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Fired him and then went on television and she had he fired him to help end the russia investigation. the idea comey was supposed to take this up with the inspector general rather than alert the meamerican public and try to gea special counsel appointed seems like a complete missive of any real context of what was happening in the real world by the inspector general. >> you make the analogy on your twitter, you were tweeting, i hope you werent driving looking through this, this was like slapping ...

Say it wasnt the presidents intent to stop the investigation. he wanted director comey to give flynn the benefit of the doubt. thats the gray area where it cops to the statute. >> intent was also the issue with hillary clintons e-mails, the idea comey referenced this. theres a famous news conference that sharing it you need to have the intent to have compromised it, as well. on the next question then is the question of impeachment because impeachment it seems to me is as much a political questio...

President said, sessions, leave the room. why do you have jeff sessions leave the room? because he has already rescued himself from any discussion about the campaign related investigations and russia. enter into the story a conversation about the very topic you know your attorney general, comeys boss socially, cannot be a part of. this intimation gets you a little bit more towards that pendulum shift away from the innocent, benign conversation and far more to someone trying to push their way aro...

Whether to fire james comey who was leading the russian investigation. >> reporter: youre right, david, sessions was at that critical meeting and we did participate. despite the fact that he recused himself from the 2016 campaign. thats raising big questions with democrats that wont go away soon. sources say, sessions took part because he believes the fbi directors job is much bigger than just one case. im told by sources the president said at top of the meeting he was leaning toward firing come...

As he moves through capitol hill, theres a little tea leaf reading going on, but that was one of those significant events where we know hes giving some information to top leaders here and maybe that will help us shape what comes next. >> kelly o., thank you. my panel, vivian and carol, thank you for being here. carol, to you, lets stick with the idea comey was over on the hill. what do we make of this? >> hes under a lot of pressure. he has lawmakers who are saying on one hand theyre not getting...

Is there any validity to the idea comey essentially felt he had to do the update because he had testified he had already reviewed all the e-mail. >> when he testified he reviewed all the e-mails, his testimony was true. they have discovered another computer, which is not hillary clintons computer, which is a computer of someone who worked for hillary clinton. i believe they may not even have a search warrant yet to go through it. i dont know how thats relevant. but the key point here is that whe...

There seems to be a gathering narrative that what set him off and down the path -- i guess he was already thinking about firing jim comey, but the idea comey was made nausious by in any way helping him get elected. >> i think its significant for a few reasons. one, we are going to have some alternate evidence other than what was put ow publicly. so comparing that original screed and the one that was eventually drafted will be interesting. but more important will is who was involved in this? now ...