Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. With just 38 hours to go until former fbi director james comey appears before the Senate Intelligence committee, details are coming from multiple news outlets about what we may hear tomorrow and on thursday, including this report tonight from the New York Times with the headline james comey told attorney general sessions, dont leave me alone with trump. The president is preparing to go it alone on what could be the most consequential day of his presidency. All the tv networks are airing that hearing live starting thursday at 10 00 a. M. , and the whole country will be watching as the fbi director the president fired speaks publicly for the first time about being dismissed abruptly last month and about the president s alleged efforts to interfere in that russia investigation. The president was asked about comeys testimony today during a meeting with congressional leaders. I want to thank everybody very much for being here, and lets get to work