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Memorialize the encounter during a car ride back to the office. ethis is all planned out. then, a day later, on january 11 cnn reported this. >> that the intelligence chiefs of the united states, when they briefed president obama thursday and president-elect trump on friday, they believed that the source of the dossier was credible and his sources were credible and they believed that a, the president-elect and the president should know that the russians were claiming they had compromised information on him. >> this is disgraceful. that opened, of course, the media flood gates and a wave of dam...

And keeps focusing on it and this is what comey memorialized in the memo. he was not asking about the russian attack on the electoral system. he was asking about him and michael flynn and the hookers, the hookers in moscow. >> a year from now what do you think we'll be talking about -- cohen or north korea? what was more substantive? >> i think two years from now. >> i think the people will say they got more money in their paychecks. >> they're not feeling that yet. >> the polling shows you know it's the economy, it's immigration. it's not this. >> this is a conversation we'll touch on later. ...

That's why he shared the content of those notes and memos with other senior justice department o'and fbi officials. is that standard operating procedure? is that something you knew him to do other times in his career? >> i know others who have done it. i've done it myself. if you see something you want to remember, and i don't mean necessarily something that troubles you, just something you want to remember, well, then you write it down. because memories fade. so i've done that too. i've come from a meeting, i say you know what, something happened today that's a little bit weird or a little bi...

Only sort of witness that we have is what comey memorialized to himself. >> contemporaneous notes are helpful because they help witnesses to remember stuff, and frankly we want witnesses to remember stuff. there's lots of ways for me to refresh your recollection on something that may have happened to you. one way would be to show you something you wrote at the time. hey, rachel, does this jog your memo memory? you would read and and say yes or no, either it does or doesn't. that kind of stuff is helpful. if the person is a truth teller like james comey, it's even more helpful. >> are the notes...

Catch the attention of people within the u.s. intel community. >> one thing that has been remarkable is president trump remained loyal to him, but he did fire him. after a lot of very hard warning signals and we are hearing that even maintained loyalty tow him. >> we were told at the time that donald trump was the last person on board with the firing. we know from the comey memo that we learned about that the president apparently although he denies this, that comey memorialized in his notes that the president wanted him to shut down the flynn investigation. yes, he remains very loyal to michae...