Page 1014 - The Cloud News Today

Director rogers of the nsa. we would want to know did the president approach them to lobby comey on dropping the flynn case. weve already asked for the memoranda. those will be important. and as we saw in the testimony today, a very basic rudimentary matter is if there are tapes, we need to get them. and if there are not tapes, the white house has to come clean about why they made that suggestion to begin with. but thats a threshold question that we need answered. >> you mentioned that the direc...

Legislative agenda could bed a good as dead. one told me when they read comeys prepared remarks yesterday they said im not as worried. then they saw him go further today. one said he really came to do damage to donald trump, and he is doing it. there is just this sense that the administration doesnt have a good response. they dont have audio tapes to corroborate trumps version of events. you know, comey may be imperfect. he may have done himself some damage over the last year or so politically. ...

General and russia -- lets play that bit again. the word he used was problematic. play that part again. >> we were also aware of facts that i cant discuss in an open setting that would make his continued engagement in a russia related investigation problematic. >> like i said, run for office. its the only way you find out on a day like today whatever it is that cant be skudiscussed in open sechlgt what happened next on this matter concerning the attorney general is that these senators went into ...

Are you content with the state this investigation given who mueller is and your knowledge of him? >> i think hes going to be an excellent special counsel. and he will do well. but the house and senate judiciary committees need to start investigating the obstruction of justice and abuse of power. ive been a republican for 30 years. i am shocked to see what has happened here and to see members of my own party defend it. we need to have an investigation. once again, house and senate judiciary commi...

Tiddlywinks, the president firing the fbi director to try to change or stop an fbi investigation into the president, his campaign, or his top staffers, or anything, the president try to affect an ongoing investigation. regardless of the big context. and its very important for the presidents future that most observers believe that potential obstruction of justice is being investigated by the special counsel now. >> do you believe this will rise to obstruction of justice? >> i dont know. thats bob...

Couple days ago investigative reporting michael isakoff had a scoop from yahoo news saying the president was having a hard time finding lawyer. lots of big-name lawyers and law firms were all saying no when the white house approached them or the president himself personally called them to ask if they would represent the president on the russia issue. the president may not have been able to get big-name lawyers to represent him but its not like hes going without. he did get a lawyer to represent ...

I think thats not an overstatement. the amazing thing, rachel, here we are. can you believe that donald trump was elected only seven months ago tonight? >> wow. >> it seems like years. and in that quick time, he has gotten into this trouble that does have echoes of nixon. discussion of obstruction of justice and attorney general under a cloud and maybe white house tapes, and something we t see with nixon which is anbiirector in public saying e president is a liar. >> because it is a legal matter...

Situation right now? >> well, people have been saying today that donald trump may be in danger of getting impeached. i think thats not an overstatement. themazing thing, rachel, here we are. can you believe that donald ump was elected only seven months ago tonight? >> wow. >> it seems like years. and in that quick time, he has gotten into this trouble that does have echoes of nixon. discussion of obstruction of justice and attorney general under a cloud and maybe white house tapes, and something...

>> well, i know that theres a number of observers who feel like this is all moving too fast. and so first of all, the special counsels investigation is going to take some time to run its course. but with respect to obstruction, i think the people are looking for there to be one specific fact, as if there is going to be one fact that makes the obstruction case. and what i would suggest is that its not going to be one fact. its going to be a trail of individual acts from the conversations to tweet...

From the very first day in office, first full day in office, president trump was sending his advisors out to skirt the truth about the size of the inauguration crowd. and you see this in poll numbers. when you ask americans about the presidents -- whether they think he is honest and trustworthy, hes at a pretty low number there. comey again lays out this challenge. and i think that -- the answer to that question, who do you believe, may not result in anything that is related to the investigation...