made about reference to tapes, kasowitz said that the new york times story quoting that memo was before the referenced tweet. well, i just double-checked this, and, in fact, the tweet in question, and your people may want to call this up, was may 12th, 8:26 a.m. that s when the president wrote, i hope comey comey better hope there are no tapes. the new york times story quoting comey s memo is may 16th. it s four days later. so that seems to be completely the opposite of what kasowitz just claimed undercut comey s testimony. you know, maybe kasowitz has an explanation for this or there are some other times story he s referring to. but clearly what comey was talking about was the one memo,
and richard, i guess i m most interested in what we ve seen the last hour. the president s private attorney, as i said, the single physical manifestation of this presidency today, given the comey testimony this morning. well, i think it was appropriate for the president s criminal defense lawyer to speak and i believe he is functioning here as a criminal defense lawyer. the president is in serious jeopardy, being prosecuted for obstruction of justice. there is substantial evidence of obstruction of justice. the special prosecutor, as well as the house and the senate, are well, i m sure, they will look for more evidence and find out the facts with why director comey was fired. if he was fired because of the russia investigation, that combined with today is a very
brushback pitch. or as some might say, the way people talking in new york or d.c. but without any evidence, it is not good lawyering. if you attempt to it put it that way, it sounds serious. we re going to fit in our first break since all of this testimony this morning. we re going to come back. continue our coverage. among those standing by to talk to us, a form he agent of the fbi who may have an interesting point of view about what we witnessed this morning and this afternoon when our coverage continues right after this.
and they re not making any mention in this argument of tapes, of any tapes that could corroborate the president s version of events or mr. kasowitz s version of events. again, at the white house press briefing, sarah huckabee sanders said today she does not know of any tapes. she even joked around saying she ll look underneath the cushions. so the white house is still refusing to say whether or not those tapes exist. that is very notable. but again, ari, you re right. it is something of anlternate universe. they re very focused on tryin paintames comey as the leaker in chief, as somebody who needs to be investigated, as somebody who did something wrong, and they re not so focused on much of the substance of that testimony today. nicolle wallace, you ve been studying because we ve been watching you study on camera. what have you found? first off, a source close to former president clinton says that no matter how bad things got, we held our briefings every
private attorney before we hear from him over at the press cl kelly? reporter: well, brian, i have some guidance on what mark hasowitz, the president s outside private attorney, is expected to say. he will make a lengthy statement that will cover all the basic points that give the donald trump point of view on this. first and foremost, expect him to talk about the fact that james comey said that the president himself was not under investigation, and that s a point that the president has long wanted to be made public. he will also talk about the fact that in the comey testimony, the president talked about wanting to find out if any satellite associates of his, if any others involved might have been involved in any russian interference, and that should come out. so that is a point the white house is expected to make through the president s private attorney. we ll also talk about the fact that according to the counsel for the president, donald trump made no attempt to intervene or imped