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The investigation back at the fbi, and what was their response? >> i discussed the lifting the cloud and the request with the senior leadership team, who in -- typically, i think in all these circumstances was the deputy director, my chief of staff, the general counsel, the deputy directors chief counsel, and i think in a number of circumstances the number three in the fbi. >> that deputy directors chief counsel is lisa page. voks, trumps efforts to discredit strzok and page came after trump was...

And then went on a great length about how it affected his presidency. so we know that he was constantly thinking about this and also by the way mentioned putting leakers in jail. >> so in fairness to the president or president-elect, who wouldnt be thinking that constantly? if you had done nothing wrong, or the candidate did nothing wrong, to then be under this cloud has got to be, you know, extraordinarily up setting. >> director comey earlier jake asked him about that, unfair? he specifically ...

Channel to protect us, and to protect the white house from any accusations of improper influence. now, don, of course, weve gotten some reaction from capitol hill already tonight. democrats saying that these memos largely corroborate what james comey has already said about loyalty pledges from the president, but were also hearing from republicans who say when he talks about lifting the russia cloud, hes really referring to, meaning the president, is referring to the cloud of salacious allegation...

>> again, with the cloud thats hanging over it, theres a theme here with the president saying, look, legitimacy of my presidency is being questioned, as you mentioned before, please make -- can we make that go away? the story, this false narrative about this russia trip, this golden job dossier, thats can you make that go away? its not true, can you make it go away? can we get that cleared up? thats normal for any individual to want to have it cleared off the table if, in fact, false. if it was ...

Something that didnt happen and sort of said i cant. >> you can read that statement, though, as just the president embellishing -- he also said in other times that he had had, you know, contact with putin and he was clearly embellishing a relationship that wasnt there. so it could have been him just -- >> right. >> -- you know making stuff up to have a conversation. >> lying. >> what he does, he lies all the time. >> we can also understand the president -- >> and reince priebus was in on this co...

Intelligence james clapper. do you agree that these may help the president? >> i dont think if this is everything that theyre going to hurt the president. let me put it that way. i think that theres not a lot of surprises in here because comey has talked about it. written a book about it. its been reported. the memos were leaked to "the new york times" and were reported. so there is a -- you know, theres a question of obstruction. im not a lawyer. you are. youre the one who says that this, you k...

Influence. now, don, of course, weve gotten some reaction from capitol hill already tonight. democrats saying that these memos largely corroborate what james comey has already said about loyalty pledges from the president, but were also hearing from republicans who say when he talks about lifting the russia cloud, hes really referring to, meaning the president, is referring to the cloud of salacious allegations. not trying to do anything improper with lifting the larger russia investigation, don...

And then went on a great length about how it affected his presidency. so we know that he was constantly thinking about this and also by the way mentioned putting leakers in jail. >> so in fairness to the president or president-elect, who wouldnt be thinking that constantly? if you had done nothing wrong, or the candidate did nothing wrong, to then be under this cloud has got to be, you know, extraordinarily upsetting. >> director comey earlier jake asked him about that, unfair? he specifically h...

Did say you were thinking at the time, quote, if i hide this from the american people she will be illegitimate the moment she is elected. didnt that happen except to donald trump? in other words, you didnt disclose -- i understand why you didnt but you didnt disclose the russia investigation to the american people and now people think hes illegitimate and he thinks is a cloud over his presidency. didnt in avoiding possibly of trying to do one thing to hillary clinton you did it to trump? >> i do...

Im not a lawyer. you are. youre the one who says that this, you know, doesnt make the case. what it does make the case about is that this is a white house, a president whens obsessed with this cloud as you point out, rightly so, hanging over his head. they didnt really like flynn very much. the president didnt like flynn very much but then he asked comey to please figure out what he could do to kind of get rid of the investigation which doesnt make that much sense to me. >> lets bring in james c...