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Administration, including the president of the united states, either directed you or asked you to do any unlawful or illegal act since youve been attorney general of the united states? >> no, senator risch. >> thank you. >> senator feinstein? >> thanks very much, mr. chairman. welcome, attorney general. >> thank you. >> on may 19th, mr. rosenstein in a statement to the house of representatives essentially told them that he learned on may 8th that president trump intended to remove director comey...

United states either directed you or asked to you do any unlawful or illegal act since you have been attorney general of the united states? >> no, senator rich. they have not. >> thank you, mr. chair. >> senator feinstein. >> thanks very much, mr. chairman. welcome, attorney general. >> thank you. >> on may 19th, mr. rosenstein in a statement to the house of representatives essentially told them he learned on may 8th president trump intended to remove director comey. when you wrote your letter o...

>> the easy would have been easier to say yes, yes. both would have been improper. >> okay. so how exactly were you involved in the termination of director comey, because i am looking at your letter dated may 9 and you say the director of the fbi must be someone who follows faithfully the rules and principals and sets the right example forever our law enforcement officials, therefore i must recommend you remove director comey and identify an experience and qualified individual to lead the great ...

Everyone leave the oval office and they have that al qaewkward office one on one. >> well talk about it more later. he admits that he disclosed to a professor at columbia university the fact that he had a memo and that that was then given to some of the "the new york times" porters. why didnt he do it himself? why dide use a cut out? >> good question. in my mind there are leaks, and there are leaks. there are national security leaks, sensitive information, classified, perhaps we saw some of that...

Been very loyal to you and i, therefore, expect you to do stuff. you have this whole loyalty and obligation to him. its almost like a shake down of comey saying, im not going to raise this mccabe thing. ive been loyal to you, but im not going to do that much longer if you dont get this thing out about me. that to me is inappropriate behavior, whether it adds to the mosaic of obstructionism, well see, but its just not seemly. >> david gergen, because i have been very loyal to you, very loyal, we ...

Again brought the dossier comey briefed him about on january 6 at trump towers saying he, quote, had not been involved with hookers in russia. comey also says the president asked what comey to do to, quote, lift the cloud. comey again assuring president trump he was not personally under investigation. april 11th, the president called again, asking comey what he was doing to make it publicly known that he was not being investigated and saying the cloud was hurting his ability to do his job. befor...

On flynn. so that tells the president that hes not backing down. may 9, comey is fired. >> we should also point out, and were going to hear from sally yates tonight. sally yates had informed the office of legal counsel, that flynn had been interviewed by the fbi in the white house and she gave the indication that the interview didnt go so well, that legal counsel asked for details, she would. give details, but the implication is it didnt go very well. but the legal counsel takes it to the presid...

We just showed you tapes of them saying comey is not credible and has to go. when trump fires comey is he supposed to stay? you on a non- credible person leading the fbi? >> lets look at the facts of the case. the facts of the case is that comey was fired by the person who he is investigating. >> jesse: that is not true. he is not investigating president trump. dianne feinstein -- in a republican both said that. >> thats not true. what is happened since it july 5 until january 22, you see trump ...

Thing is a constitutional crisis in this is the next watergate. are we reaching the boy who cried wolf stage #. >> absolute not. anyone who is a flip-flop or would actually be trump and his the ministration. >> jesse: how are the democrats not flip-flops? we just showed you tapes of them saying comey is not credible and has to go. when trump fires comey is he supposed to stay? you on a non- credible person leading the fbi? >> lets look at the facts of the case. the facts of the case is that come...

In this is the next watergate. are we reaching the boy who cried wolf stage #. >> absolute not. anyone who is a flip-flop or would actually be trump and his the ministration. >> jesse: how are the democrats not flip-flops? we just showed you tapes of them saying comey is not credible and has to go. when trump fires comey is he supposed to stay? you on a non- credible person leading the fbi? >> lets look at the facts of the case. the facts of the case is that comey was fired by the person who he ...