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Say something they dont know whether its true or fought. the fact that they dont know where the president stands on this, to jims point, it was at seven hours ago that they havent asked is telling. >> yeah. anderson, you may say the silence is deafening. its remarkable to think the white house isnt in a position to say the president has confidence in any of his cabinet officials, let alone someone as invisible and closely connected to him as jeff sessions. i dont know if it means jeff sessions d...

Matter in the court of public opinion. >> i think, ryan what do you think of the washington post reporting? its one thing, obviously, comey was fired, but for him to go to coates to try to get to comey? >> yes, he had this, as carl was pointing out, have you this back pattern. you went to coates to try to influence the election. we went to comey. he ended up firing him to influence the investigation. i mean, trump was obsessed with this investigation for some reason. he just to add one more thin...

President wanted to speak about in front of a large group of people. the cia director was also in the room. >> he probably knew what he was doing was improper or at least out of the ordinary and he didnt want to have coates answer the question in front of other people. because, perhaps, he knew that coates wasnt going to answer the question and that it would cause some kind of a problem. what you have here is a president looking for assurances everywhere that this russia problem was going to be ...

Pressing ahead and doing your job. >> that by all observation is what he is doing i dont think the testimony by director coates is going to change that. i think you may hear tomorrow when questions arise about what do you and the president say to one another, i think you may hear coates demurrer on those. i dont know he will answer those questions at all. >> you just said it, tim, carrying water. what i am told by people in the white house is that if the president is in a rage at sessions and it...

Director comey multiple times, now reporting on the same instance, director comey is expected to testify to a day-and-a-half from now. efforts why the president should get his top intelligence law enforcement officials to back off on the russian investigation. according to washington post the director asked the national director of intelligence jack coates to intervene with the russia probe. telling coates later discussed the conversation with other officials and decided that intervening with co...

To do as well with unmasking and were going to see a repeat of all of these tropes, there has been a republican effect of trying to make this go away. >> those are tropes. >> thats right. >> lets just be clear. >> i mean, the president was telling the truth when he said that former director comey had been unpopular with both sides. >> that might have been why trump didnt anticipate the firing would cause as much problems. it was true republicans had problems with his failure to charge secretary ...

Investigations, especially comey, especially coates and what we will hear before the committee is the testimony of one of those people and a narrative of how that occurred from the point of view of mr. comey. we will also see, i suspect, a rouge effort to impeach, that word, into comeys credible by the republicans on the committee. marco rubio has an opportunity here to maybe be the howard baker similar of the watergate investigation and say what did the president know and when did he know it? p...