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He will avoid answering because of an ongoing investigation. >> melissa: you say that we do not know what he is going to say, but we know what he said on may 3rd. lets play that. >> is the attorney general and the senior officials opposing a specific investigation, can they halt that fbi investigation? >> in theory, yes. >> has it happened? >> not in my experience, because it would be a big deal to tell the fbi to stop doing something without an appropriate purpose. >> melissa: does not undermin...

The only thing that unites them hate against trump. great, that is a strategy, but wheres that going to get you? how is that going to move the american people forward? if we go back to the may 3rd testimony with comey on capitol hill, he said the white house didnt interfere with him. hes not even a credible witness. all we are doing is basically creating headlines to block out until the midterm elections in 2018 where the democrats hope, garlands guys hope they can take back the house basically ...

Its weird. its goofy. theres an attempt by russian government to mess with our election, not yet clear what impact it had. >> i want to talk about fbi director james comey who will test next week in open session. if he testified that the president frepressured him to e the investigation. >> if he testifies i will have a lot of questions. he was on our committee, on may 3rd he testified quite clearly. one thing ive not seen is political pressure or to end or change the outcome of a political inve...

Your testimony on may 3rd? why on may 3rd did you indicate that you had not been pressured to shut down an investigation? why did your deputy on may the 11th say that he didnt believe anyone had pressured them to stop any investigations? theres a lot of questions like that that republicans want to see answered. so i think for that reason alone, a lot of people on the republican side want to see comey come to the table and answer what i think are going to be tough questions. >> well, and actually...

This. >> i want to talk about james comey. he will testify next week in open session. if he testifies that the president pressured him to end the investigation into former national security adviser, what happens next? >> first of all, if he testifies to that effect, im going to have a lot of additional questions for him. he was in front of our committee. just a few weeks ago on may 3rd, he testified quite clearly, one thing have i not seen is political pressure to end or change the outcome of a ...

Have his lawyers run in to court and get an order saying that he cant testify. a pretty unprecedented step that doesnt happen every day, sure enough. >> i suspect it wont happen, but we shall see. gloria, theres been some question why comey didnt take action if he felt he was being pressured by the president to end the investigation into fired national security adviser michael flynn. listen to this exchange with a senator during comeys may 3rd testimony. >> so if the attorney general or senior o...

Goes on the record and says that. he testified before congress on may 3rd and said the president has never tried to use that for political purposes. im interested to see the former fbi director, is he going to walk that path because then he has other problems. >> leland: to your point, its the same when the kellyanne conway made, if all of a sudden you have a discrepancy in the testimony, there is a something there. now to the heart of the matter and terms of whether or not the president said pl...

Cnn that he does plan to say that the president pressed him to back off the michael flynn investigation. we just had a senator on who said, well, i dont know i trust what comey is going to say because he told us that nobody tried to impede the investigation. and what hes hanging his hat on is this sentence where james comey said on may 3rd, im talking about we were told to stop something in an investigation. that would be a very big deal. >> in the context of a question about the doj. >> correct...

Russian government? >> we just had senator mike lee on who said that james comey had an opportunity to say that, to say that the president pressed him on may 3rd when he testified in front of the judiciary committee, but he didnt do that. he said its not happened in my experience. hell say he was referring to questions about the president of justice, but why didnt he say it before now? >> listen, mr. comey can speak for himself and mr. comeys testimony, of course, is the beginning of a new phase...

Enjoying the spotlights in these moments, we have seen him give compelling testimony in the past, if i were donald trump i would be extremely worried about how bad of a day that may be for him. >> you senator mike lee basically suggesting that james comey is sort of an unreliable narrator. he had his chance on may 3rd, the last time that he testified to mention this, that the president may have pressed him to back off an investigation, but he didnt. >> yeah. and hell be pressed on any inconsiste...