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Viewers, we have an attorney general who has not been confirmed but the u.s. senate. isnt reading this sort of thing going to get whitaker -- i know he is a fed -- but a visit from the feds? >> you know, brian, on the one hand this is really a remarkable development, and on the other hand it is par for the course. when you look at the long list of potentially obstructionist acts by the president starting with him asking comey to lay off flynn, arguably an obstructionist act, then firing comey fo...

We will get answers whether james comey recalls them or not. joining me now is john solomon, and by ron york and andy mccarthy and former attorney general michael mukasey. general, you were chomping at the bit over there. comey amazing amnesia. we have heard he is smart as a chip and focussed and a detailed oriented individual. how do you forget so much? >> extraordinary transcript. at one point he was asked about the statement by the president told him about laying off flynn. that was disturbin...

>> extraordinary transcript. at one point he was asked about the statement by the president told him about laying off flynn. that was disturbing and he started an investigation based on that statement. then he was asked about president obama saying on national television that hillary clinton should not be charged because she did not intend to do anything wrong. that was on national television. somehow it doesnt matter. that was the clear import of his response. its mind blowing. what he should h...

Really evidence of wrongdoing. i could tell you as a career prosecutor, it is evidence of wrongdoing. just as it is evidence of wrongdoing that the president would say, hey, director comby, can you lay off flynn. and then firing director romi. and then telling russians in the oval office, i fired the nut job and the pressure is off. and then going behind closed doors with president putin and not even telling your national security leaders and experts and team what you discussed and what you agre...

It, i think im optimistic that that kind of pressure and energy can continue. >> when you say that this was the first of the hiccups, matt -- >> yeah. >> what do you expect the rest to look like, on, off, on, off? >> some of that, but say they have a photo opportunity. thats not a small thing. thats a big thing. getting the two of them together. >> yeah. >> well see a lot of weeks and months to follow and years. a photo, but nothing done yet, its off, its on. this is going to be complicated, eve...

Is, but you can find all the obstruction you want. undermine the problem, you undermine confidence in it. they do not come up with a smoking gun showing obstruction. the obstruction does not matter at all in the court of public opinion. you have a lot of trouble impeaching somebody for some vague obstruction, giuliani on tv, they know that. they know that. we undermine the actual problem, no evidence of of the strategy here, and to that, its straightforward about it. >> the people will ignore th...

Russians. >> and we know the head of a data analytics company contracted to the trump campaign reached out to wikileaks in an attempt to get e-mails from hillary clintons private server. so the public doesnt know if there was collusion, but we do know there was a lot of smoke. >> do you think president trump told general flynn to lie to the fbi about his contacts with the russians? >> i dont know the answer to that. i know this, though, that in the aftermath of the flynn firing, you had the pres...

Comey. what we heard about the testimony behind closed doors is that mccabe told the lawmakers is that james comey told him about the conversations with president trump, and remember what president trump told comey, he talked to him about the investigation into michael flynn and suggested he should back off flynn, and suggested that james comey should give him loyalty and thats according to comeys public testimony. the president disputed that, but mccabe told the committee that comey soon after ...

Alleged conversation with comey began over the weekend after flynn, of course, pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi. trump tweeted, quote, i had to fire general flynn because he lied to the vice president and the fbi. he has pled guilty to those lies, unquote. now the presidents tweet prompted new fewer than 43 question marks from former director of the u.s. government ethics office walter schaub. he asked are you admitting you knew flynn had lied to the fbi when you asked comey to back off flynn ...

Your family. >> trump had comey over for dinner one weekend into his presidency. kind of astonishing. a one on one dinner. the idea theyd permit that is jaw dropping if you think about that when theres an ongoing investigation by the fbi of the trump campaign. but what happened at that dinner? only two people there. comey testified to it and in much more detail to mueller. but presumably he told reince about it. e-mails and phone logs. maybe also conversations. and then theres the meeting where ...