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Problematic. thats a very fruitful line of inquiry for the senate. all the circumstances that led to the firing of jim comey. any facts that would corroborate jim comeys testimony. whether, for example, sessions knew that the memo that rod rosenstein wrote would be used for pretext for firing on a completely different basis. theres a lot to ask him. and the only question really is whether hes going to be willing to answer these questions. >> gene rob u.inson is in washington and has a question f...

Terrorist organizations. >> the accusation is all based on misinformation. >> unjustified. but it is the victim of a coordinated campaign of misinformation and the crisis being triggered by a hate that state news agency last month. >> folks attributed and appeared on the state he was on me on may 24th. freezing iran, criticizing its neighbors and president trump. they con if i recall the hack and theyll set up to know how to investigate. some believe that president trumps visit to saudi arabia, ...

Less and unjustified. it is the victim of coordinated campaign of misinformation and the crisis being triggered by a hack of its state news agency last month. quotes attributed to this countrys leader appeared on the agencys web site on may 24th, tracing iran and kritizing icri. confirmed the hack and fbi team was spent to investigate. some also believe that the visit may have been the real catalyst of this crisis involved in countries like the uae and saudi arabia to use his call for funding as...

Leading role. moving around, different phone calls, trying to find a resolution but its really difficult to see how this crisis is going to end. qatar say its just a pretext used to settle regional scores and theres that theory that what were seeing is these countries that have had their issues with the foreign policy, really trying to back this tiny country with so much influence into a corner to get concessions from qatar. theres lots of theories right now but weve heard from the foreign minis...

Secondly, the idea that donald trump was not engaged in a scheme to obstruct justice is absolutely ludicrous based on the overwhelming evidence that we now have under oath and in the public record. one, youve got what mr. comey said yesterday about the direction not to try and stop the investigation -- to stop the investigation. >> uh huh? >> but on top of that, you also have rogers admiral, rogers with the national security office saying that -- i mean, hes going to testify under oath that dona...

Obstruction. maybe its not. i just think you laid out a very good case for why it is. at the minimum, it is a predicate for bob mueller to investigate obstruction and put everyone in the white house in the grand jury and ask them, what did the president say to you about why he was firing james comey? >> see, what were talking about is whats the threshold? what im hearing is whether its definitive or not, theres enough evidence here to escalate this. >> look at the pretext, the reason that they g...

>> robert mueller is now a special counsel in the russia investigation, and the russia investigation is the pretext to everything thats going on right now. so, it cant be completely incidental, if james comey said yesterday what he was unwilling to say while he was fbi director, that the president was not under investigation. >> certainly, there is a trump/russia investigation ongoing, but the special counsels direction is not just to do that investigation, but to also investigate -- >> congress...

Investigate obstruction and put everyone in the white house in the grand jury and ask them, what did the president say to you about why he was firing james comey? >> see, what were talking about is whats the threshold? what im hearing is whether its definitive or not, theres enough evidence here to escalate this. >> look at the pretext, the reason that they gave to fire comey in the first place. this was because of the rosenstein memo. well, trump later admits that was a pretext. but to investig...

And then all of a sudden the president of the united states a couple of weeks ago during his visit to saudi shook hands with qatar, called him a friend and then coming out with a tweet taking credit for this move by the regional countries to isolate qatar. there is this feeling here that that visit by president trump to saudi arabia emboldened these countries, that they are using this call for fighting extremist funding as a pretext to settle regional scores and differences here. so theres a lot...

Paramount to anything else, then that would have been a different matter. >> congressman, let me interject here. heres what comey said. he said my instincts told me that the one-on-one setting and the pretext about this being our first meeting was part of the presidents having me ask for my job and create some sort of relationship. this concerns necessity greatly given the fbis independent status. he then continues to say a few moments later the president saidsaid it need loyalty, i expect loyal...