WHAT THAT'S ALL ABOUT FROM NBC'S PETER ALEXANDER.
>> Reporter: PRESIDENT TRUMP TODAY OFF TWITTER AND ON
MESSAGE. FINDING A FRIENDLY CROWD IN AN
EVANGELICAL CONFERENCE. >> BECAUSE AS THE
BIBLE TELLS US, WE KNOW THAT THE TRUTH WILL PREVAIL.
>> Reporter: NO MENTION OF JAMES COMEY.
LATER IGNORING REPORTERS' QUESTIONS HERE AT THE WHITE
HOUSE. >> MR. PRESIDENT -- >> DO YOU THINK HE
TOLD THE TRUTH? >> Reporter: THE PRESIDENT'S REBUTTAL A
COMBATIVE STATEMENT FROM HIS PRIVATE MANHATTAN LAWYER, MARC
KASOWITZ. >> THE PRESIDENT IS FEELING VINDICATED AND
WANTS TO MOVE FORWARD WITH HIS AGENDA AND WITH THE PUBLIC CLOUD
REMOVED. >> Reporter: HE CLAIMS
HE PRESSURED COMEY TO BACK OFF MICHAEL FLYNN.
>> Reporter: THE PRESIDENT NEVER INFORMED OR -- IN FORM
OR SUBSTANCE DIRECTED OR SUGGESTED THAT MR. COMEY STOP
INVESTIGATING ANYONE. >> Reporter: THAT DISPUTE COULD EASILY
BE SETTLED IN THE PRESIDENT RELEASED SECRET TAPES THAT HE
SUGGESTED EXIST, BUT HAS YET TO PRODUCE. KASOWITZ SEIZED ON THE
STATEMENTS THAT HE TOLD MR. TRUMP THAT HE WAS NOT PERSONALLY
UNDER INVESTIGATION. >> MR. COMEY HAS FINALLY CONFIRMED
PUBLICLY WHAT HE REPEATEDLY TOLD PRESIDENT TRUMP
PRIVATERY. >> Reporter: HE ATTACKED COMEY FOR
MAKING PUBLIC PRIVATE COMMUNICATIONS. >> MR. COMEY ADMITTED
HE'S ONE OF THESE LEAKER. >> Reporter: DON JR.
DID TWEET, FLYNN STUFF IS BS, ADDING VERY FAR FROM ANY KIND OF
COERCION OR INFLUENCE AND CERTAINLY NOT OBSTRUCTION.
THE STRATEGY GOING FORWARD, WHITE HOUSE VETERANS INSIST, LEAVE
THE RUSSIA INVESTIGATION TO THE LAWYERS.
>> I WOULD ALLOW THE WHITE HOUSE TO BE FOCUSED ON HELPING THE
PRESIDENT DO THE JOB OF BEING PRESIDENT. AND TO ME, THAT'S MOST
IMPORTANT. DON'T GET WRAPPED AROUND THE AXLE OF THE
INVESTIGATION. >> Reporter: TONIGHT A WHITE HOUSE
SPOKESWOMAN IS PUSHING BACK AFTER COMEY BLASTED THE WHITE
HOUSE FOR TELLING QUOTE, LIES ABOUT HIS DISMISSAL.
SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS SAID THAT THE PRESIDENT IS NOT A
LIAR. LESTER, BACK TO YOU. >> PETER ALEXANDER,
THANK YOU. >>> FOR MORE ON THE POLITICAL AND THE
POTENTIAL LEGAL FALLOUT FROM COMEY'S TESTIMONY, LET ME
BRING IN CHUCK TODD HERE WITH US IN WASHINGTON AN SAVANNAH
GUTHRIE BACK IN NEW YORK. WE HAVE A SPEAKER OF
THE HOUSE A MOMENT SAY THAT THE PRESIDENT IS A NEW BY AND MAY NOT
KNOW THE ROPES OF PROTOCOL. TALK ABOUT THE
POLITICAL FALLOUT. >> I THINK PAUL RYAN AND OTHERS WHO ARE
NEVER BIG TRUMP FANS, BUT THEY CONTINUE TO TRY TO ESSENTIALLY
PUBLICLY PROTECT HIM. I THINK SPEAKER RYAN LOOKED SILLY
ESPECIALLY GIVEN THE WORST ASPECT OF IT IS THAT THE PRESIDENT
TOLD THE ATTORNEY GENERAL TO LEAVE THE ROOM.
SO THAT TELLS YOU HE KNEW THAT THAT WAS WHAT HE NEEDED TO DO
THERE. SO I THINK IT ACTUALLY UNDERCUTS THE LARGER
ISSUE THAT PAUL RYAN WAS BRINGING UP. LOOK, I THINK
POLITICALLY TODAY THE PRESIDENT SURVIVED AS FAR AS HIS BASE IS
CONCERNED. OUTSIDE WASHINGTON. JAMES COMEY THOUGH DID
A LOT OF DAMAGE TO THE REPUTATION HERE IN WASHINGTON AND THAT'S
GOING TO LEAVE COLLATERAL DAMAGE HERE WITH REPUBLICANS FOR
SOME TIME. >> LET ME TURN TO SAVANNAH GUTHRIE.
ALSO OUR CHIEF LEGAL CORRESPONDENT. IS THERE A POTENTIAL
CRIMINAL CASE HERE? >> WELL, YOU KNOW, IT'S VERY DEBATABLE
WHETHER THE CONDUCT WE HEARD DESCRIBED WOULD RISE TO THE LEVEL OF
OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE AND THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS OUR CRIMINAL
STATUTES WEREN'T REALLY BUILT FOR A SITUATION LIKE THIS
WHERE A PRESIDENT IS POTENTIALLY ACCUSED OF FIRING HIS FBI
DIRECTOR BECAUSE HE WANTS HIM TO DROP AN INVESTIGATION OF A
STAFFER. WHAT WOULD LIKELY HAPPEN IS IF THE
SPECIAL COUNSEL THOUGHT SOMETHING WAS WRONG HERE, THERE WAS
A CRIMINAL OFFENSE HE WOULD REFER IT BACK TO CONGRESS.
THERE IS THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE GUIDELINES THAT SAY
YOU CAN'T INDICT A SITTING PRESIDENT. SO YES, THERE ARE
LEGAL QUESTIONS HERE. BUT THEY'RE GOING TO END UP IN THE
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