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The motives at the time he did that. i believe the fbi general counsel also has his own version of what comey told him at the time. so i just want to make sure that we put those in context. this is his personal recollections of post firing. but there are recollections he had at the time. >> yeah. you know you reported a lot on james comey. didnt he admit in this book that he did have political calculation when deciding on announcing the reopening of the hillary clinton e-mail probe? >> well, tha...

>> reporter: weve learned that the new special council, probt mu robert mueller, has briefed on the memos that james comey kept to document his conversations with president trump. now, he has already visited fbi headquarters where he met with the counter intelligence agents who had been working on this case since last july, according to two people familiar with the matter. in one memo, comey wrote that trump asked him to end the fbi probe into former national security adviser michael flynn, acco...

The white house has given conflicting reports and accounts. rather than settling the matter, the president friday offered a threat, hinting his conversations may have been recorded in case comey decides to go public. jeff zeleny picks up the story here. >> reporter: president trump adding fuel to the fire in the escalating fight with the fbi, making a veiled threat on twitter to james comey. the president saying the fbi director better hope there are not tapes of conversations before he leaks to...