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Wouldn't be inappropriate if he did. what do you make of that? >> there are two components. hypothetically that president would ever ask the director of fbi for a loyalty pledge is just outrageous. the fb i director, any fbi director, is not loyal to any president. he is loyal to the constitution. to our laws. and any president should know that. but it's clear donald trump, based on what he said on this interview on fox, does not recognize that or didn't say so in that interview. that's significant. but then there's also this he said-he said component. did james comey ask for this -- or did th...

Process. the white house, if they asked, would know about that. >> you know, later on in the interview with andrea mitchell, he talked about some evidence. >> right. >> but it was not evidence that they had high confidence in so maybe he did see a little bit in his investigation but nothing with high confidence,ing into he thought was evidence of collusion. >> yeah. not hard evidence. >> susan, how do they clean this up right now? let this investigation go forward with credibility? >> well, first, they will have to appoint an independent credible fbi director. this will be an incredibly diffic...

That's not to say there wasn't evidence. but not that met that threshold. >> during the white house press briefing, white house says clapper is changing his story. >> it is interesting how the story changed. now suddenly saying i wasn't sure about it. the burden seems to be on him, not us. >> today director clapper also expressed doubts about mr. trump's version after dinner with fired fbi director james comey in january. >> he wanted to have dinner because he wanted to stay on. a dinner was arranged. i think he asked for the dinner. >> clapper says it was trump who invited comey. >> he had be...

To the president. hmm. in the midst of a conversation of whether you remain as fbi director and tell me, mr. director, am i understand investigation? if you take these questions in isolation you might say it's appropriate to ask one of my subordinates if they are loyal. if you put them in combination, you've got to say this is another version of corruption. that's the president sending a signal that unless you do what i want in this investigation you're out and it turns out that's what happened >> what kind of question is that to ask the fbi director, are you loyal to the united states? are yo...

Janine pirro was a d.a. and should have hit him harder. you know there's no loyalty to any one individual person, there's a loyalty to the mission and comey's mission as head of the fbi is to make sure he does investigations without fear or favor and without any political -- allowing any political influence and that's what he's done. everyone who has ever had contact with jim comey said he's a stand-up guy who is attatical as he's come. has he maybe made mistakes in the past? >> yes. can we debate whether or not he's rose to the level of being able to dismiss him? i'm sure we can debate that. ...