Describe his interactions with trump on quote, subjects that i understand are of interest to you. That is for sure. He goes on to say, i have not included every detail from my conversations with the president , but to the best of my recollection, i have tried to include information that may be relevant to the committee. So here with me tonight to discuss all of that is david gergen, malika henderson, david ax axelrod, ana navarro. Also scott jennings, former special assistant to president george w. Bush. Lets get into it, james comey describing his first meeting with President Donald Trump on january 6th, at trump tower two weeks before the inauguration. He was breaking the news to president elect, the president elect of a classified dossier full of salacious allegations by russian operatives. Here is what comey says. I first met then president elect trump on friday, january 6th, in a Conference Room in trump tower at new york. I was there with other Intelligence Community i. C. Leader
Cost . There will always be a costbenefit analysis but this week events, hearts and prayers go out to those who are affected and staff people on capitol hill. I spent a lot of time on capitol hill and you can tell the mood there is very somber discouraged feeling and naturally so. We do need to ask if security measures for every member of congress are adequate, do they understand how to properly hold Public Events where security risks might be present but it is also a good time to reflect on the tone of our political discourse, whether we are fostering the type of opinions of one another that are healthy so this is something we can look in the mirror but it is a good question we have to consider across the political aisle if security measures are adequate. When you look at the situation it is a balance between trying to keep our lawmakers safe but at the same time they are supposed to be out with our constituents, supposed to be accessible, that is what democracy is about. Somebody com
He goesen to to say, i have not included every detail from my conversations with the president , but to the best of my recollection, i have tried to include information that may be relevant to the committee. So here with me tonight to discuss all of that is david gerdy, ma lee ka henderson, anna, and michael. Also scott jennings, former special assistant to president george w. Bush. Lets get into it, james comey describing his first meeting with President Donald Trump on january 6th, at trump tower two weeks before the inauguration. He was breaking the news to president elect, the president elect of a classified dossier full of salacious allegations by russian operatives. Here is what comey says. I first met then president elect trump on friday, january 6th, in a Conference Room in trump tower at new york. I was there with leaders to brief them and his new National Security team on the findings of an ic assessment concerning russian efforts to interfere in the election. At the conclusi
On friday january 27th at 6 30 p. M. In the green room at the white house. He had called me at lunchtime that day and invited me to dinner that night saying he was going to invite my whole family but decided to have just me this time. With the whole family coming the next time. It was unclear from the conversation who else would be at the dinner, although i assumed there would be others. It turned out to be just the two of us seated at a small table in the green room. Two Navy Stewards waited on us. The president began by asking me whether i wanted to stay on as fbi director, which i found strange because he had already told me twice in earlier conversations that he hoped i would stay. And i had assured him that i intended to. He said that lots of people wanted my job and, given the abuse i had taken during the previous year, he would understand if i wanted to walk away. James comey goes on. My instincts told me that the oneonone setting and the pretense that this was our first discuss
Four months. I want to bring in chief Legal Correspondent ari melber. Well go through the chief parts of this. Theres a lot in here and it is important. Let me start reading part of this statement. The president began by asking me whether i wanted to stay on as filibuster director, which i found strange. Because he had already told me twice in earlier conversations that he hoped i would stay and i had assured him that i intended to. He said that lots of people wanted my job and, given the abuse i had taken during previous year, he would understand if i wanted to walk away. My instincts told me the oneonone setting and the pretense that this was our first discussion about my position meant the dinner was at least in part an effort to have me ask for my job and create some sort of patronage relationship. Im going to stop there. Ari melber, what do you take away from that . You read it and it doesnt get more dramatic than that. These words of an fbi director about this dinner. That word p