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Call when he invited me to dinner. ill think about it as im answering other questions, but i think i got that right. >> lets turn our attention to the underlying activity, russias hacking into those emails and releasing them. do you believe donald trump colluded with russia? >> thats a question i dont think i should answer in an open setting. as i said, when i left, we did not have an investigation focused on president trump. thats a question that will be answered by the investigation i think. >...

Probably forgetting, may have been -- i may have meant the call when he called to invite me to dinner. ill think about it as im answering other questions, but i think i got that right. >> lets turn our attention to the underlying activity at issue here, russias hacking in those e-mails and releasing them, and allegations of collusion. do you believe donald trump coluded with russia? thats a question i dont think i should answer in an open setting. when i left, we did not have an investigation ...

You can have him on for 15 days every day and heres what it comes down to. he tells us that the president -- no evidence of colluding with the russians and nobody in the right mind would let this guy go forward as a witness if you believe there was an obstruction of justice case against the president because hes your only witness. you can take everything he said, believe every word of it, it is not a crime. you can say president trump was inappropriate at times, and you would be right. so there ...

Room on capitol hill before the senate intel committee in less than three hours. comeys going to say in the opening remarks that he told president trump he is not under investigation. he will reveal that the %-p. what do the republicans want to hear from james comey? lets talk with congress member jim jordan of ohio. he is the member of the freedom caucus. good to have you with us. what do you hope comes out today from james comey? >> we will see. the real talk, i think, is what was in the writt...

Said to the whole world that clinton doesnt mishandle classified information. why can you let clinton go, but you cant speak directly about trump? and, oh, by the way, may 3rd under oath, didnt you say nobody was interfering in the investigation putting pressure on you? im not here to beat up on mr. comey. he served his country well. both parties thought he had to lead. its not about comey, its about russia. the one thing i can tell you about our president as of this moment, he is not under inve...

Referencing back to previous testimony, a number of republicans pointing to the comey hearing on may 3rd. >> can they hold that fbi investigation? >> in theory, he asked. >> has it happened? >> not in my experience. it would be a big deal to tell the fbi to stop doing something without an appropriate purpose. im talking about a situation where we were told to stop something for a political reason, that would be a very big deal. it does not happen in my experience. >> bret: he also said it was a ...

Times in four months, so -- so president trump for whatever reason was acting in an inappropriate way. >> why -- because he had a bunch of meetings? im not sure that you can say that. >> because its an independent agency and the president is supposed to talk to the attorney general who talks -- >> the fbi director serves at the pleasure of the president. >> these are established procedures to prevent exactly the situation that the support in. >> again, listen to the presidents own words, david. ...

Counsel gonzalez. he knows pressures and what isnt pressure. he answered on may 3rd before the u.s. senate judiciary committee that he didnt feel pressure. he made -- he made a statement that nobody pressured him at the white house. the administration didnt pressure him to do anything, so i dont think theres any there there at at end. day. >> hillary, i mean, if the fbi director didnt feel pressure, is david right? could this -- i mean, how could it be obstruction if he didnt feel pressure to do...

Question. i think goods and decent people can say did james comey make some mistakes. there can be an argue for hes a moral upright man. i believe his moral compass points directly towards the nor its star. i think as he explained on may 3rd in that last appearance before congress, i believe he explained the calculus we went through. this wasnt a decision he made rationally. he struggled with it. >> all eyes will be on comey. >> hes not going to help the president, that itself the bottom line he...

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 ...