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Then he said, i was going to invite your whole family but we'll do it next time. is that a good time? i said, sir, whatever works for you. he said, how about 6:30? i said, whatever works for you, sir. then i hung up and had to call my wife and break a date with her. i was supposed to take her to dinner that night. >> one of the all-time great excuses for breaking a date. >> yeah. in retrospect, i love spending time with my wife and i wish i would have been there that might. >> that's one question i'm not going to follow up on, mr. comey. in that same interview, the president said, in one case ...

Not at that time. on may 18th, she was asked has anything changed? senator feinstein said well no, no, it hasn't. do you have any reason to double statements? >> i don't doubt that senator feinstein was saying what she understood. i don't want to go down that path because i'm not in the government anymore and answering in the negative, i worry leads me deeper and deeper into talking about the investigation and open setting. i'm trying to be fair, i don't want to suggest by my answer something nefarious, but i don't want to get into the business of saying not as to this person or that person. >...

>> i think sean spicer did, as well, once from the podium, separating himself, separating some of these people who are under investigation. i want to give credence to what jason said. i hope that the investigation also does ultimately focus on the larger role that russia's playing, played in our election and playing in the world right now. we saw a situation in the middle east where they fomented a crisis apparently by leaking a false document. and so, this is the world in which we live right now so there is a serious mission for congress here in addition to finding out exactly who and who was...

The president said on may 18th, which is that he never pressured me isn't true. >> and i would say that to continue the boxing metaphor, as you said in the intro, that comey got in the first punch. but i think by putting this down on paper, getting it out 24 hours in advance, it is the first punch that will lead to the second and third and fourth punches that will come in when the committee starts asking questions. and particularly democrats who are going to zero in on particular parts of his testimony to burrow in even further to what happened during all of those meetings that he talked about...

As long as he didn't go ashd ro me, i was sort of willing to take the hit. that's what i'm told comey is going to say. on the big question, on the advice of his lawyers, he's saying less and less. back on may 18th the president of directly asked the big question. >> did you at any time urge former fib dre former director james comey to back down the investigation -- >> no. no. next question. >> not a lot of wiggle room. no. no. next question. if he is allowed to summarize his memos and his answer is yes to that question, we have a problem in town, don't we? >> we have a big problem. the other ...