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Problem with stephanopoulos. i wouldnt see stephanopoulos as the first beperson to go to on your tour if youre looking to persuade more than democrats. i was a little surprised with some of the other places he went. its hard to come across as anything other than sanctimonious when youre holding yourself out as a paragon of virtue. >> an interesting point. i want to turn to another one of our colleagues because we watched yet again this weekend as the president assailed a reporter over a story th...

View -- a.b. stoddard alluded to this, how comey handled himself. when the book came out, excerpts, comey was viewed as the picture he was trying to paint of somebody who was more loyal to, you know, the country, to honor, to these sort of ideas of decency and comparing himself inevitably to president trump but he ended up on defense over some of the smaller items, the, you know, focus on the presidents hands, for example. >> yeah, the stuff about the presidents hands came across as petty. i hav...

Unverified and salacious, thats his own words, and you dont ask the fbi and all your agents hey, where did this dossier come from? that was a simple question. youre going to brief the congress and the president of the united states and you dont know where it came from? thats not believable. >> its not believable. and yet he vouched for it as part of the application for the fisa warrant. i mean, the guy is going back and forth on everything. the whole idea that it is reliable for the court but it...

Unverified and salacious, thats his own words, and you dont ask the fbi and all your agents hey, where did this dossier come from? that was a simple question. youre going to brief the congress and the president of the united states and you dont know where it came from? thats not believable. >> its not believable. and yet he vouched for it as part of the application for the fisa warrant. i mean, the guy is going back and forth on everything. the whole idea that it is reliable for the court but it...

Unverified and salacious, thats his own words, and you dont ask the fbi and all your agents hey, where did this dossier come from? that was a simple question. youre going to brief the congress and the president of the united states and you dont know where it came from? thats not believable. >> its not believable. and yet he vouched for it as part of the application for the fisa warrant. i mean, the guy is going back and forth on everything. the whole idea that it is reliable for the court but it...

Investigation. and i think thats what you see coming through in some of the interview this week. >> matt miller, always good to have you with us. david ignatius, before we let you go, lets not forget that in the midst of all this this week, major developments in north korea. the fact that the cia director and the nominee to be secretary of state visited with the leader, kim jong-un, that the president has said again this week that he is prepared to meet with kim jong-un. and getting news yesterd...

Start with the stephanopoulos interview and go through. a lot of criticism, lots of obsession about what he did in the 2016 campaign naturally, then there is this focus on trump period which we are now really focused on because of the release of the memo. as we come to the end of comey week one, where does jim comey stand? >> well, look. the goal of this week nor jim comey was to sell books. he had no trouble putting himself in the headlines. im sure thats been very good for book sales. im sure ...

>> its hard to imagine you dont think the nation would be better off if hillary clinton had won. >> i dont think about it in those terms, though jake. we have the current president who was in my view legitimately elected. is he adhering to ours clearly first thing to do is not get numb to it. >> i respect that answer. i do not believe that annals. >> to me its hedging and doesnt want to be a partisan and continue in the theme. trying to have credibility rehabilitation on this particular book tou...

Investigation since he is mentioned in the steele dossier. >> cohens name is in the steele dossier. the fbi is trying to verify whether or not parts of the -- the entire dossier is true or not. is he vulnerable in the russia investigation, michael cohen? >> thats not something i can answer. >> so again, not something he could answer. something he could have ruled f he wantedlauras point of a witness, if this is james comeys case he would never want a witness writing a book and giving dozens of i...

Information over to the columbia law professor. he did give the information in a way thats -- >> for the seven memos jake said -- >> not given those. i draw the distinction to suggest that the nuance is very clear what he thinks mccabe did wrong versus himself and interesting, jake in your interview you talk about the idea of being a witness against mccabe going to that. he could be a witness if it comes to that in an obstruction case against the president of the united states and it didnt silen...