mark preston, in this reporting jim acosta and i each with sources are confirming that mark casowitzbe hired for the inquiry. i understand that the president himself actually called mark pasowitz i'm told this afternoon to talk to him. how significant is this development, having a private attorney representing him with the russia probe? >> it's significant in the fact that he feels he needs to do so. we shouldn't be surprised that he is doing so. he needs to protect himself in his own legal interest. so we see bill cinton do the same thing back when we had the monica lewinsky scandal. we shouldn't be surprised. what we should look at is how donald trump acts in reference to this investigation. we see former fbi director mueller look into these alleged ties between the trump campaign and of course the medaling in the u.s. elections there. >> mark preston, thank you very much. out front, dr. sanjay gupta. and the victims. we're learning about those who lost their lives in the attack, including an eight-year-old girl. security events every day. ddos campaigns, ransomware, malware attack

let's get right to our senior political analyst mark preston. mark, what can you tell us about this phone call between the president of the united states and the russian president? >> well, don, this is going to be the first time these two presidents have spoken since russia condemned the united states for its strike on syria following a gas attack on its own people. now, it's going to be the third time they have spoken since president trump assumed office. in addition to that, this comes amid multiple investigations by the department of justice and congress as well as these trump associates are being investigated about whatever ties they've had. president trump, as we know, don, has been very laudatory about president putin. we have seen talk about nikki haley. she is the u.s. ambassador to the united nations about russia. but given the fact we have all this unrest about russia right now, given syria and what's been going on in north korea over the past 24, 48 hours, it's not a surprise that they are going to talk. >> do you think we'll see a tr

let's get right to our senior political analyst mark preston. what can you tell us about this phone call between the president of the united states and the russian president. >> this is going to be the first time that the presidents spoke since russia condemned the united states for its strikes on syria and it's going to be the third time they have spoken since president trump assumed office. in addition to that, this comes amid multiple investigations by the department of justice and congress as well as these trump associates are being investigated about whatever ties they've had. we have seen tough talk from nikki haley about russia but over the past 24, 28 hours, it's not a surprise that they are going to talk. >> do you think we'll see a transcript of the conversation between these two leaders. >> i would be surprised. we'll see two different readouts. the russia readout and the u.s. readout. >> that conversation, by the way, comes day after several days of interviews with president trump that leaves people scrambling for explanation, not th

mark preston, james comey, not much to talk about today for him. i mean, he's in the middle of a giant firestorm right now on several fronts. but russia front and center still. and you know democrats are going to push and pull for more details about the investigation. >> yeah, they want answers. and rightfully so in many ways because of some of the decisions that director comey made last year and they want to know where the investigation is right now. we speculate a lot about where the investigation could be going, but we don't actually know where it is going at this point and i do think there is a lot of misinformation out there proffered from both sides quite frankly and perhaps director comey might be able to resolve some of that. but if history is any indicator what's going to happen is that he probably won't give us what we're all looking for. >> no, but he almost always gives the public something they did not know before. he moves the ball ever so slightly in some ways that make you look in new directions, which is why you have to watch very,

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i want to bring in mark preston. mark, lots of questions.e looking at three big questions that are likely to come up. tell our viewers what they are. >> i am. again, there are so many questions that he's going to get today. first and foremost, what does president trump know about jared kushner's meetings, you know, as a representative of him, specifically with the russian bank executive sergey gorkov as well as the russian ambassador sergey kislyak. and the reason being, this brings it so much closer to president trumpb th than the li of paul manafort or michael flynn. what does he know about these meetings and was he supportive of them. secondly, we saw mike dubke resign. is this the beginning of a big wave of people leaving? we've heard about sean spicer leaving or moving into another role. what is going to happen to reince priebus? could we see someone like david urban, who is a contributor at cnn but is well liked and corey lewandowski has been seen at the white house in the last few days. it's been said that senate should change its rul

trump benefits from confusion and chaos, as mark preston was saying. but i think we're seeing the value of the briefings today, brook. at that briefing, i think reporters were asking the same questions that my mom has, that my brothers have, that my wife have, that people watching at home have. so we're talking about the value of the briefings, whether they're going to continue. i think trump was just trolling us today, by saying, maybe we should rethink the briefings and not hold them anymore. trying to stir up the pot and create more confusion and uncertainty. >> imploreygloria, what do you that? >> i would argue with sean's point that we're trying to parse words here. i think we were trying to figure out why the president of the united states fired his fbi director. and i don't think that's a question that's a gotcha question. i think it's a question we ought to be asking. and we didn't get a straight answer to it. in fact, we got one answer -- >> we still don't know. >> right, we got one answer from the podium. we got another answer from the presid

let's get right to mark preston, gloria borger and jim sciutto. there is a lot. a lot of names there. a lot of different nuances and different story lines going on there, but it all relates to russia, jim. president trump is back in washington now. the russia probe is getting bigger and bigger. cnn is learning the house intelligence committee now wants information from former white house official boris epshteyn. this comes as the former national security adviser michael flynn is going to turn over those documents to the senate intelligence committee. what else can you tell us? >> originally, retired general flynn had refused to hand over information to testify. now he's providing some of those documents. they relate to his businesses, and this relates to russia. we know as well that michael cohen, longtime lawyer for president trump, has been asked for information as well. he is refusing. we don't know yet what boris epshteyn's answer is to requests from the hill for documents, testimony, et cetera as well. >> gloria, president trump's personal attorney michael c

let's bring back in our panel, mark preston, nia-malika henderson, bob baer, laura coates, dana bash, evan perez. and evan, to you first. as andy mccabe sits down, what questions will he be drilled with off the bat, do you believe? >> well, one of the first questions i'm sure they're going to ask him is how he found out that his boss, james comey, was fired. we know how comey found out. he was addressing agents at the los angeles field office when fox news incorrectly reported that he had resigned. and he sort of laughed it off because he knew he hadn't resigned. then he sees cnn and others start reporting that high been fired, and that's when he really found out. so, that is the big question for mccabe. and obviously, the other question is how is this firing going to affect this investigation into russian meddling in the 2016 election? that's obviously one of the biggest resource-driven investigations at the fbi. we know comey had asked for more resources. we're going to see what the fbi is doing about trying to get those resources to do this investigation as quickly as possible. >>

we got it all covered for you, bringing in cnn's mark preston and pamela brown. pamela, starting with you, you first brought this information with the "new york times," president trump asking the former fbi director, james comey, to end the investigation. what are you learning now from the comey memo? >> we are learning he was ap appalled by the alleged request in the oval office meeting back in february where the president essentially asked him to stay behind. there was meeting with the attorney general sessions, said they should go, and asked comey to stay behind according to the source, and at that point, he was asking about the investigation into michael flynn, and according to what former fbi director comey documented in this memo, he basically said, you know, i hope you can let this go, and the way that director comey took it, was that he was essentially asking him to end the probe into michael flynn, and this is one of several memos that former director comey apparently wrote after conversations with president trump because he felt it was important to memo

bob baer is here, mark preston, alan dhers wits. let me start with you so you can explain. you're going to share as much as you can but not enough to put lives at risk if that is what you're trying to do. you're not going to say the city from where this intelligence op ty was able to penetrate top level os f isis to try to protect lives. how top specific and specific was this information? >> as your other reporter summarized, this was really sensitive information about an ongoing and unfolding islamic state terror plot that's caused a great deal of concern among counterterrorism officials. and in a conversation with the russian foreign minister and ambassador, trump is going into details of what the united states knows about this unfolding plot, how the islamic state is pursuing it, trying to put it together, trying to pull it off. and at the same time trying to talk about some of the measures that the united states is taking to try to deal with it. and this is problematic mainly because this is information that the united states has mainly if not exclusively because of a f

we'll start of the with mark preston. mark, i want to talk about the number of people on the president's team who have become caught up in this russian probe. michael flynn, paul manafort, roger stone, carter page, j.k. goran. tonight we learned that his attorney will cooperate if subpoenaed and we've learn the house intelligence committee is asking for asking for information from former white house press official boris epstein. all of this before you get to jared kushner, the president's son-in-law. put this in perspective for us. >> let's look at president trump's orbit from the campaign to where we are right now. michael flynn was a surrogate for him on the campaign trial a trusted ally and somebody he put into a key position in the federal government. that is as national security adviser. however he had to resign only weeks after taking it don because of his discussions, contacts, with the russians. then you have paul manafort, who was the campaign chairman, somebody who was actually responsible for setting up his conv

"out front," mark preston. the americans disapprove of the firing of comey. 49% approve. you heard ed talking to people. they're frustrated but they are still giving him a leash. those people, 85% in that town are still supporting trump. >> yeah. a couple of things, we were at the 100-day mark. he hasn't been in office long enough for his supporters to abandon him. he hasn't had time to do everything he said he was going to do. let's look at public polling. not about the firing of comey but the handling of the communications strategy following the firing of comey, because i do think you're going to see an erosion even more so, erin, in the coming weeks. >> quickly, whites voters without college degrees, core group for donald trump. they had a 57% approval rating in april. now down to 47%. very big drop. >> do you care about average americans? also is president trump level headed? we're also seeing a drop on two key signature issues. the economy and as well as terrorism. he is now in negative territory on both.

let's get right to our senior political analyst mark preston. about this phone call between the president of the united states and the russian president? >> well, don, this is going to be the first time these two presidents have spoken since russia condemned the

let's get to mark preston and jim chuto. there is a lot. there are a lot of names there. a lot of different nuances and story leans going on there. president trump is back in washington now. the russia probe is getting bigger and bigger. cnn is learning that house intelligence committee wants information from boris epshteyn. >> originally retired general flynn had refused to hand over information to testify but now he is providing some of those documents. they relate to his businesses. we know michael cohen, long time lawyer for president trump, has been asked for information as well. he is refusing. we don't yet know what boris epstheyn's response is yet. >> michael cohen also asked to provide that information to congress. total fishing expedition but he's speaking out tonight. >> i spoke with him tonight because there were erroneous reports that he'd been subpoenaed. he made sure to tell me he had not been subpoenaed to testify and added this. if i am subpoenaed to testify and i will comply -- and gladly -- as i have nothing to hide. there no shred of evidence." what he

mark preston is our senior political analyst out front. to the parish as sean spicer, he's not just a katri catholic, but a devout practicing catholic. but it seems like he was excluded. >> sean spicer very well thought of within the church. and he doesn't necessarily talk about it but someone who absolutely follows it and is observing -- his inability to actually be in that audience with the pope is really hurting him. but it just says more about donald trump and his lack of loyalty that he surrounds himself with than it does in his pettiness not inviting sean spicer not being in that group that met with the pope today. >> a source close to the white house said it should be very much seen as a slight. we obviously know jared and ivanka went. this does beg the question of why the president would be so petty? >> right and it could be him setting a message that we have heard rumors that sean spicer is going to be removed from giving the daily briefing and will move to another position within the white house. you know what's interesting about

. >> mark preston, lawmakers from both parties seem to agree that f there are tapes and they do existy need to be turned over to congress. do you think the bipartisan -- that kind of bipartisan cooperation will extend to other aspects of this overall investigation. >> you know, wolf, i think it's inevitable in many ways, and the reason being we've already seen it in the united states senate when it comes to the intelligence committee and their investigation. we have seen how the house of representatives bungled their investigation initially and caused a lot of concern about that, but you have to wonder at some point when will republicans decide to go forward and ask themselves for a special prosecutor. to them that is a political advantage because it takes it off their plate. it allows someone else to go in and actually do the investigating and then they can, you know, wipe their hands clean of it. in the very least you would wonder why they wouldn't ask for a bipartisan commission along the lines of the 9/11 commission. for them, you know, there's a lot of criticism, wolf, that repub

let get right to mark preston, jeff zeleny and michael isikoff. president trump held his first news conference since the avalanche of breaking stories this week and he was asked about the comey memo. let's take a look. >> at any time urge former fbi director james comey to back down or close the investigation into michael flynn? and also as you -- >> no, no. next question. >> you get the sense the president did not want to talk about that. it was an opportunity for him to give his side of the story, his rebuttal to all of the information that we've been learning in the memorandums that the fbi director was holding and really keeping in realtime here. but the president made clear that he's angry by this ideaf anndendent investigation into this, of course it's a distraction, he called it a witch hunt. he i didn't mince word as he talked about what he really thinks about this investigation. let's watch. >> well, i respect the move but the entire thing has been a witch hunt. and there is no collusion between certainly myself and my campaign, but i can

mark preston, what's the reaction you're getting from republicans to this bombshell report which we'veow confirmed that the president sought to try to convince comey to drop the investigation of michael flynn. >> >> right. we've seen the very public posture of many republicans where they are now taking a wait and see attitude. we want to see an investigation. some republicans have gone so far, wolf, as to say, you know, we need an independent prosecutor to kwhom in to actually look this. now behind the scenes what being told is there as a concern right now because republicans say trump as the possibility of weighing them down. when i say that going into 2018, if republicans lose control of the house of representatives and democrats take it over, day one democrats can start issuing subpoenas for everything out of the white house, because they will have control at that point. that is very dangerous for the republican party because it could put trump in jeopardy did have all things he's been trying to hide. >> they could subpoena his income tax returns among other things. jeffrey toobin,

. >>> and mark preston, the senior analyst. let's start with north korea, the president of the united states just said and we heard him say it he would be honored to meet a murdering ruthless dictator. >> big mistake, the president of the united states needs to be quiet in terms of our relationship with north korea. look, for the past seven years while the kim jong-un military is in power. we've created a strong military and alliance in the region, worked as best as we can to try to contain north korea and hopefully modify their behavior. inarguably, none of that has worked. >> they have made a lot of progress, they have gotten the nuclear weapons. >> and north korea will continue to march along this path. the president of the united states should not be honored to meet kim, not a single bit. what has to happen there has to be at the lowest levels of diplomatic exchanges, we have to start to build a foundation where there can be trust and we have to be able to see there is behavior modification going on, we haven't seen it. >>

cupp, mark preston, cnn's political analyst. what did you make of this extraordinary interview in what and once the result was known, did you call president obama? what did you say to him? >> yeah, i called president obama. and i called -- i called donald trump. yeah. >> did you have any message for president obama? >> you know, look, i mean, i was very proud to serve in his administration. and i said ad nauseum during the campaign, president obama didn't get the credit he deserved for saving our economy and passing the affordable care act. i just don't think he got that credit. so, look, again, you can read all about this excruciating analysis that i'm engaged in right now when i'm not in the woods walking my dog. >> is it therapy? >> i wouldn't say it's therapy. i would say that it is cathartic because, you know, it's very difficult to succeed a two-term president of your own party. that is a historical fact. and democrats haven't done it since, lord knows, since the 1820s or '30s. the republicans did it once with george bush

. >> the president, mark preston, seems sort of uncomfortable as we just saw in that exchange with johnkerson, and at one point he said i don't stand by anything. so what does he stand for? >> we don't know. quite frankly, you know, politically he doesn't seem to be an ideologue so he doesn't stand necessarily or is a hard core conservative or social conservative. once a democrat, but when it comes to these issues as gloria is noting, the president's words mean something, so he doesn't have the luxury of being a private citizen going out there and making an accusation and stepping back and saying oh, i have my opinion and you have your opinion. no, you don't. you're the president. united states. if you're going to make an accusation, you better back it up. you know, wolf, a lot of people thought his unpredictable and his chaos would be such a strength for him because it would keep people on guard, so to speak. in many ways i think that's been a liability because i do think our allies around the world are looking towards washington for some kind of direction and they don't know what dire

mark preston, so far president trump hasn't been all that successful in getting a new legislative agendaugh the house and the senate, but he has been successful with his executive orders trying to dismantle much of president obama's agenda. now if he gets the u.s. to withdraw from the paris climate accords, that's another setback to what the former president tried to achieve. >> right. another major setback in many ways, and we've all been talking here at this table about how president trump would see successes using executive orders business basically bypassing congress and being able to do legislating by fiat. now at the end of his rope, so to speak, so he can't do that. the paris climate accord though, a different situation right now. you've got to wonder though, when you have rex tillerson, his secretary of state, when you have a very conservative energy secretary bolt saying that they don't want him to leave, you have just about every country in the globe saying that they should stay in, you would think that his ability to listen to steve bannon and the nationalist agenda doesn't se

i want to bring in the senior political analyst mark preston, our congressional correspondent phil mattingly and chief political correspondent dana bash. eric is still with us, as well. mark, how significant potentially could this public testimony by the fired fbi director be? >> very significant. and we should note to our viewers that comey and mueller are very close, you know, they have worked together very well. when he does come up to capitol hill it is going to be a very orchestrated dance. there's no question what he sayses before congress when he does testify as eric has reported that it's going to be with a blessing of mueller. there's not going to be anything that's going to be put out there that will jeopardize the independent counsel investigation that robert mueller is going to do. i've got to tell you what, if i'm the white house right now, if i'm donald trump right now, i'm concerned. these are very damning allegations against the president. >> dana, it will certainly keep all of this russia investigation right atop the agenda. >> look, i am not afraid to admit on television th

-- was communication directors for ted cruz's plane, and , and cnn's senior political analyst mark preston margaret hoover, former eighth. thanks so much for being here. margaret. let's talk about this. lindsey graham says the democrats cleaned our clocks. he said that this is not winning from the republican point of view. this is reacts that it needs a good shutdown in september to fix this mess. >> what part alet university railroad living in. by the way, the results of every government shutdown starting with newt ging run in 1995 have hurt the party that forced the shutdown. americans want their government to work. >> so you can tell yourself this mantra, and maybe you can convince that 40% base that that is the case, but there's stalls always going december not that any of those other 40% aren't reasonable, but people are not going to buy it, okay? i don't buy it. and i'm not -- i've seen it hurt republicans. >> alice, when paul ryan this morning, when asked about trump's tweet, when he says the pr machine that democrats are pushing, don't look at the press releases, look at the bill.

let get right to mark preston, jeff zeleny and michael isikoff. president trump held his first news conference since the avalanche of breaking stories this week and he was asked about the comey memo. let's take a look. >> at any time urge former fbi director james comey to back down or close the investigation into michael flynn? and also as you -- >> no, no. next question. >> an emphatic no. what else did the president say? >> don, you get the sense that the president did not want to talk about that. there had a pushback on this. it was an opportunity for him to give his side of the story, his rebuttal to all of the information that we've been learning in the memorandums that the fbi director was holding and really keeping in realtime here. but the president made clear that he's angry by this idea of an independent investigation into this. it's the last thing he wanted. of course it's a distraction, he called it a witchhunt. he i didn't mince words as he talked about what he really thinks about this investigation. let's watch. >> well, i respect t

cupp, mark preston, cnn's political analyst.t did you make of this extraordinary interview in what seemed to me like one of hillary clinton's most revealing appearances she's really ever made? >> i agree. i think those long walks have helped her. and she thinks she should be the president of the united states right now. that came through. but it appears also that she's resigned to reality. she broke news on many different fronts. she described herself as part of the resistance now, which i thought was really interesting to hear and probably is a good sign, pam, in the coming weeks, coming months that she's going to be very vocal against president trump and his policies. >> s.e. cupp, she put the blame squarely on james comey on the letter that he sent shortly before the election and russia's interference for why she's not president of the united states. >> yeah. she does what she does, which is pay lip service to the things they thinks she should say but you can tell very quickly she didn't really mean it. she did a lot of that

i'm mark preston and gloria borger standing by.ize issue or responding to republicans or why has the president been so quiet and dodged all of those questions? >> right. didn't answer it at all. in many ways i don't know how he would answer it and he's been put in a difficult situation going out there and protecting the president, his boss, the leader of the free world being put in a position of indefensible on many different things. not even john mccain, as you said. and we saw paul ryan come out and say that he wants to see this investigation through, so to speak, and last night on our air, we saw the governor of ohio, john kasich, come out and say this isn't a time for republicans to hide. right now you're seeing a white house that is in absolute crisis mode because they are not only losing independence but now we're starting to see fissures with the president. >> also he dodged the question on whether president putin's offer of the transcript from the other meeting which could help or maybe entirely opposite effect. he totally

now our senior political analyst, mark preston, former white house communications director for president director for the trump transition team jason miller. jason, you just heard sean spicer, superlative after superlative in a row. he was laying them out pretty thick. it truly does sound like he believes this was the most consequential trip by an american president in history. >> it was definitely an important trip. i think president trump did a fantastic job with his speech in saudi arabia and i think after eight years where i believe we had weak leadership at the helm of the united states, finally we had a strong, tough, confident leader who was helping to restore america's standing in the rest of the world. i think in particular i was happy to see that president trump was willing to stand up and deliver some tough words to our allies in the eu. i think as many trump supporters around the country, people who voted for him this past november who think we have been pushed around far too long and other allies haven't been paying their fair share, we were glad to see that. >> jen, unprece

out of this important briefing of council members, with house members, is cnn political analyst mark preston and former assistant u.s. attorney nick ackerman. he was part of the team that prosecuted the watergate case. all right, so, nick, first to you, because cummings was asked about it and jackie speier's talking about it as well, which is can congress continue with their investigations while, now that there is a special counsel investigating all of this? democrats say yes. lindsey graham said he doesn't think so. he thinks this has knocked him out of the game. >> lindsey graham is dead wrong. you just have to look at the history and what happened during the watergate case. there was not only the special prosecutor who was investigating the same allegations, but there was also the senate select committee. later on there was the house impeachment committee. each of these entities have their own responsibilities here, and there is no reason why any of these congressional committees should drop the ball. the only part of prediction that comes in on any of these is whether or not you grant im

let get right to mark preston, jeff zeleny and michael isikoff. president p

. >> you know, it seems like these battle lines are being drawn, as our mark preston said earlier, becausee comey's very good friend, benjamin wittes, coming out and speaking very publicly about comey's feelings. and this was fascinating, how apparently, the former fbi director, comey, feels about rosenstein. listen to this. >> he had concerns about rod. and what he specifically said was -- and i'll never forget it -- he said rod is a survivor. >> meaning he's lived through democratic and republican administrations. >> yeah. and you know, you don't get to survive that long without making some compromises. and so, he said, so, i have concerns. >> senator, do you share those concerns about rosenstein? >> well, obviously, there is now great tension between rosenstein and comey. what rosenstein told us yesterday was that in his opinion, in the opinion of many people who worked in the justice department, is that comey violated the policies of the justice department by blurring the line between investigators, which is the fbi, and prosecutorial decisions, which is the justice department. and whe

. >> "outfront," our senior political analyst, mark preston, former adviser to four presidents, davidn, former white house adviser for obama, jen sake, and former senior adviser to the campaign, jack kingston. thanks to all. you heard sean spicer saying, look, the real reason president obama warned donald trump about flynn was because flynn was critical of obama. he didn't like him, and that is why trump dismissed the warning, because he thought it was one guy not liking another. does that add up to you? >> it is true that it wasn't a state secret what president obama thought of michael flynn. he fired him in 2014. and his views were shared by a number of people high up in the national security team who worked under president obama and who had worked under republicans as well. because the jump from dia to national security adviser is a big jump. he's somebody who didn't have expertise in a lot of areas that would be relevant, and they thought there was a widespread thought that there were better people for the job. it's not a surprise he shared that. but the more concerning warning to

. >> but if they can't, mark preston, get it the through this time, and as you point out maybe they willey will get the 216 votes, but let's say they can't. is it over? >> in the near term it's over and strategically it would be smart for them to actually put it aaside and try to get some accomplishments done, but -- but if they can't get it now, wolf, then i really do think they have to recalibrate their thinking hon how many they can get it done. >> let's remember we thought it was over last time when this bill fell apart. the president said we're done. we're moving on, and then they went right back to it and behind the scenes it reflects how important this is to the larger agenda that the president wants to push forward. >> right, and as david says, which is absolutely correct, the fact is if it comes out as a squeaker out of the house, not like it has a whole lot of momentum going into the senate where it will get eviscerated. >> stand by. following other major developments including new activity at north korea's nuclear test site. is kim jong-un about to order a new underground expl

we have jeff mason, mark preston and nia-malika henderson. this is the thing.thing good happens and it's on your watch, you kind of get credit. but how much can donald trump in reality claim this as a win? >> completely, right? i mean, you know, there is obviously obama should get some credit as well. president trump will take all the credit. i don't think obama, his job numbers were horrible at this point. he probably was blaming bush at that point. but yeah, give him the credit. i think he's had a good show of it in terms of what the stock market is doing, what consumer confidence is looking like. certainly in terms of how people feel about the economy. i think a lot of people rightfully credit him because he is talking the economy up and these job numbers show there is confidence and people are hiring. >> they're optimistic about the future. real credit, where does he deserve credit? if you're looking at the top two or three things you think he gets credit for, what would those be? >> i think the big success has been getting justice gorsuch on the supreme co

we got it all covered for you, bringing in cnn's mark preston and pamela brown.amela, starting with you, you first brought this information with the "new york times," president trump asking the former fbi director, james comey, to end the investigation. what are you learning now from the comey memo? >> we are learning he was ap appalled by the alleged request in the oval office meeting back in february where the president essentially asked him to stay