undue influence on the fbi director. there s no way to legitimately level charges and not say there was an undue influence. the last bing thing from all this what has this done to our institutions now? we have an executive branch within an hour of sending anything to the legislative branch immediately goes out into the public. imagine yew an intel officer, congressional officer, everything can be undermined and put out into the public space through congress at any given time. in one of the memos former white house chief of staff reince priebus asks comey, february 8, 2017, if michael flynn was under a fisa warrant and wanted to ask a question and i could decide, meaning comey, whether it was appropriate to answer. he then asked, do you have a fisa order on mike flynn? i paused a you few seconds and set i would answer here but this illustrated the kind of question that had to be asked and
filled with salacious details, unconfirm, so the president, this is not audio but i ll read it for reverend told you this. when he, meaning comey, brought it, the dossier to me, i said this is really made-up junk. i didn t think about anything. i just thought, man, this is such a phony deal. so anyway, in my opinion he shared it so so that i would think he had it out there. one of the reporters asked as leverage and mr. trump says yeah, i think so, in retrospect. give us more context here. he was pretty clear. what he felt was james comey was presenting him with this information and dangling to show that he had something on the president. i think in the president s mind that was about keeping his own job, james comey keeping his own job. but, again, another remarkable statement from the president. look, he has made in fairness a series of remarkable statements about james comey, you know, beginning with when he fired him, but this was a first, and
has been fraught from the very beginning. he had his work cut out, meaning comey. how he revealed that dossier to the president-elect, but, what was it about trump s reaction that compelled coe noi document their conversation? here s more. so in that context, prior to the january 6 meeting, i discussed with the fbi s leadership team whether i should be prepared to assure president-elect trump we were not investigating him personally. that was true. we did not have an open counterintelligence case on him. we agreed i should do so if circumstances warranted. during our one on one meeting at trump tower, based on the president-elect trump s reaction to the briefing and without him directly asking the question, i offered that assurance. i felt compelled to document my first conversation with president-elect, the president-elect in a memo to ensure accuracy. i goon type it on a laptop and fbi vehicle outside trump tower the moment i walked out of the meeting, creating written
so, you know, this relationship has been fraught from the very beginning. he had his work cut out, meaning comey. you heard from james comey says about how he revealed that salacious russian dossier to the president-elect. but what was it about trump s reaction that compelled comey to document their conversation? so here s more. so in that context, prior to the january 6 meeting, i discussed with the fbi s leadership team whether i should be prepared to assure president-elect trump we were not investigating him personally. that was true. we did not have an open counterintelligence case on him. we agreed i should do so if circumstances warranted. during our one on one meeting at trump tower, based on the president-elect trump s reaction to the briefing and without him directly asking the question, i offered that assurance. i felt compelled to document my first conversation with president-elect, the president-elect in a memo to ensure accuracy. i began to type it on a laptop,
it would be good to find out, and talked about michael flynn as a good person. it also goes on to say that mr. comey was saying that he had not investigated anyone close to the president. and he also talked about the fact that general flynn is a good guy, meaning comey himself responded in that way. in addition, expect that the counsel will talk about what some of the other top intelligence officials have said, including, for example, the head of the nsa, that there was no direct interference from the president, no one directed him to do anything. here is something that will be of note. the presidt s counsel is expe t say that president trump never told mr. comey, i need loyalty. i expect loyalty in the form or substance. that is a significant point because we saw how james comey memorialized his conversations, spelled that out with quotes as he recalls them. that will be a point that the counsel to the president will take on directly. in addition to that, the office