From The New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro. This is The Daily.

Today, the secret memos of James Comey, in one of them, President Trump invites Comey

to his office and asks him to drop his investigation into Michael Flynn.

He's a good guy, Trump says. I hope you can let this go.

It's Wednesday, May 17th.

Tell us the story of what happened on February 14th.

On February 14th, Jim Comey went to the White House for a regular national security briefing

with other intelligence and law enforcement officials.

Michael Schmidt broke this story on Tuesday afternoon.

He was in the Oval Office with them for some time.

And then at the end of it, attorney general sessions,

and vice president Pence, along with the president, were still around.

The president kicked Pence and Sessions out. Sessions actually lingered again,

and Trump dismissed him. He said, please, please leave.

Correct. And he said, I just want to talk to Jim. And they had a one-on-one conversation.

The president sat at the Resolute Desk on the other side, Comey sat in a chair.

And the president started by talking about leaks.

In his concerns about leaks, he brought up the fact that he thought Comey should try and put reporters in jail.

Put reporters in prison.

Correct. He said, look, we used to put reporters in prison 10 to 15 years ago,

and that had some real impact. Wow.

And then Trump turned the conversation towards Mike Flynn.

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