And now congress has leaked them. Here they are. 15 pages of memos covering everything from leakers to hookers. Comey describing the conversations as chaotic and trying to piece them together like a jigsaw puzzle. Mike flynn, the eventually fired National Security adviser at one point shortly after the inauguration comey says trump criticized flynn saying the president pointed his finger at his head and said the guy has serious judgment issues. The home moes describe not only the getting frustrated that flynn did not return a certain phone call fast enough. They say the phone call was to none other than Vladimir Putin. The homemos became public as you sat down. Given the nature of the person as i understood the president elect, he might not tell the truth if it became an issue. I needed a written record. The president , youve testified to congress and write about in the book told you to lay off in the investigation to flynn. Its been reported that President Trump did more than just ask you himself. Did anybody at any time other than the president ever ask you to back off the Flynn Investigation . No. In february, 2017, comey also details how the president dismissed unverified allegations about prostitutes in moscow. He said Vladimir Putin told him we have some of the most beautiful hookers in the world. The president was conveying this to you in the white house . In the oval office. He told you he had a personal conversation with president putin about hookers . Yes. Did you believe him or did you think he was speaking hieber bollicly . Didnt seem to be hyperbole. He describes a conversation with Reince Priebus in 2017 writing that priebus asked comey if this was a private conversation. Comey replied it was and priebus asked if comey would answer do you have a wiretap on mike flynn. You did give an answer . Yes. And told him the way it should work is you should go to the ask the jus mitice department. Youre teaching the white house chief of staff how its supposed to happen when the relationship between the Justice Department and the white house is properly handled . Trying to. Did he learn . I dont know. Some indication he didnt because at the end of this after i explained the importance of regular communication, he took me to see the president on the way out, even though i said im fine. I dont need to see him. That at least was some indication he wasnt getting it. As for the russia investigation, the president s legal team is expanding. Once known as americas mayor, Rudy Giuliani is now President Trumps newest lawyer. During the campaign Rudy Giuliani served as one of candidate trumps most combatic surrogates. I am sick and tired of the defamation of donald trump by the media and by the clinton campaign. I am sick and tired of it. This is a good man. You obviously worked for Rudy Giuliani when he was u. S. Attorney in manhattan and you later got his job. He said hes going to negotiate an end to the Mueller Investigation and hes told reporters tonight he expects he will be able to negotiate that end. Hell end the Mueller Investigation in about two weeks. I saw that in the media. Struck me as interesting. I dont know what his vision would be for that. I dont know how it will be coming into the new legal team and working with the president given the strength of Rudy Giulianis personality and the president s. Newly released memos written by james comey hold these cryptic lines. Quote, apparently as the president was toasting tree ma say he was explaining that she had been the first to call him after his inauguration. And Michael Flynn interrupted to see that redacted had called first. Apparently. It was then that the president learned of redacted call and confronted flynn about it. Well, the call was from russian president Vladimir Putin according to associated prez and the wall street journal. The president took to twitter this morning defending his fired adviser saying this. So general Michael Flynns life can be destroyed while shady james comey can leak and lie. Is that really the way life in america is supposed to work . I dont think so. So who totally destroyed mike flynns life . Lets look at this. Flynn found himself in hot water early into his time with the Trump Administration for contact he had with this guy, kislyak. Trump himself eventually fired flynn for lying to Vice President mike flynn about this interaction mike pence, im sorry, for this interaction. But it was other connections to the russian government that seemed to have started his legal issues. Flynn was paid by Russian Companies including the rt news channel for speeches he gave in 2015 while in moscow. He reportedly lied about the source of the payments when applied to renew his security clearance form and that is a felony. As the special counsel investigation ramped up, flynns work for the turkish government came under a microscope. It was discovered he wrote an op ed criticizing a turkish opposition krcritic, a cleric living in exile in pennsylvania without filing the proper Foreign Agent paperwork. Flynn was also accused of being part of a plot to kidnap the cleric and return him to turkey in exchange for 15 million. Thats still being investigated. About a month after the news of that plot broke, flynn entered a guilty plea in the special counsels investigation. Despite the other allegations against him, prosecuters allowed him to plead guilty to one count of lying to fbi agents about the conversation with the russian ambassador. Its still a serious charge it carries a prison time and fines. Flynn became a cooperating witness for Robert Muellers investigation and hes not the only one. The mueller team has now assembled a roster of Trump Associates who are cooperating with the investigation besides flynn. They include Trump Campaign adviser trump papadopoulos, Campaign Aide rick gates who worked with Paul Manafort and george nader, a man with connections to the rulers of the arab emirates. This is the complexity of this story. Joining me now is our justice correspondent, pete williams, and special prosecuter jill wine j winebanks. Pete, the reporting from the wall street journal that the redacted in jim comeys memos is Vladimir Putin, that Vladimir Putin allegedly called donald trump first after his election. What do we snow. Well, what the memo is saying is that this is the something that came up during jim comeys dinner at the white house. The one on one dinner with the president on january 28th. And toward the end of the memo he says the president said that he had some concerns about mike flynns judgment. Reservations about flynns judgment and he used this story to illustrate it. He said he was this was a lunch, apparently, with the british prime minister, theresa may, and that he raised a glass to toast her and said you were the first to call me after my inauguration and congratulate me. According to the memo the president said flynn interrupted him at that point and said no, no, it was redacted. Thats the black box you showed in the brackets, redacted. And apparently thats putin. So filling in the blanks here, flynn interrupted to say putin had called first, apparently. It was then the president learned of the putin call and confronted flynn about it. And basically said, look, telling me six days after somebody calls so i can call them back isnt the right thing to do. According to the memo, the president pointed fingers at his head and said the guy has serious judgment issues. And, of course, it was a short time after that that flynn was fired. Jill, lets just remind viewers of how donald trump portrayed himself during the campaign. We will be a country of generosity and warmth. But we will also be a country of law and order. There can be no prosperity without law and order. I will restore law and order to our country. I am the law and order candidate. This went on many, many times, but then he as late as this morning puts out a tweet stumping for Michael Flynn, basically, who he said he fired for lying to the Vice President. A guy who we know now was not really all that much of a law and order guy. It seems to be a lot of disdense between what trump says about himself and what he does. He has pardoned arpio and Scooter Libby with messages to others you dont have to cooperate with law and order. Flynn, clearly he didnt act on the information he had from president obama and others that flynn was not to be trusted. He should never have hired flynn, and he should have fired him immediately upon getting the information from sally yates about what he had done, because he lied to the fbi as well as to the Vice President , and it was known that he could be compromised by the russians and yet, for 18 days President Trump kept flynn on board. Why did he do that . I dont know. Except it does seem leek it has like it has something to do with his unusual relationship with putin. Pete, there was more stuff from the memos about trump versus comey as it related to Michael Flynn. The big point for the memos are details of interaction between Reince Priebus and james comey as it related to questions about whether comey was investigating Michael Flynn at the time. Right. This was a february 8th meeting at the white house where he says Reince Priebus said do you have an order on mike flynn. According to the memo, comey paused, gave him an answer, but as he said in his interview last night with rachel maddow, he wanted to use it as sort of a teachable moment to say ill answer your question now, by the way, the memo does not say what the answer was. He said in the future if you want to know this sort of stuff, heres how you do it. Go through the Justice Departme department. Jill, the president apparently mentioned the dossier many times, steele dossier in having a conversation with jim comey. What if anything should we read into that . He was obviously concerned about it. I think weve now seen that there are is possible corroboration of the memo, the dossier. We have some information that possibly mueller has proof that cohen was in prague as the dossier says. So far nothing in the dossier has been disproved, so we can assume that there is some credibility to it, and it makes some pretty serious allegations about collusion. And although we hear the president in capital letters screaming no collusion, that does not make it true. And the investigation isnt finished yet. So we dont know what the evidence is. He may be correct that there isnt, but so far there is plenty of evidence that suggests that there is collusion. That they worked together with the russians, collusion not being the crime but conspiracy, working with the russians being the actual crime. Pete williams, jill, thank you for joining me. President trumps new personal attorney is a long time friend, Rudy Giuliani. Well dig into why trump picked him and why Rudy Giuliani says hes taking the job. And students around the country taking part in the National School walkout to mark the 19th anniversary of the Columbine High School massacre. I accept i dont bike the miles i used to. I even accept i have a higher risk of stroke due to afib, a type of irregular heartbeat not caused by a heart valve problem. 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Hes been my friend for a long time. He wants to get this matter quickly resolved for the good of the country. Beside being friends, what does the president want Rudy Giuliani his legal team for . Rudy giuliani spent nearly six years as the u. S. Attorney for the Southern District of new york. The same office that rated trumps personal raided trumps personal Lawyer Office and hotel room last week. During his time in the office he prosecutered the mob, wall street bankers, government officials and drug crime in new york city on a federal level and supervised among others, james comey. Giving him the take no prisoners litigation background and personal connections with the president that the president wants. Now, after resigning his post as u. S. Attorney, giuliani was eventually elected mayor of new york city. During his administration, he took a very tough stance on crime and drug use endorsing the broken windows theory that increased Police Activities like stop and frisk. Supporters credit the citys low crime rate to Rudy Giulianis tactics, but others say his policies unfairly targeted minority communities. With the law and order brand and eight years as mayor, he became a new york icon and later a National Icon in the wake of the attack on the world trade center. During the campaign, Rudy Giuliani was a vocal supporter of candidate trump. Taking to the campaign trail, and during that time, perhaps the most appealing trait now is in the days before the election, Rudy Giuliani claimed to have contacts within the fbi leading to interviews like this. Youre going to hear about in the next few days. I mean, im talking about some pretty big surprises. I heard you say that this morning. What do you mean . Youll see. Stay tuned. Well, just two days later then fbi director james comey announced the bureau resumed the investigation into Hillary Clintons use of a private email server. The kind of news that may have helped lift the candidacy in the fading days of the campaign. Joining me now is our legal analyst and formNick Ackerman. He served as an assistant u. S. Attorney for the Southern District of new york overlapping with Rudy Giuliani for a time. Nick, good to see you. Good to see you. I laid out why Rudy Giuliani. The problem with Rudy Giuliani is that hes mercurial and temperamental. The president has picked as much of a fight as you can pick with james comey. Im not sure anybody who lives in new york or knows Rudy Giuliani or was here after and since he was mayor thinks hes the kind of guy you bring in to bring things to an end. If the fight is in full force, maybe you want Rudy Giuliani there because he comes in with two machine guns. I agree. He is not the guy who is going to be brokering a good deal. Hes not the kind of person youd want to do that. On the other hand, he is the only person on that team of lawyers that even has any kind of experience dealing with the u. S. Department of justice on criminal matters, in white collar crime. Hes bringing two other people who are former assistants with him that were, i believe, assistants in some u. S. Attorneys office. So who knows the Southern District of new york well and the judges and the prosecuters. At the end of the day, t not going to make a difference. The reason is because the primary lawyer who is