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Analyst paul callan, richard painter, former white house ethics lawyer, and steven cohen with the whistleblower center and author of "the whistleblower's handbook." great to have you legal minds on this evening. so paul, we saw a defiant president today, he's calling comey a liar and saying he's 100% willing to go under oath. surprising that he would say that. where does this leave us legally? is it he said-he said? >> well, it is a he said-he said. however, comey would seem to have the edge because he took contemporaneous notes of his conversation with the president. >> are they a factor? >> ...

That. where does this leave us legally? is it he said-he said? >> well, it is a he said-he said. however, comey would seem to have the edge because he took contemporaneous notes of his conversation with the president. >> are they a factor? >> i think they will be a factor, because when a jury is looking for who's telling the truth, they look for collateral corroboration, and if somebody recorded it moments after leaving the conversation, that gives him a little bit of an edge. who knows, maybe the president was tape recording or keeping notes, too, but he's not known to be much of a note-taker...