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Minister, new jersey. likes to wave as hes walking over to marine one to take a short little helicopter ride. you know, evan, the fbi, the former fbi director comey testified yesterday that he shared that memo of that conversation he had with the president with a friend of his, professor at columbia university law school because he said, quote, i thought that might prompt the appointment of a special counsel. that friend was told share the information with a journalist which, of course, the frie...

The statement that comey released yesterday and some of the testimonies today, the extent of sessions was not an agent for the department and comey felt that way. in other words, he was very were a weary of sessions and willing to for sessions leaving the room when trump tells him to in the famous meeting in the oval office. i left there thinking comey may not have had much options as chris points out should be available to him. >> evan, i will give you the last word especially director says the...

Problem. now, i know a lot of people in the public are so eager, especially those who are in opposition to president trump to have this information come out. i guess i would caution everybody, you know, the united states government and the intelligence community, theyre looking into it. reality winner, leaking a document that didnt add anything to the debate, other than give information to russia as how our intelligence community is looking at what the russians did during the 2016 election. peop...

Among the many questions being asked today in the wake of james comeys testimony is who did or did not act appropriately in any dealings with top-level russians and just how big a threat was russias attempt to interfere in the election? comey was adamant about the seriousness of the threat. >> were talking about a foreign government that usingechnical intrusion and othethods tried to shape the way wehink we vote, we act. at is a bigal. and people need to recognize it. its not about republicans a...

I dont know if james comey -- that was his intent, but i would give some caution to the white house and president trumps lawyers, if youre going retaliate against james comey, you may be going into a slippery slope. >> well, his stated intent was to get exactly what happened, the appointment of mueller. so obviously whether its a leak situation or whistleblower situation, we know that he clearly had an objective there, as he said. so much more we could talk about, mark, evan. thank you. really a...

Fired as fbi director, now that this has become an issue, he can go back to these memos and say i wrote these at the time. i thought something unusual was happening at the time. thats why i had this insurance policy. >> youve covered comey. you know comey, evan, so when the argument, is you know what, dont believe a word he says. hes just by the their trump fired him. his response will be? >> well, i think one of the things that he does have is frankly a record here in this city of service, and ...

Idea, the only chance they have it is a direct to consumer platform to drive the message without the militia filter of t national media. >> and for folks that may have 3 million people watching a show. broadcast news is exponentially bigger. you may be talking about where people dont hear what donald trump does thats negative they only hear praise. thats all over the country on your local news. that is happening. evan, michelle and kurt, thank you very much. coming up -- the latest on donald t...

Sides. >> ive got to run. thank you, evan. have a great weekend. when we come back, team trump has some glowing praise for the president, but what does it really mean? im going to ask a language expert whats behind the words. yet some cards limit where you earn bonus cash back to a few places. and then, change those places every few months. enough with that! with quicksilver from capital one youve always earned unlimited 1.5% cash back on every purchase, everywhere. welcome to unlimited whats in...

And i think were -- you know, theres still an investigation ongoing and expanding about russias influence in our elections and what else they may be doing, but really i think as much as comeys firing was an inflection point in the way the nation looks at that issue, i think that -- i will predict that comeys testimony on thursday will be an inflection point or may be an inflection point in which we now start to look just as much or more at potential obstruction of justice on the part of the pres...

Because our phones have evolved. so isnt it time our networks did too? introducing americas largest, most reliable 4g lte combined with the most wifi hotspots. its a new kind of network. xfinity mobile. if president trump doesnt move to block him, james comey is set to testify before congress on thursday but "the new york times" is reporting that two senior administration sources say the president will let the testimony go forward. so lets discuss now. evan is here. hes a former cia operative....