absolutely. in fact, i m told by sources close to the president that that is one of the growing fears inside the trump white house, that, you know, trump has always even before he entered politics, kind of surrounded himself with a certain type of character, people who frankly are a lot like donald trump. they re hard-charging. they re brass, brazen, and he often kind of infuses his team with an eat what you kill ethos where he encourages them to compete for his respect and attention. and a couple sources told me now, i want to be clear they have not accused directly people in trump s orbit of doing anything that hasn t been
essentially this kind of like favor trading mecca in trump s d.c. i was there, i think the night that donald trump fired james comey. and rudy giuliani was there. he smelled like a cigar, and he was there very late at night when the bar was closing. and he was just hanging out. i ve seen lots of people who are close to the president or associated with the president hanging out there. it is a place clearly where people are trying to trade favors and trying to exert influence over the trump administration. and any claims to the contrary seem completely absurd. i d also point to the earlier story about eric trump s foundation. there s a great irony in donald trump saying that people need to get paid when he is someone who
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to comey. i mean what it sounds to me like is this is a president who does not like the notion of the department of justice, the fbi acting independently on this particular topic, which is the russia investigation. there are these ongoing probes that really befuddle the white house. they see the investigations on capitol hill, mueller, what the fbi has been doing for months, and they really believe it s going to come to a head on thursday with comey s testimony. there s been talk of having the president even use twitter to directly engage with comey in whatever he ends up saying. there s been tal of war room even at the white house, but that has been scuttled. yeah, there s there s this other reporting saying the war room may be on hold. trump forces mobilizing for rapid response on a thursday effort led in part by trump camp s glassener. you re reporting about the sort of rapid response on twitter. i guess my question is what advise is the president being given about how to deal
trump asked everyone to leave the room except for coats and cia director mike pompeo. the president then started complaining about the fbi investigation and comey s handling it. this reporting indicates this is something that dan coats himself relayed to associates. it would seem to confirm prior reporting that the president had specifically asked various intelligence officials to quash the investigation into michael flynn. two days earlier, comey had confirmed in a congressional hearing the bureau was probing whether trump s campaign coordinated with russia during the 2016 race. let me just highlight one other detail here. again, this is just posted. the detail here of a post-meeting, everyone leave the room but for cia director mike pompeo and dan coats is identical to the m.o. that is in