that the president immediately saw that moment at trump tower as a set up as with the president called it. even though no one bothered to tell him that the intel was actually paid for by hillary s campaign. on comey side, he says that he felt he had to tell the president-elect because cnn was about to go with the story. you know what, four days later, somehow cnn was able to verify that, yes, the president-elect had sat down with these gentlemen and have been briefed by clapper and comey and brennan. here s the cnn headline on january the tenth. and felt he was presented trump with claims of russian efforts to compromise him. remember this finding about james clapper from the house until report that at the time was slammed by critics. james clapper now a cnn national security analyst provided inconsistent testimony about his contacts with the media including cnn. so in his book, james comey