Page 1018 - The Cloud News Today

Marco rubio who 1spoke for some length. he wanted to elaborate on what came across in the hearing. his posture today in the hearing ever different toward the administration than it was in those contentious hearings yesterday with intelligence chiefs. and some people did take note of that. and when senator rubio came out to talk to reporters, he was notably more skeptical than he seemed when you saw him question jim comey. take a look. >> i think its clear that the president was frustrated by the...

Himself. >> yes, sir. >> you perceived it as an order, given his position. >> yes. the >> at the time, did you say anything to the president about that is not an appropriate request or did you tell the white house counsel but is not an appropriate request? somebody needs to tell the president that he cant do these things? >> i didnt, no. >> why? >> i dont know. i think the circumstances were such that i was a bit stunned and didnt have the presence of mind. i dont want to make it sound like im c...

Scenario to me and its the one comey is offering. >> bret: he says lift the cloud. >> if you look at the context of trumps remarks, this been reported in "the washington post" that the fbi found nothing illegal in flynns conversations with the russians. trump has fired flynn, so he says to the fbi director, come on. you havent found anything. i have fired the guy, can you move on? >> bret: we dont know what flynn told the fbi. if he told the fbi what he told vice president pence that he is at ri...

Line. >> the president, comey said, the president asked him to lift the cloud talking about unconfirmed salacious allegations in the dossier former fbi director said the president, emphasized the problems it was causing him. it does sound like that dossier, least early on, very much on the presidents mind. >> well, it is something we are seeking to either rule in or rule out. we want to see if we can corroborate who was in it or reputate it. again all we want, wolf, is to be able to pursue the f...

Lift the cloud. i responded we were investigating the matter as quickly as we could and that there would be great benefit if we didnt anything negative. having done the work well. he agreed but reemphasized problems this is causing him. sounds like that dossier, once again unsubstantiated, very salacious, certainly was on the presidents mind. >> yeah. that particularly salacious details was not stateed. >> the detail about the hookers? >> yes. >> clear lit president was worried about that allega...

Director, it seems, to come out and say that, that he wasnt -- didnt have anything to do with hookers in russia, which is referring, again, to that dossier that was compiled by that british spy. ari, just take me through this letter. again, this is a timeline from the fired fbi director. . from they first meeting to their very last phone call before he was fired. >> and i think explicitly looking at the letter, take the obviously ex ploes. describe the russia language as a cloud. quote, he said ...

Comey today talking about the president wanting to "lift the cloud" as a result of that unsubstantiated slashs dose yay put together by a former british intelligence operative. this is what comey writings. he said he had nothing to do with russia, had not been swrovd hookers in russia and had always assumed he was being recorded when in russia. he asked what we could do to lift the cloud. i replied we were investigating as quickly as we could and there would be great benefit if we didnt find any...

Cloud that was impairing his ability to act. on behalf of the country. he asked what he, being the president, could do to lift the crowd. let me go to shimon. your interpretation, sir? >> i think its important to note that comey wanted this out there before tomorrow. it seems that he wanted to do this so that the senators would be prepared to ask questions and its really so detailed and so specific, its going to give them a lot of room, a lot of studying perhaps to do. they are going to be able ...

I could be wrong, comey says, but i took him to be focusing on what just happened with flynns departure. >> pete, can i call your attention to page 7? >> you pagination is different from mine, so i dont know what that means. >> toward the end, the march 30 phone call. >> okay. >> the march 30 phone call. this is right above the april 11th phone call, and the paragraph where it starts with, in an abrupt shift, he turned the conversation to the fbi director andrew mccabe. underneath that he talks ...

Wolf, it is wrong the president demanded loyalty for james comey to skekeep his job. it was wrong to ask him to job the case against his friend, michael flynn. and wrong that he hounded obsessively james comey to as he called it lift the cloud around the russia investigation. >> i take to you disagree with his personal attorney saying the president feels completely vindicated. you disagree with that as well? >> vindicated from what, wolf? the president interjected, interfered end tried to disrup...