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File cia officer or nsa officer were have attempted to go to the russian embassy up here in washington, d.c. and try to establish a covert line of communications, not only would they be immediately fired but most likely be charged with a very serious crime up to and including espionage. clearly this is something that has rankled the intelligence community but lets remember that the intelligence community has not had a smooth relationship with president trump to begin with. even before president ...

Others is, look, i never get calls from the white house, that never happens. this must be really important. he picks up and the president just wants to chitchat and talk about crowd sizes and talk about whats going on. the thing is, the idea that we thought comey and trump were going to work together, we should have seen this coming so much -- >> this the trump doing what trump does. he was trying to build a relationship, a chummy relationship. >> comey is obsessed with this distance. hes like, ...

He -- it would be normal for him to take notes, yet he said he wanted to do this, taking notes because he wanted to memorialize these specific events to this case? >> right. so comey is someone who has -- he likes to keep a paper trail. that is sort of historically what hes done, but sources ive been speaking with said it was not typical for him to document every single conversation he had with a high level official like he did with one-on-one conversations with donald trump, but he felt it was ...

Harmful i think to the country. ned, you worked for the nsc and cia, were seeing an intel community pushing back, whether after the firing of director comey. we heard a lot from the fbi and unnamed sources there. yesterday the nsc saying wait a minute, we cant let this pass, talking to "the washington post." >> this is not a president who has ever had a good relationship with the intelligence community and, in fact, even before he was president as the republican nomin nominee, he casually dism...

And that so shortsided. theyre trying to win a fraction of a news cycle when its clear to anybody who parses the sentences that theyre not denying the substance and eventually theyre going to have to fes up to the intelligence committee. its going to come out. >> that started day one, though. it started day one with sean spicer being pushed out, telling something that he knew was a lie, putting pictures up, talking about crowd sizes. then they came out with a lie about 3 million votes stolen. th...

President knew about the president upset with comey. but you know, this isnt the first time this has happened, don. its a pattern here. if you look from the very first full day in office, donald trump is talking about his crowd sizes at the inauguration, compared to barack obamas. sean spicer was sent out there to sort of spin that one. then, you know, we heard about voter fraud. 3 million voters. they were sent out there to spin that one. today we have a commission on that. the wiretapping. oba...

Investigations on every front are sort of heating up. so jeff flake, john mccain, burr, and sasse, so a handful literally of republicans expressed concern over the timing. but i think its really a dire moment where the republicans sort of fall into line behind a president that, at best, is creating crises that his staff cant keep up with to clean up, and, at worst, is lying. >> eli, i mentioned this, that were starting to see the comey part of the story emerge. this is "new york times" tonight. ...

I think everybody sort of is aware of the fact that the investigations on every front are heating up, on the flynn front, the senate intel community. jeff blake, john mccain, burr, and -- those are a handful, literally, of republicans expressing concern with the timing. but i think its really a dire moment where the republicans sorts of fall into line behind a president that, at best, is creating cries that his staffer cant keep up to clean up. >> i mentioned that were starting to see the comey ...

Believe. or the vice president was toeing the line because thats what they were told to do. ive got to believe that the vice president knew about the presidents upset with comey. but you know this isnt the first time this has happened, don. its a pattern here. when you look from the very first full day in office. donald trump was talking about his crowd sizes at the inauguration compared to barack obama. sean spicer was sent out there to sort of spin that one. then, you know, we heard about vote...

More breaking news to report noun "the new york times" is just reporting on a dinner the president had with james comey i want to read a portion of the timess reporting. as they ate the president and mr. comey smaed mall talk about the election and the crowd sizes at rally the president turned the conversation to whether mr. comey would plejt loyalty to him. mr. comey declined to make that claem. he told mr. trump that he would always be honest with him but that he was not quote reliable in the ...