howard? seems to me that this is a punch. the white house is trying hard to portray the president as a counter puncher. he wounded himself though. when you look at this and the fact it s soaking up so much media oxygen today, sure, it s fair to point out that joe scarborough, mika, the engaged couple on the morning show have been relentlessly personal and calling the president a liar, a thug, mentally ill and all of that. it doesn t matter. he s the president of the united states. they re cable news commentators. shepard: where does this go from here? historically speaking, has there been anything like this? apologizing is not the president s style as you know. shepard: he actually did apologize after his words about grabbing her in the blank during comments made to access hollywood s billie bush. he issued a video apology. that was a relatively rare
russia probe and attacking comey, himself. no collusion, no obstruction. he s a leaker. he s saying he never asked for comey s loyalty at that now infamous dinner meeting. i hardly know the man. i m not going to say, i want you to pledge allegiance. so, dangling the possibility out there of tapes. refusing to say if he has recordings of conversations in the oval office. a lot to discuss now. i want to get straight to white house correspondent athena jones, political analyst carl bernstein, political commentator david swerdlick, national political reporter, mave reston. good evening to all of you. athena, i m going to start with you because this is a day after the former fbi director comey, his bombshell testimony, president trump is fighting back. he certainly is punching back, don. after comey repeatedly called the president a liar during his testimony yesterday, the president now saying the former fbi director is the one who s
and he denied he asked comey to let this flynn matter of this investigation of his security adviser flynn to let it go. he s saying that he s not telling the truth. comey called the president a liar repeatedly. comey has these contemporaneous memos, detailed notes that he took after each meeting he took with the president. those kinds of memos have been used as memory evidence in the past. does the president have something similar whether it is a tape or recording or transcript or a memo of his conversations, that s a big question and it is one that he did not answer yesterday. athena jones is traveling with the president there, thank you very much.
trouble they have trouble because it s their party, that means their agenda is in trouble. so while publicly what you re seeing is a pretty good front of hey, we don t think the president did anything wrong, he is new to government and all of the different lines they use, privately they re frustrated, annoyed, some are very worried. something, eric, stood out to you during this hearing. we were focused obviously so much on a number of things we heard over and over from jim comey, what he said about the russian government s role in meddling in the election that stood out to you. what did he say that was different. in the beginning with chairman, he came out and stated it was the russians who sought to interfere in the election, it was the russians that sought to interfere in our voting and it was the russian government behind it. that s the fbi director calling vladimir putin a liar. in the last couple weeks, putin has denied all these things,
out there of tapes. refusing to say if he has recordings of conversations in the oval office. a lot to discuss now. i want to get straight to white house correspondent, athena jones. political analyst, carl bernstein. political commentator, david swerdlick. national political reporter, maeve reston. good evening to all of you. athena, i m going to start with you because this is a day after the former fbi director comey, his bombshell testimony, president trump is fighting back. he certainly is punching back, don. after comey repeatedly called the president a liar during his testimony yesterday, the president now saying the former fbi director is the one who s being untruthful. the president arguing that parts of comey s testimony completely vindicate him, while other parts are lies. and he s also accusing comey of leaking his own notes. watch some of what the president had to say in that press conference today. this morning on twitter, you were referring to the testimony