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Color. they cover everything from president trumps alleged loyalty request to james comey as well as their conversations about former national security advisor michael flynn. and i want to read to you a couple of the new bits of information that weve got tonight from these memos. the first is a january 27th meeting at the white house at dinner with james comey and president trump. and heres what james comey writes. in addition to president trump requesting loyalty he said and i quote, he then we...

Questions about russian influence in the 2016 campaign. there is a lot about the interview that i didnt like. just to focus on one example of it, i have a hard time with jim comey who talks about how surprised he was that the president demanded his loyalty and that he was flummoxed by the fact that he wanted to meet alone with him. it was clearly inappropriate. this is the big, bad fbi director who made a big show of the independence of the justice department during the bush administration over ...

Publicly reported, and since it has also become public knowledge that the president is indeed being investigated for potential criminal charges for those actions, its no longer possible o to say that the president doesnt know, its illegal to pressure people who are overseeing or running these investigations about those investigations. i mean, if he didnt know that o was illegal and wrong before, he certainly knows now. and these new reports tonight that the pressure, the president pressured depu...

To say that the president doesnt know, its illegal to pressure people who are overseeing or running these investigations about those investigations. i mean, if he didnt know that was illegal and wrong before, he certainly knows now. and these new reports tonight that the pressure, the president pressured deputy attorney general rod rosenstein, the man overseeing the mueller investigation, these new reports tonight say that the president did this to rosenstein last month, at the white house. are ...

The "new york times," to t"the washington post" to fox news. but more important, perhaps, than this cascading waterfall of lies is the fact that this is just the latest evidence of p m president trumps desire and actions to end the russian probes. last year president trump kicked off his reliationship with his own fbi director by asking james comey for his loyalty, a request made just days after being interviewed and michael flynn lied to them about his contacts with russia. that lie was somethi...

With the vice president and coming back. thank you for that. coming up next, was there a loyalty request, after hours of testimony behind closed doors, what the fbi deputy director andrew mccabe is reveal to go lawmakers about the specific conversation between the president and former fbi director james comey. also save the date u.s. ambassador nikki haley are sending out invitations to thank all the countries that stood with the united states during that controversial vote. so what happens ...

Leader, not all republican leaders, but some republican leaders, including paul ryan now, make these kinds of excuses, however weak they are, for the president. >> final question. in a word based on what youve know and seen so far, has the president committed obstruction of justice? >> well, i would point out that im not an attorney, and so i -- i would caveat with that, but i would focus on the same thing that comey focused on yesterday. comey i think tried to focus attention at least in the en...

Tape. and my judgment was i needed to get that out in the public square so i asked a friend of mine to share the content with a reporter. but i asked him to because i thought that might prompt the appointment of a special counsel. >> so thats very straightforward. first, may 9thmp fir comey. two days later "times" accomplishes that story about the president asking for comeys loyalty. and friends who comey told about that dinner and the loyalty request at the time. the next day, the president twe...

Mine to share the content with a reporter. but i asked him to because i thought that might prompt the appointment of a special counsel. >> so thats very straightforward. first, may 9th trump fires comey. two days later "times" publishes that story about the president asking for comeys loyalty. and friends who comey told about that dinner and the loyalty request at the time. the next day, the president tweets that comey better hope there are no tapes. and then the following monday after that week...