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Will end quickly. >> this is exactly what he was trying to do with james comey, which got him, bob mueller, got him the trouble he had got, if he had not pressed comey, let comey do his job. chances are good the first national security adviser wouldnt have already pleaded guilty and his campaign manager wouldnt, you know. >> the timeline of caroles story is rife with questions that im sure has been asked or without answers being provided, i would assume. but its august when they get the warning,...

Lying. >> late yesterday the senate judiciary committee formally requested copies of comeys memos detailing his one on one with the president. after comey testified earlier in the week that he asked a friend to leak those notes to the press. so were also following breaking news from afghanistan where this is just in two u.s. soldiers were killed when an afghan army soldier opened fire on them and the shooter was killed after the attack. the two other u.s. soldiers also injured in this incident. ...

He wouldnt allow comey to testify. if he really believed you had an obstruction of justice case, would you let the only and best witness go through this? >> isnt that a good point. does mueller have some type of conclusion that hes now trying to back fill through the work hes doing? why let comey testify? >> well, i think the senator raises a reasonable point, but on the other hand, mueller has to deal with competing interests, right? there are simultaneous congressional hearings. he has his own...

He wants to come clean on and tell his side of the story on on thursday, marc. >> yeah, its entirely possible. this is a self-inflicted wound by the president. he should have never fired james comey the way he did. he should have never insulted him. he shouldnt have put them at wow in the latter. he shouldnt have tweeted about him. all of this drama that is coming up or has been created by donald trump read what donald trump needs to do is treat this as a big wave that is coming at him and what ...

Of subpoenas from the committee so quite the to-do list for congress this weekend in regards to the russia probe. >> diane gallagher. thanks so much. lots to talk about with our panel. let me start with you, alice stewart. this morning kellyanne conway pointing to comey having to, quote, scurry to correct his testimony last time having to do with huma abedin and anthony weiner, partly to discredit comeys credibility? >> i think thats a mistake because while republicans and democrats alike can di...

Them held back because he might still want to pursue matters relating to obstruction. let comey give his testimony under oath, but the powerful corroborating evidence in the memos, hes going to wait and keep as -- in his armor. >> the very word that you use, and ill go to you, matt, the fact the notes could possibly corroborate what hes going to testify. i mean, well have to take sort of on faith what he testifies if we dont have these notes. we know that there is something out there that might ...

Version of what he said. if i were comey i would absolutely insist on testifying in public. i wouldnt trust either side because the democrats are going to take anything he says that seems to hurt trump and theyre going to distort it and leak it. the republicans will take anything he says which seems to exonerate trump, theyll distort it and leak it. we live in a period unfortunately where we are surrounded by 24-day leaks and we are much better off to have these things out in the open. let comey...

That enable the fbi to protect the country. maria: should that be the priority number one for the incoming fbi director? >> priority number one, the leaks, that thing is outrageous, the new fbi director should be someone, you know, that has the fortitude to protect this country regardless of people that want to politically bend that away from certain things. maria: is that going to be easy? how hard to turn the ship around? >> 98% of the people that want to be the fbi director are not qualified,...

At super bowl but we didnt talk about football, i think people would say what were you guys talking about at super bowl? >> same thing that attorney general lynch said meeting with clinton before the -- >> you know what happened? let comey lead the investigation. go on. >> also -- big difference. >> should not have done that. not under oath either. >> didnt say she didnt remember what they discussed. they went through line by line as opposed to what jeff sessions is saying, i tonigdont really re...

Which might be the analogy to those memos. they came out later and they fully corroborated john deans testimony. >> matt, what do you think the white house is thinking tonight with the news that hes going to testify? >> i think they are obviously getting ready for a very bad day. theyre both going to have a bad day from what jim comey does. they could also have a bad day by how the president reacts. one of problems here is not the underlying investigation, but the presidents response to it. ever...