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Comey for doing? >> there is norimina violation. >> what comey put out through a friend from cumbia law school was really just a corroborating piece of information about an interaction that donald trump tweeted about and said, i have tapes. so lets play this tape thread along for a minute. trump said, wait until i release the tapes. comey said yay, or lordy, or whatever the heck he said that was the cutest moment of the day. he said, yay, there are tapes. heres what happened, and youll see it, t...

Agenda. i think the problem with that construct is that this white house, trump particularly, has a built of a credibility problem. right. his relationship with the truth is an interesting one. hes not always accurate in terms of his depiction of events. i think thats a bit prabatic. it does fit into sort of the insider-outsider narrative that trump likes to construct. >> he used the word "lie." >> yes. >> he used it multiple times. >> yes. >> i want to comment on his appearance. he looked tired...

House to make sure that the president was getting good information from his top national security advisers when theres a terror incident somewhere around the world. the presidents top terrorism adviser would come in and brief him on the details. we would make public the president had been briefed. figure out what we could convey to the american public and the world what exactly the united states government was doing to respond to this particular incident. oftentimes that would be immediate phone...

Wait a day so we can figure out what exactly has transpired so we can make sure whatever the president says is accurate, and information that can inspire confidence in people that the u.s. government and our allies are up to the task of responding to the particular incident. >> there strikes me as a really enormous credibility problem in this white house, and people talked about this across the political spectrum, but it seems particularly important and acute during these moments. you can imagin...

Follow the leads given by those sources. its so important that both the senate sbrejs committee pushed forward and the special prosecutor pushed forward expeditiously. this is potentially treasonous action against the united states if there was -- if there was coordination or conspiracy to undermine the integrity of the presidential election. >> quite a few steps before we get there. with comey theres not a lot of love lost between democrats and the former fbi director. we dont need to go back i...

>> i guess reporters make mistakes. >> no, no but thats just fake. >> was that an example of so-called fake news. >> no ill give you couple examines of fake news. how about when the president of the united states said 3 million to 5 million folks voted illegally in the election or that the former president wire tapped him, we can go through his greatest hits. no matter what happens in the news, the president of the united states and people who work for him say thing thats are patentedly untrue. ...

Happens in the news the president of the united states and people who work for him say things that are patently untrue. when that happens it is not just a credibility problem for the president of the united states. it becomes a credibility problem for the united states. and what that means is that when this president at some point has to tell the american people something that is very important for us to know, for our safety, for our security. what happens when a lot of people, even people that ...

Our international credibility. we are one of the two largest carbon emitters with china. we are the ones who put this deal together. it is the first step to try to do something about climate change. for president trump to take us out, it is anti-em per cal. it is antiscience. it will deepen the crisis in europe. if you travel in europe, it is the number one public issue. if we walk away, it will further deepen the credibility problem that we have with the germans and other peoples in europe. >> ...

Bigger picture, gloria, how damaging this is for president trump the white house if his former national security advisor is pleading the fifth, not responding to a subpoena request. >> it doesnt look good and donald trump, we believe, remains friends with flynn. hes an orphrphan to everybody e at the white house but i dont think to the president and today elijah cummings,ing the democrat charged that flynn lied on his security clearance forms and said that he told investigators he was paid by u....

Raise the idea of theres a problem here. >> i keep telling you no and you keep talking to me like you dont want me to say it but im going to say it. >> go ahead. >> what he did was to protect the integrity of an ongoing investigation, keep contemporaneous notes. if he had come forward it would have stopped the investigation. >> you at least have to concede theres a huge credibility problem with james comey on both sides. i have friends that are huge, huge trump supporters, who said well what if ...