the inauguration, according to one associate. comey felt as if trump did not understand or did not like the fbi director s independence and was trying to get comey to bend the rules for him, the associates said. the new york times is also delivering reports that at any other time might be the story of the week or the story of the month or even the story of the year, but are now simply the story of the day or even sometis just the story of the ho. because those stories keep coming. the new york times is reporting tonight president trump called the fbi director james b. comey weeks after he took office and asked him when federal authorities were going to put out word that mr. trump was not personally under investigation, according to two people briefed on the call. mr. comey told the president that if he wanted to know details about the bureau s investigation, he should not contact him directly, but instead follow the proper procedures and have the white
wasn t honorable? he did. and i specifically said that. comey felt that all the way up to the president that there was a not honorable way of approaching their interactions. one of the questions that i asked him was, if comey felt this was so bad, if this was so egregious, if he was asking you for a loyalty oath, why not quit? why not blow the whistle or go public with all of this? and he said his sense that comey felt he could manage it, that it didn t rise to the level of needing to quit and he used a phrase saying i think comey could throw enough brushback pitches at the president to keep him at bay and manage the relationship. of course, we know several weeks after that last meeting between comey and whitis comey was fired. there are open questions about how comey really felt and what he was willing to do with
very similar to bob mueller s situation and would not be an obstacle to joe being the fbi director. i want to ask you about james comey and his apparent feelings compared to what has been said by his friends. he talked to friends, one of them has been with us, and this is what ben wittis has to say the other night about that incident in the blue room when comey was trying to hang back against the wall, and the president drew him forward and appare apparently we can see, sort of brought him into a hug, that comey felt was inappropriate. let s watch what he had so say. what he told me was that it was bad enough he was there. bad enough there would be a handshake, but you know, there
any recollection where you ve wondered if anything you have done has been something that might be worthy of criminal charges in these investigations or in impeachment as some on the left are implying? i think it s totally ridiculous. everybody thinks. so and again, we have to get back to working our country properly so that we can take care of the problems that we have. as in the watergate days with woodward and bernstein s reporting, the washington post is once again producing blockbuster revolutions day after day. today the washington post reported fbi director james b. comey prepared extensively for his conversations with trump out of concern that the president was unlikely to respect the legal and ethical boundaries surrounding their respective roles, according to the associates of the now fired fbi chief. comey was very apprehensive heading into a dinner with the president in late january because of his previous encounters with trump during the transition and immediately a
priebus was against this, was not in favor of this, you know, abrupt firing because he was concerned whattled do the legislative agenda. now, he does not have the juice necessarily to enforce or to stop the president. i m told he didn t even go that far. but initially he was resistant to this. but others sort of allowed this to go forward. there s no one i have heard min my reporting we ll see how this plays out, we re still early in this that told the president not to do this. stunning. maggy, we ve heard so much about what president trump thought of comey. you have new reports about what he thought of comey and what comey thought of the president. and we ve heard whuf jeff said played out in those rooms. comey felt the president was