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Time where he was talking both about mueller and increasingly taking aim at jeff sessions. he was very frustrated. he was very angry that this was taking place. there were new reports about mueller's activity and what he was looking into. and that was a moment in time when mueller was, was under the president's watch when the president's former lawyer from new york, mark hasowitz was leading the defense team for the president. he had a much more adversarial approach than the current lawyers do. and i think that may have impacted it. >> was this, i think it was your reporting about, not only wa...

President's watch when the president's former lawyer from new york, mark hasowitz was leading the defense team for the president. he had a much more adversarial approach than the current lawyers do. and i think that may have impacted it. >> was this, i think it was your reporting about, not only was he publicly going after sessions you b but sessions at one point had offered to resign, is that correct? >> caller: that is absolutely correct. >> was that around this time? >> it was, god, i'm sorry, i can't remember. i think that was -- >> that was earlier, i think. >> caller: earlier, i believe....

Of the president is entitled to expect loyalty from those who are serving in the administration, a broader loyalty, of course, the oath that every federal official takes is to the constitution, not to the white house or any individual president. but expect the petition counsel to make the point that loyalty is something that is in part coming with the job. also, this is going to be very notable. expect that mark hasowitz will talk about the fact that james comey himself has acknowledged that he was a leaker and that he surreptitiously, is a word i'm told will be used, made unauthorized disclos...

Private attorney before we hear from him over at the press cl kelly? >> reporter: well, brian, i have some guidance on what mark hasowitz, the president's outside private attorney, is expected to say. he will make a lengthy statement that will cover all the basic points that give the donald trump point of view on this. first and foremost, expect him to talk about the fact that james comey said that the president himself was not under investigation, and that's a point that the president has long wanted to be made public. he will also talk about the fact that in the comey testimony, the presiden...

Comey thought that even doing that might prompt a special counsel, and of course one was later appointed. mr. comey stated that the disclosures to the conversations he had with their dinner. he gives dates involved with that, that mr. comey admitted that he leaked to friends the purported memo. so purported memos, that's an important use of language that they are questioning whether these memos exist, are about privileged conversations. so we didn't see executive privilege invoked by this white house, but the notion that if there were one-on-one meetings with the president and his then-fbi dir...