or not his true believes but wider sources at play in this approach to kremlin. it was meeting with kremlin diplomats at white house when trump boasted about firing comey, telling he was nut case. trump famously admitted russia thing was on his mind when he did the firing. and two, trump s reasons for firing comey involved stephen miller who helped to draft a letter about it that never made it to comey because the white house lawyer said it was too problematic. we can tell you tonight that letter is in bob mueller s possession and so is stephen miller s interview notes. saying it s time to call out president trump for denial of russian interference and barbara mcquade. ned starting with you. everything i just reviewed is,
imposed sanctions the obama administration put on russia because of meddling. he said he never discussed that. there was an fbi or nsa tap of that conversation and it was a lie and he got fired for it. so they want to talk about that as it relates to the possibility of collusion as well the fbi interviewed flynn about those conversations. they want to see those interview notes to see whether flynn made false statements to the fbi. flynn has got lying and collusion and then his sf 86 the background investigation report and failure to register as a foreign agent. comey, the issue as it relates to comey, really is the obstruction of justice issue as much as anything else. comey is asked to back off flynn and to essentially back down on the russia investigation. he refuses to do that. he doesn t pledge his loyalty to the president as comey testified and he gets fired. and then the president tells
hello, everyone, i m john berman. i m kate bolduan. exactly three weeks until election day, one day until the big debate today. just moments from now, hillary clinton will be heading off to las vegas ahead of tomorrow s third and final presidential face-off. that will also make it five days since hillary clinton has been off the trail studying up. no one told me there would be math. sorry, especially coming from me. new topic to the debate curriculum. newly released fbi documents revealing a top state department official tried unconvincingly to convince the fbi to declassify an e-mail from clinton s private server. according to fbi interview notes, those conversations were seen to include a quid pro quo, at least according to fbi officials. the fbi and state department both deny that claim. we ll speak with fbi spokesman john kirby in a moment. four new national polls have hillary clinton ahead, holding anywhere from a four-point lead, which is not so big, to a
up. for hillary clinton, it may be some of these e-mails, some of these hacked e-mails that we had not heard about at the last debate from her campaign co-chair john podesta. also these fbi interview notes. you had an fbi official in these notes saying that basically they thought a state department official who was there after hillary clinton had left the state department but had worked under hillary clinton this is undersecretary kennedy, that he was trying to help minimize the damage from hillary clinton s e-mail. one fbi official said that he was asking for the fbi to look at an e-mail that had been classified as secret and considered downgrading it and that there was a trade being made for that. help with personnel. getting fbi personnel in foreign countries where they hadn t been allowed. now, another fbi official said yes there was this request to downgrade or to take a look at this e-mail and potentially downgrade it.
how effective that can be three years in to the civil war in syria? i went through interview notes, one administration official said the script had been written, facts on the ground changed very dull since the spring of 2012. we are all known as a nation paying attention to this and as you know, less than one% of this country fought 100% of its wars the past 15 years and a puncture that is happening is up puncture in of the sense of normalcy so many of us are allowed to have. the question with ground troops do they strengthen the hand of isis who believe in the end base and can you keep pressure on to do the same or even strengthened. it has always been another line of arguments within the administration and said there are folks we could partner with but don t want to trust them.