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Request to him in that call march 30th, 2017. heres what comey apparently told boente that same day so there would be a corroborating witness to this ask from the president. from boentes notes, quote, reminded him we are not investigating you. that would be great to get out. so comey tells congress what the president asked him to do was make a public statement announcing the president wasnt under investigation. he used that same description when he called dana boente to brief him on the presiden...

The assumption of waiting for further corroborating evidence -- the funny thing is we went back through your twitter account, and on may 17 of 2017, so a year ago, you said that if the president asked mr. comey to quash an investigation that that would be the cause for impeachment. >> youre absolutely right, and thats what mueller is evaluating, because all we have is what we know from the press reports on this, and well see what mueller concludes about that. but on the subject of democracy, my ...

And so, you know, to list them and say you as a non-lawyer have polled some lawyers and youve concluded that these are impeachable offenses, why not let the authorities pursue these, let the courts pursue these issues, and then decide whether or not there should be impeachment? >> well, thats a good question, david, and let me answer it, which is this. the american people and the american democracy are at great risk while we wait. the fact of the matter is, we are, at every single day, we are se...

They probably know the answer, but theyre looking to see, can they use this guy, can they move him in the direction of being a cooperating witness to testify or a corroborating witness that they can use to back up information that they developed. >> aside from stone there are ties -- check out your screen. this is to all the ties. we dont have all night. i wont read them all. the contacts go on and on. how can the president say his campaign had nothing to do with russia when these links are appa...

And i hope he gets one soon. >> mark carolow was known to be the spokesperson for the trump team and he is a corroborating witness for the special prosecutor. it shows you how ill equipped somebody like joseph digenova was to come close to being engaged in any of this that he didnt mention that kind of conflict early enough. >> the lawyer the president wanted was ted olson, head of the office under ronald reagan. the winner of more supreme court cases than can be tallied. thats who you want wand...

Low for them to talk to the president about being his lawyer but he definitely needs a lawyer and i hope he gets one soon. >> mark carolow was known to be the spokesperson for the trump team and he is a corroborating witness for the special prosecutor. it shows you how ill equipped somebody like joseph digenova was to come close to being engaged in any of this that he didnt mention that kind of conflict early enough. >> the lawyer the president wanted was ted olson, head of the office under rona...

Some basis to fire him, maybe the igs report can provide such a basis, but that wasnt the basis on which theres every reason to believe he was fired. when he was fired, in what looked like a friday night massacre, he was fired, specifically, because the president, who named mueller for the first time in this entire process made clear that he did not want to have a credible corroborating witness for comeys account of why he was fired. >> that was illicit intent. >> i think it was corrupt intent. ...

Deputy director. he says it was because of the way hillarys stuff was handled. he says it was in the case of mccabe because of his wife, whom he called a loser. then he said, no, it was because he wasnt candid. and then he says its because he is a corroborating witness. the president is his own worse enemy in all of this. and hes really sewed up a strong case for obstruction of justice. >> wow. so you think this adds to the obstruction case. i want to show a list we made earlier on the bheets th...

Investigation, that would have a discrediting effect in the context of a different investigation. whether its justifiable or not, of course, depends on the evidence that the public doesnt have access to right now. >> andrew mccabe has apparently just released a statement tonight. its a rather lengthy one. i will try to read some of it. actually, im going to start reading it and then, price, give us your reaction again to the possibility that this is actually, the timing of this is related to mue...

>> having dealt with issues like this, they have to prove intent. is that difficult? >> it is always difficult. and it has to be done with circum stan chul evidence. comey is somebody who has good circumstantial understanding. he had a number of interactions. i think asha has outlined it very nicely. it raises a lot of suspicion about the way theyre handling mccabe. because he is a corroborating, potentially a corroborating witness. i really cant believe its anything other than a political move,...