>> pleasure to be with here. >> you're professionals and i love being here when these things are happening in real-time. >> excellent. we'll see you tomorrow at noon eastern and keep watching fox news for all the day's developments. here's shep. >> shepard: it's noon on the west coast, 3:00 on capitol hill. james comey accused the trump administration of spreading lies. and admitted that he intentionally leaked a memo to trigger a special prosecutor. those but a couple of the dramatic moments. >> the administration then chose to defame me and more importantly the fbi. i was honestly concerned he might lie about the nature of our meeting. >> do you believe that donald trump colluded with russia? >> it's a question i don't think i should answer in an open setting. >> the president's private lawyer going on the attack. >> today mr. comey admitted that

he unilaterally made unauthorized disclosures to the press of privileged communications with the president. >> ahead, complete coverage of the comey hearing and what we learned about what we need to find out. let's get to it. >> first on the fox news deck, lordy, i hope there's tapes. that's what the fired fbi director said today among other things about his meetings with president trump. comey testified he was worried the president might lie about their conversations. so he wrote them down, in detail. comey said the white house did indeed lie about why president trump fired him and about the fbi itself. >> although the law required no reason at all to fire an fbi director, the administration

then chose to defame me and more importantly the fbi by saying the organization was in disarray. that it was poorly led. that the work force lost confidence in its leader. those were lies, plain and simple. >> what was it about that meeting that led you to determine that you needed to started putting down a written record? >> the circumstances, the subject matter and the person i was interacting with. circumstances first i was alone with the president of the united states. the president-elect, soon to be president. the subject matter i was talking about matters that touch on the fbi's core responsibility and that relate to the president-elect personally. and then the nature of the person. i was honestly concerned that he might lie about the nature of our meeting so i thought it important to document. that combination of things i never experienced before. but it led me to believe i got to write it down and write it down in a detailed way. >> shepard: james comey

testifying in one of the most anticipated congressional hearings in decades. some bars opened early to show the live coverage. james comey said the president was directing him to drop the investigation into michael flynn when the president said "i hope you can let this go". >> he did not direct you to let it go. >> not in his words no. >> he did not order to let it go. >> the words are not in order. >> do you know of any case where a person has been charged for obstruction of justice or for that matter any other criminal offense where they said or thought they hoped for an outcome? >> i don't know well enough to answer. the reason i keep saying "his words", i take it as a direction. this is the president of the united states with me alone saying i hope this. i took it as this is what he wanted me to do. i didn't obey that but that's -- >> you may have taken it as a

direction. that's not what he said. hi said "i hope". >> those are his words, correct. >> president trump fired michael flynn less than a month in the job. the white house said it was because michael flynn led mike pence about conversations with the russian ambassador. president trump said he did not pressure comey to drop the flynn investigation. the president's personal lawyer a short time against said comey's own words prove that. >> the president never in forum or substance directed or suggested that mr. comey stop investigating anyone, including the president never suggested that mr. comey "let flynn go." >> shepard: that lawyer once again highlighted that james comey said he told president trump he was not personally under investigation. more from the president's lawyer and from the white house coming up. comey also said he believes trump fired him in some way to

change or the endeavor was to change the investigation into russian meddling and potential collusion. the president admitted to nbc news the russian investigation was on his mind when he fired james comey. the former fbi chief stopped short of accusing the president of obstruction. he said the special counsel overseeing the investigation will make that judgment. and then there's loyalty. james comey said the president asked him for his loyalty during a dinner in january. during that same dinner, comey said the president asked whether he wanted to stay on as fbi director. comey said it seemed to me that the president wanted something in return for keeping that job. also, listen to what comey says president trump whispered in his ear during a fairly awkward encounter a couple of days after the inauguration when comey tried to blend into some curtains. >> the dinner was an effort to build a relationship. he asked specifically of loyalty

in the context of asking me to stay. as i said, what was odd about that, we talked twice about it by that point. he said, i very much hope you'll stay. i just remembered sitting, you saw the picture of me walking across the blue room. what the president whispered in me ear was, "i really look forward to working with you." >> and that was just a few days -- >> that was the sunday after the inauguration. the next friday, i have dinner. the president begins by wanting to talk about my job. so i'm sitting there thinking, wait a minute. three times you've asked me to stay or talked about me staying. my common sense -- i could be wrong. my common sense is he's looking to get exchange in granting my request to stay in the job. >> shepard: some senators asked comey if you feel president trump was being inappropriate, why didn't you say something.

comey's response he was stunned, maybe intimidated, so he took it in. if he were stronger, he might have told the president to stop it. catherine herridge is live on capitol hill. we learned that james comey gave his friend a memo regarding the meeting with president trump to leak. >> that's right, shep. we had a situation today for the first time in anyone's memory that a former fbi director said publicly that he deliberately leaked a government document. in this case, his memo about a conversation with president trump in the hopes that it would be a catalyst to a special counsel investigation. what started it all were the president's tweets about tapes. here's that exchange. >> president treated on friday after i got fired that i better hope there's not tapes. i woke up in the middle of the night on monday night. didn't dawn on me that there might be corroboration for our conversation, there might be a

tape. my judgment was, i needed to get that in the public square. i asked a friend of mine to share the contend of the memo with a reporter. >> that friend was a law professor at columbia university. we reached them directly. they confirmed that's what happened, shep. >> shepard: catherine, he also said there were a number of reasons that the attorney general had to recuse himself from the russia investigation. >> let's go back to the late january meeting. this was the oval office meeting, this dinner. it had to do about the russia investigation. at that time there were questions about loyalty, there would later be questions about whether he wanted flynn's investigation dropped. the president wanted flynn's investigation dropped. the former director testified today that there were a number of reasons that he just felt he could not go to his boss about what was happening. here's that exchange. >> our judgment, as i recall, he was very close to and inevitably

going to recuse himself for ari. we also were aware of facts that i can't discuss in an open setting that would make his continued engagement in a russia-related investigation problematic. >> comey testified that at that meeting before he was alone with the president, attorney general sessions and as well as jared kushner lingered at the end of the meeting. he felt that their antenna were up to about what was going to come next, shep. >> shepard: this hearing wasn't all about president trump idealing with comey. >> no. we had some interesting headlines about the former attorney general, loretta lynch and her role in the clinton e-mail investigation. republicans have levelled a lot of allegations about the former attorney general. comey said it was her meeting on the tarmac in arizona with bill clinton just before hillary clinton's investigation by the fbi for mishandling

investigation, classified information, that was the catalyst for comey to go public with his recommendation against criminal charges. here's that exchange. >> probably the only other consideration i guess i can talk about in open setting is at 1 point the attorney general directed me not to call it an investigation but instead to call it a matter which confused me and concerned me. >> that is what happened after the tarmac meeting. that is important because the clinton team refused to call it an investigation. there's only one kind of investigation the fbi does, shep, and that is a criminal investigation. >> shepard: catherine herridge, thank you. >> you're welcome. >> shepard: more on the response from president trump's personal loyalty. >> the president never told mr. comey "i need loyalty, i expect loyalty." he never said it in forum and he

never said it in substance. of course, the office of the president is entitled to expect loyalty from those who are serving the administration. >> shepard: earlier the deputy white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders said in a gaggle that they could said president trump is not a liar. an apparent response to comey's team that the president might lie about their conversation and he lied about other matters. the president himself so far has not commented directly or even tweeted about comey's testimony today. the chief white house correspondent john roberts is live on the north lawn. john? >> marc kasowitz trying to put the best face on this. focusing in on his statement, on the issue of whether or not the president was under investigation by the fbi and the part of comey's testimony where he corroborated that he told the president on at least three occasions that he was not a

target of the investigation. listen to what kasowitz said on that point. >> mr. comey has finally confirmed publicly what he repeatedly told president trump privately. that is that the president was not under investigation as part of any probe into russian interference. mr. comey's testimony also makes clear that the president never sought to impede the investigation into attempted russian interference in the 2016 election. >> kasowitz handled the bulk of the response from the white house. the only thing the white house would say is the president was not a liar and raised the question it was insulting. a lot of republicans say that answer as weakened nixonian. shep? >> shepard: anything else from the president's team so far, john? >> yeah, one of the other things

that marc kasowitz is focusing in on is comey leaked the memo after the president tweeted as a way of getting a special prosecutor appointed. kasowitz saying it amounted to retaliation. listen to what he said on that front. >> mr. comey admitted that he leaked to friends of his purported memos of those privileged communications. one of which he testified was classified. mr. comey also testified that immediately after he was terminated, he authorized his friends to leak the contents of those memos to the press in order to, in mr. comey's words, "prompt the appointment of a special counsel." >> and kasowitz said it was in response to a tweet the day before, there was information from the dinner which he believes came from a memo that

comey leaked before the tweet actually happened. shep? >> shepard: john roberts on the north lawn. thank you. more ahead on james comey's testimony today. chris wallace will be with us from "fox news sunday" and have his take coming up from the fox news deck. all finished.

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sunday"'s chris wallace. what jumped out at you? >> well, it was a mixed bag. on the legal side it wasn't bad for president trump. comey said that as of the day he was fired that trump was still not the target of a criminal investigation. that's good news. certainly wasn't going to go to the question of obstruction of justice. he was not quite clear in his own mind whether it rose to that level and he said he was going to leave it to the special counsel as he probably should. so in a legal sense, he didn't drop any bombs on president trump. in a political sense, it was very damaging. out and out called the president a liar. he basically said i had to write down and memorialize every contact i had because i thought he would -- he might lie about it. his recounting of what happened on that diner in the green room at the white house was not january 27.

it was almost theatrically awkward. even more chilling was his conversation about the february 14th when -- this was i thought his most powerful point. the supposed conversation where the president asked him to let the flynn matter go. he talked in great detail about the fact that the president ordered the attorney general, the vice president and the chief of staff and jared kushner, his senior adviser and son-in-law out of the oval office when he resisted to meet alone with comey. comey said why would he do that if it was innocent. >> shepard: he seemed to be saying, donald trump is a man that lies, you can't trust him working at the matter of credibility. with a he said he said, it comes down to that. >> yeah, that's part of it. also, you have the memos. at some point we'll look at it. i don't expect they'll be anything very different than what he's told us and what he said in his opening statement.

frankly what has been leaked. that is something that worked well to comey's benefit. very openly i have to say, he didn't beat around the bush about it, that after the president put out the tweet about well, maybe there's tapes, that he thought i better get my side of the story out there. he said openly i directed a friend of mine from columbia law school to leak to it "the new york times." but obviously the idea of a member that -- the leader of america's top law enforcement agency saying that he was leaking to "the new york times" is curious. i have to say that i don't know that i ever remember that happening. >> shepard: he said he would leave it up to those in charge to decide whether it was obstruction of justice. i guess part of what happened that played out in the court of public opinion. >> yeah. that's why i say. there's two aspects, the legal side and the political side. the political side is going to hurt the president.

it hurts him because here we are six hours after the testimony started, five hours. and we're still talking about it. we will be talking about it for days and have been talking about it for days. so it just complete hi swamps the president's agenda, his numbers in the polls for a variety of reasons. so his ability to marshall support on capitol hill among members of his own part and get healthcare reform or tax reform or a clean debt limit, a budget, all of these things has compromised from it. doesn't mean it's fatal but it's done damage. >> shepard: there's reports that the president watched it. i would have been a fly on the wall. how do you think this went down in the president's head? >> well, look, he obviously didn't like some of the stuff that was said. he sent marc kasowitz, his lead attorney, something he's had a long relationship out to make a

very combative statement. to say that one, to declare victory. in a legal sense, the president is off the hook according to kasowitz. comey didn't go that far. and also to flatly deny a number of things. he didn't demand loyalty, he didn't demand that the flynn investigation go. but there are questions out there. i think the one -- the biggest question is why if the president was just having an innocent conversation, why did he demand that all of he's top officials leave the oval office before he met alone with comey for the supposed flynn conversation on february 14th. we haven't heard a credible answer from the white house on that. >> shepard: chris wallace from "fox news sunday." thank you, chris. >> you bet. >> shepard: so if james comey's testimony is true, could president trump be guilty of obstruction of justice? we'll ask on the legal matter, judge andrew napolitano next.

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i'm gonna just go back to doing what i was doing. find your awesome with the xfinity x1 voice remote. >> fired fbi director james comey said it would be up to the special counsel to see if president trump was trying to obstruct justice when the president talked to comey about the investigation of the former national security adviser michael flynn. comey testified that the president said "i hope you can let this go." even though the president used the word "hope", comey said he took it as a direction to drop the flynn case. the president's private later said the president never directed or suggested anything like that. take you to the judge. judge andrew napolitano. that's a he said he said. >> right, right. >> shepard: if he did say it -- >> if he did say it because examining the credibility of the two of them, a neutral observer

said he said it or because there's tapes and bear out what james comey said or if there's motivation. if the president's motivation said we have more important things to do. conserve resources, the nsa leaks are worse than this, that is a legitimate order. if the president's motivation was i don't want you to go after flynn because he has stuff on my friends and they have stuff on me, that would be a corrupt motivation. a corrupt motivation turns that to obstruction of justice. the president cannot be indicted for a crime while he's a sitting president. >> shepard: that would be congress. >> correct. congress would decide whether or not to proceed and whether this rises to the level of high crimes. the supreme court never ruled on whether obstruction of justice is an impeachable offense. in the nixon impeachment, which did not mature to impeachment, which we all know he resigned before, in the clinton impeachment by today's standard

seems frivolous, both of those were based on obstruction of justice. those were general consensus in the legal community that a demonstrable case of obstruction of justice, interfering with a federal criminal investigation for a corrupt purpose constitute an impeachable offense. >> shepard: was that the most damning moment of the day? >> no. we looked at each other. the most damning thing is when james comey suggested a quid pro quo. he suggested the president gave him the impression, here's the quid pro quo, jim. you want to keep your job as director of fbi, lay off flynn. that to me was new and was extremely damning and quite frankly was not addressed by mark kasowitz, the president's lawyer. >> shepard: i'm sure the president's supporters are running to twitter to castigate you for using the wrong words. your point is taken. comey kept saying this isn't

about the words, this is what he was putting down, this is what i was picking up. do this, you can keep your job. you're not going to play with me. you're out. sure enough, he got fired. >> yes, yes. that's the kicker. you follow all of this stuff with the firing, put it in a bow and let bob mueller decide how serious is this. as i said to you earlier on the broadcast network, bob mueller now wants to interview somebody. it's not if, but when. donald trump. bob mueller wants to question the president much as this committee questioned james comey. >> shepard: can you compel the president to testify in such a matter? >> yes. >> shepard: how do you go about that? >> you have to give him a subpoena. bill clinton was compelled to testify. >> shepard: that was a civil -- >> you're right. that was in a civil case, the paula jones lawsuit against him. i don't know where this is going to go. the president did not have a good day. his lawyer, whom i know and who

is a very fine lawyer in my view did not adequately in three minutes rebut what james comey took three hours to convey to the country. that impression that he conveyed is still out there. >> shepard: then there's the matter of what some are calling the leak. and with us not a leak. for a number of reasons. when james comey gave his information to his friend at columbia law to pass along to "the new york times" so the word got out, that's not a leak. >> no, that is not a leak. it's not classified material. >> shepard: and he's not a government employee. >> he's not a government ploy year. the professor is not a government employee. it was an impression that -- i'm holding up my iphone. it was on a loop top. >> shepard: so everybody is caught up in leaks now. to avoid the substance, one focuses on the leaks. in this case, you can't call it a leak because it wasn't a leak.

>> people tend to call a leak anything below the radar screen. >> shepard: then everything is a leak. >> we three on leaks in this business. a leak must be something that the leaker did not have the authority to give out, which is typically classified material, state secrets. >> shepard: you used to visit with the president before he was the president. you've known him well. how is he going to take this day? >> not well. not well. i know how strong and towering his personality is. i know how strong his opinion is of his own ability to get things done. you may see that clean sweep in the west wing that's been rumored for a long time from and after today. >> shepard: you're talking sean spicer, jeff sessions -- >> that was a shock, too, to learn three days ago that his

strongest supporter, his longest time supporter, his first supporter amongst republicans in the u.s. senate, the person he probably talked to about becoming attorney general a long time ago is so disgusted with the way things are going that he offered to resign. the president rejected it. >> shepard: he didn't like that he recused himself. but by every legal standard, he had no choice. >> it's a decision only he can make. he can undo it today. there's no hard and fast recu recusal. >> shepard: interesting day. >> absolutely. >> shepard: thank you. he's new to this. that's what the house speaker paul ryan is saying about how president trump may have asked james comey to handle the michael flynn investigation. he's new to this. that's the new standard for a president. thanks, paul ryan. the democrats say they have serious concerns. more reaction coming up. details on instructions from president obama's attorney general. loretta lynch.

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...awkward. >> shepard: breaking news. congressman tray gowdy set to been the next chairman of the house oversight committee. the republican conference has to sign off on the money. it's a done deal. jason chaffetz set to resign at the end of the might. the oversight committee is investigating whether president trump pressured james comey to drop the investigation of michael flynn. congressman gowdy is a former prosecutor and said he's grateful for the opportunity and looks forward to working alongside his fellow committee members, tray gowdy with the new job. one democratic senator described james comey's testimony today as absolutely chilling. i've noted how comey said president trump asked him to end the investigation into the former national security adviser mike flynn and his ties to

russia. senator richard bloomingthal of connecticut has more. >> this is a threat to our national security. it's a chill ago because of power. >> shepard: paul ryan tried to defend president trump's action. >> the president's new at this. he's new to government. so he probably wasn't steeped in the long-running protocols that establish the relationships between doj, fbi and white houses. >> shepard: paul ryan. speaker ryan said it's important for the fbi to have a degree of independence from the white house. mike emanuel is on capitol hill. what did you hear from republicans after they had a chance to question comey in there? >> some didn't want to talk. saying they were only looking forward to the closed session.

john cane said there was a double standard between the way james comey handled the hillary clinton e-mail investigation and the way he handled trump's inner circle. another prominent republican said the president was let down by members of his team. >> my hope is that there are people in the white house that have advised the president about what is appropriate and what isn't when you're interacting with the fbi for the reasons that director comey outlined. it's not clear why it didn't happen sooner. it was a disservice to the president. >> rubio suggested that while the president was new to politics, there should have been seasoned hands on his team that new better and advised him of the case. shep? >> shepard: what did you hear from democrats, mike? >> some were -- a variety were asked if what they thought amounted to obstruction of justice by the president or members of his team. most didn't take the bait. they said they were looking forward to more questions of

director comey behind doors in the classified setting. the possible's top democrat suggested while both sides will draw their own conclusions, there's something that all should be worried about. >> the one message that i hope all americans will take home is recognizing how significant the russian interference was and how it goes to the core of our democracy and we have to be prepared to make sure that we're in a better defensive position in 2018 and 2019. >> we heard that from a lot of folks today. the russians are showing a big fascinating with messing with u.s. elections. >> shepard: thanks, mike emanuel. and james comey talked about former bosses in democratic and republican administrations. james comey said he expected current attorney general sessions to recuse himself from the russian investigation. comey said is because the information he couldn't discuss at a public hearing.he also said

former attorney general loretta lynch told him to down play the clinton e-mail investigation. instead of calling it investigation, call it the e-mail matter. let's bring in rachel bade from politico. there's one kind of investigation, a criminal investigation. there's a reason that didn't want that word used. that's a bridge too far for an attorney general, isn't it? >> i think comey's team expressed frustration in that record. his weariness to both bothses, sessions and lynch was on full display today. he thought politics was influencing the way they were thinking and telling him to act where you mentioned loretta lynch, tolding him to worse "matter" instead of "investigation" and hillary clinton and her e-mails.

the clinton campaign referred to it as an inquiry, the e-mail matter. they tried to knock down it was a criminal investigation. comey said it felt like that direction she was trying to align herself with something that he was uncomfortable with he pushed back on that. obviously he then had a press conference where he called out clinton for what he said was misuse of classified information. he was criticized by democrats for doing that. sounds like loretta lynch's instructions to him and the way she was handling the matter, including tarmac gate set him off and he wanted to push back to show independence. >> shepard: what is the thinking on the reason for being so specific about those matters today? is he about to show it's about law and order and partisanship? what is the message there? >> he's pushing back on republican and democratic administrations. so he can say look, i asserted

myself this way when president obama was in the white house and clinton was running for president. obviously he was tough on pete sessions today as well. the first thing he said coming out of the gate was that the whole reason the administration gave that -- for why he was fired is a lie, plain and sessions. anyway, he said it was a lie. plain and simple. that was something that jeff sessions had put together the reason for firing him, saying that he was fired bus fbi agents didn't trust him and the fbi was in chaos. he said that was not true. so he was definitely pushing back on jeff sessions. >> shepard: if that's true about jeff sessions, was jeff sessions -- is he in the midst of this so much that the recue sal makes sense and his hands are dirty here? >> shepard: at one point, comey was asked, why didn't you tell the justice department that trump had asked you for loyalty that he was asking you to drop the flynn investigation.

he specifically said i didn't do that early on because i knew that jeff sessions was going to be recusing himself. the senator asked why. he said there's facts that i can't discuss in here for why i knew he was going to have to recuse himself on the russia investigation. that has raised a lot of questions. what is he talking about? reports have come out since then saying that sessions obviously talked to russian officials during the campaign, even though he did not reveal this during his confirmation fight. he's going to be questioned about that in the senate next week for testimony. so yeah, i think what came out today, there's obviously a reason sessions recused himself. >> shepard: and lawmakers have learned that information. thanks, rachel. >> thank you. >> shepard: breaking news on fox news channel. the nsa contractor accused of leaking classified intel about russian hacking is about to go before a judge.

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>> shepard: the republican national committee has responded to james comey's testimony now. this is just happened. the rnc chair woman saying in a statement that today's testimony proves what we have known all along. president trump is not under investigation. there's still no evidence of collusion and he did not hinder the investigations in any way. she goes on, nobody thinks more of james comey than james comey and his testimony today was simply a last ditch attempt to save face with the american people. the republican national committee. and nor breaking news now. the nsa contractor accused of leaking classified intelligence about russia, hacking into our election is set to face a judgment moments from now. her attorney says she plans to plead not guilty. fbi investigators say reality winner sent a top secret government report to an online news outlet. the document detailed how

russian intelligence tried to hack u.s. voting systems a week before the 2016 election. jonathan serrie has more. what evidence do investigators say they have? >> yeah, a lot happening today. the hearing about to get underway in a matter of minutes. earlier today, a federal grand jury indicted 25-year-old reality winner. she's accused of willful transmission defense information. it's a charge that carries up to ten years in prison and fining of $250,000 or both. so for the weekend, the fbi carried out a search warrant at her home in augusta. agents seized her passport, two laptops and a tablet. a department of defense handbook on iran and other items. investigators noticed photos of the leaked documents showed the documents had been creased that

suggested these were physical hard copies of the documents that had been printed out. so they launched an internal investigation. they found six workers had printed out the documents in questions. they searched the computers and miss winner's computer is is the only one that deplayeder mail correspondence with that online publication in question, shep. >> shepard: jonathan serrie at the courthouse. we'll update you as events warrants. ahead, election day in britain. voters are deciding today who will lead them next. the prime minister called that election. that was long before the latest terror attack there. new concerns about keeping citizens safe. we're watching to see what voters in britain decide and ten minutes before 9:00 in the u.k., they're beginning the process. we'll update you in a moment. when it comes to hitting perfect drives, nobody does it better. he's also into oil painting.

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>> shepard: breaking news. people in the united kingdom voting in their country's general election right now. after a terror attack in london. weeks after the bombing at the ariana grande concert in manchester. the british prime minister theresa may, the conservative party leader is facing off against her main challenger, the labor party leader, jeremy corbyn. may took power after the britts chose to leave the european union. analysts say she called for the snap election three years early to try to boost her majority before starting negotiations with the e.u. it looked all good. now lots of voters say they're more concerned about terrorism and safety than brexit it is. rich edson live with more. this has an effect on the united states as well. >> it does have an effect on the

united states given the security relationship, the intelligence relationship, possibly the most significant one in the world that made its relationship to the british system here with theresa may saying if there's problems because of our special relationship, that she would easily bring them up between the two governments. and jeremy corbyn saying waiting to see which way the wind blows in washington is not a strong relationship. we asked the state department. officials say they're happy to watch the returns. the secretary of state is watching the election. no comment as of now. >> shepard: thanks, rich. breaking a again, president trump hosting a summit on infrastructure with governors and mayors at the white house. he just got some questions about the comey testimony today. i haven't heard this video. here's what happened. it went down in washington three or four minutes ago. they have taken the tape in to play it back.

the white house pool will be playing out this tape and we'll watch it together. i've been told that reporters asked him about comey. see how he responded as they begin the tape playback right now. >> thank you very much. thank you. is thanks. >> shepard: sounds like the audio -- the end of the audio. i can tell you that reporters asked him about this. he withheld -- he didn't speak. self-discipline at that moment. his lawyer did his speaking for him a short time ago. when news breaks out, we break in. the final bell is ringing on

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>> the president of the united states was not under investigation. is that a fair statement? >> that's correct. >> so that's a fact we can rely on? >> yes, sir. >> why didn't you say stop, mr. president. this is wrong. i cannot discuss this with you? >> i was so is stunned by the conversation that i just took it in. >> mr. comey has now admitted that he is one of these leakers. >> neil: all right. the perspective on this is amazing. welcome, everybody. i'm neil cavuto. watching "your world." two very different reads on what