Democrat wins in ohio, michigan, or give me a name. I like tim ryan in ohio, and i like my mayor out of palm beach out of miami in florida. Nick, katherine, harold, that will do it for hardball. Chris matthews is back here on monday. All in with chris hayes starts right now. Tonight on all in. He wanted to have dinner because he wanted to stay on. Dinner with comey. He mentioned that he had been invited to the white house to have dinner with the president and that he was uneasy with that. New reporting contradicting the president s claims. And tonight, new questions about oval office recordings. Did President Trump record his conversations with former fbi Director Comey . As the president threatens his former fbi director with tapes. Plus, as the Deputy Attorney general reportedly signals no
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we re sitting there talking about weighty subjects of russia and mueller and all this stuff, and then all of a sudden his six-year-old granddaughter comes running in. he turns to us and her and says show them how you can speak chinese. she says hello in chinese, and then he gives her a hug, and then she runs out. and then he says to her, say grandpa, i love you, and she does in chinese. in the juxtaposition in this moment of the weighty subjects and the tenderness of being a grandfather was quite something. fascinating. michael schmidt, thank you very, very much. still ahead on morning joe, on may 11th, former spokesman for the justice department j matt miller tweeted one thing i learned at doj about comey, he leaves a protective paper trail whenever he deems something inappropriate happened. stay tuned. that was six days before the report came out that comey, indeed, had memos.
comey uneasy. it is well known inside the justice department that comey had a penchant for keeping records. e-mails leaked to the new york times in 2009 show comey wrote to then attorney general alberto gonzalez four years earlier arguing that torture tactics were a bad idea and that justice officials would regret being pushed by the george w. bush white house to approve them. last week when president trump suggested there might be tapes of his january 27thth meeting with james comey, the former communications director for obama attorney general eric holder tweeted this. one thing i learned at the doj about comey, he leaves a protective paper trail whenever he dream something inappropriate happened. stay tuned. now lawmakers want to see what comey wrote down. republican and democratic leaders on the senate judiciary committee are formally asking the fbi to provide all memos relating to comey s interactions with his superiors in both the trump and obama administrations. plus, they wan
all white house records that show when comey discussed either the white house investigation or the clinton e-mail server investigation with administration officials or the president himself. the senate intelligence committee is also joining those calls for documents and asking comey to testify publicly. i think we re going to have to take this sequentially. let s see if the memos exist. let s see if they are accurate. let s hear the testimony from former director comey. he deserves to tell his story to the american people. reporter: house oversight chair jason chaffetz tweeted this afternoon that he wants comey to testify next wednesday. the last time comey went before congress earlier this month he was specifically asked about interference from the trump administration. would you tell this committee if there is a lack of cooperation on the part of the white house. i won t commit to that. reporter: now questions are emerging about whether attorney general jeff sessions and de
but i think, you know, it s a combination of the ignorance and arrogance as i see it. all right. john dean, thanks as always for your time. thank you. joining me now, matthew miller, former aide to attorney general eric holder and justice department spokesperson and clint watts. matthew, let me start with you. something you said earlier today. you said one thing i learned at doj about comey, he leaves a protective paper trail whenever he deems something inappropriate happened. stay tuned. what did you mean by that? there was this kind of remarkable incident that started in 2005 when the bush administration was debating whether to approve torture or not, waterboarding and other torture techniques. and jim comey had a meeting with the attorney general and he, along with others, approved those techniques but apparently told the attorney general that he thought it was a bad idea to actually use them and it would end up being embarrassing to the country and the administration. after