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Room. and that comey pleaded with attorney general jeff sessions to prevent the president from continuing to communicate with him directly. comeys account of the presidents request regarding flynn, in particular, directly contradicts the presidents own statement in public on the record. >> did you at any time urge former fbi director james comey in any way, shape, or form to close or back down the investigation into michael flynn and also -- >> no. no. next question. >> comeys written testimony ...

Trump privately. that is that the president was not under investigation as part of any probe into russian interference. the president -- mr. comey also admitted that there is no evidence that a single vote changed as a result of any russian interference. mr. comeys testimony also makes clear that the president never sought to impede the investigation into attempted russian interferencen the 2016 tion. and, in fact, according to mr. comey, the president told mr. comey, quote, it would be good to ...

We decided to keep it very closely held to decide what to do with it down the road as our investigation progressed. the following month, comey describes a president who is growing increasingly uneasy. the president called me at the fbi. he described the russia investigation as a cloud that was impairing his ability to act on behalf of the country. he said he had nothing to do with russia, had not been involved withing whoers in russia, had always assumed he was being recorded when in russia. he ...

Reasons, most importantly because it would create a duty to correct, should that change. >> sounds familiar. >> yes. >> he goes on, the president went on to say if there were some, quote, satellite associates of his who did something wrong, it would be good to find that out but that he hadnt done anything wrong and hoped i would find a way to get it out and we werent investigating him. in an abrupt shift, he turned the conversation to deputy director andrew mccabe saying he hadnt brought up the ...

Hearings tomorrow is the fleshing out of that. are there other levers of power that he tried to use to push this obstruction. >> eric? >> im just amazed at how trump is obsessed with being told that he is not under investigation, which was completely meaningless at the time. its like trump not being under investigation at that moment is like the titanic not being underwater at the time its hit by an iceberg. it may be literally true but -- >> the whole campaign is under investigation. >> and the...

Your white house with full ability to put people under oat, to get e-mails, and if you have some notion as bill clinton had some reason that youve done something wrong, whether its personal or legal or whatever, suddenly the whole level of sort of pressure on you changes. >> abby, the president does seem in all reporting that he is upset that jeff sessions recused himself which in a way is an odd thing to do. jeff sessions was trying to do something ethical and step away from an issue that peopl...

Republicans have heard when they go home to their town halls. when they have taken calls from constituents because it is just a matter of transparency. people arent necessarily saying there must be something wrong, but theres so much smoke and cloud, the likes of john mccain and lindsey graham, they have said over and over again they just want answers. >> and people will want to know whether donald trump did ask james comey to stop the investigation into the trump campaigns ties to russia. defin...

>> harris: john kelly said he cant affirm whether or not this is true with jared kushner setting something up, but he had no problem with it. >> kennedy: its like distracting certain facts from stories. whats so frustrating is we want to know what the truth is in context of other administrations. if this is something totally unique that has never been done before and its so unprecedented and compromises our national security, then thats an issue. thats the problem when these leaks are disseminat...

Embassy or frankly in the embassy as an intelligence officer, thats the rational thing to do. >> tucker: the implication of the story is that you were doing something wrong. the obvious question is that was five years ago, why did it come out now? >> this is what we are experiencing, something with no substance in it, has been stated in a very sinister way to leave people with the idea that i have done something or president trump has done something wrong, and we in some way have done something ...

Officer, thats the rational thing to do. if >> tucker: the implication of the story is that you were doing something wrong. the obvious question is that was five years ago, why did it come out now? >> this is what we are experiencing, something with no substance in it, has been stated in a very sinister way to leave people with the idea that i have done something or president trump has done something wrong, and we in some way have done something that isnt beneficial to the united states but is i...