they had been writing this exoneration memo for months before they saquestioned her ana lot of other key figures and of course they handed out immunity like candy. on the other hand comey has been asked these questions before. there were some republicans who were not happy with comey being called to be questioned tomorrow. laura: strzok was the question that interviewed mills and abedin, correct? correct. laura: he also interviewed michael flynn. yes. laura: and he s testified on capitol hill. what have they gotten from him? well they didn t he didn t talk about the flynn case to them. because the fbi and everybody associated with it has said well it s an ongoing criminal investigation, i m sorry, we can t talk about it. flynn has pled guilty and i charles grassly has been trying to get information on that grounds, on that basis, saying well look he s already pleaded guilty. now by the 18th of december, he s gonna get sentenced and
communication from them. now, we did go through like five letters. we didn t get a response. then they sent us a response. i can t go into detail, but narrowing the subjects for questioning down to about two. you get a big liar like comey, a big liar like mccabe in the fbi, a guy with a conflict of interest from day one on the hillary investigation, which is why he s lying to cover his ass, of course you get that. you get bad people in the fbi. all right. so asha, what do you make of that, that this is clearly their strategy? well, this is always the defense strategy. if the facts and the law aren t on your side, go after the prosecutors and the police and discredit the actual basis of the investigation. you know, they can try to discredit comey, but he s not the only witness here. we tend to think of this as he said/she said between the president and comey, but there are a lot of actions both before
welcome back. pretty much no one was surprised when president trump lashed out at former fbi director james comey after his new book came out. but comey s attacks on the president are more extraordinary. as noah feldman puts it quote, comey s efforts embody a paradox. on one hand he wants to reassert the authority of the non-partisan non-politicized community of which he is a life long emin. on the other hand comey he opens himself to being seen as a pure partisan of the it is a tricky balance. you doesn t want to remain silent but speaking out leads trump s defenders to question his credibility. it s not kmus comey caught in the trap. law enforcement, us in the news
well, there is an explanation, but i don t buy it. david, pretty strong charges from an fbi director. he was fired. there were only two people who knew what took place in that room, the president and comey. as i said earlier today and continue to say, director comey had an opportunity to go to the hill to tell other people about his concerns of this president. his only answers to three congress was i don t know, i don t know why i did not open the investigation. i think that s the bigger news here. now, comey was asked about the time which he detailed the president i hope you can see your way clear of getting flynn
versus what the president said? that s an excellent question, it would be for the independent investigate and the american people to decide but i will note that on the one hand comey seems to have some corroboration because of the contemporaneous documentation of the memos which were written and filed at the time closer in time to the actual conversations and he also apparently said some of this to other people at the time, you know, other witnesses who corroborate in realtime that he was saying this. we haven t heard any such corroboration from the trump side at least not yet. arthel: all this said, can mr. comey s memos and book tour influence special counsel mueller s investigation or southern district of new york? what do you make of the timing of comey s book release? well, we certainly that it wouldn t influence either the mueller investigation or the southern district of new york, i think that would be improper,