whether about the size of his hands or his height or this morning, again, talking about the salacious details in the tape, and he brought up the president s wife. listen to that part right here, if you can. he said, you know if there is even 1% chance thinks my wife that s true, that s terrible. and i remember thinking, how could you wife think there is a 1% chance you were with prostitutes peeing on each other in moscow. i m a flawed human being, but literally zero chance that my wife would think that was true, so what kind of marriage, what kind of man does your wife think there is only a 99% chance you didn t do that? how do you assess james comey s choice to say that in that way? far be it for me to read into james comey s inner thinking here. he has an interesting line to walk. on the one hand, i think it is
what he lying about? did these things happen? did the allegations you were concerned with making sure that melania believed you about, did any of that happen? so he, unfortunately, another self-inflicted wound by weighing in. while we re talking about the salacious details, what we re hearing in the experiments i read and have seen, i believe james comey s overall take is he has concerns about this president s ability to run based on the consequences that he has set up for telling the truth, for forcing people to be loyal to him as opposed to the truth, and he personally took issue with the president encouraging him to drop the investigation against michael flynn. so there is a lot of angst by comey in writing this, but he has some points that he wanted to get out for sure. you bring up this subject of angst, there is a legitimate question of did james comey, in order to make the point he wants to make about the president s worthiness or fitness for office, does he need to say all th
be the spotlight and not james comey and what kind of an employee he was. all right. asha, i want to get this question to you, a little bit of a left turn here, but we are learning that the president might be about to pardon scooter libby. louis libby, the chief of staff for dick cheney in the bush white house, convicted of perjury, obstructing justice, lying to investigators, having to do with the leaking of the identity of valerie plame, a then cia operative. he may pardon scooter libby today. is there irony in the fact that he will pardon scooter l eer li perhaps shortly on the same day and the same time he s accusing james comey of being a liar and a leaker? it is the ultimate irony, john. the president tweeted that comey is a liar and leaker and leaked classified information. and needs to be prosecuted and that s pretty much what happened with scooter libby. he had interactions with various journalists in which he
anticipation to see exactly what is going to happen today. we may or may not get a ruling from the judge today. that s all still unclear, but certainly we ll get that news to you, we expect this to get under way around 10:30. 10:30, we ll let you get into that courtroom now. what is said out loud in there could be our first best indication of what these searches maybe all mean. thank you. appreciate it. the other major breaking news this morning, this unprecedented battle that is playing out before our eyes over just the last few hours. the dispute between the fired fbi director james comey and the president of the united states. this war is now a dirty war. the fired fbi director james comey is talking for the first time this morning about the unverified, salacious information that was in that dossier that he discussed with then president elect trump back in 2017. the allegation that russian
he really went out of his way to say, you know what, maybe i do believe them. maybe i do believe what? he was asked about the salacious details in the dossier. oh, right, right. and, you know well, john, we re talking about christopher steele who had been a reliable and trustworthy confident and informant for the fbi over some period of time. it is not unreasonable for the director to have concluded there was some degree of reliability for that information. do you think it is reliable? do you believe it? do you think that incident happened? i have no basis for judging other than that which is available in open sources. christopher steele, taken as a whole, is a fairly reliable source of information, whether or not in each and every detail that is accurate, that s not what an intelligent assessment is supposed to represent. all right, we have also learned, and this is separate but related, certainly to all of this, that the white house has been preparing talking points