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Of square that with his comments in his prepared statement. i think, by the way, a brilliant move on comey's part to post this opening statement today. so, it's a two-day story so we can go through all the details. democrats and republicans will have a chance to really strategic questioning. >> without being cagey, eugene, not wanting the facts to come out but sort of play the game with me about the timing of the release, is it a search for the facts, the search for the truth or to get the facts or is this to win? i guess this is washington, right? >> this is washington, right. >> not wisconsi...

Responded, i can give you honesty, he said that's what i want, honest loyalty. i thought it was kind of comical to the degree of parsing back and forth the words. i do think what this statement has kind of put in a concise way is the level of pressure i think that comey was feeling over that period of weeks. >> that was january 27th, though. that was pretty early, seven days into the presidency. >> if further goes on to other meetings taking place, he expressing his concern of being alone with the president and not wanting to be left there and being pressured, unduly pressured, i think without...

So it's sort of in the middle. it's more than just a mere recitation of his meetings with the president, but it doesn't go beyond to give any commentary about them. and the second thing i think we have to note is that it confirms some things that we had heard earlier about some of these meetings as they were descrid by friends of mr. comey, had heard about them at the time. and it also confirms a claim the president made. remember when the president fired mr. comey, he said in the letter, i want to thank you for three times telling me i wasn't under investigation, and that turns out to be tr...

Intimidate people from looking at much more serious things about his codery of people and himself and russia. that's what we don't know. as the speaker said, that's a long conversation that's really going to begin in ernest tomorrow. >> eugene? >> well, it's interesting. the president's lawyer says the president feels totally vindicated. i'm trying to understand that. since the president denied ever asking about the flynn investigation and comey says, yes, he did, to drop it. so, how is that vindication? i think, you know, this is like comey's eve in a way because tomorrow is the actual testim...