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National security matter. he gets on the phone, sitting in his suv as the helicopter is waiting for him. and the president wanted to chitchat. and for comey, who is obsessive about his independence, perhaps too much some people think, maybe too far, he says, why is he doing this? he has asked me for my loyalty. he has asked me to look past the flynn investigation and now he's calling to chitchat. i don't want to be his friend. this is not appropriate. >> right. certainly, willie, has echoes of bill clinton sauntering on to lore yatta lynch's jet and decig it might be a good time to sit and tal...

White house and russia. so, there's also evidence that there was a broader campaign going on here to try and squelch this from going forward by also starting to pressure members on the hill. perhaps it was in coordination. perhaps it was because he couldn't get comey to do what he wanted. >> and we heard, obviously, people on the hill getting phone calls from the white house, saying, hey, you need to go out and echo our line that there's nothing here to the collusion charges. let's talk about the james comey phone call and your story, which we'll get to in one second. let's talked about where ...

General went out and wrote his very, very strong letter. and then on top of that, after the wednesday performance by director comey, you had a person come and have to readjust the record which many people have never seen before because they were misstatements made, and i thought that was something that was terrible. we need a great director of the fbi. i cherish the fbi. it's special, all over the problem, the fbi is special. the fbi has not had that special reputation with what happened in the campaign, what happened with respect to the clinton campaign and even you could say directly or indi...

Comey, had these reports not come out saying that he was pressuring comey to stop the flynn investigation, these new reports saying actually he or the transition team at least knew that comey had taken $530,000 from the turkish government and hadn't register and even so trump insisted on making him the national security adviser. he hasn't listened to a lot of advice so far it's safe to say. but shutting up a reporter is one piece of advice he is willing to listen. to. >> ken vogel, as you survey the developments of the day, how do you rank them in terms of risk to the white house, i would say....

>> i think the shot to the body, this is now considered a criminal investigation, and congress's ability to conduct investigations of all things russia has been severely limited, probably in an appropriate fashion. >> joe, we go back and forth. yesterday rosenstein was celebrated for naming a special counsel and perhaps redeeming himself, but yesterday confirming what donald trump said in the interview to lester holt last week, that the decision to fire comey had already been made and rosenstein was willing to go out and draft a memo to show reason and give cause for that. >> that is incredibl...