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Comey describes he had with president trump. the president said, i need loyalty. i expect loyalty. i didn't move, speak or change my facial expression in any way during awkward silence that followed. we simply looked at each other in silence. if a president were to say to you, jill, when you were serving in the government, i need loyalty, i need to you pledge loyalty, what would you say? >> that's not what he is asking. he is asking, will you do what i want you to do. remember the context. we have in what comey revealed today a conversation where the president says, basically you got stay in y...

Of the flynn investigation. >> i want to find out if there was a problem with an election having to do with russia. >> saying he understood it to be talking about the flynn inquiry, not the broader investigation. comey confirmed the story that the president asked for his loyalty. the president denied asking the loyalty question. comey's language almost perfectly matches some of the linked stories. >> bret: thank let's get reaction to comey's prepared testimony. and a look ahead, a look back at today's hearings. james lankford is a member of the senate intelligence committee. he joins us. senat...

Donald trump and then fbi director james comey. mr. trump had been sworn in seven days earlier and on that night a source says the president asked comey to pledge his loyalty to him. >> i think he asked for the dinner. he wanted to stay on as fbi head. and i said, you know, i'll consider. we'll see what happens. >> wow. a full house. >> reporter: the white house pushed back on the loyalty question. >> in the din that's right president had with james comey earlier in january, did the president implore him to pledge his loyalty to the president? is that true? >> no. >> did that happen? >> report...

When he spoke to nbc last month. >> i think he asked for the dinner. he wanted to stay on as the fbi head and i said i'll consider it. we'll see what happens. >> reporter: the white house pushed back on the loyalty question. >> the dinner that the president had with james comey earlier in january, did the president implore him to pledge loyalty to the president? is that true? >> no. >> reporter: the president says comey also told him at dinner that he was not under investigation. and that comey repeated it again twice later. >> that time he told me you are not under investigation. and during t...

What happened inside that dinner. as they ate the president and mr. comey made small talk about the election and crowd sizes at mr. trump's rallies. the president turned the question to whether mr. comey would pledge his loyalty to him. pledge his loyalty. donald trump is saying he never said that. how confident are you in your sources that they're the ones telling the more truthful version of this story, donald trump asked for loyalty, donald trump, not james comey, asked to have this dinner? >> well the folks that i spoke to, mr. comey's associates said mr. comey had told them about this at ...