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Underwater for 30 minutes. wow. yeah. not getting in today. terminix. defenders of home. president trump threatens ousted fbi director james comey saying he better hope that there are no tapes of our conversations and a source close to comey says he was asked by the president and declined to pledge his loyalty to the president, the president spoke about this today. >> people suggest that the question that apparently the "new york times" is selling that you asked comey whether or not

National security. those are the things and don't forget about north korea. >> we never forget about north korea. obviously critically important issue. almo as you heard, cnn is reporting comey was taken aback by trum aep request during the course of that one on one dinner, a personal assurance, pledge of loyalty to the president. do you think it is appropriate for a president to ask an fbi director for such a pledge of loyal loyalty. >> you know, again, i wasn't in the room. if somebody were to ask me to give you unbendable loyalty to you, i wouldn't do that. i give loyalty and i make a pledg...

>> will he be there tomorrow? >> yeah. well, he's been there from the beginning. >> what did you think of the president's threat to end these daily press briefings? >> i think it's funny that he thinks the answer is to handled out a prewritten story to reporters. the that's exactly what will they did when they fired comey. they handed it out because they couldn't e-mail it out. it was a disaster. there is no message when you fire the fbi director suddenly 110 days into your presidency and it's because there's an investigation into your ties to russia that is coming close. >> at the least they ...

Sent a letter asking about tapes and you know, and the story is that republican party remains aligned behind donald trump and there is no indication that they are going to send any such subpoena. and donald trump just fired head of the fbi because he was investigating the russia matter. the fbi will be cowed and refuse to investigate aggressively. so it could be done. the question is, will it be done? >> you know, rebecca, the sources have told cnn we have been reporting this that the fired fbi director james comey was uncomfortable during that one on one dinner at the white house with the pre...

Refused. the white house says there was no request so who is right and would such a request be wrong? and not perfectly accurate. the president now says he moves so fast that his press team simply can't keep up saying it's not possible for them to explain his moves with perfect accuracy. he suggests ending the daily press briefings. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." backing news. once again the white house now scrambling to respond to a twitter outburst from president trump. this morning president warned that fired fbi director james connelly, quote, better hope that there ar...