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Released his opening statement. tonight we are reading and analyzing every bit. my panel is back with me. and the next portion, jim comey talk abouts a dinner he had with president trump on january 27th, just one week after his inauguration. it was the day the president signed an executive order to temporarily ban refugees from seven muslim-majority countries. it was also the night before the president's long-awaited phone call with russian president vladimir putin. so he says, the president and i had dinner on friday, january 27t:00th, at 6:30 p.m. in the green room at the white house. he had...

He said he thought it made sense for him, and so he did that, and that's as far as i've gotten. >> all right, pete. we're going to give you maybe a minute or two to sift through some more. >> craig? >> go ahead. >> then he does talk about the dinner that was first discussed with -- publicly by the president in his interview with lester holt. he says that the dinner was friday, january 27 at 6:30 in the white house, and here's how he says it came to be. he says the president called him at lunchtime that day and interviewed him to have dinner that night, saying he was going to invite comey's who...

In february, he asked comey to drop the investigation of michael flynn, directly contradicting what the president had said. comey also confirmed, like the president has said, that donald trump was not personally under investigation by the fbi even as comey made clear to the country that trump's campaign and individuals associated with it were under investigation. we're going to go point by point tonight through comey's testimony. joining me are ken dilanian, michael schmidt, joy reid, and dan rather, host of the big interview on access tv. and here's what comey writes about that private dinner...

Lot of democrats i've talked to. >> it may, but we have to wait until we see it. in his released opening testimony comey details five of nine one-on-one meetings and calls with president trump. let's focus on two meetings. january 27th, dinner. the president and i had dinner on friday, january 27th at 6:30 p.m. in the green room at the white house. he had called me at lunchtime that day and invited many e to dinner that night saying he was going to invite my whole family but decided to just have me this time with the whole family coming the next time. it was unclear from the conversation who e...