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But the term honest loyalty had helped end a very awkward conversation. in three years and three months serving as fbi director under president obama, james comey was alone with president obama exactly once. spoke to him exclusively twice. once was in 2015 to discuss policy issues. thats when he was alone with him. the second time he was alone with president obama was very brief and was just to say goodbye to him at the end of 2016. he never -- james comey never spoke to president obama on the t...

Them to you. he says, i felt compelled to document my very first conversation with the president-elect in a memo. this was the meeting before he became president on january 9th. to ensure accuracy, i started typing it on a laptop in an fbi car outside trump tower the moment i walked out of the meeting. creating written records immediately after one-on-one conversations with mr. trump was my practice from that point forward. it had not been my practice in the past. i spoke to president obama twic...

Students. what if we are talking about the trump administration -- >> tucker: they also affect students of every -- hold on. this we are -- we are talking about policies that are federal law and therefore, affect everyone, regardless of what he looks like. they are not inherently racial, okay? >> that is where you are wrong. >> tucker: no, they are not. theres nothing about race and pell grants and theres nothing about race and debt forgiveness. if you are using that line of logic, you are sayin...

Hold on. >> absolutely. okay, we dont have to talk about it. >> tucker: we are talking about policies that are federal law and therefore, they affect everyone. regardless of what he looks like. they are not inherently racial, okay? >> that is where you are wrong. >> tucker: no, they are not. theres nothing about race in pell grants and theres nothing about race in debt forgiveness. if you are using that line of logic, you are saying good if i am opposed to you on policy issues, im a racist or i ...

Students. what if we are talking about the trump administration -- >> tucker: they also affect students of every -- hold on. this we are -- we are talking about policies that are federal law and therefore, affect everyone, regardless of what he looks like. they are not inherently racial, okay? >> that is where you are wrong. >> tucker: no, they are not. theres nothing about race and pell grants and theres nothing about race and debt forgiveness. if you are using that line of logic, you are sayin...

President hired? at least one criminal defense lawyer and maybe in the process of hiring a team, and that his staff is urging the president to let the lawyers vet his tweets. it does sounds like they are going on a war footing on this. michael: i dont know if its a major story. there are several investigation going on. its exhausting reading these news stories. its smart for the administration to put these things aside and have another team that looks at policy issues. chris: what do you think o...

The incoming leaks that the president hired? at least one criminal defense lawyer and maybe in the process of hiring a team, and that his staff is urging the president to let the lawyers vet his tweets. it does sounds like they are going on a war footing on this. michael: i dont know if its a major story. there are several investigation going on. its exhausting reading these news stories. its smart for the administration to put these things aside and have another team that looks at policy issues...

Because james clapper is not given to overstatement. he said, my dashboard warning light was blinking. at some point, what does donald trump have to do about this? you cant just have donald trumps people saying, no biggie, and everyone else saying, this is very unusual. >> this is fundamentally the problem were facing as a country by having the ceo of a family business bringing his family members into government. this is more akin to how saudi arabia, a monarchy operates, which donald trump now ...

President hired? at least one criminal defense lawyer and maybe in the process of hiring a team, and that his staff is urging the president to let the lawyers vet his tweets. it does sounds like they are going on a war footing on this. michael: i dont know if its a major story. there are several investigation going on. its exhausting reading these news stories. its smart for the administration to put these things aside and have another team that looks at policy issues. chris: what do you think o...

These policy and leadership controversies, how big they were. they got twice as much coverage as substantive policy issues. in hillary clintons case, her e-mails got about four times the coverage of what she was saying on all of the issues of the campaign, domestic and international. and she said a lot about the issues. so it wasnt as if she wasnt talking about them, but the press was concerned primarily about her e-mails. >> shifting to president trumps first 100 days, well put another graph on...