is being investigated, reportedly, by the special couns counsel. so what these memos do is they provide this window into the president's state of mind before he then took that action against james comey, which, of course, was -- it was -- it was followed -- that action was followed by his asking for loyalty from james comey and of course asking him to consider dropping the investigation into michael flynn. >> i want to read from "the new york times, reporting about the memos, and then we'll talk about some of the specific things in the memos. i want to read this first and go to you, ari, and ask what you think about this. you said, mr. comey's decision to brief mr. trump on the dossier was based, at least in part, on the fact that american intelligence agencies had corroborated parts of the steele dossier, according to the memos. comey where this in february of 2017. he said, i explained that the analysts from all three agencies agreed that it, the dossier, was relevant and that portions of the material were corroborated by other intelligence. ari, we have heard donald trump say, and every republican under