It is kind of odd for the President’s lawyers to be citing this comment—with which I have some passing familiarity—as evidence that @Comey was content with the White House’s interactions with the FBI. The entire point of the conversation was the FBI needed protection... 
...from the White House and that he had spent months trying police the White House’s attempts to engage with the Bureau improperly on investigative matters. He was deeply troubled by those interactions. And he believed he was going to have to spend a lot more time doing it.
That said, as I reported at the time, he believed—wrongly, as it turned out—that he had managed to educate the White House on the proper contours of the relationship. But the point the President’s lawyers don’t seem to understand is that ... POTUS and his staff had to be taught.
In no sense does comment Jim made to me in March imply that any of the interactions in question were proper.
Here’s what I wrote at the time: lawfareblog.com/what-james-com…
