intelligence committee telling cnn the former fbi director will answer all questions in his testimony this week. i understand that the special counsel has not fenced him off from the items he intends to testify about. that s right. [ inaudible ] it s about russia s involvement in our 2016 election, which is the investigation. that does lead into the possibility of collusion. all right. that means the scope of this public testimony is much broader than just maemos comey kept of trump. this comes on the heels the president will not try to block the testimony. the white house has waived executive privilege to keep comey from testifying about his private meetings with the president. reporter: for congress, it s the hottest question in town, did president trump try to pressure fbi director james
reporter: linguist tyler snedlen has made charts of trump s usage. believe me. believe me. believe me. reporter: the linguist tallied trump of 580 occurrences per million words versus a measly 6 for hillary clinton. reporter: it seems to me it s a time killer or a time filler, to collect your thoughts. you re emphasizing something, but it also lets you play for time. reporter: jon stewart has another story. nobody says believe me, unless they are lying. reporter: the addiction to sayi ining believe me. reporter: is ironic for somebody who s often described thousands and thousands of people were cheering. reporter: as having his pants on fire. the 2015 politifact of the lie goes to the collective misstatements of donald trump. i ve had lots of friends tell me that their parents explicitly told them, don t believe anyone who says, believe me. but that doesn t seem to be the
he thought he had it under control. richard burr said that. richard burr was like, i think he would have told me this, during those closed sessions even. so they were taken aback when this news first came out, and they re going to want answers as to why they were blind sided by the news of these memos. one thing we know is that jim comey excels in this kind of environment. he s prepared for this question. and there s absolutely no doubt in my mind that he is. and, and, chris, he wants to talk about it. the president recently, the president had to say about jim comey, and he minced no words. here s president trump. he s a show boat. he s a grandstander. the fbi has been in turmoil. you know that, i know that. he s not going to respond to that obviously directly. but he will perhaps in the way he answers the questions, he wants his side of things out there.
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tirade. the president going on the attack in a series of tweets today, attacking the mayor of london just hours after the city s terror attack and attacking his own justice department, trying to make the case for his travel ban. jim acosta is outfront. we will defeat the terrorists. reporter: with london still reeling from a terrorist attack, the white house is defending president trump s stinging defeats slamming the city s mayor. asked about the president s tweet, at least seven dead and 48 wounded and the mayor of london says there is no reason to be alarmed. sarah sanders insisted the president did not intentionally mischaracterize the mayor s response to the attack. i don t think that s true. reporter: listen to the context. the mayor was urging londoners not to be worried. londoners will see an increased police presence today and over the course of the next few days. no reason to be alarmed. reporter: also in his