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Classified information, will the witchhunt continue? among the new detail this quote, i explained he could count on me to always tell him the truth. i said i dont do sneaky things, dont leak, dont do weasel news was a startling revelation is the inspector general said criminal referral yesterday, federal prosecutors, comeys number 2, just getting that, leaking, lying about it, the chairman of the house committees who requested those memos said director comey showed the president made clear he wa...

Tell the truth. i dont do sneaky things. i dont do weasel moves. this is the inspector general, and doing just that. the chairman of the house committee requesting memos offering a statement that it shows the president made clear he wanted allegations of collusion, coordination and conspiracy between his campaign and russia investigated. nancy pelosi disagrees, the release of the memos are further proof of the presidents contempt for all of law as white house advisor kellyanne conway put it in p...

Book. and they are not really a memo as much as they are a very well-written draft for his upcoming book. i think the fact he didnt like or trust the president from day one gave him very little credit even when some good things happened in that meeting was because he went in with a prejudice and out with the draft of a book. >> sandra: i have a few seconds left. the eric holder run? >> the only constitutional officer to be held in contempt from an administration ever and he did so for lying to c...

But, house minority leader nancy pelosi, she disagreed. tweeting the release of the memos are further proof of the presidents contempt for the rule of law. other details, guys, comey addresses the issue of loyalty to the president and of course leaking. guys? steve: thanks, griff. a lot of this stuff we have heard details about. nonetheless, now that we have finally seen them, its interesting because mr. comey said that he leaked these memos to a friend to leak to the newspapers to start the spe...

But that he hadnt done anything and hoped i would find a way to get out that we werent investigating him. now, president trump took to twitter after reading the memos saying, quote: this clearly shows there was no collusion and no obstruction. also, he leaked classified information, wow. will the witch huntington continue? now, the chairman of the house committees oversight intelligence and judiciary who requested these memos issued a joint statement saying this shows the president made clear he...

Giving us the documents and hes not doing his job and if hes not going to do the job, he needs to go and find one that he will do. >> should you guys hold them in contempt? >> absolutely. >> if the 1.2 million documents arent in the capitol, then he should immediately move to hold department of justice and the fbi in contempt. and if we have to vote on contempt, then we should immediately move to impeach those officials. that would be using the full power of the congress. >> david ignatius, thos...

More difficult. >> i dont want to get into the confirmation story right now with you they are struggling to get nasa officials with 50 votes. giuliani is ott not going to get 50 votes. the mccabe story, what is interesting is apparently the igs office made the criminal referral months ago. >> yeah. >> somebody decided to leak it today. >> yeah. >> from the justice department. >> interesting, huh? >> what else is happening. rod rosenstein is being threatened with either contempt of congress or al...

Conversation with him later in the show. these moves, though, to be clear, are happening as the feds continue to bear down on a lawyer that trump cannot rely on anymore, michael cohen, who also just folded in a separate legal case he had brought against people associated with the russia dossier. and all these moves are happening as republicans press muellers boss, rod rosenstein. theyre threatening him with contempt this week. and as reports break tonight that rod rosenstein assured donald trump...

This congress popularity, having its contempt might be something of a badge of honor, and its worth noting that contempt of congress is a misdemeanor. >> speaking of lawmakers, the senate judiciary committee holding off apparently on action to protect the special counsel. one of the senators behind the legislation, north carolinas tom tillis, he said that the measure itself should not be seen as a warning against president trump. this is part of what he said. >> for some, it would suggest im fil...

Are at the head there. maybe the two women senators, kamala harris and elizabeth warren. and then i put right there, eric holder in that mix. he is well respected by the power players in the democratic party. >> he is the only u.s. attorney general in history to be held in a both criminal and civil contempt during his time in office, katie, so it is pretty easy to figure out where the republicans would take their arguments about eric holder. >> while, it wasnt just republicans who voted him in c...