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She said. does everyone in the presidents inner circle feel as confident about this strategy? >> well, there are a lot of divisions inside the white house right now over things that have already happened. and one is that sort of original thing that has set this off, the release of the memo memorializing as close as exists as a transcript to that phone call of the president and president zelensky and there are other also divisions of strategy and approach of the chief of staffs office and bad fee...

Leading senate republican want answers about political bias influenced the email and russia investigation. senator johnson explained to tucker carlson last night. >> weve seen the poll itization of the f.b.i. and were losing confidence in these institutions that should be bed rocks of our democracy. i have no idea why the f.b.i. doesnt come clean and provide this information to congress. what are they trying to hide? >> james comey is also under scrutiny for leaking memos of conversations with p...

>> congressman, im not going to comment on that. the president has explained that he made the decision and im not going to comment beyond that. >> at the time you wrote the letter suggesting the firing, did you believe what you put in that letter? >> yes, i did. >> all right. if an fbi employee goes into a meeting as part of his job, someone in the government, and he comes out and he makes a memo memorializing the meeting, perhaps in the future, past memory refreshed, is that memo doj property? ...

To comment on that. the president has explained he made the decision and im not going to comment beyond that. >> at the time you wrote the letter suggesting the firing, did you believe what you put in that letter? >> yes, i did. >> all right. if an f.b.i. employee goes into a meeting and as part of his job and furtherance of his job and someone in the government, and he comes out and he makes a memo memorializing the meeting, perhaps in the future past memory refreshed, is that memo doj property...

Why didnt we raise the specific? it was of investigative interest to us if yito figure out, what happened with the presidents request? i wouldnt want to alert the white house it had happened until we figured out what we were going to do with it investigatively. >> your testimony was that you went to attorney general sessions and said, dont ever leave me alone with him again. are you saying that you also told him that he had made a request that you let it go with regard to part of the investigati...

Investigative interest to us to figure out what just happened. i would not have wanted to alert the white house that it had happened until he figured out, what are you going to do with this investigative leak? >> your testimony was that you went to attorney general sessions and said dont ever leave me alone with him again, are you saying that you also told him that he had made a request that you let it go with regard to part of the investigation of michael flynn? >> no, i specifically did not. i...

Is not willing to cooperate, that is problematic and when the trump team says we want to get the facts here, there are people need to play a role in that too. >> heather: heres the thing. we are learning that flynn has agreed to turn over some documents related to the investigation after originally protecting himself against self-incrimination. lets begin with the presidents words to comey. and that february meeting, could they constitute obstruction of justice? >> it depends entirely on what th...

The office refers to -- refers to hillary clinton and indicates that strzok discussed on a different phone to avoid being traced. the timing may be significant because the text was sent three days before, ill -- a week before clintons longtime aide sheryl mills was question. james comey is under scrutiny leaking memos with conversation after he was fired in may. during this weeks conversation, the attorney general who was comeys boss at the time, said the memos were government property. and not ...