in his book, comey says the he wants to build a relationship but not necessarily to protect the country but maybe to co-opt comey and sort of win him over. then comes their most contested encounter. after a meeting at the white house with attorney general jeff sessions, comey says the president asks everyone to clear the room so he can speak with comey alone. jim comey looks sort of imploringly over his shoulder at the attorney general saying, don t leave me alone with him, please! something terrible is about to happen. he has a premonition. what happens, according to comey, is that trump asks him to back off the investigation of his national security adviser michael flynn, whom he fired a day earlier for lying about his conversations with the russian ambassador. the request raises questions. was trump asking comey to move past the flynn
contested encounter. after a meeting at the white house with attorney general jeff sessions, comey says the president asks everyone to clear the room so he can speak with comey alone. jim comey looks sort of imploringly over his shoulder at the attorney general saying, don t leave me alone with him, please! something terrible is about to happen. he has a premonition. what happens, according to comey, is that trump asks him to back off the investigation of his national security adviser michael flynn, whom he fired a day earlier for lying about his conversations with the russian ambassador. the request raises questions. was trump asking comey to move past the flynn investigation because he was being loyal to flynn or is it because there s something that flynn knows? comey faces a new challenge two weeks later, when the president tweets that president obama had trump s wires tapped
the room so he can speak with comey alone. jim comey looks sort of imploringly over his shoulder at the attorney general saying, don t leave me alone with him, please! something terribl is about to happen. he has a premonition. what happens, according to comey, is that trump asks him to back off the investigation of his national security adviser michael flynn, whom he fired a day earlier for lying about his conversations with the russian ambassador. the request raises questions. was trump asking comey to move past the flynn investigation because he was being loyal to flynn or is it because there s something that flynn knows? comey faces a new challenge two weeks later, when the president tweets that president obama had trump s wires tapped in trump tower. i have no information that supports those tweets and we have looked carefully inside the
him probably harder than savannah guthrie or kelly evans did last night anticipated didn t have a problem. so call it sexist i think which i have been hearing all day, i think is unfair. julia is looking at me imploringly for me to call on her. imploringly, pause i m going to take off my partisan hat and put on my political consultant hat. dana you can agree with me on this, i think. the day you have a rollout and all the stories about process and all the store are about your demeanor and fighting with reporters and not the message you want to put out there, you re losing. he has to change this immediately. he can complain it is unfair. complain the press is out to get him. what about going on megyn kelly? a tough interview to go on. she was very strong with him. yes, but look whatting me.kelly was talking to him about, not about his the part we are playing not about his agenda, not his rollout not about his plans for the country about whether savannah guthrie savannah guthri