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Memos. how do you think they played? >> i think they tracked closely with comeys recounting in the interviews and books. you see comeys eye for detail in these contemporaneous memos. that was fascinating for me. they are fascinating. if this were to discredit comey, im not sure that is perceived. the president is charming, aoe rat you can, impulsive and of n often. >> it still casts him in the same negative light. it is baked in at this point in time. everything built in is public information. t...

Through this. mccabe, he talks about mccabe. he talks about the you-know-what showers. russian hookers. he talks about the investigation. he talks about mccabe again. he talks about loyalty. talks about mccabe again. he talks about his accusers. talks about loyalty. talks about not letting flynn go. thats a couple notes. >> a pattern. >> he keeps return to his same old standard lines and standard concerns which would draw people to some sort of conclusion, why is he so worried about this? >> rig...

He talks about mccabe again. he talks about loyalty. talks about mccabe again. he talk s about his accusers. talks about loyalloyalty. talks about not letting flynn go. 3 thats a couple notes. >> a pattern. >> he keeps return to his same old standard lines and standard concerns which would draw people to some sort of conclusion, why is he so worried about this? >> right. like i was saying, you know, he can be all over the place with topics but there is some ca calculation in terms of what he wan...

Spend a couple days in jail, make a new trend and they are ready to talk. now, regarding comeys recounting of the presidents comments about michael flynns judgment, a person close to flynn noted that the comment seemed to be based on flynns delay in returning a phone call from vladimir putin. and you can make the argument there, wolf, that it shows or at least is outside the for a tuf that we have heard -- narrative that we have heard coming to putins defense as it were, or showing himself to be...

Histories of kind of comments in the public record, anyone would think it was comey telling the truth. now we see these confirm that what he said in his senate intelligence committee testimony is what happened in realtime he recorded in these memos. i also think it stands out that not only was the president always obsessed with the more salacious aspects of the dossier, but that he was really obsessed with andrew mccabe from the beginning. he brought it up repeatedly with jim comey in the same s...

Time and what he told other people at the time and they wrote down about those interactions. so that level of consistency, down to the exact phrases from the president, in his recounting them, in his writing them down and in him telling them to other people who also wrote them down, that consistency is powerful when it comes to evidence. it may be hearsay when it comes to these guys being witnesses in any criminal case, but its powerful evidence of credit credibility and good trade craft as law ...

Described it. how do you prove your credibility? you prove your credibility by not ever getting caught in a lie and by doing what you say youre going to do and by accurately describing what you have done. and in the case of these memos, and thats why theyre so important as evidence, we have a ton of consistency between what comey said publically, what he wrote down personally at the time and what he told other people at the time and they wrote down about those interactions. so that level of cons...

The united states. but its possible. >> thats stunning. you cant say for certain that the president of the united states is not compromised by the russians? >> yeah, it is stunning. and i wish i wasnt saying it. but its the truth. >> what did you think of that, david? >> consistent. if youre going to scrutinize the president and comey in this situation, i dont think thats appropriate. first of all, hes almost exuberantly recounting the unproven details of this dossier. it was funded by political...

In his book compared to what is occurring in terms of his recounting of his meeting with the president, meetings with the president earlier last year. its very important that the american people get to hear the whole story. mr. comey is out for revenge, i would say, when he talks about a higher justice. hes really talking about a higher view of himself than i think the american people have but they need to have all the facts and the comey memos certainly play apart of that. these are in the poss...

>> that possibly she was telling everyone if something happens to me its my husband. >> reporter: and it was another woman in stephens life who also swayed the jury. terry schofield recounting what stephen said to her weeks before jodys death, that his stress would soon be over. >> that was something that pushed me towards what we decide ted the the end. >> it was her husband who slipped with that statement. they believe it wasnt just a fall from the cliff, it was a cold-blooded execution. steph...