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Welcome back. we're covering this breaking news out of the white house. the president's problems will probably follow him on his overseas trip. let's dive right in with my panel. guys, as you know, the "new york times" is reporting that president trump according to this white house document told russian officials in the oval office about ten days ago that fbi director james comby is a nut job and that firing him eased pressure over the russia probe. and -- and sean spicer in his statement clearly did not deny it. in fact, kind of tried to explain where the pressure came from. it seems like thi...

Russians. there was a strategy there. do you buy in a >> absolutely not. the russians aren't exactly known for showing mercy and i doubt that that's the best strategy and maybe other people who have worked in this field can attest to that. i think this is just an excuse made up after the fact because, again, this administration is really coming apart at the seams, and they really had no excuse for the president really running his mouth in such a manner. >> do you believe the congress will get the transcripts of that conversation that the president had with the russian diplomats in the oval off...

Here and following on the i've done this to relieve myself of the pressure. so one of the guests said the leakers are obstructing the presidency, and i might say maybe, and we should look at that. i don't have a problem with looking at leakers, but i think the president is the obstructing his own presidency and perhaps putting himself in obstruction of justice territory with his behavior. >> you used the key word and that is intent, right, garrett? this is intent. getting inside the president's mind around the firing of james comby. >> yeah, and the other thing you have to be careful of is you...

Anything like that. >> that's not how the president described him. >> i'm just sighing the people that worked with him inside and out. with all of this, i would have done this, on the first day, if i was elected president thanked him for his service and moved on. that was what was best for the country. >> it's now james comby's word versus the president's word. whose word do you trust more at this moment. >> you always -- your president is you're president, you always want to give the president the benefit of the doubt. you always giver that president the benefit of the doubt. but if the facts...

About what he believed trump was asking him to do. two, in order to believe the white house's argument here you have to believe james comby is lying or that the memos that were red to michael schmidt at the "new york times" were misread in some way out of context, three, if james comey was lying and are h a vendetta against donald trump, he would have released this stuff or leaked it out shortly thereafter, he wouldn't wait in order to prereceiver the sanctity of the investigation into russia. it doesn't strich me that james comey had a vendetta against donald trump and would purposefully misi...