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>> peter baker i trust you are not a lawyer either. but can you explain to the audience how his tweets hurt his case exactly? >> well among other things you know he uses the phrase politicly correct, watered down version to describe the revised travel ban to use his phrase that he signed when the first got got blocked in court. you know that undercuts him because it tells the judges that in fact that is not any different than what he originally intended. and it allows people willing it to make the case he dressed it up. it's just just a as bad legally therefore you treat it like the first one ...

Politically correct watered down version to describe the revised travel ban to use his phrase that he signed when the first one got blocked in court. and you know, that undercuts him because it tells the judges that in fact this is not any different than what he originally intended and allows people who are challenging it to make the case he just dressed it up. it's just as bad legally and therefore you should treat it like the first one. any lawyer is going the argue will tell you they don't want their clients out there talking freelance because they can create issues like this. while judges ...

Comey can say himself, but the memos are kind of a written document, contemporaneous notes, which are admissible in legal proceedings. and not seeing those, particularly if it's a decision coming from the justice department, that would be tell welco ing, as well. >> richard, now that jim comey is a private citizen, what could he say that he couldn't say before as the head of the fbi. does it actually change things? >> i think he'll be freeing to talk about what happened in his private situations with the president. if he were still in his position as fbi director, i doubt he would be doing tha...

Memos that he wrote. >> obviously, coyle's memos will play a big role in this. i understand they have not been provided to congress yet. and they don't haven't expect to see them before the -- are they actually going to see the memos? is comey going to be able to read from the memos? >> it looks less and less likely. the republican chairman, richard burr, and the ranking democrat, mark warner, were asked about this again today. and they say they asked the acting fbi director, andrew mccabe, about those memos, asked for those memos, and he told them that was a justice department decision, there...

This will be used against him in the supreme court. >> peter baker, i trust you are not a lawyer either, but can you explain to our audience how his tweets hurt his case exactly? >> well, among other things, you know, he uses the phrase politically correct watered down version to describe the revised travel ban to use his phrase that he signed when the first one got blocked in court. and you know, that undercuts him because it tells the judges that in fact this is not any different than what he originally intended and allows people who are challenging it to make the case he just dressed it up....