there he is in the oval office today. hi. while the president answers questions about firing the fbi director who was leading the investigation into his connections to russia. you know, the day after he fired the fbi director who was leading the investigation into trump and russia, the day after that firing the administration welcomed to washington the russian foreign minister so he could throw the firing of the fbi director in the faces of american reporters with a sneer. >> welcome. >> thank you very much. i want to welcome foreign minister lavrov to the state department. we can continue our dialogue that began in moscow with the dialogue he hosted from a very broad range of topics. thank you. >> does the comey firing cast a shadow of your talks? >> that same day the russian foreign minister turned up in the oval office, as well. u.s. reporters and photographers were not allowed any access to that meeting. we got these photos of that meeting because the russian foreign minister brought with him a photographer from a russian

once he got into the oval office, for instance i give you changes that took place. fdr took away a job from an assistant general unassisted on reviewing and giving final approval for every stamp that came out during his term as president. that happened to be 206 stamps. on top of that, he designed several stamps, his most famous was the admiral burke he was very good friends with admiral byrd. he was doing his second expedition and fdr personally designed the stamp also with f fdr. you have his close ally is general and he had a stamp collector sitting in the oval office. they did so many things to change the face of the post office. one was putting it as fdr suggested a window. what the window was cut city don't like stamp collecting being rushed from there looking at stamps because the customer with the heavy parcel mumbling behind them. so he put in windows thoroughly to be used by stamp collectors so you could take all your time is the person behind you is going to do the same thing. they introduced first day ceremonies which go on today. that was james follies

between once he got into the oval office, for instance, i will give you changes that took place. fdr personally took away a job from a assistant postmaster general and he insisted on reviewing and giving final approval to every stamp that came out during his four terms as president. that happen to be 206 stamps. on top of that, he designed several stamps. his most famous was the admiral byrd who he was very good friends with. he was doing his second and arctic exposition and he personally designed a stamp. also, fdr and james fawley, his close ally as postmaster general and a stamp collector sitting in the oval office and they did to semi- things to change the face of the post office. one of them was putting in at fdr's suggestion a philatelic window and with a philatelic window he said i don't like stamp collecting being rushed when they're looking at the stamp at a normal window because there is a customer with a heavy parcel mumbling behind them, so he put in philatelic windows that were only to be used by stamp collectors so you could take all your time at that window because

at some point, he says why do you kick everybody out of the oval office and just leave me in and make the case that he hopes the investigation against flynn that he can move on from it? the opening statement was surprising, it was strong, he took his clothes off right away. at numerous times, he directly called president trump a liar. that said, the biggest losers, loretta lynch. the former attorney general who clearly told him to call the clinton email investigation a matter and not an investigation. the other loser, the media. comey says there are many, many stories pointing to anonymous sources that are dead wrong. "the new york times" was called out numerous times in this hearing. i think you're going to look at this overall and you're going to see both sides are going to see points. i think jim comey comes off as answering all questions pretty forthcoming. >> bill: thanks. chris wallace, let's go around the horn. chris, where do you think we are now? >> there were different audiences watching this. if i were donald trump's lawyer, i'd be pretty happy because repeatedly, and up to

a significant fact to me is so why did he kick everybody out of the oval office. why would you kick the attorney general, the president, chief of staff, out to talk to me if it was about something else? he said how about 6:30. and i said whatever works for you, sir. and then i hung up and had to call my wife and break a date with her, i was supposed to take her out to dinner that night. >> that's one of the all-time great excuses. when a president of the united states in the oval office says something like i hope or i suggest or would you, to you take that as a directive? >> yes. it rings in my ear that will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest. >> chris matthew, it's really something to hear it all together back to back there. and what a portrait it paints of jim comey and trump. >> it's a character difference. the president is imaginative in how he portrays reality. he will come up with references that don't make any sense, but he gets around with it politically. doem iscomey is a man of neat ne taking and honesty and who tried to trim his relationship with w

once he got into the oval office, for example, i will give you changes that took place. fdr took a job from a general and he insisted on reviewing and on top of that, most famous was the admiral and doing second expedition. now you had ally as post master general. they did so many things to change the face of the post office. one of them is a window, he said, i don't like stamp collecting being rushed when they are looking at the stamps at a normal window because there's a customer with a heavy parcel mumbling behind him and so he put in windows that were only to be used by stamp collectors. you could take all your time at that window because the person behind you was going to do the same thing. they introduced first ceremonies. the first time they would see a new stamp is when they went to the window and buy a new sheet of stamps. we have to get ceremonies to get papers out and newspapers and that's a very good tool to give the information out. two men really changed the face of the post office department. this is actually a piece that belonged to the fdr collection and

on this issue of michael flynn, the alleged request we heard about in the oval office. the president allegedly saying to comey, i hope you can let it go. comey pressed on that today. the president saying i hope, not i order you let it go. here's the moment comey was pressed on that point. listen. >> i hope you'll hold back on that but when you -- when the president of the united states in the oval office says something i hope, i suggest or would you -- do you think that as a directive? >> yes. >> well, look, i think that the way james comey took it is fairly clear, he took it as a directive, an order from the president, and it's an order that he said that he would ignore. why didn't he do something about it? he said he didn't want to derail the russia investigation. a bit of a bombshell, they specifically left open the possibility of investigating the president himself for that comment down the road. >> and dan, on this notion of james comey leaking his own memos, he hoped an independent counsel which would happen. the white house now targeting comey about the leak, doe

. >> reporter: sanders would not say if the president tapes oval office conversations. this was her response when asked to check. >> i'll try to look under the couches. >> reporter: sanders also said the president does indeed have confidence in attorney general jeff sessions. scott, that comes after two straight days in which the white house refused to answer that question. >> the "cbs overnight news" will be right back. >>> it was last month that the federal investigation into all of this was turned over to an independent special counsel, former fbi director robert mueller. our chief legal correspondent jan crawford tonight has a look at the law. >> i don't think it's for me to say whether the conversation i had with the president was an effort to obstruct. >> reporter: throughout the hearing former director james comey was careful not to say whether he thought the president broke the law, as in this exchange with west virginia democrat joe manchin. >> do you believe this will rise to obstruction of justice? >> i don't know. that's bob mueller's job, to sort that out.

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to your point, if there's this cloud swirling and there's a guy in the oval office -- >> and you know you're not a target and -- >> he keeps asking and -- >> because he wants to be -- >> sure. no one said he was being investigated personally but he keeps asking and asking and let's give him the benefit of the doubt. then why with comey in this recollection of mike flynn conversation in which he talks to the president and i replied only that he's a good guy, goes on and i did not say that i would let this go. the questions of the president saying to comey, let this go on the probe into mike flynn. >> right. i think this came out in an interview, the president talks about -- >> do you not take comey at his word that this did not happen? >> let me be very clear about this. i do not take jim comey at his words. a lot of democrat friends don't take james comey at his word. most in the green room were saying he should be fired for what he did to hillary clinton. no, he lacks credibility. does that mean everything he says is untrue? of course not. but for me i take it as a grain of salt. i w

isn't it really coming from the oval office? >> well, yes. i cannot discuss.tement -- on german cars, german auto manufacturers, gaming system, which they're not. i mean, those kinds of issues hurt. clearly, too, you know, many of our no partnerselt like they were being talked to unfairly. while at the same time the saudis, it was important to reset relations by the saudis, while at the same time being perhaps too critical of some of our european partners. it's been unsettling. >> what can we do now going forward to reset it? obviously we're in the middle of an investigation. mueller is not going to go away. this could take a long time. how do you get anything accomplished, things that people really care about that affects their daily lives? >> well, if i were in the white house right now, i would simply say less is more, and, you know, the president has a good lawyer in don mcgann. he has his outside counsel and former director mueller who is the special counsel. he is a reputable man. now it's in his hands. there's really not much to say until robert mueller

does anybody want to see the oval office? we'll leave them behind.to do a little official business, health care is working along very well. we could have a big surprise with a great health care package. so, now they're happy. >> what do you mean by big surprise, sir? >> i said you're going to have a great, great surprise. it's going to be great. >> all right. so we were hanging in there for that final point as he's meeting with the chicago cubs, it was that final point that he said official business talking about health care, saying we could have a big, big surprise. brian and david are with me. let's just -- let's go rogue for a second just on what we just heard, brian. i mean, listen, this is a man who doesn't sit down to do interviews so it's very tough for us to crawl into his brain and understand where he is on health care or how he plans to move this thing forward because clearly mitch mcconnell, the senate majority leader, couldn't get to 50. this is -- this is all we have. >> big surprise implies maybe he's going to get this bill through the

patrick geary, bbc news, at the oval.oot again underlining why he is one of the best in all formats of the game. ebony rainford brent is with me. as patrick mentioned, joe root got a calf injury in that match and yet still went on to achieve his tenth 0di century. he quite some player. is a bit of a superman. what i liked about his innings, wickets go quite quickly and a lot of other batsman would come back and get flustered and he was so calm, he paces his innings. he was even injured, it's a bit of a nervous concern because he went over and initially we thought it was his ankle but when interviewed he talks about how he might hopefully have got calf cramp and it might be something more. even with that he could mentally compose himself and really craft a brilliant 133. he's a really craft a brilliant 133. he's a really important cog in this wheel. and impressive from england because there was no sign of panic, and very composed performance, the one slight concern was the performance of jason roy at the top of the order,

yes, the oval -- the idea of the oval office is intimidating, he may be in fact, intimidating for the first few times you're there, for the first 15 minutes. [laughter] >> if you've been -- the u.s. attorney in two districts f you've been the deputy attorney general f you've been for a number of years, the director of the fbi and you're intimidated by being in the oval office, you're in the wrong job. paul: how should he have react today that? >> if he thought what he says he thought, mr. president, we can't have this conversation. >> and he said he thought he was being direct today shut down that portion of the probe, the flynn probe, he should have said, we can't have this conversation and talk to the attorney general? >> sure. talked to the attorney general. i don't think that it would have been reporting a crime but he should have talked to the attorney general immediately so that anybody else was aware of what had happened when everybody left the room. paul: what about the idea that james comey has talked about, he used the word, the fbi is traditionally been independent of the e

the problem is now that he's in the oval office, there are ramifications when he says this. specifically, as was just mentioned, james comey, then, went to his friend who went to the press. the second thing is, as we have seen play out in the last 41 days, is congress in its responsibility of investigating this is going to ask for those tapes. so there are consequences for what the president said. >> well, the deadline for him to release the tapes was tomorrow. the deadline was actually tomorrow. >> he cut it kind of close. >> right. right. or he was coming clean, according to a trump associate. he was coming clean to the public. obviously he has nothing to hand over to house intel. and then just folding this all together, shannon, back over to you at the white house, the white house responding to all of this by banning the press briefing from being leave so we could hear the audio of sarah huckabee sanders, but we could not watch her. why? >> what i have been told by outside strategists working with the white house is it's an attempt to sort of cool the temperature around t

grilled on that moment in the oval office when the president asked everyone to leave except for james comey, and he's asked? ea> also breaking tonight, the r . in a coma for more than a year. >>> the urgent manhunt in this country. armed and dangerous, two escaped prisoners on the run. accused of killing two prison guards. >>> the invisible danger. dozens of people sickened. the first warning sign -- a woman collapses. then others fall ill. emergency teams rushed to the scene. >>> and the major break, the err two daughters from college, and another couple in their home. tonight, the takedown. >>> good evening, and it's great to have you with us here on a very busy tuesday night. and we begin with atrney general jeff sessions, on capitol hill, under oath. he said he would defend his honor, calling any claims that he colluded with russia a, but he was also pressed about meetings with russians and that encounter in the oval office. enwh the attorney general and everyone else in the room was asked to leave by the presidenta s ptcoceexmey. abc's senior justice correspondent pierre thomas l

>> any of you have been in the oval is a very intimidating place. the president of the united states t leader states, the leader of the free world. when the leader of the free world calls you in the office and clears the room says what he hopes what you will do. >> first, he turns and asks, do you like your job? >> do you your job? >> are you going to be loyal? >> do you like your job? that sets the tone of the conversation from the beginning. >> that's a pattern. >> do you loo i can your job, i want loyalty. i hope you will do this. >> the speaker says he's new at this? no, he's not new at obeying the law. >> is he abusing his power? >> i think that he could say that he's given reasons to believe that this should be looked into. >> many democratic colleagues and yesterday and others are mentioning, we are not going so far to suggest that this is obstruction of justice based on what they know and they'll leave it to bobueer to sort out. do you see it is something inappropriate? >> it is certainly inappropriate. let megge get back to your question, y

seated at a small oval table in the center of a green room.y stewards waited on us, only entering to serve food and drinks. the president began by asking me whether i wanted to stay on his fbi director which i found strange because he had already told me twice in earlier conversations he hoped i would stay and i ensured him. lots of people wanted my job and the abuse he had taken, he would understand if i wanted to walk away. my instincts told me that the one on one setting and the pretense that this was our first discussion about my position meant the dinner was, at least in part, an effort to have me ask for my job and create some sort of relationship. that concern med grately. given the fbi's traditionally independent status in the executive branch. i relied that i love my work and i intended to serve out my ten-year term as director, and then because the set-up made me uneasy, i added that i was not reliable in the way politicians use that word. but he could always count on know tell him the truth. i added that i was not on anybody's side

anybody in the trump campaign circle co lude or co ord nordinate in any with the rauussians in the oval office. as we know from past history, you don't know where it's going to go. the other thing i found interesting is the republicans did not challenge jim comey's account. nobody said you're not telling the truth. nobody said this didn't happen. what they tried to say was well, could you take it in a different context, that this is president trump, he had fired michael flynn, he's a friend, he's a loyalist. cut some guy ss some slack. it is interesting. they didn't say jim comey is lying. they said can we interpret this in a way that's much more kind to the president. but they did not question the facts that he asked for loyalty. he pulled him aside and said can you go easy or do something and this is in a legal context now, even as thigh tried to give a kinder view of this for the president, they didn't challenge the facts. they did not say at any point we don't think you're telling the truth. >> it's going to be a he said versus she said on several of these sensitive points, nia and,

two portions of the hearing from the president's valentine's day meeting in the oval office when he asked the director to drop the investigation of fired general flynn. and the friendly language in director comey's account and director comey pushing back. >> he did not direct you to let it go. >> not in his words, no. >> he did not order you to go? >> again, those words are not in order. >> he said, i hope. like me, you probably did hundreds of case, maybe thousands of cases charging people with criminal offenses and you have knowledge of the thousands of cases outside there where people have been charged. 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 is i took it as a direction. it's the president of the united states with me alone saying, i hope this. i took it as this is what he wants me to do. >> we're going to hear from senator rich shortly. vice chairman mark warner of virgi

reporter: three weeks later, he says, the president ordered everyone but him out of a meeting in the oval office. >> had you ever seen anything like that before? >> no. my sense was the attorney general knew he shouldn't be leaving, which is why he was lingering, and i don't know mr. kushner well, but i think he picked up on the same thing. and so i knew something was about to happen that i needed to pay very close attention to. >> reporter: once they were alone, he says, the president told him, "i hope you can see your way clear to dropping an f.b.i. investigation involving fired national security adviser michael flynn. california democrat dianne feinstein: >> why didn't you stop and say, "mr. president, this is wrong. i cannot discuss this with you." >> maybe if i were stronger, i would have. i was so stunned by the conversation that i just took it in. >> reporter: idaho republican dan richman: >> he did not direct you to let it go. >> not in his words, no. i mean, this is the president of the united states, with me alone, saying "i hope this," i took it as this is what he wants me to d

>> yes. >> okay. >> well, i think there's a big difference in kicking superior officers out of the oval office, looking the f.b.i. director in the eye and saying, "i hope you let this go." i think if agents, as good as they are, heard the president of the united states did that, there's a real risk of a chilling effect on their work. si reporter: president trump cs disputed comey's account, ten tweeting last month, "james comey better hope there are no tapes of our conversations." >> lordy, i hope there are tapes. th reporter: comey says that tweet, three days after he was fired, led him to take an unusual step. he asked a friend, columbia law professor, dan richman, to share the contents of his memos with a "new york times" reporter. >> i thought that might prompt the appointment a special htunsel. >> so why didn't you give those y somebody yourself rather than give them through a third party? >> because i was worried. the media was camping at the end of my driveway at that point, and i was actually going of town inth my wife to hide, and i worried it would be like feeding seagulls at

joe wilson, bbc news, at the oval. that's it.n the bbc news channel. hello. this is bbc news. it's one of the bbc‘s most iconic programmes — with an audience of up to two—and—a—half—million people a week. gardeners' world has turned 50. kay alexander has been rooting through the archives to find out why the show has experienced such enduring success. 50 years ago, the advent of colour television enabled the bbc to make a new horticultural programme and gardeners' world was born. it was presented by the legendary percy thrower from his garden near shrewsbury, the magnolias. good evening. september. the sun still shining. in my family, everything stopped dead for gardeners' world. my mother was a keen gardener and so was this little girl. i am still a big fan of the programme. peter seabrook was one of the presenters in the 19705 and is still a big influence in gardening today. percy thrower was god, and everybody watched every friday without question. and if percy showed a plant on his programme, then by 10am the next day, they wo

it's the same thing comey describes in his oval office meeting. there's a bunch of folks there, the president kicks him out and he has comey one-on-one and asks him to end the flynn investigation. now you start to look at a pattern here. if you're someone like mueller, you say, well, if there's this with comey and this with the director of national intelligence, what other mings may be out there. what other interactions like this could have happened? it doesn't seem like the president was shy about doing this. who else knows about this kind of thing? >> speaking about not being shy, mika, we'll be back next segment. >> if it takes this pre testimony to see a pattern here, republicans, you've got really thick heads. you've got a really big problem with the pattern this president has put forward even before we got to these hearings. this is going to be on you if you walk the plank. up next, i'm going to go through the oval office meeting that comey describes in his opening testimony when the president tried to get him to let the flynn investigation

trump has violated any suggestion that he should be trusted with the oval office. we are members of the united states congress, men and women, who represent the people. the people seek not to have seek or queens but they of the n office presidency that can be trusted. today mr. trump you have ceased to have the trust of the american people. when you begin to of the presidency that can be trusted. the diminishing of those who have mental health needs, psycho joe. a low i.q. mica. then you begin to talk about the private issues of women who have before in life been segregated and discriminated against because they are women. blood from wherever. or your face is bleeding. do you realize how many women workplaces of which we fight for equality, in schools, in their homes with the issue of domestic violence because they're not protected? and then our commander in chief seeks to take advantage of the position that he holds. so why do we do it? not for self but for the words that were said about colleagues. look at that face. would anybody vote for that? that was the cand

president trump and south korea's new president in the oval office. we'll bring that to you when it happens. our team up and raring to go this morning. we'll start with that firestorm with the presidential tweets directed at mika brzezinski and joe scarborough. this morning mika responded to the president's attack. >> my family brought me up really tough. this is absolutely nothing for me, personally. but i am very concerned to what this, once again, reveals about the president of the united states. it's strange. big picture, my father just passed away. my mother had two heart attacks and my daughter just lost a friend. those are the things i'm really worried about. those are the things that deeply impact me and leave me thinking about at night and hurting and worrying and thinking about the future. the president's tweets, whether they're personally aimed at me or aimed at me in some way, that doesn't bother me one bit. >> that was just a short time ago here on msnbc. kristen welker is live at the white house. out of the gates, let's do it. today the

came down hard on comey's revelation that he leaked the details of the february 14th meeting in the oval office in order to prop the appointment of a special counsel. marc kasowitz claimed that it formed retaliation against the president. >> we will leave it to the appropriate authorities to determine whether these leaks should be investigated along with all the others that are being investigated. >> comey says that his leak was prompted by the president's tweet that there may be tapes of the conversations. neither the president or in any one on his staff will confirm that there are tapes. a fact that the senate minority leader finds puzzling. >> it is awfully curious that no one from the president's team will either confirm or deny the existence of the tapes. when the tapes are the only way to prove that mr. comey's testimony, which came under oath are false or misleading. >> in his testimony, comey says that he found it highly unusual that the president would shoo everyone out of the oval office to speak with him alone. paul ryan put that down to political inexperience. >> the presiden

we see and i see a series of lies emanating from the oval office.st president we have ever had. >> he's doing exactly what he's saying he would do. he's sticking on the world paris accord. they're happy about it. people are looking at their 4 401-ks. well, the economy is doing okay. a breaking point may come if that stops, if the economy turns. right now with his base, he's doing pretty well, even though what has happened with russians. it is absolutely scandalous, i thought comey made that point very powerful yesterday. it is time that congress got serious about it. >> as a political issue, it may play to those voters but it is not playing to -- >> is it a national security? >> it is a national security issue. both parties need to be presenting a positive, forward agenda. >> let me finish with this and where donald trump, the big danger for him is how much the russian investigation and the scandal and the cloud around it interferes and impedes him being able to advance that agenda. >> do you think he wakes up every morning wondering what is mr. mue

he walks into the oval office and everybody starts leaving. all these people -- the attorney general, his boss fades away. the vice president of the united states fades away. reince priebus tries to come in the door, trump the steers him away. these two guys next to each other. what is so important that trump needs to tell him "believe mike flynn alone. let him be. let flynn --" you know, leave him alone which is as far as i'm concerned evidence of obstruction of justice. then what happens? he doesn't leave him alone and he gets fired for his trouble. >> so john, on this issue there was an exchange with republican senator jim rush over what happened in that meeting and whether the president ordered jim domain stop the investigation or whether he asked him to do so and whether that is a distinction with or without a distinction. >> he did not direct you to let it go? >> not in his words, no. >> he did not order you to let it go? >> again, those words are not in order, no. >> he said "i hope." now, like me, you probably did hundreds of cases, ma

everything that happens in the oval office is tapes. once something is taped in that setting it becomes the property of the people of the united states of america. nobody better mess with them. nobody can lie to a federal investigator. they will get you, not on the russian collusion that probably doesn't exist but lying about contacts is a big deal and trying to destroy tapes, evidence. that is the peril that still faces donald trump who has been exonerated on the criminal side, it seems to me. >> sean: i doubt very much, saying you better be careful to not lie. just putting a thought in his head. i know him pretty well. he's always negotiating. gregg jarrett, i want to get back to the law. i want to get back to 18 usc 4. i want to get back to what jay sekulow was saying. might have violated his employment contract, james comey. >> there are two federal statutes that make it a crime to leak on classified documents. on classified documents. we invite our readers to read them because they arguably apply because comey said i thought these

president trump says he did not record your oval office conversations. but is it too late for trump to reverse the damage? >>> good morning, everyone, and welcome to "early start" on the longest friday of the year. i'm dave briggs. >> no, no, no, the summer was yesterday -- >> but this the longest friday -- oh -- >> of the year. enjoy all the daylight. a longer happy hour, my friend. >> longer hours at the pool. >>> i'm alison kosik, july 23rd. more controversy for the lawmakers this morning. only this time it's not the house trying to replace and repeal health care, it's the senate as gop leaders attempt to get a health care bill passed in a matter of days. the version unveiled by majority leader mitch mcconnell now meeting pushback from the rank and file with just two republican votes to spare. four senators say no. four more

. >> why it took so long, 41 days for it to be laid to rest and if he is recording any oval office conversations. >> he gave you an answer. he said he would have it to you by the end of this week and he

. >> james comey described the faithful february 14th meeting in the oval office when everyone was kicked out except for comey. >> my impression is something big is about to happen, i need to remember every spoken word. i am 56-year-old and i have seen a few things. the attorney general knew he should not believing which is why he was lingering. i knew something was about to happen and i need to pay close attention to. >> the president did not explicitly order him to lay off flynn, that is how he took it. >> i took it as a direction. it is the president of the united states with me alone saying i hope this, i took it as this is what he wants me to do. i did not evade that but that's who i took it. >> he came under scrutiny from lawmakers for not pushing back at the moment. >> why diplomdn't stop and say preside president, this is wrong, i could not discuss this with you. >> a good question, maybe if i am stronger, i was stunned. i didn't want to make it sound like i am captain courageous. i don't know what i would have. >> the president tweeted that he better hopes there is no tapes. >> i

they said they would times 20 what happened in the oval office. >> i think it's very, very important to have this discussion quite frankly and take a step back. what matthew said about the difference between politics and the legality of it, absolutely right there's two roads to look at going forward on this. the idea, where i will disagree with mike, i don't disagree with you very often, the bottom line the media is not out to get donald trump on this. he has created every situation that is has been negative towards him himself. many republican operatives, many of them friends of yours, said that to me today, a level of frustration in your own party because his a agenda is side tracked. he's consumed by this, he has the whole nation quite frankly the whole world consumed by this right now and it's all because of his own doing. that in itself is an issue. >> earlier on cnn there was an interview with a woman do think comey lied, she said no, do you think trump lied, no, she said i think media distorts things, we got to a point where mill yionsf americans believe we are. we saw it agai

there is to be another appearance in the oval office a bit later. perhaps in our second hour of "happening now." we'll have that ready when that happens. back to our discussion with al weaver, political reporter for the "washington examiner" and katie glick, correspond or for mcclatchy newspapers. we were talking about the political divide. if you're a member of the media, as you are these days, how do you try to bridge that divide? >> it is difficult right now. some say that that media has a moment of crisis. i don't buy that. i think it of it as a moment of difficulty for the media. a lot of trump supporters. i know katie does too, where they say, we do not believe that reporting. especially major reports in "the washington post" and "new york times" ." it is tough right now. they point to the president's twitter feed, and his inability to cut the clutter and essence. there are still problems at the media faces right now, but i think it is a challenge to be sure. >> jon: katie, the charge from many trump supporters is that the media will pick apar

because when you go in to the oval office, it's intimidating thing, i guess.he supposed to behave when the president pulls him aside and says something like he said with michael flynn? >> the same way he would behave any place else. yes, the idea of the oval office is intimidating and maybe in fact intimidating for the first few times you are there. for the first 15 minutes. [laughter] >> if you have been a u.s. attorney in two districts, if you have been the deputy attorney general, if you have been for a number of years the director of the fbi and you're intimidated by being in the oval office, you're in the wrong job. paul: how should he have reacted to that? >> if he thought what he says he thought, then he should have said, mr. president, we can't have this conversation. paul: and if he said he thought he was being directed to shut down that portion of the probe, the flynn probe, he should have said we can't have this conversation and talked to the attorney general? >> sure, talked to the attorney general. i don't think that it would have been reporting a

i tell people in the oval office or out of the oval office. if trump had done that, we have a gray area. it is more difficult to prosecute. when he says no, i never said that. didn't happen. now we have a credibility battle. thing truth of the matter is in credibility battle between trump and comey, comey will win. trump has had so many different lies. i think the president really hurt himself in that. >> cynthia, when it comes to this boiling down to he said-he said moment. we know that donald trump has gone up against the federal government before. he has gone through other types of civil cases before. he has been deposed. he has gone under oath many times saying i don't recall. in this instance because he has given such public statements of interaction. how does that set him up almost for a pitfall with bob mueller? >> i think he hurt himself a lot. i think a smart person or with a smart strategy is follow the senator from idaho's strategy. bob mueller is very deliberate and it will be done very slowly and i don't recall is not really going

. >> he said that -- you have no idea whether there's a taping system in the oval office. could you find out. people are wanting to know, as you can imagine.

trump, has violated any suggestion that he should be trusted with the oval office. we are members of the united states congress, men and women, who represent the people. the people seek not to have kings or queens, but they seek to have an office of the presidency that can be trusted. today, mr. trump, you have ceased to have the trust of the american people. when you begin to utilize again the diminishing of those who have mental health needs, sikecow, joe scarborough or low i. q. mika, and then you begin to talk about the private issues of women who have before in life have been discriminated against because they are women, blood is wherever, or your face bleeding, do you realize how workplacesshudder in of which we fight for equality, in schools, in their homes with the issue of domestic violence because they are not protected. and then our commander in chief seeks to take advantage of the position that he holds. so why do we do it? not for self, but for the words that were said about carlie if i reasona, look at that face, that was candidate trump. now we're fac

he will deliver tomorrow before the senate intelligence committee, comey said after a february 14th oval office meeting, he confronted jeff sessions with a request. quote, shortly after the meeting, i spoke with attorney general sessions in person to pass along the president's concerns about leaks. i took the opportunity to implore the attorney general to prevent any future direct communication between the president and me. i told the attorney general that what had just happened, him being asked to leave while the fbi director was there, who reports to the ag, remained

he revealed a details of a private oval office meeting in which the president said he hoped investigators would go easy on mike flynn, the national security adviser who died days before amid allegations he misled the vice president about contacts he had with a russian government official. >> i took it as a direction. i mean, as the president of the united states with me alone saying i hope this, i took it as this is what he wants me to do. >> comey also admitted he passed along information to a friend he knew would leak it to the press in order to provoke the justice department to appoint a special counsel. >> prosecutors argue that reality winner might pose -- might pose a threat of mor stolen government documents. more government secrets. the former air force linguist was working as a government contractor when she apparently copied and mailed the classified report containing top-secret material and an online news organization. house republicans have approved legislation which seeks to dismantle banking regulations put into place after the financial crisis. the financial choice act is m

the article mentions an oval office meeting on february 14th in which, said mr. comey, the president told him, "i hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting flynn go." read more at economist.com. we'll have live coverage of former director comey's testimony before the senate intelligence committee starting at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span3. you can watch it at cspan.org and listen using the c-span radio app. >>> this sunday, q&a is in hyde park, new york, at the franklin d. roosevelt presidential library and museum where we go inside for a rare look at fdr's personal office and collection of artifacts. with paul sparrow, the museum's director. >> this library opened in june 1941. he was still president of the united states so this became essentially the foreign oval office. fdr had an

by the time comey met with the president in february in the oval office, comey says flynn was in legal jeopardy. >> there was an open f.b.i. criminal investigation of his statements in connection with the russian contacts, and the contacts themselves. >> reporter: comey told his

jared kushner lingered in the oval office during the meeting with comey. sessions lingered and left. comey says the president asked him to let the matter -- the investigation of his national security advisor at the time, michael flynn, go. he told sessions later on comey said he told sessions he should not allow comey and president trump to be alone together. this is something that should be avoided, and he talked about having information that would lead inevitably, he said, from his recusal. here is the conversation comey had with ron wyden talking about why comey didn't discuss the president's actions, which clearly disturbed him, with the attorney general. watch what he had to say. >> 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, and so we were -- we were convinced -- in fact i think we'd already heard that the career people were recommending that he recuse himself, that he was not going to be in contact with russia-related maerltsd much longer,

the "new york times" reporting that comey went straight to sessions after a february meeting in the oval office. he asked never to be left alone with president trump again. current and former law enforcement officials telling the "times" comey's confrontation with the attorney general came the day after the president asked comey to end the investigation into michael flynn. >> officials say comey believed it was sessions job from text the fbi from white house influence but sessions could not guarantee the president would not try to talk to comey alone again. cnn has reported president trump's request for comey to drop the flynn probe came after he asked the attorney general and the vice president, mike pence to leave the oval office so he and comey could talk privately. >>> we're counting down to the hours of comey's senate testimony now 28:55:29. comey will dispute the president's conversation. especially the claims that comey told him several times he was not under investigation. sources close to the former director say he will explain to senators his conversations with the president we

on this issue of michael flynn, the alleged request we heard about in the oval office. saying to comey, i hope you can let it go. comey pressed on that today. the president saying i hope, not i order you let it go. here's the moment comey was pressed on that point. how do you take it, dan. >> well, look, i think the way james comey took it is fairly clear, he took it as a dire directive, an order from the president and it's an order that he said that he would ignore. why didn't he do something about it? he didn't want to derail the russia investigation. a bit of a bombshell, they specifically left open the possibility of investigating the president himself for that comment down the road. >> on the issue of james comey leaking his own memos, it happened. the white house now targeting comey about the leak, does he face anything for this? >> well, certainly face criticism from some, secretly leaking to someone. it's not a crime that it wasn't classified. he specifically wrote these memos that they would be unclassified in case he ended up in this exact situation in front o