Into hiring people, into making investments, and that will in turn boost Economic Growth, but you saw a lot of skepticism today, especially in the financial sector. Bank stocks particularly hard hit because people think they wont get that Economic Growth that the president has been and his administration has been talking b. Jake . All right. Cristina alesci for us, thank you so much. President trump spoke to the u. S. Coast Guard Academys graduating class of 2017 earlier today where the commander in chief complained about how unfair the world and especially the media have been to him. No politician in history, and i say this with great assurity, has been treated worse or more unfairly. Let us forget for one moment that the Service Members in the audience about to put their lives on the line protecting our coasts might not actually feel that bad about a politician who has been criticized in some sharply worded editorials. Let us focus instead on why the president is where he is. It is not because of anyone in particular being unfair to him or bad staffing or Poor Communications or an aggressive media. Its because of things the president has said and things the president has done. Case in point. Former fbi director james comey whom the president fired one week ago today, comey wants to tell his story, a source close to him tells me. Comey wants you to hear it in an open, not closed, congressional hearing, and as of now its not clear where wand when that might happen, though the Senate Intelligence committee and the House Oversight committee have invited him to do so. Comey, the source tells me, kept detailed memos, ones he wrote contemporaneously, especial life encounters with President Trump, quote, particularly the ones that made him feel uneasy, the source tells me, that would include a memo comey wrote after a february 14thth motoring in the oval office with President Trump who after saying goodbye to the Vice President and attorney general told comey, quote, i hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting flynn go. He is a good guy. I hope you can let this go, unquote, according to the memo. Thats according to the source who has seen the memo. Thats one day after flynn had resigned for lying to the Vice President after content of the conversations with ambassador kislyak and the president told comby that flynn had not done anything wrong and comey became, according to the source, concerned that the president was trying to stop the investigation. Comey hopes the president s threat that he has recordings of their conversations is true. Comey would love them released. He only wrote the memos to corroborate these uneasy situations with the president , but the source says tapes would be even better. House Speaker Paul Ryan today says Congress Needs the facts but also had a question for director comey. It is obvious there are some people out there who want to harm the president , but we have an obligation to carry out our oversight regardless of which party is in the white house, and im sure were going to go on to hear from mr. Comey about why if this happens as he allegedly describes, why he didnt take action at the time. I asked the source close to comey why did he not take action at the time after the president asked him to let the Flynn Investigation go. The source said, quote, because it wasnt a very successful effort by the president and comey thought he had pushed back on it. Living with this president is about standing up and pushing back. Comey was very sensitive to how difficult it was going to be to work with this president and he also thought he could do it, unquote. At the same coast guard event today, President Trump was given a ceremonial saber and Homeland Security chief john kelly was caught on open mike recommending its best use. Use that on the press, kelly said. I might recommend that anyone be careful when using a saber like that one, especially anyone who has a propensity for selfinflicted wounds. For more on this fast moving story, cnns Jessica Schneider joins me now live. Jessica, it does look as though we all may be hearing from director comey directly in pretty short order. Reporter yeah. You know, lawmakers are clamoring to get james comey on capitol hill to speak public criin an open hearing and if james comey accepts the invitations we could hear from the fired fbi director as soon as next week. Sources tell cnn the former fbi director documented his february 1stth meeting with President Trump detailing the president s plea this way. I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting flynn go. Hes a good guy. I hope you can let this go. The president s alleged request to shut down the investigation of Michael Flynn came just one day after general flynn was fired as National Security adviser, and sources say comey documented several of his interactions with the president , particularly the ones that made comey uneasy. It is well known inside the Justice Department that comey had a penchant for keeping records. Emails leaked to the New York Times in 2009 show comey wrote to then attorney general Alberto Gonzalez four years earlier arguing that torture tactics were a bad idea and that justice officials would regret being pushed by the george w. Bush white house to approve them. Last week when President Trump suggested there might be tapes of his january 27thth meeting with james comey, the former Communications Director for obama attorney general eric holder tweeted this. One thing i learned at the doj about comey, he leaves a protective paper trail whenever he dream something inappropriate happened. Stay tuned. Now lawmakers want to see what comey wrote down. Republican and Democratic Leaders on the Senate Judiciary committee are formally asking the fbi to provide all memos relating to comeys interactions with his superiors in both the trump and obama administrations. Plus, they want white House Counsel done mcgahn to and over all white house records that show when comey discussed either the white house investigation or the clinton email server investigation with Administration Officials or the president himself. The Senate Intelligence committee is also joining those calls for documents and asking comey to testify publicly. I think were going to have to take this sequentially. Lets see if the memos exist. Lets see if they are accurate. Lets hear the testimony from former director comey. He deserves to tell his story to the American People. Reporter House Oversight chair Jason Chaffetz tweeted this afternoon that he wants comey to testify next wednesday. The last time comey went before Congress Earlier this month he was specifically asked about interference from the trump administration. Would you tell this committee if there is a lack of cooperation on the part of the white house. I wont commit to that. Reporter now questions are emerging about whether attorney general Jeff Sessions and deputy ag Rod Rosenstein knew about comeys memos when they recommended firing the fbi director. They will bring senators behind closed doors tomorrow. The president is meeting with four fbi director this afternoon at the white house. On that list, the former democrat turned independent senator from connecticut Joe Lieberman and two other names that havent been mentioned before. Frank keating, the former republican governor of oklahoma, also a former fbi agent and robert mcfeely, a former fbi agent who led the criminal and cyber branch and retired in 2014. The president will also meet today with Andrew Mccabe who is currently acting director of the fbi. And, jake, we do know attorney general Jeff Sessions has in fact spoken with all four of these candidates. Jake . Jessica schneider, thanks you so much. The white house breaking their silence on the reported comey memo for the first time. What did sean spitzer have to say about what comey claims in that memo . Thats next. Im worried i cant find a safe used car. You could start your search at the allnew carfax. Com that might help. Show me the carfax . Now the car you want and the history you need are easy to find. Show me used minivans with no reported accidents. 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Multiple controversies surround President Trump and today the president called out the media and the world as he addressed gradates at the Coast Guard Academy in connecticut and privately hes confronted with a host of reports, the latest that he urged former fbi director james comey to shut down the investigation into mike flynn. Before that claims he shared highly classified information with the russians and of course, the fallout, of course, over abruptly deciding to fire the fbi director while thinking about the fbi probe of his campaign. Cnns jim acosta shows us now how the white house is trying to manage this crisis or these crease ease rather behind the scene. You will find that things are not always fair. Reporter it was not your ordinary commencement speech as President Trump delivered remarks to graduates at the u. S. Coast Guard Academy and it became clear look at the way ive been treated lately, especially by the media. Reporter the speech was all about him. No politician in history, and i say this with great assurity, has been treated worse or more unfairly. You cant let them get you down. You cant let the critics and the nacesters get in the way of your dreams. The people understand what im doing, and thats the most important thing. I didnt get elected to serve of the washington media or special interests. Reporter the defiant remarks to the coast guard graduates hardly sounded like a president lost at sea, more like had a commander in chief gearing up for bat. Consider what Homeland Security secretary john kelly said to the president after he was presented with a ceremonial saber. Use that on the press. Reporter but the real fight with the president is former fbi director james comey, the white house discounting the memo that said he was urged to shut down the investigation into Michael Flynn. The campaign has shifted in his campaign of comey. I took a lot of guts. Really disagreed with him and was not his fan, but ill tell you what. What he did is brought back his reputation. Reporter from praise being his reopening of the Hillary Clinton email probe to his email conversation last week that said the fbi investigation was on his mind when he fired comby. Hes a showboat, grandstander. Reporter the president s son donald jr. Is lending his support on twitter. He retweeted a comment that hoping comey cuts flynn slack is not close to obstruction with one word, truth. If jim wants to be heard, jim will be heard. Reporter new jersey governor appeared to blame the recent woes on the white house staff. Listen, ive been i think ive said a number of times publicly before, that i think the president has been underserved by his staff. Reporter but at this moipt it seems no staff shakeup will quite the calls for a special prosecutor. Clearly where we are now is in my view we need a special prosecutor to conduct an independent investigation to determine whether or not there was collusion. Clearly we need to make the tapes, if there were recordings done at the white house between trump and comey, public. Reporter and some breaking news coming in just at this moment, jake. Were told by white house officials that the president has decided on this upcoming foreign trip where hell be going overseas to saudi arabia, israel, italy and brussels, that hes not going to for now move the u. S. Embassy in israel to jerusalem. That is something that he has been talking about for some time. It was sort of a Campaign Promise that he had made time and again, but for now the white house says he is not going to be ordering the moving of that embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem, but were cautioned by white house officials, senior Administration Officials, but this decision is not a permanent up, but certainly one that will ease tensions as he heads to the middle east later on this week. Jake . Jim acosta at the white house for us, thank you so much. 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Reporter well, i dont really i cant think of any reason to question james comeys honesty. He is his long history of service to our country, a man of high integrity, so i wouldnt question that at all. I mean, i havent agreed with all of the decisions and the handling of the 2016case, but i look forward to reading the memo, and i wouldnt just assume that what im reading is false by any means. So let me ask you a question because thats interesting. The white house is denying it. Weve heard a lot of things from the white house that weve that have turned out not to be true, some contradicted by President Trump himself. Do you have full confidence in President Trump right now . Yes, i do. You know, there are a whole lot of winds that, unfortunately, are not getting talked about. Thereto have been a lot of bills that have rolled back regulations passed by congress, signed by the president with regards to the the syrian air strike, limited air strike targeting, infrastructure,