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Reading from robert costa that the president will not put down his phone, he may be live tweeting in the comey testimony on thursday. >> no, and it would be uncharacteristic of him to back off, but it is another question if the presidents lawyers would like him to back off, particularly when it comes to tweeting about russia and director comey. not only will he be tweeting, but he has a speech scheduled with a religious organization that would overlap with director com comeys testimony. so well ...

Say, he thought itd be unthwarted to have those conversations. it does indicate these hearings are going to have some resistance from people who know things about talking about it in public. >> yeah. look, i think thats right. and one thing here that is important to remember, and were still watching it shake out, as these kind of days and hours go by, and that is the new presence of mr. mueller, the special counsel investigating this in the wake of mr. comeys firing. youve seen former director c...

Serious doubt. at the heart of it is the timing with the revelation that comey had briefed congress on monday requesting more staff and money for that russia investigation from deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. but a spokeswoman for the justice department says during their may 1st meeting there was no discussion of funds or additional resources. and multiple fbi insiders tell nbcs pete williams they believe comey was fired because he would not end the russia investigation. the "wall street...

Com comey. there were plenty of democrats who said i have no trust in comey. >> and there was never wub republican and surcertainly not candidate or president trump that said anything like james comey should by fired how can it be the whole republican party changed overnight be outraged by the treatment of the hillary clinton email. the only reason now if youre president trump is because you dont want him investigating you. thats the only possible razzal here. look at the ridiculous letter that ...

Its not just about director tot cococ com comey. its vallu sally yates. anybody trying to get to the truth here seems to come to an unceremonious end in their job. seems that the administration is trying to stop the investigation from following the facts of where they might lead. >> some are making the argument that say hey, the democrats should be celebrating that james comey is no longer in office, in his position. theres some reporting that theres surprise in the west wing, that democrats are...

The fbi should be recognized as a political agency the way other agenciness the federal government are. com comey made political decisions in the handling of clinton e-mail investigation, he made political decisions in the handling of the illegal leak investigation or non-investigation over what was done with general flynns transcript and other information. he is as political a figure as herbert hoover in my view. >> thank you for talking to us. >> youre welcome. >> the president addressed the w...

Going to do it next tuesday. we are about a week behind. we are about a week behind, but if we start next week, we could catch up. >> i hear you. but you could have done it in a closed meeting. why not do it this week? >> i think its important that we talk to comey and rogers again first. they really are, alison, the two most important witnesses at least for three of the four tron chs. when you answer a hundred times, i can tell you, but i cant tell you in this for rom, why would you not bring t...

Deputy attorney general, wanted to go to the trump white house after the inauguration and let them know that the way pence, the vice president-elect and other administration officials in the incoming administration were mischaracterizing based on a conversation they mad with flynn, his conversation with kislyak, the russian ambassador. com comey, the fbi director, initially, opposed going to the trump white house, to let them know this conversation. after trump comes to office, sally yates, acti...

Inaccurate evidence. >> former intelligence officials typically keep their security clearances and theres a public policy for that? it allows them to speak out about sensitive matters with successors or appear in congress. there are are operatives known to only a small number of people at an agency including the director. we are hearing from some of the former intelligence officials being targeted by president trump. former cia director john brennan is declining to comment right now, but his fom...

Administration was responsible for this, as hes suggested. he said, i dont have any proof of that. of course, that hasnt stopped him from saying so on twitter. wolf? >> well monitor all of this. jeff zeleny, thank you very much. before the president took aim at james comey, the fired fbi director, took a swipe at the president. he says president trumps promotion of unproven conspiracy theorys is putting the agency and the country at risk. comey tweeted this. facts matter. the fbis use of confide...