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Again brought the dossier comey briefed him about on january 6 at trump towers saying he, quote, had not been involved with hookers in russia. comey also says the president asked what comey to do to, quote, lift the cloud. comey again assuring president trump he was not personally under investigation. april 11th, the president called again, asking comey what he was doing to make it publicly known that he was not being investigated and saying the cloud was hurting his ability to do his job. befor...

Senate side of the hill, i dont blame him. he wants to wait for the facts which is a pretty reasonable position to be in. the rest of washington is hot tonight. >> i love the sensible wisconsin conversation we just heard. all wisconsin, on wisconsin. yes, here inside the beltway, i think people are just a god. as you pointed out, i think, even the speaker pointed out, in a very dramatically, while understated statement by james comey that was a little bit of ernest hemming way and a little bit o...

The comey opening statement released to the public just hours after two of the nations top intelligence officials testified on the hill, director of national intelligence daniel coats testifying before the senate intel committee was asked about the washington post arcle, claiming coats told his associates that president trump asked him to intvene wh comey on the fbi-russia probe. >> are you prepared to say that you have never felt -- that you have never been asked by the president or the white h...

The statement speak for itself, wait till mr. comey testifies. they have not said anything formally about it. they were pretty preoccupied today with the presidents announcement of chris ray to be his nominee for fbi director. greta, i think it is important to realize what this statement is and what it isnt. it is certainly more than merely a recitation of his meetings with the president because he talks additionally about his concerns that he expressed to others at the fbi, some that he passed ...

Vindicated, greta. >> thank you, pete. with me speaker of the house congressman paul ryan from the great state of wisconsin. good evening, sir. >> hey, greta, how are you doing? >> im fine. tell me first of all your overall thoughts today about the statement james comey has released or the committee has released and hes going to deliver tomorrow before the senate intel. >> i havent had a chance to read it. i have been briefed on it. im going to get through it tonight. been a little busy here i...

Of square that with his comments in his prepared statement. i think, by the way, a brilliant move on comeys part to post this opening statement today. so, its a two-day story so we can go through all the details. democrats and republicans will have a chance to really strategic questioning. >> without being cagey, eugene, not wanting the facts to come out but sort of play the game with me about the timing of the release, is it a search for the facts, the search for the truth or to get the facts o...

Responded, i can give you honesty, he said thats what i want, honest loyalty. i thought it was kind of comical to the degree of parsing back and forth the words. i do think what this statement has kind of put in a concise way is the level of pressure i think that comey was feeling over that period of weeks. >> that was january 27th, though. that was pretty early, seven days into the presidency. >> if further goes on to other meetings taking place, he expressing his concern of being alone with th...

So its sort of in the middle. its more than just a mere recitation of his meetings with the president, but it doesnt go beyond to give any commentary about them. and the second thing i think we have to note is that it confirms some things that we had heard earlier about some of these meetings as they were descrid by friends of mr. comey, had heard about them at the time. and it also confirms a claim the president made. remember when the president fired mr. comey, he said in the letter, i want ...

Intimidate people from looking at much more serious things about his codery of people and himself and russia. thats what we dont know. as the speaker said, thats a long conversation thats really going to begin in ernest tomorrow. >> eugene? >> well, its interesting. the presidents lawyer says the president feels totally vindicated. im trying to understand that. since the president denied ever asking about the flynn investigation and comey says, yes, he did, to drop it. so, how is that vindicatio...