What was it about that meeting that led you to determine that you needed to start putting down a written record?

A combination of things. I think the circumstances, the subject matter and the person I was interacting with,

circumstances first, I was alone with the President of the United States or the President-elect soon to be President.

The subject matter I was talking about matters that touch on the FBI's core responsibility and that relate to the President-elect personally.

And then the nature of the person. I was honestly concerned that he might lie about the nature of our meeting and so I thought it really important to document.

That combination of things I never experienced before, but it led me to believe I got to write it down and it got to write it down in a very detailed way.

I've seen the tweet about tapes. Lauri, I hope there are tapes. I was so stunned by the conversation that I just took it in.

I took it as a direction. 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 do.

Hello and welcome to Trumpcast, the show about Donald Trump, the President who somehow wasn't on Twitter this afternoon.

I'm Jim O'Bouy, Slate's Chief Political Correspondent in your host for today's show. Today was James Comey Day.

On Wednesday, the Senate Intelligence Committee released the former FBI Director's written testimony where he described a series of conversations and confrontations with President Trump.

Comey recounts a private meeting with Trump. I did her where the President asked Comey for his personal loyalty. He recounts a second meeting, alone in the Oval Office, where Trump urged Comey to end an investigation in former National Security Advice Remarkable Flynn.

In two separate conversations, both over the phone, Trump reportedly urged Comey to, quote, lift the cloud over his administration and, quote, get out that he isn't personally under investigation.

On Thursday, Comey elaborated on all of this, taking questions from Republican and Democratic Senators and giving a fuller picture of his interactions with the President.

What we have, if you believe him, is a portrait of a President with a little regard for the norms and standards that are supposed to govern presidential behavior.

But simply, President aren't supposed to pressure FBI directors. That's just not how it works. His actions demand oversight.

But that oversight requires Republican cooperation. And so far, as we saw in the hearings, that's not worth coming.

Republican lawmakers are skeptical of the investigation that Trump and his associates and didn't hesitate to show it.

Which leaves us observers and the public at large in an unusual space.

Our President holds the rules of governance in contempt, and his party isn't all that interested in stopping him.

Our guest today to talk about James Comey's testimony is Greg Sargent of the Washington Post, who writes the Plumline blog. Hey, Greg, how you doing?

Good, how are you, General? Thanks for having me on.

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