May 3rd Testimony News Today

This investigation and its hurting you politically. >> lets keep reading. everyone join me. page 6. >> its like being in class. >> here we go. this is james comey. if youre just joining us, we have gotten this massive statement ahead of his testimony tomorrow in front of the senate intel committee. on the morning of march 30th, the president called me at the fbi. he said he had nothing to do with russia, had not been involved with hookers in russia and had always assumed he was being recorded wh...

Obstruction, maybe worse. this is the equivalent of the nixon tapes. and we are in very choppy waters. >> let me follow up quickly before we bring in two more voices. what do you say to trump supporters who say this is political, ax to grind, guy was fired? >> well, i think president trump has already lost that battle. the american people, majority of them we have heard have made up their mind but its not political. i think the document itself speaks to the patience of jim comey and the american...

Being very disturbed by it, going to a small group of people and understanding that they didnt want to infect their investigation and they had to -- >> and then -- and again, i dont want to jump too far ahead here, but he goes to sessions, his boss, the attorney general, and says dont let me be alone with the president anymore. >> right. okay. >> because this is what hes doing and its inappropriate. >> the one place where he seems to draw a conclusion and not just be a fact witness is in saying ...

Lawyer, he knows how that game is played. hes going to be convincing and hes going to be credible. trump is wrong-footed. hes already losing the argument, scrambling to catch up. >> releasing the statement today is just another devastating blow to him. so i dont think those political arguments are going to fly. >> okay. norm eisen, thank you for your time as were all listening to this statement released ahead of tomorrows testimony on capitol hill, now fired fbi director james comey sitting in f...

And his family first included and he provided such a level of detail which we know jim comey wants to build a narrative and tell a story here. i think thats going to help him bolster his own credibility because he remembers these incidents in such incredible detail, i think its going to make it harder for the president to push back on it. >> so this is very long and you read a very important fascinating part of it talking about the loyalty pledge. >> yep. >> later he talks about the now infamous...

The dossier referenced in this phone call? what do you have? >> this is from one of the january meetings. we know early in january that the director personally briefed the president that trump at the time was not president yet but he started briefing him on some of the content of the dossier. and it seems like in reading this stuff for the testimony tomorrow, trump was obsessed over some of the contents. he called them salacious and even at one point even asked comey if he would investigate the ...

Contact, comey believed them to be in violation of justice department guidelines which allows conversations with the white house about active investigations, quote, only when it is important for the performance of the presidents duties and important for a law perspective. the president describes all the contacts in a detailed memo he gave to his aides. last week when president trump said he was thinking about russia when he fired russia, the president placed more recommendation on the may 3rd te...