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For his lawyer or whether he's going to really be thinking about the foreign policy challenges that he as the president and commander in chief is responsible for managing. >> to our viewers, our leadoff panel made up entirely of veteran lawyers and pulitzer prize winners has agreed to stick around over a break. coming up, the man lifting rent-free in donald trump's mind right now, and that's james comey. then later, while the phrase mission accomplished crashed and burned for the last republican president, the current president says he meant to use it. also tonight, that sound you might ...

Trump took office and really sees the u.s. alliance with japan as critical in solving the problems with north korea and east asia right now. so he's coming to florida. he's hoping to get some time, some focused time from president trump to help get on the same page really heading into these potential north korea talks. and the question i think we all have is whether president trump is going to have that focus, whether he's going to be distracted by, you know, jim comey's continuing book tour and the legal troubles in new york for his lawyer or whether he's going to really be thinking about the...

Why he did it. >> jennifer, as a veteran of the storied southern district, something comey once ran, if you're mueller looking down your witness list, how big a whale is that name, james comey? >> well, he's a huge witness. he's central to all of this. it's the firing of jim comey that brings you the strongest obstruction of justice charge if that's where this is headed. he tells about the conversation that he had with trump about the personal loyalty and the conversation about laying off of michael flynn. so he's clearly one of the key witnesses here, and that's why mueller is probably holdin...

Challenges that he as the president and commander in chief is responsible for managing. >> to our viewers, our leadoff panel made up entirely of veteran lawyers and pulitzer prize winners has agreed to stick around over a break. coming up, the man lifting rent-free in donald trump's mind right now, and that's james comey. then later, while the phrase mission accomplished crashed and burned for the last republican president, the current president says he meant to use it. also tonight, that sound you might have just heard might have been a bus rolling over the president's u.n. ambassador. ...

Stephanopoulos in this abc interview, do you say to yourself, well, he can't answer that fully? well, he's holding back on that answer. mueller will get to hear his actual answer. is there a lot of that as you watch something like this? >> not that much, brian. i think it's right that there aren't a lot of revelations with respect to the investigation that came out of the stephanopoulos interview. that said, i've read the book cover to cover, and i need to give it some context. jim is an old and dear friend of mine. he was my boss. he was also my colleague. but like all human beings, he's flaw...