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When you hear jim comey repwoupbt thire pwoupbt count this what stands out to you? >> other intelligence veterans in the room, their accounts. and what youve got is a president and team around the president whose lens for considering these kinds of things is is frankly self. it is the trump brand they are concerned about rather than the larger strategic interest to the united states. is and i might add, the statement that the russians have no impact on the election, that jim clapper, jim comey s...

Comey and clapper and brennan have carried themselves and commented on this the way they have in all the intervening months? >> sure. theres actually another detail of that anecdote that i thought was really interesting. donald trump is asking, immediately says, according to comey, this didnt affect the outcome of the election, right? and i believe it was james clapper who responds, no, were not saying that. we dont know. we havent done that analysis. and then, you know, as the anecdote goes on,...

Call it, new insight into president trumps state of mind on russia. as jonathan lemire mentioned earlier in our hour, comey writes of the meeting where he and the intelligence chiefs, including then director of national intelligence james clapper and then cia director john brennan, first briefed the president and his advisers on russian election interference. quote, what i found telling was what trump and his team didnt ask. they were about to lead a country that had been attacked by a foreign a...

Of comey gave us mueller, what stands out to you reading it as you do as a former fed? >> one aspect of this -- and john touched on it a little bit -- that really jumps out at you is the reaction that the president and his team apparently had to this news that theyre briefed on by comey and by the dni jim clapper. you know, theyre hearing for the first time that the election was influenced by russia, that russia tried to make cyber inroads into our country and essentially attacked us. what you w...

Former fbi director james comeys new book provides, lets call it, new insight into president trumps state of mind on russia. as jonathan lemire mentioned earlier in our hour, comey writes of the meeting where he and the intelligence chiefs, including then director of national intelligence james clapper and then cia director john brennan, first briefed the president and his advisers on russian election interference. quote, what i found telling was what trump and his team didnt ask. they were abou...

Immediately says, according to comey, this didnt affect the outcome of the election, right? and i believe it was james clapper who responds, no, were not saying that. we dont know. we havent done that analysis. and then, you know, as the anecdote goes on, they are immediately still talking about how they want to tell the american public that they didnt benefit from it. i just thought that was very interesting and very telling. i think thats part of the problem. you see that james comey takes iss...

Former fbi director james comeys new book provides, lets call it, new insight into president trumps state of mind on russia. as jonathan lemire mentioned earlier in our hour, comey writes of the meeting where he and the intelligence chiefs, including then director of national intelligence james clapper and then cia director john brennan, first briefed the president and his advisers on russian election interference. quote, what i found telling was what trump and his team didnt ask. they were abou...

Months? >> sure. theres actually another detail of that anecdote that i thought was really interesting. donald trump is asking, immediately says, according to comey, this didnt affect the outcome of the election, right? and i believe it was james clapper who responds, no, were not saying that. we dont know. we havent done that analysis. and then, you know, as the anecdote goes on, they are immediately still talking about how they want to tell the american public that they didnt benefit from it. ...

Evening, remembering the firing of comey gave us mueller, what stands out to you reading it as you do as a former fed? >> one aspect of this -- and john touched on it a little bit -- that really jumps out at you is the reaction that the president and his team apparently had to this news that theyre briefed on by comey and by the dni jim clapper. you know, theyre hearing for the first time that the election was influenced by russia, that russia tried to make cyber inroads into our country and ess...

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