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Respects. >> bret: i want to take a listen at some of the questioning, specific issues you mentioned. >> did the president at any time ask you to stop the fbi investigation into russian involvement in the 2016 u.s. elections? >> not to my understanding. >> did any individual working for this administration, including the justice department, ask you to stop the russian investigation? >> no. >> this is the president speaking. i hope you can see your way to letting this go, letting flynn go. you do...

Discipline from this president that i dont know hes really up to executing. good to have his lawyer response today and not live tweet the event but the suggestion that robert mueller could be looking into obstruction of justice will likely drive the president craz crazy. its reported that attorney general sessions had a third meeting with sergey kislyak thats been previously undisclosed. there will be more leaks. president trump will remain nervous about these investigations. hes going to have t...

Dirksen senate office building. that was comey live leaving the dirksen senate office building. you were saying? >> just commenting on multiple officials today making the tall exit out of a small part of the senate hallway. what i was saying was the connective tissue here, right, is there can be more than one theory of the case. it can be that government does things stupidly and isolated and some of it may be criminal, but there is no criminal conspiracy. the problem that was intensified by jim ...

Was presented in the testimony that the president they have sought to interfere or obstruct the investigation pray theres obviously a question about whether there is sufficient evidence, but if we were prosecuting a case of obstruction, his entire testimony would come in. i dont think theres a judge in the land that would find it wasnt relevant evidence that goes to obstruction. i think one of the most powerful points the director made today is that the president, each time, cleared the room, in...

Long way to go. >> why is it devastating? >> its devastating because it shows the pattern leading to him firing comey because comey is pursuing this investigation and the president is saying dont pursue this investigation. dont pursue the flynn case. but, more importantly, the facts in this investigation is closing in on the president of the united states and at the same time we need more information. we have a sprawling investigation being conducted by a special counsel. we need more facts. we ...

>> did not order you to let it go. >> i took it as a direction. the president of the united states with me alone saying "i hope this." i took it that this is what he wanted me to do. >> do you know of any case where a person is been charged for obstruction of justice or for that matter any other criminal offense where they said or thought "they hoped" for an outcome. >> i dont know well enough to answer. >> bret: he wouldnt make the determination whether obstruction of justice can be made, but l...

Did not say that, he put a bunch of dots out for people to draw the line. its very clear that he wanted a special counsel, its clear that it is in the special counsels purview to investigate obstruction, its very clear the obstruction counsel may make a point about obstruction. in that respect its clear theyre choosing to argue about the loyalty pledge and not about the direction to lay off flynn. because the biggest flag in everything today and everything weve learned is the president of the un...

Over this little table and hes saying, are you going to be loyal to me? then with his chief of staff and his son-in-law and everybody, get out of here, ive got something important to talk to this guy about, i want him off the flynn case. there is evidence here that they was dleliberating what he was doing. he was planning to get this guy alone and pressure him to get what he wanted done, which is an oath of loyalty across the board so he could work with this guy as a tool, and secondly to get of...

Falsely generated multiple accounts of meetings and then distributed them in realtime and somehow managed them all to check with and match visitor logs and phone record logs? the counter-case is embarrassing. thats the problem for the white house. >> we should be clear, right? the people around the president are more or less -- or at least allies, right, in the republican party. the theory of the case, no one is, i think, going to go out on that limb to say that james comey fabricated all of thi...

Inaccurate while confessing hes been a high-level leaker. there is no question the medias reputation took a hit at the hearing that the networks carried live. >> bret: lets get some analysis and reaction from the ranking democrat on the house intelligence committee. california congressman adam schiff. thank you for the time for your assessment of todays hearing. >> well, i found it quite stunning. not every day you have a former director of the fbi saying he couldnt trust the president, that the...