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Oath and he would be willing to swear to that under oath. >> would you be willing to speak under oath? >> president trump: 100%. >> if robert mueller wanted to speak with you about that? >> president trump: i would be glad to tell them what i just told you. >> tucker: it was hard with the impeachment triggered democrats are hoping for but i told her to spend to their advantage all day. >> i found it quite stunning. its not everyday you have a former director of the fbi saying he couldnt trust th...

And reckless and baseless, as it turns out, accusations of crimes by the president. i think through ignorance and malevolence, they laid bare, especially the media, their absolute contempt for the facts and for the law. for what purpose? in pursuit of a political mugging of the president. that should be a crime. if it was a crime, our jails would be overflowing with politicians and mostly the medi media. >> sean: geraldo, it is so well said. gregg. geraldo, this is really important. the same med...

Reality of president trumps pattern of contempt for justice. >> dana: heres a flavor of how the media is reacting to comeys day on the hill. >> theres no other way to walk away from comeys testimony without thinking the former director of the fbi thinks the president of the united states is a liar. >> the up assumption of the critics to the president is that somewhere in the last year, the president had something to do with colluding with the russians and yet what came apart this morning with th...

Him have been very cooperative. we appreciate that very much. mika, i said if everyone would just come forth -- if you saw the meeting the day before we had with the four highest intelligence people we had, as far as the fbi director, and now the acting attorney general on this russian investigation. we had mike rogers and also dan coats. that was painful. it was painful for us to get any information from them. they just said were not going to speak about that. i felt that absolutely horrible th...

And reckless and baseless, as it turns out, accusations of crimes by the president. i think through ignorance and malevolence, they laid bare, especially the media, their absolute contempt for the facts and for the law. for what purpose? in pursuit of a political mugging of the president. that should be a crime. if it was a crime, our jails would be overflowing with politicians and mostly the media. >> sean: geraldo, it is so well said. gregg. geraldo, this is really important. the same media th...

And reckless and baseless, as it turns out, accusations of crimes by the president. i think through ignorance and malevolence, they laid bare, especially the media, their absolute contempt for the facts and for the law. for what purpose? in pursuit of a political mugging of the president. that should be a crime. if it was a crime, our jails would be overflowing with politicians and mostly the medi media. >> sean: geraldo, it is so well said. gregg. geraldo, this is really important. the same med...

Appropriate for me to -- >> what is the basis -- im not satisfied with i dont believe it is appropriate or i dont feel i should answer. i want to understand the legal basis. you swore that oath, to tell us the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. today you are refusing to do so. what is the legal basis for your refusal to testify to this committee? >> im not sure i have a legal basis. >> i was ready for you to hold them in contempt, senator. what did you make of their refusal to ans...

He didnt want to do anything that revealed his conversations that might be part of the muellers investigation. >> you know, thats very interesting because in the past, when you think about presidents and principals and their conversations, they dont want to divulge information for fear. thats some of the things we heard during the bush years with valerie plame and scooter libby. going back to what jeff said, it makes no sense. this is about getting to the bottom of what is what. and in the house...

Fast and furious. >> my only goal was to make sure he was laid to rest with honors. that honor has been insulted by coverups and deception by the very people he served. >> border patrol agent died in december 2010, killed by guns tied to an obama administration plan that armed mexicans. officials tried to hide the scandal. >> the belated admission that those 64,000 pages are not privileged for gold seal of authenticity on the houses partisan vote to hold the attorney general in contempt. >> emai...

To figure out what to do. congresswoman sheila jackson-lee just convened a meetinging of what steps could be taken. they had constitutional lawyers, constitutional scholars as to what the judiciary committee could do in case there is found to be an abuse of power. and this session we didnt see much come out of it. but the question is, how far will they dig? what can they get from this? >> carl, how unusual was this today? >> it was an appalling moment. their absolute contempt for the copping of ...