the bombshell memos surfaced, rudy giuliani confirming that he s joining the president s personal legal team. he hopes to bring mueller s russia investigation to a conclusion, saying it needs a little push. so president trump is up bright and early this morning and he s tweeting once again about comey. this time reviving the issue of his former national security advisor, michael flynn, writing general flynn s life can be totally destroyed while shady james comey can leak and lie and make lots of money from a third rate book that should never have been written. is that the way life in america is supposed to work? i don t think so. but the president fails to mention that michael flynn was fired from that job and the president himself fired him. he also pled guilty to lying to the fbi. so unenclosure why he s reviving this, especially since his aides have told or sources have told cnn that his aides believe that he s really weathered this comey book tour fairly well
relationship with putin before taking office. but comments over the years raised questions about their ties. i spoke directly and indirectly with president putin, who could not have been nicer. i have never spoken to him. reporter: hours before the bombshell memo is surfaced, rudy giuliani announcing he s joining the legal team. he hopes to bring the mueller investigation to a conclusion. he said, it needs a little push. so it s already been a busy twitter morning for the president this morning. he s tweeting again about this comey book tour and also questioning why, as he says, general flynn s life can be totally destroyed while shady james comey can leak and lie and make money from a third rate book. the president goes on to say is is that really the way life in america is supposed to work? i don t think so.
done as a pretext to leak that to. one of the things i james comey says in his first memo is that, yes, james comey asked him to do it. he was doing it because he believed cnn wanted to run the story and they were waiting for an excuse to do it. it s very interesting that the excuse they chose was not james comey briefed donald trump, a very interesting coincidence, combined with what you mention, which is that the house permanent select committee on intelligence had findings that james clapper gave inconsistent testimony about his leaks, conversations with cnn about the dossier. also interesting in light of this new information. martha: answering some questions on that. jessica, james comey would say, i was trying to give him a heads up that this was out there. that was his duty to do that. i would say, though, i agree with mollie, what congress and peter king was saying. i think there is a tremendous amount of damage being done to our institutions from this comey book tour, what
course his estate in palm beach. why do i mention that? remember, the story that came p out saying that the president had allegedly said that the white house is a dump, he can t stand it, not as good as his properties. the president said this is fake news, i never said that. james comey now in one of these memos, sean, is saying the president at dinner said the white house was quite luxurious and better than mar-a-lago. i don t know what version of events you can believe. finally, i am going through these pages, about 14, 15 pages of comey memos. there is not a piece of information from james comey that suggests there was any russian collusion or that he talked to the president aboutat that and i m talking, just got off the phone about five, 10 minutes ago with a top congressional aide who received the unredacted, some of the unredacted versions, saying that there is nothing new on collusion and nothing newon on obstruction. this is remarkable that early in the comey book tour, as he f
comey, you have been all over this. what do you make about what you just heard there? well, i completely agree. what you are seeing here with this comey book tour is a complete self-destruction in terms of his own reputation. when he puts himself above every other american in terms of morality, that s just a personality disorder. when he puts himself above the law, that s a threat to our democracy. nobody is above the law. as we showed in the trial of james comey there are multiple grounds to believe he broke the law. you see it with members of congress with the criminal referral to the justice department and i think it s very important for faith in our system that actually james comey faces justice for the crimes that he committed. sandra: jessica, hard to believe he has only just begun with this media tour and the criticism is pouring in. and to hear that man who is with the f.b.i. for more than two decades talk about his