a dangerous person who is leaving this country to possible war, possible nuclear war with north korea? that s the only question that matters who my mind. and corker was getting at that in his tweets. he was suggesting certain things the president was doing was increasing the odds of a confrontation with north korea. doesn t even have to go nuclear to be awful. you kill a million people conventionally on the korean peninsula. exactly, even if it doesn t escalate to something worse. here we are eight months into this administration. why is it we have not tabled any diplomatic offer. it s not as though living with the north korea that has dozens of missiles that can reach us is a great future. why is it that rather than undermining a secretary of state, why isn t this president empowering his secretary of state. that would be an interesting conversation for lunch today. it really would, and gene, we have to underline this, because we talked about it last hour and some people may j
to defend the president s honor and his trustworthiness. but, the point is republicans in support of donald trump is softening and that combines with this expanding, advance investigation leaves the president in an increasingly precarious situation. director comey did not want to talk about many details in the investigation and opening statements. was there anything that he did say that surprise you? um, yeah, i think regarding michael flynn. i was surprised and i think the senate who wor who was asking t question was surprised to the extent where he said the investigation against flynn right now is an obstruction of justice or a lying investigation, meaning that s going forward and also
president wanted to speak about in front of a large group of people. the cia director was also in the room. he probably knew what he was doing was improper or at least out of the ordinary and he didn t want to have coates answer the question in front of other people. because, perhaps, he knew that coates wasn t going to answer the question and that it would cause some kind of a problem. what you have here is a president looking for assurances everywhere that this russia problem was going to be put to rest in one way, shape or form. and that he would, you know, he would not have any liability here, nor would the people on his campaign and he, you know, he was trying to shut it down, i m sure, and his frustration stems from the fact that, of course, he wasn t able to do it. this reporting comes on the heels of your reporting a couple weeks ago, the president also asked coates and nsa director rogers to deny the disputes with
question. i think goods and decent people can say did james comey make some mistakes. there can be an argue for he s a moral upright man. i believe his moral compass points directly towards the nor it s star. i think as he explained on may 3rd in that last appearance before congress, i believe he explained the calculus we went through. this wasn t a decision he made rationally. he struggled with it. all eyes will be on comey. he s not going to help the president, that itself the bottom line here t. question is how much damage is he going to do? to take a step back, think of how powerful james comey has come. more famous than the president. j. edgar hoover. a lot of people believe he make the president. he may be the person that unmakes him. all eyes will be on him, the attorney general rosenstein in
events and these facts is the key question after this committee, after this hearing. at the end of the day, we re not talking criminal statute obstruction of justice, right? we re in the realm of does congress view this as so serious that it rises to the political nuclear option? right? if president trump boys will be boys. sure. how is what s congress, how does congress, what do they think of that question? but to be clear, there seems to be a strategy here on comey s part, right? if they re reporting like gloria borger and others is to be believed. he very much wants to set himself up as a neutral person in this and have the political actors be the judgment. he s the one to be the story-teller, not being the one making legal determinations, not the one interpreting the conduct. only saying on a factual basis, this is the interaction i had. he may say he was troubled by