united states was with prostitutes peeing on each other in moscow in 2013. it s possible, but i don t know. phil rucker? yeah, so, this is an allegation that really the most lewd allegation in that infamous dossier prepared by christopher steele of president trump s visit to moscow in 2013 for the miss universe pageant and an allegation which is unconfirmed that he engaged with prostitutes in a hotel room there. comey writes in his book that president trump was fixated on this from the very first time the two of them met at that briefing at trump tower before the inauguration when comey presented this intelligence to trump, and then trump had called him a week after that to bring it up again. and he brought it up again and again, four times where trump tried to convince comey that it wasn t true. and even asked comey to have the fbi investigate the allegations in order to prove to the public that they weren t true. so, comey paints a portrait of a president really obsessed with thi
he felt it was necessary to have an outside agency prove this to his own wife. and secondarily it tells you something about the way the president thinks these agency works, it s worthy of taxpayer dollars for them to be looking into this to prove it to his own wife. let me read one more thing he writes to put this conversation in better contech. comey writes about the circle of assent. the boss in complete control, the loyalty oath, the us versus them world view, lying about all things large and small, service to some code of loyalty to put the organization above morality and above truth. right. so, james comey at the time thought that the president was trying to set up a system of patronage, in other words, he was trying to set the scenario that comey would be loyal to the president or the president actually went so far as to request comey s loyalty. but this would be a violation of the independence of the judicial system, federal judicial system. but also a violation of the publi
yeah. that s a big part of it. i think comey is playing tough here. one of the things that fascinated me in the book is where he says that by the way, john kelly called me. yeah. and said these are dishonorable people, maybe i should do you want me to quit sort of thing. and that is rolling a hand grenade right into the oval office because that man is chief of staff. probably the most interesting thing douches. what is trump going to say looking at him. the most interesting part of the book the me was comey s allegation, first person on the record, we her this whispered that trump had little curiosity about the russia investigation. i think that s going to matter a lot when the verdict is written on this presidency. that s a damning allegation is that not curious about an insid use attack on american democracy. you have heard from prosecutors before, when they don t ask about the crime you inform somebody that hey your
surprise, moved into a p.r. conversation about how the trump team would position this and what they could say about this. no one, to my recollection, asked, so, what s coming next from the russians? how might we stop it? what s the future look like? it was all, what can we say about what they did and how it affects the election we just had? that was former fbi director james comey. remembering the day he and his fellow intelligence officials briefed president-elect trump on russian interference. in comey s brand-new book he talks about how inappropriate it was to talk spin while there were intel leaders in the room. writing, quote, i should. said something right then. in that moment i convinced myself speaking up would be crazy. i didn t know these people, they didn t know me. we just served up the russians tried to get you elected. should i give them a lecture how to behave with us? when i m about to have a private session with the president-elect to talk about russian hookers, i
some of these early interactions around the contemporaneous memos comey took about the interactions. talk about the intersection of mueller s interest in donald trump and comey s interactions with trump in those moments. if you take a look at the larger sort of arc of trump s time in office and comey, and you sort of look at what these different witnesses like comey and white house officials like don mcgahn have told mueller, there begins to be a narrative of sorts. why is the president so obsessed with loyalty? why does he ask comey for loyalty seven days into office? why does he follow that up on february 14th just a few days later asking him to end the flynn investigation? is there a larger pattern here? how does sessions play into it? the president having don mcgahn lobby sessions not to recuse himself, then after mueller is appointed the president pushing sessions as hard as he can to get sessions to resign. what are these instances about? is this simply the president