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Isolated from anywhere else, far from the west wing, from any of the business offices. just the two of them sitting across a small oval table for dinner. the navy steward came in and served them and then left. they were all alone in this odd spot during which, according to the fbi director, the president asked for his loyalty. tell me what you think about the nature, the abnormality or the normality of such a dinner invitation to an fbi director by a president. >> well, that should never have happened. that's the bottom line. i've served in two presidencies, and none of those presidents would ...

Him in the green room on the state floor of the white house, isolated from anywhere else, far from the west wing, from any of the business offices. just the two of them sitting across a small oval table for dinner. the navy steward came in and served them and then left. they were all alone in this odd spot during which, according to the fbi director, the president asked for his loyalty. tell me what you think about the nature, the abnormality or the normality of such a dinner invitation to an fbi director by a president. >> well, that should never have happened. that's the bottom line. i've se...

27:00th, at 6:30 p.m. in the green room at the white house. he had called me at lunchtime that day and invited me to dinner that night saying he was going to invite my whole family, but decided to have just me this time with the whole family coming the next time. it was unclear from the conversation who else would be at the dinner, i assumed there would be others. it turned out to be just the two of us. seated at a small oval table in the center of the green room. two navy stewards waited on us, only entering to serve food and drinks. the president began by asking me whether i wanted to stay o...

Comey's lack of trust of the president and the justice department apparatus. >> reporter: james comey has laid out in this case leaving a trail of documents and witnesses for investigators. first he wrote memos to himself to detail his private conversations with the president. >> i was honestly concerned that he might lie about the nature of our meeting and so i thought it really important to document. >> reporter: and important to provide details. his written testimony describing his yarn dinner with the president saying they were quote, seated at a small oval table in the center of the green...

Chief could go do his work with the community. you see so much respect for him from the agents and that came through in his testimony. i thought that was the most powerful part when he said, i never got to say good-bye because basically he got fired in front of his agents in l.a. and also when he talked about america, this shining city on the haill. >> what if you had been fbi director and had been invited by the new president to meet with him in one of the state rooms of the white house, one of the ones you visit when you go to visit the white house, the green room. all by yourself, just the ...