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That's really all i can say. >> sure, finally, you heard the president's private attorney say this afternoon that the james comey testimony was a vindication of the president? is that how you see it? is that a vindication of the president? >> not at all. not at all. i actually tend to believe comey. and i think all of this could have been avoided. and the tragedy is that the united states government and the people, the 30,000 employees of the fbi lost a good leader over this. and i very much regret that. and i really hope the president does, too. but i'll say this. if the new nominee wants to ...

But he was also trying to have it both ways, at the same time saying that comey confirmed that the president is not a part of this russia investigation. but at the same time, pushing back on the notion that the president insisted that comey sign on as some kind of loyalty pledge. but the white house, the president's legal team really feels like they struck gold with this admission from james comey that he did put together the release of his memos through that columbia professor. and you heard that from the attorney today. he called it a former leaker. >> today, mr. comey admitted that he leake...

Of a special prosecutor. comey defended his decision saying it came only after the president lied about him and the organization he represented. >> the administration then chose to defame me and more importantly the f.b.i. by saying that the organization was in disarray, that it was poorly led, that the workforce had lost confidence in its leader. those were lies, plain and simple. >> one more nugget from yesterday's testimony. you also heard the former f.b.i. director say that the president essentially tried to lean on him to get him to stop the probe into his former national security advisor...

Out, you are the chief justice correspondent, i should say, for yahoo, but that points out a problematic moment from mark kasowitz's statement yesterday. they're saying he did this while he was still the fbi chief, but there are some timeline issues there. walk us through that, michael. >> yeah, the timeline is a bit questionable. kasowitz was trying to undercut comey by saying that when comey said he was responding to the tweet, the tapes tweet, that's what prompts him to call up his -- authorize his friend, the columbia law professor, to leak an excerpt from one of his memos to the "new york...

Although mr. comey testified he only leaked the memos in response to a tweet. the public record reveals that "the new york times" was quoting from those memos the day before the referenced tweet. which belies mr. comey's excuse for this unauthorized disclosure of privileged information and appears to be entirely retaliatory. we will leave it to the appropriate authorities to determine whether these leaks should be investigated, along with all of the others that are being investigated. >> now the president's attorney, mark kasowitz, has been feeling pretty good about comey's testimony for the l...