upcoming testimony of fbi director james comey we will see on thursday. there is one to watch tomorrow. for the first time, general deputy attorney rod rosenstein will have to answer questions in public. so your sources are saying democrats are planning to confirm russia and president trump at the center of this hearing. dead center. no question about it. it s worth noting. it s dan coates, nsa director michael rogers. this is a discussion you have been having all night in terms of these individuals are at the center of every major russia bombshell story we have seen over the last couple of months, aides tell me they will make that a prominent issue when it comes to dan coates and mike rogers, they want to know what president trump asked them in these private moments. obviously, you guys have been talking about the washington
they re still saying that tonight. this official said it was still necessary to go back and check with the president to ask him whether or not he still had confidence in jeff sessions. that question has not been answered over the last seven hours. i asked this official why is that? why are you being so cautious about this? this official said, point-blank, we don t want another situation like we had with the national security adviser michael flynn when he eventually stepped down. earlier in that dame, kellyanne conway was on national television saying, yes, the president has confidence in michael flynn and hours later, he stepped down or forced oust. ultimately, we found out he was fired. so this is a situation where the white house is basically afraid of being undercut by their own president at this point. they don t want to say definitively the president has confidence. i spoke with a spokes woman about an hour-and-a-half ago, the attorney general has not resigned, he is not stepp
that at that point james comey thought he was dealing with the president and administration who just didn t understand the protocols of how to deal with these legal issues. they could teach them. they could perhaps learn about doling with the investigation. however, i was also told, as were you, pamela, that after comey was fired, t question of the president s intent became more problematic. the president was trying to influence him. exactly. it makes you wonder, gloria, i know in retrospect, why didn t he flag this to congress? what have people been telling you? first of all, he was not sure what it was. number one.
sunday, may 21st eight seven central only on abc. t question is, as it has been all week, where are the republicans? well, they re hiding away from the cameras. we reached out to 20 republican senators and representatives to appear on this broadcast. all declined our invitation. we tried to get republicans on tonight, had a few lined up but they could not make it. i ve called countless senators offices. for one reason or another, they said they couldn t come out and talk with us. there are not republicans willing to go on camera tonight. on fox news can t get republicans to come on. that s like eve not being able to book a kardashian. the washington post reports the house majority leader kevin mccarthy said last year then
campaign and maybe the republicans don t really want to get to the bottom of this thing t. main like technical concern that we ve we heard, smr i from people who know what s happening inside that investigation has been that they ve basically just been focusing on reviewing what led to that intelligence assessment back in january that they released publicly, which said that russia had, in fact, attacked our election. that has been the real beef for people watching that investigation closely, they were only just reviewing the documents that led to that intelligence assessment. while that s neat, it doesn t exactly inspire confidence about how hard they were looking into the next question t. question of whether or not the russians had help, whether the russians had american confederates who knew about there or were working with them on that attack. that has been the worry about the senate intelligence committee. now it seems like they are working on that second question. and they ve g