investigation or commence an investigation is entirely within his discretion. it can never, ever, no matter what the facts are, be obstruction of justice. let s listen to more of this exchange with the white house. but i wondered if you could tell us in person, sir, why you feel that his testimony vindicated you when it s really boiling down to his word against your word and if you could also tell us, sir, do tapes exist of your conversations with him? well, i ll tell you about that maybe sometime in the very near future but in the meantime, no collusion, no obstruction, he s a leaker. but we want to get back to running our great country. jobs, trade deficits, we want them to disappear fast, north korea, big problem, middle east, a big problem.
answer that one way or the other as to whether we re disai disappointed. we would be pleased to have recordings in some sense but in another sense that there are not. the president went on to say in that exchange and said this to the reporter with the washington times, that you believes james comey is a leaker but at the same time he feels that he was totally vindicated, that there was no obstruction of justice or collusion that jim comey testified to during that hearing yesterday. it s very much echoing and i think dana was saying this a few minutes ago, echoing what marc kasowitz has been saying over the last 24 hours. i don t think this really resolves a lot of questions that we have here and perhaps the president is saying, well, i ll get back to you on these tapes because he plans on doing something in the course of the next few days of a sit-down interview where perhaps he feels more comfortable. i thought it was very fascinating, brooke, that he
czar under president obama. david, beginning with you, back to the issue on the tapes and we know he knows, he s not saying he s stalling, why, what do you make of that? i don t know if there are tapes but i know we re missing the big picture. let s assume and i think it s true, that former director comey is not lying. i certainly assume president trump is not lying. there is chemistry between the two of them brought by a kree creature of washington and let s assume that what s involved here is not those meetings but how they interpreted this. comey has been incredibly unkind to the president. the president did, i believe, suggest that it would be best if, given flynn s overequities, particularly asked about the flynn investigation, would it go away. it s not an obstruction of justice and not even a direct order. director comey decided to make