he writes the president, quote, brought up the golden showers things then writes this. the president said the hookers thing is nonsense, that putin told him, quote, we have some of the most beautiful hookers in the world. back now with the panel. gloria, you brought this up as being odd just because as far as we know the president never actually did talk to vladimir putin. >> well, you know, during the campaign, he said he didn't. we know that he got a congratulatory call from putin, et cetera, but the president saying this in february is kind of, it's just kind of interesting because it sounds like it occurred at some point, you know, at some point in the past. and i think that the president went out of his way to ask comey to disprove this. to effectively act as his private investigator and disprove this and comey said to him, you know, it's hard to disprove a negative. if it -- it's hard to disprove