the president and his advisers is in question as the white house becomes increasingly consumed by chaos in a crisis of leadership. the president is isolated and agitated, associates tell cnn. he finished a full week barely scene at the white house before making this brief afternoon appearance with the first lady. hi, what a friendly beautiful group. but his views have been heard in a roaring twitter storm. he acknowledged conflicting explanations in the time line of comey s spiralling. as a very active president with lots of things happening, it is not possible for my surrogates to stand at the podium with perfect accuracy. he went on to say maybe the best thing do would be to cancel all future press briefings and hand out written responses for the sake of accuracy. today at least that didn t happen. wow. a full house today. the white house press second was back at the podium under siege after a perilous leak for the administration. time and time again in an attempt to pa
justice prosecutors working on this. that is just a separate part of the government so the fact that he is unaware of collusion did not tell you it doesn t conclude the question of whether there is any evidence of collusion that exists somewhere in a government investigation. clapper says that he didn t even know that the fbi launched the investigation as far back as july, only learn bed that when comey made it public in the statement. everybody stand by. up next, another threat by the president. will he cancel all future daily white house press briefings. stay with us.
wouldn t be inappropriate if he did. what do you make of that? there are two components. hypothetically that president would ever ask the director of fbi for a loyalty pledge is just outrageous. the fb i director, any fbi director, is not loyal to any president. he is loyal to the constitution. to our laws. and any president should know that. but it s clear donald trump, based on what he said on this interview on fox, does not recognize that or didn t say so in that interview. that s significant. but then there s also this he said-he said component. did james comey ask for this or did the president ask james comey for his loyalty? the president has a credibility problem right now. we re told as journalists to always consider the source. the president has fallen short of the truth in the past. lied outright. so if we re asking to choose between james comey s version of events or the president s, the
that s not to say there wasn t evidence. but not that met that threshold. during the white house press briefing, white house says clapper is changing his story. it is interesting how the story changed. now suddenly saying i wasn t sure about it. the burden seems to be on him, not us. today director clapper also expressed doubts about mr. trump s version after dinner with fired fbi director james comey in january. he wanted to have dinner because he wanted to stay on. a dinner was arranged. i think he asked for the dinner. clapper says it was trump who invited comey. he had been invited to the white house to have dinner with the president. and the former fbi chief was uncomfortable with the invitation. you re in a difficult position to refuse to go but i do know he was uneasy with it. for just for the appearance of compromising the independence of the fbi. the dinner came just one day
breaking news tonight. let s get more from our specialists and our analysts and david axelrod, let s begin with this controversial tweet. i will put it up on the screen again. james comey better hope there are no tapes of our conversations before he starts leak together press. the white house insisting this is not a threat. your reaction? well, i guess it could have been a caring executive offering advice to a departing employee. but i think it anybody who reads it reads it as a threat. it was meant as a threat. the irony is that no one on the planet would enjoy more a release of the tape of that particular dinner than jim comey.