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To write it down and i got to write it down in a detailed way. >> that's an important statement you just made. my understanding is then again unlike you are dealing with presidents of either parties in your past experience, in every subsequent meeting or conversation with this president, you created a written record. did you feel you needed to create this written ecord, these memos, because they might need to be relied on at some future date? >> sure. i created records of conversations. i think i did it after each of our nine conversations, if i didn't, i did it for nearly all of them, especi...

As soon as you got into the car. now you've had extensive experience at the department of justice and at the fbi. you've worked under presidents of both parties. what was it about that meeting that led you to determine that you needed to start putting down a written record? >> a combination of things. i think the circumstances, the subject matter, and the person i was interacting with. circumstances, first, i was alone with the president of the united states, or the president-elect, soon to be president. the subject matter i was talking about matters that touch on the fbi's core responsibility...

Encounter with the incoming president. >> what was it about the meeting that led you to determine you needed to start putting down a written record? >> circumstances, subject matter, and the person i was interacting with. circumstances, i was alone with the president of the united states, or president-elect. >> the fired fbi director told the panel that the white house was not straight with him. >> shifting explanations confused me and increasingly concerned me. they confused me because the president and i had had multiple conversations about my job, both before and after he took office. >> th...

And i don't think he will depart from the written record. the written record is the key. those memos are contemporaneous, don't require remembering things that happened a long time ago. they don't have spin. i think the records, written documents will be far more important than oral testimony. >> sounds like you're not expecting any bombshells. the white house has not explicitly said whether trump will use executive privilege to try to block comey's testimony. what would you advise him to do? >> absolutely not. it would be a terrible mistake to do that and it will fail. there is no legitimate ...

Get as close to the election process as possible. >> there are dates on the calendar to interview susan rice who appeared on five sunday talk shows billion the attack gone awry. they crafted the memo instructing rice and others to blame it onnen a obscure internet video instead of a policy failure. >> i haven't seen that but i will get back to you. >> committee members plan to question petraeus about blocked rescue efforts while cia contractors were told to wait and not aid ambassador stevens. fox news has learned the cia has withheld from the community real time message traffic from the night...