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Thats what kept him from knowing whether trump was involved in this. and this is not -- this is not a privileged communication. its unclear what the privilege issues would be. but what it tells me is that the strategy were seeing from trump and his allies now of stonewalling, of doing everything they can to aggressively keep information from the house really was just a follow-on to what they did to the mueller investigation. i mean, they essentially took a very aggressive approach there. if this...

What they can get in the interim. but what they want, at least what adam schiff has said, is that they dont want anything less than the full report and all of the underlying materials. right? they want to know exactly everything that mueller had to base his decision on. and not only that, they want to know where the other part of the investigation is currently in the justice department. thats the counterintelligence investigation. so you know, theres this kind of cat and mouse game going on wher...

Obstru obstructing this investigation, therefore what? and to me the question hasnt been answered yet, you know, whether they -- theyre going to escalate it further than this. and i think, again, going back to what i said earlier, i think the white house knows right now that they can play this out for some time. >> thats got to be the last word. thank you all. i appreciate it. i appreciate it. ive got to run. thank you so much. is president trump speaking and gearing his policies to white men wh...

Reveal why president trumps former national security adviser michael flynn proved to be so valuable to robert muellers russia investigation. there are new details about a voicemail recording from trumps attorney to flynns lawyer while flynn was cooperating. a judge now ordering a transcript of that voicemail to be released publicly by the end of this month. in just a moment were going to take a look at what were learning tonight on that. also we need to tell you about the justice department fina...

The testimony. you know, what is now coming out in the wake of the mueller investigation, though, that was not in the mueller report, its still hard to know exactly how ultimately significant it would be. we know that what is in the mueller report, we know what the mueller investigation found about what flynn had to say and what he didnt have to say. flynn of course still has to be sentenced. and so i guess its still like -- its still unclear whether theres going to be a really significant outco...

Who theyre going to prosecute and then hunt for a crime. these pardons follow a trend for president trump. he likes to pardon supporters, high-profile ones. he also seems to like pardoning people facing issues he knows something about. we saw this when he pardoned former sheriff joe arpaio, a huge trump fan, who was convicted of contempt of court in a case related to racial profiling. conservative pundit dinesh dsouza, who compared trump to lincoln, also got a presidential pardon. he pleaded gui...

Communications between flynn and the russian ambassador would also be released. this is the thing that got flynn into trouble in the first place. he lied about those conversations. so both pieces of information, the ones that are related to the contacts between the campaign and the transition and the russians as well as the obstruction of justice are now going to be much more public than they were before. of course the resolution is likely to be more political than legal, but i do think it matte...

President? >> its in the eye of the beholder. jason miller isnt going to believe it is but i do believe that he is somebody as a witness to this investigation, somebody who was involved directly, one on one with the president who is saying the president is lying, is lying about a bunch of things. is lying about a conversation they had about loyalty for example and when he says when he says the president is obstru obstructing justice and there is evidence of it, possibly, we know hes telling that...

Does not exonerate the president of the united states, they have been discredited in some way. its quite transparent and a fig leaf if he is preemptively striking at that point. >> thank you all so much. just days from now jake tapper will sit down with comey for the former fbi directors first cable news television interview since president trump fired him. you can see it thursday on "the lead" at 4:00 p.m. eastern with jake tapper right here on cnn. >> still ahead, were going to hear more from ...

Comparable bundle, for less. call today. and welcome back to our special report. comey speaks out, the fired fbi director suggesting tonight that president trump may be compromised by the russians and that there is, quote, some evidence he obstructed justice. im pamela brown. >> and im jim sciutto. we are following all the breaking news from comeys first television interview since he was fired and his blistering criticism of mr. trump as, quote, morally unfit to be president. and this hour we ...