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Welcome to Potsay America. I'm John Favreau. I'm John Love it. I'm Tommy Vittor. On the pod today we have Vox's senior policy correspondent and the cohost of the podcast The Weeds. Sarah Cliff. Later we'll also be talking to the host of Crooked Media as Pod Save the People, Dorae McKesson. Dorae has a very big interview this week. Big Get. Big Get. Tommy, what's on Potsay?

Potsay America is a very big interview with Senator Tim King. We know him. We talked about something that is unbelievably important. The legal basis for the many wars we're in right now that never gets discussed because Congress takes a pass on doing anything about it.

We love that, including Barack Obama, so they just sort of go ahead and do their things. We talked about legislation he has to update the authorization for these military force and just dug into some of the wars we're fighting and why he thinks is so important.

We've cornered the market on both senators from the Commonwealth of Virginia. It's friends of the pod all around. It's their best friend, the Commonwealth of Virginia.

We have a lot of important healthcare things to get to. Healthcare is the agenda item of the week. It should be, but because I didn't get to talk to both of you guys about the Comey hearings on Thursday. Let's just do a little Comey cleanup.

What's the. So there was a Trump press conference on Friday. He was with the president of Romania and took a couple questions.

So after so after combi system when he spit up my train. So Trump basically reacted like everyone hoped he wouldn't but knew he would.

He called the former FBI director, he coward, a leaker. He accused him of perjury. Just, you know, normal things.

And when Trump was asked by Jonathan Carl, whether he'd say all these things about Comey under oath, which was a suggestion that first happened here on Potsayv America. No one else thought of it.

Trump said 100% 100% which let me translate that 100% I'm going to say I'm going to do.

Let's start with the leaker charge because now this whole because it's not just Trump that's saying Comey is a leaker. There's a whole bunch of hand wringers on the right about Comey being leaker.

So Trump fired Comey and then he threatened in a tweet to leak the tapes of their conversations. Maybe maybe there's tapes starting to leak them.

So then Comey now a private citizen decides to pass along his own recollections of their conversations to a newspaper.

Before also recounting those same recollections before 19 million people in a public area.

So I'm trying to figure out where the leak is.

So the one thing that I didn't understand about come I completely understand why Comey wanted to get his recollections and wanted to get his memos out to the public.

I guess the two things that didn't understand is why Trump mentioning tapes makes that something he should do immediately as opposed to something he should do anyway.

Obviously Comey without saying it basically said these are the things that Trump did to obstruct justice.

So why is the existence of tape the reason he uses justification that made no sense to me but find the second thing is it's really unclear that he either the memos were given to the friend and then the friend gave the memos to the press or did they just to recount the memos or unclear exactly what the kind of chain of custody is on the memo.

Yeah, the rationale there wasn't clear he's like, oh, there was all these reporters at the bottom of my driveway.

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