thing and may the best man win. >> why would i barely knew the guy, this guy jim comey, why would i say that you need to pledge your allegiance and loyalty. >> that's right. the one thing that puts comey in a better position perhaps than the president is these contemporaneous memoranda. if the president says this kocoy says that and he says i have documentation contemporaneously made to recite what was said, if there's a tie, i think that tips towards comey. >> surely that goes back all the way to why comey made those notes. he's a smart bureaucrat. he's been around this town for a long time and knew that these were going to be important conversations that potentially could go badly for him, jim comey. he wanted to make sure that he