conversations with vladimir putin or at least he ended up saying that during the campaign. another thing that struck me was that he was critical of flynn at one point. the man he asked comey to save or to stop the investigation, one point he said he didn t really trust him because flynn hadn t told him he had a conversation with a foreign leader which was blacked out. and that didn t tell him for six days and trump thought it was rude and that he should have returned that call and that he said, you know, i have, you know, i have a lack of confidence. and also, that reince priebus asked, the former chief of staff, whether there was an fisa order on mike flynn. clearly he was on the radar and had to be concerned about. david irvin, as a supporter of the president, what stands out to you? just gotten them. how important do you think these are? i think it s very important to see contemporaneously of what the fbi director at the time
many times. many times. what does comey say? mccabe s a good guy, he s honest, he s not a leaker. i wonder there s a piece right here where comey says i d like to find a leaker, nail him to the doors, a mess shaj age t agency. now that mccabe is facing criminal charges here if that s going to hold true. i m sure president trump is very upset that andy mccabe allegedly leaked a negative story about hillary in the closing days of the election. i m sure that s what trump is upset about. maybe not. i ve known andy mccabe for a long time. he worked for me on the new york s.w.a.t. team for the fbi in the early twr2000s. i believe good people can make mistakes. i think andy is guilty of lack of candor, a nice dressed up way of saying he lied. if you re a new agent with one day on the job or a deputy director 26 hours away from retirement and you lie, bye, felicia, that s what happens. is that a that is not. bye, felicia?
would lead the discussion and then would hand off to each of the other participants in our group to embellish or expand or amplify the particular talking points i went through and the reason we wanted to do it this way we would be talking to a lot of other people besides the president-elect. we had a battery of briefings to do to the congress the following week. and we d also agreed at one point to ask jim to neck down to brief the president and jim thought it would be better to do it alone just for the sake of discretion. and i completely agreed with that. and so we were at the as we were winding up the normal
say you got a phone call from then department of homeland security secretary john kelly now the chief of staff at the white house. in which he referred to the president as dishonorable and was talking about quitting. you told him not to quit. were you surprised when he took a job as the white house chief of staff and have you been surprised to see him as one of president trump s strongest defenders? i don t remember john calling the president dishonorable. he was talking about people and i don t like you being treated this way and i won t stay and work with people that would treat you in a dishonorable way. who else would he be talking about? i don t know. i just want to be clear he didn t say the president by name. that s fair and i appreciate the clarification. just to dial down on this point, who else would he be talking about? who else mistreated you but president trump in his view or your view? that s fair. i don t know what he had in his head and might have been the att
the breaking news tonight, the comey memos are out detailing his conversations with the president. we ll have details on them next. it took guts to start my business.