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Kushner and manafort. >> this is a rare case, but again, if you're starting there you're aiming as a prosecutor, your sights high, and it's not like bagging someone. you only want to the bring a case if there's evidence, but you know, we have these weird conversations between trump and his men asking for loyalty, threatening to fire mueller. it's like he's afraid about being investigated and that always raises a prosecutor's suspicions. >> is that really, paul, from the comey dinner and the president asking comey to back off flynn. you know, kind of look the other way on this. is that more of ...

Hurts the president to make these veiled threats in this respect. remember, comey testified that the president made these same veiled threats to him, the loyalty test, the back off flynn with the hope thing, comey said i heard all these things as threats. now you see the president doing the same thing, using the same sort of language with respect to mueller. and i think essentially bolsters comey's claim as to the tone and import of what the president was saying to him. so in the end if there's a credibility contest between the president and comey with respect to whether or not there was an ob...

>> i was honestly concerned he may lie about the nature of our meeting and thought it would be really important to document. >> with a flair for the dramatic that he is known for, james comey tried to describe the fateful february 14th moment with the president, when the president kicked everybody out, and had a conversation with comey. >> my impression was i needed to document every word spoken, my sense is the attorney general felt he shouldn't leave, i knew something was about to happen that i needed to pay very close attention to. >> and although comey testified that the president did not ...

To defame me and more importantly, the fbi. by saying that the organization was in disarray, that it was poorly led, that the work force had lost confidence in its leader. those were lies, plain and simple. >> using the l hch word more than once. >> i was honest lip concerned he might lie about the nature of our meeting, so i thought it really porch to document. >> the flare for the dramatic that he is known for james comey described that february 14th moment in the oval office when the president kicked everybody out but comey and asked him to lay off the investigation of his former national s...

Smoke every time and we don't know what's behind it. we don't know why the president's been trying so hard to stop these russia investigation, to take the heat off flynn. we don't know exactly what flynn's motives were in these meetings. then you have, you know, an attack dog, bob mueller who's investigating this. i think there's broad confidence that he will get to the bottom of it. >> i just want to say jared kushner attorney jamie gorelick says he's eager to tell his story. however, there's a republican controlled congress. i would assume a senior adviser to the republican president f. he w...