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Club in new jersey where kristin fisher is standing by with the very latest. of course, just two days before the attorney general jeff sessions will testify. hi kristin. >> hi liz, still no comment from the white house about the jeff sessions testimony next week. but the president has already started personally attacking the format the undirected james comey again this morning and in doing so on twitter this is the quote - i believe james comey leak will be more far more prevalent than anyone ev...

The history of politics in national security. and also with us is janey durkin. she is running for mayor of seattle. thank you for both for being here. let me start with you on this, david. what do you maybe here -- make here of what has been said? you wrote the book on the presidents book of secrets and we may have a secret here, secret recordings. >> yeah, i tend to look at this as a trained intelligence officer. we are careful about separating out facts versus assumptions versus assertions. t...

Oval office at the presidents request and then did nothing when comey later raised his concerns about those kinds of meetings being inappropriate. as for why he didnt tell sessions about the presidents request to drop the investigation? comey raised a lot of eyebrows during his hearing with this answer. >> our judgment as i recall was that he was very close to and inevitably going to recuse himself for a variety of reasons. we also were aware of the facts that i cant discuss in an open setting t...

And the white house refused the say whether or not these tapes exist. you know, from an investigative standpoint, from a legal standpoint, what does the white house get out of being so vague? >> well, i dont know. a lot of speculation here because we dont even know if the tapes exist, frankly. i think if the tapes do exist, one reason why that president might hesitate to turn over the tapes and be a little bit coy about that right now is to buy some time for the white house lawyers, the legal te...

California, theyre leading the investigation and theyre making the request that they want them produced to the committee by june 23. theres no guarantee or no indication that there are such tapes. the president intimated it when he was arguing some time back with the accusations that former fbi director comey had made, quibbling with the assertions of one over the other and what the president was saying about him. we have gop strategist lee carter here. you know, tapes and we go back to richard ...

Is he going to release them? so far no proof, no indication that the tapes actually exist. but katy, i would anticipate that whoever gets a question today at that news conference, which is going to get underway shortly in t rose garden, will ask about the tapes. can you aually prove these assertions that youre making that james comey isnt being accurate? right now we have a he said versus he said situation, and james comey saying that he took memos after he met with the president after each of t...

Sworn testimony on capitol hill. do president trumps actions amount to obstruction of justice? joining us now two men who know, a former u.s. deputy attorney general who served as counsel to watergate special prosecutors and cnn contributor and former nixon white house counsel. great to have your experience with us. you say that the details you heard yesterday are red meat to prosecutors, such as? >> such as bob mueller. >> what details did you hear that you consider particularly juicy? >> i thi...

W -- obamas attorney general? >> he is a by product of clinton investigation and what happened last july fifth that he we, in the minds of many, too far in his public assertions about hillary clinton. in the minds of too many that she should have been recommended for indictment. and then committed himself to this course of action that ended up last october in him trying to correct the record and he made reference to to that today. >> how do i correct the record? how do i tell the president, your...

Meeting with the president, they would do a formal meeting. and then he says in the letter that he only talked to president obama twice one-on-one. and he said what else jumps out? the fbi director felt the repeated could not twrakts so concerned that he didnt want one-on-one contact with the president at all. all of this against the back drop of what we know it was the assertion that he would fire comey anyway, the other leadership, the attorney general and deputy attorney general put together ...

Stuntmen, hair and makeup. the caterers. hundreds of names. how many of them felt compelled to do something when they see the content of the subject that they are looking at they worked on the film but they didnt do anything about it because of the same thing we always talk about. being called a racist or islamophobic. you cant touch them. what if you divorced religion from their murderous assertions was to mark than you would have a sillier killer. serial killer. what if he announced his plans ...