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Whether the attorney general, when he wrote those letters -- his memo, and weather when rob rosenstein wrote his letter, whether stld it would be used a pretext for the firing of james comey. if there was an effort to enlist the agency heads to drop the flynn case, i think we need to know it. i think we should be doing everything we can to prove or disprove the testimony of james comey. congress has a very important oversight rule to play to make sure no one is obstructing a legitimate investiga...

Conflicts and leaks, seem to be creating a possible pretext act. now, you know, it would be a cataclysmic but then again who around the table thought he was going to fire the fbi director. >> michael, lets talk about the white houses apparent lack of interest in this russia interference story. this is from "the wall street journal" today. it quotes an unnamed source who says during a call to nsa director admiral michael rogers we saw him on the screen a short time ago, the president questioned t...

Questions that go to whether he violated his recusal, whether the president fired director comey as a way of obstructing or impeding the investigation, if he is privy to information that the memo that rod rosenstein prepared, his own letter would serve as mere pretext or window dressing to conceal the true reason for comeys firing, he cannot hide that behind a privilege. so we need to pursue this in congress. we need to litigate it if necessary. but we cant take that non-answer as the last word....

And then the questions he does answer, he gives contradictory, i thought senator reed did a great job in bringing out the contradiction in the firing of comey. i mean, not the firing. you know, the firing of comey and the basis of that pretext with the hillary clinton e-mail situation. i mean, he brought up very clearly that back during the campaign, jeff sessions was gunho, yeah, thats right, say everything you need to say to the public and sessions excuse for all of thats though, he was confus...

Congressman, stay with us and we will give you updates as soon as we have them. lets talk about what happened yesterday. what again sessions did is what you suspected and feared he would do, which is invoke executive privilege. he seemed to be doing it sort of as a protective measure. so now what? >> now i think congress really has to insist on getting the answers. you cant have it both ways. you are either invoking the privilege or you are not. here he merely refused to answer questions and we ...

It was that the president said. i mean, there are only two ways that he right to refuse to answer. one is executive privilege. the other is attorney-client privilege, both of those are designed to encourage the free flow of conversation back and forth. the idea that president trump said everybody get out of here, i want to speak to this guy, so i can tell him to drop the investigation, the idea that that has anything to do with a legitimate privilege is absolutely absurd. i mean, that was absolu...

Letter from rosenstein and sessions and the white house tried to explain, even if that were true, that too would be a problem for attorney general jeff sessions because he also should have been recused from that. his recusal said he would not oversee anything at the justice department that had anything to do with the 2016 campaign. both the reason james comey was fired, russia. and the fake pretext they came up with for why james comey was fired, clinton e-mails, both of those are scarily in the...

And then they also published the youre fired letter from president trump to james comey telling him he was out of a job. for the first 24 hours or so after they fired the fbi director, the rosenstein memo and the sessions letter created -- i think its fair to call it a pretext for the white house to argue that comey wasnt being fired because he was overseeing the russia investigation. comey was being fired because of how he handled his public disclosures around the hillary clinton e-mail investi...

Attorney general jeff sessions because he also should have been recused from that. his recusal said he would not oversee anything at the justice department that had anything to do with the 2016 campaign. both the reason james comey was fired, russia, and the fake pretext they came up with, clinton e-mails, both of those are squarely in the bounds of jeff sessions recusal. hes supposed to be recused from anything to do with the campaign. in either case, he should have had nothing to do with firin...

Administration had a little orchestrated song and dance around the way they fired comey. they published a memo from the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. they published a letter from attorney general jeff sessions that went along with the memo and also published the dismissal letter from president trump to james comey telling him he was out of a job. for the first 24 hours or so after they fired the fbi director, the rosenstein moorm and the sessions letter created a i think its fair to ca...