the dossier referenced in this phone call? what do you have? this is from one of the january meetings. we know early in january that the director personally briefed the president that trump at the time was not president yet but he started briefing him on some of the content of the dossier. and it seems like in reading this stuff for the testimony tomorrow, trump was obsessed over some of the contents. he called them salacious and even at one point even asked comey if he would investigate the claims in the dossier and comey in looking out for trump said to him, you know, this may not be a good idea because then i would essentially be investigating you and people could infer that and comey said you re not under investigation and it s something that i think comey was very cognizant about. he did brief members of congress that trump was not under investigation and it was
contact, comey believed them to be in violation of justice department guidelines which allows conversations with the white house about active investigations, quote, only when it is important for the performance of the president s duties and important for a law perspective. the president describes all the contacts in a detailed memo he gave to his aides. last week when president trump said he was thinking about russia when he fired russia, the president placed more recommendation on the may 3rd testimony. director comey was unpopular with most people. i actually thought when i made that decision, and i also got a very, very strong recommendation, as you know, from the deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein, but when i made that decision, i actually thought that it would be a bipartisan decision. because you look at all of the people on the democratic side, not only the republican side, that were saying such terrible