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Looking at politics at all and then saying we were looking at the polls and looked like hillary clinton wasnt going to win. i mean, donald trumps attacks aside, james comey may be a friend of robert mueller but he sure seems far less lets just say. >> judicious. >> judicious is a good word. david, take it from there before i get in trouble. >> well, comey first speaks moral language that we dont hear very much in politics. he speaks about peoples moral unfitness to be president. he calls someone...

Getting out and where i think most of the international community including secretary mattis and others would want him to be. he is saying we will stay there. we will continue the fight. but we want our regional allies to come in and eventually one day be able to do this on their own. what was your take away? >> im not as critical richard was. i think this was a classic option b speech where option a is go big, really destabilize the regime, rock them, big strike, option c is do very little. thi...

Gets to the president, the more promoting the theory there was a conspiracy to help hillary clinton, hurt donald trump. according to the theory presented for hours on end every night it was a secret project that began way back at clinton e-mail probe continuing into the ru russia investigation. tough to buy, not least of which, two officials overseeing those, comey first, mueller, are both republicans. lifelong ones. and if the fbi had been in the tank for hillary clinton, they could have done a...

The united states obstructed justice. and according to norm, a critic of the president, the tape threat increases legal exposure for obstruction and witness intimidation. >> i think the president made it clear he twanlth truth to come out. he wanted everybody to be honest about it. i think he succeeded in doing it. he wanted to make sure the truth came out will by talking about something like tapes made comey in particular think to himself, id better be honest. id better tell truthful. >> both t...

Said, that the tape threat forced comey to tell the truth. but that wasnt what the trump team said when comey first testified. initially you may remember they said the president was vindicated, declining to dispute the allegations the president demanded his loyalty and asked him to let flynn go. later the president and his lawyer contradicted it implying he had lied under oath. asked to testify whether comey was lying or telling the truth, the white house press secretary declined to comment. joi...

Our political and national security analyst for the new york times. so lets deal with comey first. and he helped himself in some ways and arguably he hurt hirms in some ways. he admitted to leaking and he said he leaked because he wanted a special council. how do you think he comes out of this in terms of how much his word will be weighed and valued? >> first of all you have to say whose version of events are people more likely to believe? the one mr. comey put out or the president put out? he w...

And to your point about, waiting to hear from bob mueller, special prosecutor about turning over documents. he also clearly wants to talk to his old friend and now, now the guy running the investigation, about what he will or will not say. so it is an own -- >> several committees want the memos too. deadline tomorrow. the senate judiciary committee. also the house oversight committee. want those memos. and, i talked to, the top democrat on the senate judiciary committee, dianne feinstein and cha...

>> tonight the house oversight committee has not received documents it requested from fb i director james comey about his meetings with president trump. the committee chairman, jason chaffetz, set today as the deadline for memos to be turned over. comey first wants to talk to spati special council robert mueller. one memo which allegedly states trump asked comey during meeting to shut down his investigation into national security adviser michael flynn is central to all of the probes. >> if he ha...