andy mccabe. andy was in the inner circle. i don t know that for a fact but i believe this if this happened you think it s likely? i think it s highly likely i don t think andy mccabe looked at it that way, either. we ve all been in situations where someone doesn t directly ask you to do something but you feel that s what they re asking for and if you don t you re going forward at your own risk. let me go back to jake. this issue of why did jim comey not reach out to congress earlier? why now after he s fired and you re learning more as to the answer? that s right. the white house has been putting out this pushback asking if this really happened, why didn t he do something able to, let other people know immediately. so i asked the soshsz close to comey about that. i ll read it to you. because it wasn t a very successful effort on the part of the president and comey thought
this one. obviously, the president is denying it, but that s a troubling statement. it is. from the trump camp from their own aid. it is. there are other people in the white house trying to put some sort of a face on this. but look, before this story broke this evening, i was talking to somebody who s very close to a bunch of trump loyalists who spoke with numerous people inside the white house yesterday and the way this person described the people in the white house to me was disconsulate. that was the word yesterday. so and also, in talking to people who are close to the president before this story broke tonight, i can tell you that they describe him to me as a person who felt under siege, who didn t have kchd in anybody on his staff, and was kind of trying to think his way about what to do about it.