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He wanted to stay on as the fbi head. i said, i will consider -- well see what happens. >> reporter: a source close to comey dispute that is account saying comey didnt request the dinner and had already been reassured by the president that he would keep his job. during that dinner a source says comey was taken aback when trump asked for a personal pledge of loyalty which comey refused to provide. this as the administration struggles to get the story straight about why the president ultimately de...

Its stories straight about why the president ultimately decided to fire comey. after administration officials initially said it was as the prompting of department of justice officials, now trump says it was his call and says he was thinking about the russia investigation when he made the decision. >> in fact, when i decided to just do it, i said to myself, i said, you know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a made-up story. its an excuse by the democrats for having lost an election, tha...

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Is that what you mean by the acting tough when it comes to north korea that he is sending a message? >> no. no, no, actually. >> you mean just the language? what he has sort of said about this is going to be -- its a problem and were going to fix it? >> yes. when youre conducting foreign policy in middle of the night tweets, thats immature. prompting over twitter or the air waves is also immature. the goal is for the united states not to engage in seitsel in a hot war. not for president trum top...

Its false. i think whats interesting is, i want to -- you know, actually endorse emotion for a second. because i -- you know, as a writer, ill tell you, if you write about 50 million people who are displaced right now, no one cares. if you individualate the victim, u arouse emotions and thats a way ofetng people to care. the problem is not that donald trump had emotions or acted with some prompting from them. the problem is thats all he seemed to have in this situation. >> right. >> emotions are...

Campaign officials who were part of his electronic surveillance collection. this occurred for up to a year leading to the inauguration and devon nunez well aware of rices involvement but when asked about it, rice said she knew nothing about it. >> i know nothing about this. i was surprised to see reports from chairman nunez today. i dont know to what he was referring but he said whatever he was referring to was legal, lawful surveillance and was potentially incidental collection. >> reporter: wh...

Hes president of the united states, talk on the whats on the table right now, is this possible conclusion with the russians in the past election, what do you think hes up to. >> well, president is known based on my reporting to be very responsive to what he sees on television, actively tweeting often without consulting his top advisers, so hes watching this, seeking, sometimes i narratives that are not backed up by evidence. we saw that with the wiretap tweets a few weeks ago that led the white ...

Doubling down on a tweet in support of a far right politician sque drawing fire from capitol hill colleagues. also former congressman jack kingston, a senior advisor to the trump campaign. so good to have all of you on gp evening lady and gentleman. republican congressman steve king prompting that controversy about the far right dutch candidate. he said welders understands culture and demographics are our destiny. we cant restore our civilization with somebody elses babies. >> i said to them you...

We are one week away from the start of spring but today millions in the northeast are bracing for a likely blizzard, the biggest storm of the season is expected to hit the east coast by midnight tonight. part of the storm has already landed in the midwest, prompting hundreds of flight cancellations today. this storm will join a storm system in the south to form a noreaster thats expected to strike all along the east coast from washington, d.c. to maine. bill karins is here. you know im a weather...

Unfilled, press briefings just started this week. and tillerson has resisted bringing a press corps with him on trips. enthe extremely important visit days from now to china, south korea and japan. prompting ed markey to call on tillerson to allow better access, saying he is sending a dangerous signal to other countries about the u.s. commitment to a vibrant media. the decision exclude reporters from your trip falls in to a breerd patteoader patte efforts from the trump administration to undermi...