someone with an edge of revenge. i think people who will view the u.s. government, including the fbi, the cia and others as somehow part of a deep state that wants to undercut the president are going to find evidence of that in what james comey said. you re right, asha, he has a right to say what he wants. but i think if he wants to focus on whether the president was doing something legally inappropriate, but he s maybe diverging a little. one quick comment on that clip that you ran. i don t know why he suggested that he would investigate those rumors. is there an allegation of legal wrongdoing? that s what the fbi investigates. but did he say he would investigate it or the president asked him if he would do it. i didn t hear that he said yes, we will investigate to assuage the anxiety of melania. why did he even open the door? i didn t get that. asha, i think that phil has a point, which is all of this other stuff, the juicy tidbits,
the salacious stuff, doesn t that undermine the larger message of his book or why he felt compelled to write it which was that he does not believe that the sitting president of the united states understands the role of the fbi in the united states and he also doesn t think that the president of the united states had a real interest in uncovering what russia did. so here s another moment. listen to this. president-elect trump s first question was to confirm that it had no impact on the election. and then the conversation to my surprise moved into a pr conversation about how the trump team would position this and what they could say about this. they actually started talking about drafting a press release with us still sitting there. the reason that was so striking to me is that s just not done, that the intelligence community does intelligence, the white house does pr and spin.
to kneel during the national anthem as part of on-field activism. which kaepernick wouldn t outline any future plans, the seahawks then chose to postpone the workout. despite all of this, the seahawks yesterday said they were still discussing bringing him in, but it s likely to change given this news we re learning about the new backup quarterback. and by the way, the backup quarterback the team has reportedly signed, steven morris, has never played an nfl game, so this story continues to grow. it really is interesting. he has, i guess, the courage of his convictions, so he s not going to say one thing and do something different. just interesting stuff. thanks so much. absolutely, you re welcome. so fourth grader casey warner shares her struggle with being bullied on facebook, and it goes viral. and then it gets the attention of a hollywood star. casey and her father will join us to talk about it, next.
the president ask what was going on with russia and how we were countering that threat. it was always about how the investigation was impacting him. and i think that we need to be concerned about that because we are facing a critical national security threat. and if that approach or that attitude is continuing and it appears that it is, then we are woefully ill prepared to counter that threat and take other measures. yeah, phil, i think that this here is the rub. if comey had just stuck to that stuff, if he had just stuck to the substance of his argument and his concerns about the future of the country, it wouldn t have sold as many books, but it might not have, a, politicized the fbi as much as this probably will and it might have been able to keep the focus on what asha and i think you are are saying are the most important revelations in here. that s right. asha nailed it. look, let me ask one question and this is what comey highlights in the book in that clip. in 15 months in
think i m echoing a little bit of what chris said is, like, forget the salacious stuff. let s say it didn t happen. you know, this is an issue of is the president of the united states subject to blackmail. that s right. period. if the russians had a videotape. if they say they have a video. and is he subject to blackmail? s important to national security. that s something that james comey would be interested in. and that is probably why i would argue and i think it is why that comey told the president about the things that were contained in the dossier because it is an issue of national security. you know, joey, the fired fbi director comey in the book according to the washington post says he warned trump that an investigation might in his words create a narrative that we are investigating him personally