James Comey Testifying News Today

That marc kasowitz is focusing in on is comey leaked the memo after the president tweeted as a way of getting a special prosecutor appointed. kasowitz saying it amounted to retaliation. listen to what he said on that front. >> mr. comey admitted that he leaked to friends of his purported memos of those privileged communications. one of which he testified was classified. mr. comey also testified that immediately after he was terminated, he authorized his friends to leak the contents of those memo...

Sunday"s chris wallace. what jumped out at you? >> well, it was a mixed bag. on the legal side it wasnt bad for president trump. comey said that as of the day he was fired that trump was still not the target of a criminal investigation. thats good news. certainly wasnt going to go to the question of obstruction of justice. he was not quite clear in his own mind whether it rose to that level and he said he was going to leave it to the special counsel as he probably should. so in a legal sense, he...

Change or the endeavor was to change the investigation into russian meddling and potential collusion. the president admitted to nbc news the russian investigation was on his mind when he fired james comey. the former fbi chief stopped short of accusing the president of obstruction. he said the special counsel overseeing the investigation will make that judgment. and then theres loyalty. james comey said the president asked him for his loyalty during a dinner in january. during that same dinner, ...

...awkward. >> shepard: breaking news. congressman tray gowdy set to been the next chairman of the house oversight committee. the republican conference has to sign off on the money. its a done deal. jason chaffetz set to resign at the end of the might. the oversight committee is investigating whether president trump pressured james comey to drop the investigation of michael flynn. congressman gowdy is a former prosecutor and said hes grateful for the opportunity and looks forward to working alon...

Im gonna just go back to doing what i was doing. find your awesome with the xfinity x1 voice remote. >> fired fbi director james comey said it would be up to the special counsel to see if president trump was trying to obstruct justice when the president talked to comey about the investigation of the former national security adviser michael flynn. comey testified that the president said "i hope you can let this go." even though the president used the word "hope", comey said he took it as a direct...

Director comey behind doors in the classified setting. the possibles top democrat suggested while both sides will draw their own conclusions, theres something that all should be worried about. >> the one message that i hope all americans will take home is recognizing how significant the russian interference was and how it goes to the core of our democracy and we have to be prepared to make sure that were in a better defensive position in 2018 and 2019. >> we heard that from a lot of folks today....

John cane said there was a double standard between the way james comey handled the hillary clinton e-mail investigation and the way he handled trumps inner circle. another prominent republican said the president was let down by members of his team. >> my hope is that there are people in the white house that have advised the president about what is appropriate and what isnt when youre interacting with the fbi for the reasons that director comey outlined. its not clear why it didnt happen sooner. ...

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Never said it in substance. of course, the office of the president is entitled to expect loyalty from those who are serving the administration. >> shepard: earlier the deputy white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders said in a gaggle that they could said president trump is not a liar. an apparent response to comeys team that the president might lie about their conversation and he lied about other matters. the president himself so far has not commented directly or even tweeted about come...

Frankly what has been leaked. that is something that worked well to comeys benefit. very openly i have to say, he didnt beat around the bush about it, that after the president put out the tweet about well, maybe theres tapes, that he thought i better get my side of the story out there. he said openly i directed a friend of mine from columbia law school to leak to it "the new york times." but obviously the idea of a member that -- the leader of americas top law enforcement agency saying that he w...