that's before the meeting on a phoenix tarmac during the height of the campaign. >> and then the capper, i'm not picking on the attorney general but her meeting with president clinton on the airplane was the capper for me and i then said the department cannot be itself credibly end this. >> pressed by democrats on why he confirmed the investigation of clinton but not a concurrent probe, trump campaign ties to argue. he argued it was a matter of time. on multiple occasions he contradicted president trump on russian interference in the u.s. election expressing high confidence that russia carried out the hacking and that russia preferred trump to win. comey also defended his decision to notify congress on october 28th, days before at the election that the fbi was reopening the investigation into clinton's e-mail practices after the discovery of new e-mails