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What the headline is. i want to ask more about the president being represented in court today, but we think we have the sound of michael avenatti. you said he was in the courtroom and he spoke outside. lets listen to that first. >> well, my clients documents are some of the documents that were seized in connection with the search warrants, number one. and number two, were here to ensure that this process is as public and as open as possible. justice louis brandeis said some light is the best dis...

Office of the president, as an individual of integrity, this president does not have the right to shine jim comeys shoes. >> jim heims, congressman, thank you for coming in. >> thank you, kate. moments ago, ambassador nikki haley blasted russia at a u.n. security council meeting, accusing russia of not living up to its commitment to prevent the assad regime from using chemical weapons. you will want to hear what she says. you really will. thats coming up next. im not a bigwig. or a c-anything-...

Yet. lets discuss. the president thinks comey should be prosecuted. kellyanne conway says of the book that comey comes across as a disgruntled employee. do you see that? >> kate what youre seeing here is youre seeing a classic washington story, where when the facts are ugly, you attack the character and personality of the person who is -- who is pushing those facts. kate, i was at the department of justice one hour ago. jim comey is a legend there. hes a legend within the fbi. special agents all...

What president trump said on twitter. like this, james comey is a proven leak and liar. ill read the whole thing. virtually everyone in washington thought he should be fired for the terrible job he did until he was in fact fired. he leaked classified information, for which he should be prosecuted. he lied to congress under oath. he is a weak and untruthful slime ball who was, as time has proven, a terrible director of the fbi. his handling of the crooked hillary clinton case and the events surro...

That -- they havent filed anything, right? >> this case is also being handled in the same way. no application that has gone to the justice department, but it appears according to sources we have talked to our team at the white house that they have been discussing this with people at the trump white house for the better part of a year. so it is unusual way to do this. >> so stand by to stand by on this one. gentlemen, thanks. great to see you. thank you. the battle between the president and jam...

All. shimon has the details. shimon, there was very little known about this going in. what has happened? >> reporter: a lot has happened since. word is that the president, donald trump and his lawyers are trying to intervene in this action, trying to prevent the government from seeing any of the potentially privileged material that the fbi may have obtained in the search warrant. it was a new attorney just brought into the case. she said she had been hired on wednesday. she has not filed any doc...

Meddling that his own intelligence services say is going on right now in terms of the 2018 elections. we know this is not -- he never sort of came out and made this a policy priority to defeat this attack on american democracy. it has always been co-mingled with this clear concern on the presidents part that this entire story line calls into question the legitimacy of his holding the presidency, being in that office. and hes never been able to decouple the two and it seems from the telling of ji...

Interviews and, you know, it is one of those things, does it undercut what hes trying to accomplish? maybe there is multiple motivations for what hes trying to accomplish with this book. great to see you. thank you so much. a lot more to digest as we read more of this book. tune in, next week, james comey is going to be sitting down with cnns jake tapper, thursday afternoon, 4:00 p.m. eastern, of course. were following more of breaking news. the presidents personal attorney michael cohen takin...

Lawyers, judges, were very concerned by comeys breaking of protocol and publicly discussing the hillary clinton, remember it was the hillary clinton investigation that he discussed while there was an investigation of donald trump. so, we should have a conversation and i think jim comey is reflective of whether he made the right thing. the idea this man is dishonest, and, remember this is all part and parcel of the attempt that the white house is making to besmirch robert mueller, a decorated war...

Intention was that you all were going to be investigating the russia investigation. you know more about the russia investigation than a lot of folks, of course. does anything that has come out, what youve seen in the book, what youve heard james comey say, does anything that has come out surprise you? >> let me tell you this, kate, i just -- as i mentioned, i got back from the department of justice, and i reviewed the affidavits that -- the application for the surveillance warrants that were in ...