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James comey better hope there are no tapes of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press. is leaking the memo the only way to get a special prosecutor? >> i think it was one of the techniques he thought he would have to use. he didn't have confidence at that point in the deputy attorney general who was then the person who seemed to have been responsible for providing the grounds for sacking him. although it turned out later that the president admitted that the cover story was false. i don't think comey saw he had any other root within the normal channels to get a special counsel a...

Special counsel's office. boris and christine? >> thank you, in the wake of the explosive testimony, the lawyers and allies came out aggressively. insisting the president feels completely vindicated and they're going after comey's credibility. cnn has more on the strategy and responses. >> reporter: good morning, boris and christine, president trump was restrained. he did not live tweet the event or respond to reporters' questions later about what he thought about the testimony. but he did make sort of a veiled reference, if you will, a hint, saying we're all under siege, to the evangelicals, ...

Comey told you and your colleagues in the classified section, can you say he gave you more of the detail you were looking for and if it leads you further in one direction or another? >> well, i can say this, there was an opportunity for members to ask questions. and so members ask questions that they had, that they could not ask in the public session. 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...

And especially when you have just one person's word against the other because the exact words that were used mattered. of course you add to that the fact that james comey was fired. that's a pretty unambiguous fact. but the whole point is, obstruction is not an easy case to make. >> to nicole's piece, does mark kasowitz have the hardest job in washington right now defending the president? >> he took his advice yesterday and was not tweeting on it. i think for example this decision, mr. kasowitz is going to file a complaint with attorney general on this. that's an attempt to change the subject....

You mentioned cutter as a result of a conversation we had on the air the other day about a situation between saudi arabia and cutter that you just mentioned and where u.s. troops are stationed. the white house points out today that the president did, in fact, talk about u.s. servicemembers being in cutter in a speech he made in rihad may 21st. he said cutter is a strategic partner. before we go back, nicolle, this could be gracsped as an opportunity to change the subject a little bit. >> yeah, and i think the white house trying to get on track and make things presidential was made easier when ...