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And that could be i think just simply a misstatement. >> let me play this clip for you. this is comey during the testimony talking about the presidents sort of hope. he use d the word hope. i hope you can walk away or leave the investigation to michael flynn, his fired national security adviser alone. listen to this. >> i dont think its for me to say whether the conversation i had with the president was an effort to obstruct. i took it as a very disturbing thing, very concerning. but thats a con...

Regional headquarter of the u.s. military central command. tillerson did say qatar is still funding terror organizations. he says theyve stopped a little bit but theres still a long way to go. >> theyve made progress. our ambassador to qatar. at the same time the president was tweeting said theyve been making progress and putting in place new banking regulations and freezing assets. theyre doing more as the secretary said. theres still more they can do. and they should do. but we have to look at...

Continued engagement in a russia-related investigation problematic. >> that was a real eyebrow-raising moment in todays hearing. joining me now to discuss, congressman joaquin castro, democrat, of texas and a member of the house intelligence committee. congressman, on that topic and to your committees work, do you learn new things about jeff sessions possible implication in all this? do you have a desire to hear more from jeff sessions after what you heard today? >> i certainly have a big desire...

Asking me to stay. as i said, what was odd about that, wed already talked twice about it at that point. and hed said i slech hope youll stay. my common sense told me whats going on here is hes looking to get something in exchange for granting my request to stay in the job. >> you heard the bottom line. hes looking to get something regarding my request to stay in the job. the implication to you? >> the implication to me was that he was putting pressure on director comey to do his bidding, to bend...

Those in government who are actively attempting to undermind this administration with selective and illegal leaks of classified information and privileged communication. mr. comey has now admitted that he is one of these leakers. >> harris: leaking. talk to me, judge. >> you have the former fbi director accusing the president of lying. you have the presidents lawyer accusing the former fbi director of leak government documents. theres even an implication of perjury, although it was on some event...

With attorney general sessions. if im the average citizen watching today, i had the former director of the fbi saying obamas justice department got politicized, trumps justice department got politicized. how do you recover from this? >> i dont think the justice department is politicized. >> he implied it. >> if thats what you mean by politicized -- >> the implication. >> the justice department has to be independent from the white house. no question about that. there by, theyre independent from u...

Based on the posture of the witnesses up there yesterday. what did you learn? what should the american people take away from that hearing that changed the way maybe you thought about this investigation? >> again, i think what we didnt learn is the real problem. there was some confirmation, inadvertently, i think, that there were conversat with the white house about the fly investigation or abo this whole overall situation with james comey. its interesting when director coats said i wasnt directe...

James comey says in that one-on-one dinner at the white house the president in essence set him up to beg for his job, ask for his job in a way that would make comey seem beholden to the president. the president then followed that up by saying, i need loyalty. this is important not just because people down the road are going to need help writing the script for how this goes in the movie if there is still a movie industry then. this is important not just for the drama, its important because of int...

>> i dont know for sure. i dont know the president well enough to read him well. i think it was -- first of all, our relationship didnt get off to a great start having the conversation i had to have on january 6th. this didnt improve the relationship because it was very very awkward. he was asking for something and i was refusing to give it. i dont know him well enough to know how he reacted to that exactly. >> harris: judge, why even go there? i have to think everything has a motive now. >> to ...

His team as to whether they had personal, financial, or political relationships with russia, as russia was attacking our democracy. we have not concluded that yet, and we want the president to get out of the way of the honest investigation that has to take place in the fbi and the house intelligence committee. >> tucker: that is not you tiwant. you want to paralyze the president and the government by insinuating that he is a russian agent. >> i want us to be able to do ourr work. he has paralyze...