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Situation that clearly points to obstruction of justice. >> i want to be precise you didnt mean the president is now trying to influence comey -- i assume you meant robert mueller, is that what youre suggesting? >> i apologize, im trying to point out the fact that the obstruction of justice, special prosecutor is looking to obstruction of justice which began because the presidents action during the firing of fbi director comey and now extended into whatever further the investigation has gone int...

Youve got the threat to fire -- first the try and influence comey and then the firing itself. and now youve got the attack on mueller, where there is clearly an effort to build up the idea that mueller is biased, that, you know, god forbid, hes hiring people who made contributions to democrats. so he has a political track where hes trying to create pressure, and then hes got the legal track. >> here was trump on mueller. >> hes very, very good friends with comey, which is very bothersome. but he...

There were truths that comey said that trump denied were true. so you have that. youve got the threat to fire -- first the try and influence comey and then the firing itself. and now youve got the attack on mueller, where there is clearly an effort to build up the idea that mueller is biased, that, you know, god forbid, hes hiring people who made contributions to democrats. so he has a political track where hes trying to create pressure, and then hes got the legal track. >> here was trump on mue...

What youve had is the president laying out intent in public today, saying he was trying to get comey to tell the truth although as you pointed out, there were truths that comey said that trump denied were true. so you have that. youve got the threat to fire -- first the try and influence comey and then the firing itself. and now youve got the attack on mueller, where there is clearly an effort to build up the idea that mueller is biased, that, you know, god forbid, hes hiring people who made con...

Problematic. if he was trying to influence comeys remarks our testimony, that stands problematic and this is the president of the united states. i hope they wouldnt just be trying to make the course of statements on twitter but who knows. rick: tara, comey call the president a liar and the president called called me a liar. how do we know whos telling the truth and will be evernote? i think we will know because i have faith in our intelligence community and i faith the investigation will run its...

Personal device of some sort. i have no doubt those tapes will be requested by the committee, as they have been already has a deadline on friday. if they are not turned over, they will be subpoenaed. again, this is if there are tapes. if there are tapes, the president owes an expiration about why he would say they we were, its been flippant but this is an investigation with national security at its core. at the heart of this is russian collusion in our election and we forget that in all of this ...

>> theres a lot of wordsmithing going on. that was a fabulous interview from chris wallace. the contention is we dont know whether he is under investigation or not. he tweets that he was under investigation and now his attorney is saying he is responding to the washington post article. we then have the attorney flipping the terminology saying they havent been notified it about an investigation and at the end of the day, not aaa matters. i say that because he might not be under investigation toda...

Committee by the deadline. including a memo allegedly showing the president attempted to influence comey. >> nobody as seen the documents. were assuming they are there. i have not seen they are there. i am skeptical. i want to see myself. >> reporter: the former fbi director james comey was scheduled to testify in front of the house oversight committee yesterday, but that hearing was postponed so comey could speak with the special counsel robert mueller first. he is expected to testify before th...

The world. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." >> theres lots of breaking news were watching right now. unfolding in the russian investigation. cnn has raelearned that attorne general jeff sessions did not disclose meetings with russian officials and other foreign contacts when he applied for security clearance. stand by for exclusive new details. also this hour, congressional investigators have not received copies of james comeys notes that documented the fired fbi director conversa...

Lets discuss the latest with zachary wolf and sara westwood, lot live from washington. i want to start here with this headline. that the president asked the director of national intelligence dan coates to get comey to back off the flynn investigation. and thats reported from "the washington post" overnight. zach, what kind of a pattern is this showing about the president and his obsession with comey investigating the russian angle? >> i think it shows it sort of falls into the pattern of trump n...