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From that point, february 10th until i announced my formal recusal on march 2nd, i was never briefed on any investigative details, did not access any information about the investigation. i received only the limited information that the departments career officials determined was necessary for me to form and make a recusal decision. as such, i have no knowledge about this investigation as it is ongoing today beyond what has been reported. i dont even read that carefully. i have taken no action wh...

Guy in the muppet movie keeping a close eye on whats taking place. photographers are claiming their spaces, here in anticipation of this hearing since early this morning. whats so striking to me, you were just talking about that september 5th date for the presidents personal attorney, michael cohen, to testify in september, is just how much of the focus we have with todays hearing, with the leehearing fo the fired fbi director james comey has not been focused on the whole predicate, the potentia...

The point of this investigation into russian interference in the 2016 campaign. let me state this clearly, colleagues. i have never met with or had any conversation with any russians or any foreign officials concerning any type of interference with any campaign or election in the united states. further, i have no knowledge of any such conversations by anyone connected to the trump campaign. i was your colleague in this body for 20 years, at least some of you. and the suggestion that i participat...

Department for better than two decades and i was confident he understood and would abide by the well established rules limiting communications with the white house, especially about ongoing investigations. thats what is so important to control. my comments encouraged him to do just that and indeed as i understand it, he in fact did that. our department of justice rules on proper communications between the department and the white house have been in place for years. mr. comey well knew them. i th...

Federal regulations put out by the differently justice. part of the department of justice rules and it says this. i will read from it. 28 cfr 45.2. unless authorized, no employee shall participate in a criminal investigation or prosecution if he had a personal or political relationship with any person involved in the conduct of an investigation that goes on to say for political campaign and it says if you have a close identification with an elected official or candidate arising from service as a...

Just yesterday an interview of former homeland security secretary jeh johnson. we also continue to review some of the most sensitive intelligence in our countrys possession. as ive said previously, we will establish the facts, separate from rampant speculation, and lay them out for the american people to make their own judgment. only then will we as a nation be able to put this episode to rest and look to the future. im hopeful that members will focus their questions today on the russia investig...

The investigation and with timing it seems peculiar that what was out of the blue he fires the fbi director and all the problems of disarray and a lack of the accord with the fbi that he denied is the case, i would think that somebody would have had that conversation. lets go to the april 27th meeting. it is brought up and i think the chairman brought it up. by that time, you had been named as the chair of then candidate trumps advisory. showing up, that meeting would be appropriate. >> that was...

Investigation, and as a matter of fact, appointed the very first special prosecutor under this law, john danforth. she ultimately did testify about it, but it was after the danforth investigation was done. >> see? and i knew youd know that. i dont know what that says about either of us, me for asking for you for knowing the answer. >> thats why we dont get more invitations to parties. >> exactly. in this case, pete is speaking for both of us. pete williams, our veteran justice correspondent in o...

About ongoing investigations that are not properly cleared through the top levels of the department of justice. so it was a regulation i think is healthy. i thought we needed and strongly believe we need to restore discipline to adhere to just those kinds of rules and leaking rules and the other things that i think are a bit lax and need to be restored. >> you couldnt have had a conversation with the president about the investigation because you were never briefed some. >> that is correct. i wou...

Said/he said is good enough, if you like your side. thats not how it works in an investigation, because veracity matters and evidence is sitting behind the veracity. so ultimately theres going to be determinations made about whether people had honest mistakes, which are not crimes, by the way. you are allowed to be forgetful. or whether there is something potentially more sinister here. by the way, e-mail records, text records, contemporaneous memos and other recollections of communications can ...