of course, james comey did more than t russian inigation, but we re told who the next fbi director will be. so there are confusing messages coming out of this briefing about the timeline, what we can really take at face value when we re given assessments along the way and what the back rung was. big questions unanswered, what were the three instances in which the president claims comey exonerated him. no answers on that. kelly o donnell in the white house briefing room. our upper right-hand square is mike vacarra on capitol hill. mike, one of the senators who got a heads up, the phrase of the week, was dianne finestein of california. that s right, and she recounted a very different conversation she had with president trump. she said president trump told her the department of justice was, in his words, a mess, and that he had asked jeff sessions and the newly established deputy attorney general rob rosenstein,