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Investigation, and -- and comey tells him that he's not under investigation, but what's interesting is that later he will then ask comey -- having asked comey to kill an investigation on flynn, he actually asked comey or brings up the idea of starting another investigation to clear him of anything in the dossier. listen, can we knock this down? can we investigate this and comey made a point and said, listen, if do you that, that will create the impression that you're under investigation which you're not. again, to jeffrey's point, here you have a president going to the -- to one. senior most l...

Thought required some careful reading before hearing it from him directly. also, he thought it the would ensure the commit he time to formulate probing and useful questions, unquote. cnn's phil mattingly has been look at the full statement from director comey, and, phil, these are not the types of conversations one would expect any president to be having with his fbi director. >> reporter: yeah, jake, unorthodox would be an understatement here. unsettled is probably a great way to characterize how jim comey comes across throughout these pages of testimony. seven pages that have dominated just ...

Comey's testimony as potentially clearing president trump personally, then you kind of have to say that you rely on comey's testimony and everything he says is accurate, phil? >> reporter: yeah. that's what they are going with up to this point. we'll see if that changes tomorrow, but as of now that's the statement that they have put out. >> phil mattingly on capitol hill for us, thanks so much. let's talk this over with my panel. we have cnn's jim sciutto, evan perez and senior legal analyst jeffrey toobin. jeffrey, let's go to the nuts and bolts of this. is there any crime in this? if everyth...

>> from the intelligence committee -- >> right. he chided the witnesses for not bringing answers to the committee. republicans in congress may be republicans but they still care about congressional authority and congressional power. republicans for years due wewer chiedichie chieding over too much executive power. >> it is just the frustration you could see with senator burr but senator mccain exerted some of that frustration. show so did senator rubio as well. all right, everybody stand by. we are getting more breaking news in a stunning written testimony released early by senate intelligence...

>> i wonder if clapper is sniffing glue. how could he say that? watergate involved the president of the united states, the top aides inside the white house, the chief of staff, policy director, a whole staff of people, and also the attorney general of the united states plus all the campaign people. it was a huge issue. it involved official government employees. what we're talking about here is allegations, unproven so far a lot of smoke, they say, but no smoking gun. no credible evidence at all that the campaign had not coordination but communication with an ambassador. this is absurd. i don't...