investigative work well and as quickly as we could. immediately after that conversation, i called acting deputy attorney general general bentay. sessions had recused himself on all russia-related matters and said i would await his guidance. i did not hear back from him before the president called me again two weeks later. so again, my takeaway is this insistent personal investigation questioning of that. well, i also wanted in this context to follow up on something that jeffrey said. i think that the law is what it is and it applies pretty quickly. one of the unique did i mentions of this case is that the president with regard to this case is the architect of his narrative. he s the author. there are things he s not able to dispute, the white house has supported that, we also have this unique dimension that is personal to the president where he puts it out on twitter. we ve been talking about
comey, in many ways, trying to get the president to go elsewhere on this. i mean, comey reached out as much as he could. you can imagine that. he s not getting any responses from the people he wanted to get responses to. and then he tells the president on april 11th, when the president says the cloud is still hanging over my head, he said, well, i tried. i passed the request to the acting deputy attorney general and he hadn t heard back and then the president says, well, maybe i ll get my people to call the acting deputy attorney general. huh? so you see a little bit of i don t want to say naivety on the part of the president. that comey is trying to say to him, i m doing this by the books. okay. and here s what i m doing and the president s trying to say short cuts. that s not enough. i ve got norm eisen with us,
so sessions says i can t promise you i won t leave you alone with the president and in the passage that you just read, that he went to the acting deputy attorney general and said i want your guidance and didn t get any. you make a very good point here because one of the republican talking points since this story has come out is if this is so terrible, why didn t you go to sessions? why didn t he did. and he did. several times. the other point i want to quickly point out is the emphasis that he did not tell the agents working on the case because he s acting pre-emptively there in terms of not allowing the credibility of the rest of the investigation that s been going on to become accused of having political bias which, you know, i think we can see coming. he nipped that in the bud because the agents who have been investigating this all along have not been aware of this.