times in four months, so so president trump for whatever reason was acting in an inappropriate way. why because he had a bunch of meetings? i m not sure that you can say that. because it s an independent agency and the president is supposed to talk to the attorney general who talks the fbi director serves at the pleasure of the president. these are established procedures to prevent exactly the situation that the support in. again, listen to the president s own words, david. when he tweets and says hillary, i hear you. i hope director comb doesn t talk about our conversations, you know. why would the president himself say these conversations needed to be let s give david the last word. director comey is a tough guy. if he felt there was something wrong he should have spoken up under oath the first time he was asked about this on may 3rd so the question is going to be tomorrow did you perjure yourself on may 3rd or are you perjuring yourself now? that s what i
i ll give you hon est loyalty, whatever that means. which means nothing. and he says that he says that in the document he s basically he says that it probably meant one thing to president trump and a different thing to me. and there are several places in the dock out. which is bizarre. totally bizarre, but there are times in the document where trump asks him to do something, and instead of answering him he says, well, i will refer that to the acting attorney general. instead he tries not to confront trump, but he tries not to agree with him either. at least and, again, it s important to say this is comey s version. right. and there may be and donald trump may have alternative memories of this. they have tapes. and they may have tapes. we can only hope. stay right there. hold that thought. we re going to take a very quick break and come back with our panel the white house is now reacting to what former fbi direct said and that s coming up next and stay with u
not. president trump tweeted he never asked comey to lay off the flynn investigation and now we have comey coming before the committee saying under oath that that did happen, so the fact that we see the president sort of consistently lying about what happened, we see comey saying that a conversation did take place. that to me is more troubling than whether we re going to parse obstruction or not. susan, there was an interesting poll in the washington post this morning that suggested that when it comes to credibility, both president trump and james comey have issues, like when it comes to the public believing what they are going to say tomorrow. it s not just president trump who we know is struggling with approval ratings and such and trustworthiness but also james comey. well, people see both of these individuals through a partisan lens to some degree, but i think president trump hats tougher path here. you saw the quinnipiac poll out today that say 60% of americans say president
comey comey wants we need to get that fact out. i did not tell the president that the fbi and department of justice were reluctant to make statements that we did not have an open case on president trump for a number of reasons, mostly because it is would create a duty to correct should that change. the president went on to say, according to comb de, that if there were some, quote, sat lloyd associates of his who did something wrong it would be good to find that out but that he hadn t done anything wrong and hoped i would find a way to get it out that we weren t investigating him, unquote. in their last conversation, on april 11th, according to comey, the president says, quote, i have been very loyal to you, very loyal. we had that thing, you know. comey writes i did not reply or ask him what he meant by that thing. comey was fired on may 1th. his testimony was released today by the committee at comey s request. i asked the source close to comey why that is. he said, quote, because it s
attorney general jeff sessions on the assumption that sessions would soon be recused. while those details were kept close, comey says the next time he spoke to sessions, quote, i took the opportunity to implore the attorney general to prevent any future direct communication between the president and me, but comey also confirming that just as president trump wrote in his letter firing the fbi director, he had in fact first informed the president-elect on january 6th he wasn t the target of a counterintelligence investigation. it was a point that based on comey s recounting aided trump and dominated much of their interactions after trump asoumd office. trump, stressing the cloud of the russia probe as, quote, interfering with his ability to make deals for the country, comey recounted. trump telling comey at one point we need to get that fact out. and another saying explicitly he hoped i could find a way to get out that he wasn t being