July 5th Statement News Today

Person has been charged for obstruction of justice or for that matter any other criminal offense where they said or thought they hoped for an outcome? >> i dont know well enough to answer. the reason i keep saying his words is i took it as a direction. hes the president of the united states, with me alone, saying i hope this i took it as this is what he wants me to do. i didnt know pay back, thats the way i took it. >> you may have took it as a direction. he said i hope. >> those were his exact ...

With me as president? i was pretty rough on him on the campaign trail? >> he was rough on mccabe? >> by hus accounts, he said he was rough on mcraib kab and his wife. i assured him, andy is a total pro. no issue at all. you got to know the fooeb people of the fbi. >> so the president says, remember i never brought up the mccabe thing because you said he was a good guy. did you perceive that to be a statement that i took care of you, something, because you told me he was a good guy, so now, im as...

Attorney general to leave the oval office so that he could privately ask director comey, again, quote to see a way clear to letting flynn go. >> that is a statement that director comey interpret as a request that he drop the investigation connected to general flynns false statement itself. think about i. the president of the united states asking the fbi director to drop an ongoing investigation. after that, the president called the fbi director on two additional occasions, march 30th and april 1...

True. is that a fair statement? >> in the main, it was not true. again, all of you know this, the american people dont, the challenge, and im not picking on reporters, about writing stories about classified information the people talking about it often dont really know whats going on and those of us know whats been on are not talking about it and we dont call the press oto say, hey, you got that thing wrong about the sensitive topic. we have to leave it there. it mentioned the chairman the nonse...

Campaign trail. >> rough on mccabe? >> by his own account, he said he was rough on mccabe and mrs. mccabe on the campaign trail. how is he going to be? i shared with the president, andy is a pro. no issue at all. you have to know people of the fbi. theyre not -- >> so the president turns to you and says, remember, i never brought up the mccabe thing because you said he was a good guy, did you perceive that to be a statement that, i took care of you. i didnt do something because you told me he wa...

>> i dont. i dont. >> thank you, jim. >> senator collins. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. comey, let me gin by thanking you for your voluntary compliance with our request to appear before this committee and since its been very important investigation. ewant to first ask you about your conversations with the president, the three conversations in which you told him that he was not under investigation. the firsts with during your january 6th meeting, according to your testimony, in which it appears...

Appreciate that, not only the conciseness and the clearness of it, but also the fact that you have things that were written down contemporaneously with whe happened, you put them in quotes so we know exactly what happened, were not getting some ren diction of it thats in your mind. so you are to be complimented. >> thank you. i had great parents and teachtaries beat that into me. >> thats obvious. the chairman walked you through a number of things the american people need to know and want to kno...

Investigation. our experienced staff is interviewing all relevant parties and some of the most sensitive intelligence in our countrys possession. we will establish the facts separate from rampant speculation and lay them out for the american people to make their own judgment. only then will we as a nation be able to move forward and to put this episode to rest. there are several outstanding issues not addressed in your statement that i hope youll clear up for the american people today. did the p...

Privately ask director comey again "to see way clear to letting flynn go." that is a statement that director comey interpreted as a request that he drop the investigation connected to general flynns false statements. think about it. the president of the united states asking the fbi director to drop an ongoing investigation. and after that, the president called the fbi director on two additional occasions, march 30th and april 11th and asked him again "to lift the cloud on the russian investigati...

That matter, any other criminal offense, where they said or thought they hoped for an outcome? >> i dont know well enough to answer. the reason i keep saying his words is i took it as a direction. >> right. >> i mean, this is a president of the united states with me alone saying i hope this. i took it as, this is what he wants me to do. i didnt obey that, but thats the way i took it. >> you may have taken it as a direction but thats not what he said. >> correct. >> he said, i hope. >> those are ...