the "inside politics" table and ask our great reporters to share from their notebooks and get you ahead of the news. sara murray? >> the president may feel vindicated in the wake of comeys testimony but a number of republicans are queelg queasy how the gop is handling this. i spoke to one who got the republican talking points around comey essentially questioning his credibility and this person told me, "i feel like i live in the twilight zone," just reacting with di...

Mcgann and going in as white house legal counsel and building this team you think from a laurie perspective, we need to make sure we are doubly transparent about everything related to russia. we need to cross our ts and dot our is. if it looks like were hiding something that will make everything so much worse. it is clear they did not go through the steps. >> unless your version of draining the swamp is not being forthcoming on forms on everyone who comes into the united states government are re...