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He wants president trump to say they had a good meeting. the content is less important. he wants to establish an idea they see the world in the same way and that he can cooperate with trump. i dont think hell play those kind of games. hell probably be late. he cant help himself, but i think the goal is for them to come out and say they had a good meeting, and the substance wont matter. we wont know about the substance. theres only two people in the room. thats strange. when i was at the white ho...

People who had spent years studying russia, years understanding their adversary. we have two guys involved in business transactions who are trying to get action going on russian soil. >> evelyn farkas, adrian reminds us that the least experienced president in history, who is an obvious ignore a muss about all things will be sitting there with the least experienced secretary of state in history. >> right. and im also worried. i assume theyll have an interpreter there. i dont know whether putin wi...

Director. they dont want a repeat of that. trump does kind of go off the script and putin is really good at working with people. putin this is smaller than we thought it was going to be. i thought it was going to be what i had seen in the past when you have eight, ten people at the table. now it is going to be the two presidents and their foreign ministers and maybe a note taker or two. that gives him more freedom and i think that is dangerous. >> matt makes an excellent point about vladimir p...

Of the probe into russias interference in the 2016 presidential election. adam entous, youre one of the reporters on that breaking story. now you have to tell us. so ive always thought kushner was the one least educated in politics and government, the one givest -- given the widest portfolio by his father-in-law. >> hes having a lot of meetings. theres nobody else in the meetings. you know, theres no note taker. its not through kind of the normal process after his first meeting with kislyak wher...

Analyst paul callan, richard painter, former white house ethics lawyer, and steven cohen with the whistleblower center and author of "the whistleblowers handbook." great to have you legal minds on this evening. so paul, we saw a defiant president today, hes calling comey a liar and saying hes 100% willing to go under oath. surprising that he would say that. where does this leave us legally? is it he said-he said? >> well, it is a he said-he said. however, comey would seem to have the edge becaus...

That. where does this leave us legally? is it he said-he said? >> well, it is a he said-he said. however, comey would seem to have the edge because he took contemporaneous notes of his conversation with the president. >> are they a factor? >> i think they will be a factor, because when a jury is looking for whos telling the truth, they look for collateral corroboration, and if somebody recorded it moments after leaving the conversation, that gives him a little bit of an edge. who knows, maybe th...

Light, but knowing -- jim is, as i say, a true believer in what the function is of a prosecutor and/or investigator and keeping yourself personally out of it as best you possibly can is the advice that were all trained to be, because youre in trouble when you do that. >> so, is james comey the memo man that he has been made out to be? does he incessantly write memos? is he known to be a great notetaker after meetings? >> well, i would say this, i dont know him as such. i know -- in other words, ...

Of the problem facing the white house staff right now is there is a pronounced information asymmetry that will be on display when director comey testifies. director comey is somebody who is a fastidious man, a copious note taker, who will be using those detailed notes to convey to congress and to the american public exactly what he discussed with president trump. its not clear that president trump -- well, i feel confident in saying president trump didnt take any notes from those meetings. its a...

Display when director comey testifies. director comey is somebody who is a fastidious man, a copious note taker, who will be using those detailed notes to convey to congress and to the american public exactly what he discussed with president trump. its not clear that president trump -- well, i feel confident in saying president trump didnt take any notes from those meetings. its also not clear that president trump will discuss in any detail or even be honest with his staff about what he remember...

Certainly shouldnt be saying, by wait, if you could kgo easy n my guy webs this should be great. it is not something happening out of the roefl office. >> does it reach the level of obstruction of just snis. >> look, im not qualified as a lir to answer that question, even though i have a law degrees. i will leave that to the lawyers. i will say this, when you tell the fbi director, to layoff, get out, stop. and when he doesnt, you fire him. common sense suggests, it sounds a whole lot like obstr...