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The investigation. Is that right . Thats correct. And you have a citation . Page seven, volume two. Thank you. One of these witnesses was michael cohen, the president s personal lawyer, who ultimately pled guilty to Campaign Violations based on secret hush money payments to two women the president knew and also to lying to congress about the hope for a 1 billion trump tower deal. After the fbi searched cohens home, the president called him up personally, he said to check in, and told him to, quo...

Go, to letting flynn go. hes a good guy, and i hope you can let it go, close quote. page 40, volume two. >> accurate. >> what did comey understand the president to be asking? >> im not going to get into what was in mr. comeys mind. >> comey understood this to be a direction because of the presidents position and the circumstances of the one-to-one meeting, page 40, volume two. >> i understand its in the report. i support it as being in the report. >> thank you, sir. even though the president pub...

Interactions with donald trump. a handful of memos with his direct engagement with the president and comeys leading to this tweet from president trump who writes, spent very little time with andrew mccabe, but he never took notes when he was with me. i dont believe he made memos except to help his own agenda probably at a later date. same with lying james comey. he writes, can we call them fake memos? joining us on set now, eli stokols, journalist, msnbc analyst. let me ask you about this. we kn...

Comey said it happened. comey said he wrote contemporaneous memos about his recollections of these conversations, and now it appears mccabe is corroborating comeys versions of those conversations. all of that is powerful evidence that comey was pressured to stay loyal to the president. it doesnt seal the case, its not a smoking gun, but it is certainly evidence that tends towards the theory that some kind of obstruction of justice occurred here. >> gloria, what is the latest sense youre getting ...

James comey was improperly pressured to lay off the russia investigation, whether he was improperly pressured by the president. part of that is whether he was asked for loyalty. of course it ends with comey being fired. but the question of whether he was pressed for loyalty is very important. the president very clearly as we saw in the interview with jeanine pirro said it never happened. comey said it happened and said he wrote contemporaneous memos about his recollections of the conversations a...

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