to quiz his director mccabe about politics and this on the screen, march 22, director of intel daniel coatso this briefing at the white house, trump asks everyone to leave the room except for coats and cia director mike pompeo then the president starts cla s complain about the fbi investigation and comey's handling and then asked comey if he could intervene and then to back off of mike flynn. so all of these in interviews and all of this to some degree being the backdrop for a white house that wants to talk again about 2ru6r7 doidonald trump do interview, but you want to know if this is a distraction from those bad stories. >> i don't know if it's a distraction, but in your public relations stance, you always want to appear cooperative. you always want to say i'm the one that's cooperative, i'm acting in good faith here, so that if you have to pull out, it can be what the other side is asking for. if can come out and fully tell the truth or else they'll slap charges on you. but when you go through those stories, i think the remarkable thing, you have seen a lot of those stories, you mention