enough. it s not some kind of crazy x files conspiracy theory to say what we know happened. barack obama emailed hillary clinton, excuse me, barack obama. we know this. we know she emailed him from a private account. how do we know? hillary didn t have a state account. we know she emailed him from foreign soil. we also know barack obama said he didn t know about hillary s email. he said it in a televised interview we can all watch. he said that it s on the record. how did he thought know? now, here is the kicker, tucker. barack obama had a black blackberry email device. has to white list emails coming into that device so he doesn t get spam and trojans and things like that on the device. how did hillary clinton s email get on that if obama and his staff didn t know about hillary s email? sounds kind of like a scam to me, don t you think? i think they are covering for her. tucker: sounds like unanswerable question. really quick. will this ever be resolved?
white house reporter for the washington post, ashley parker. columnist at the washington post and msnbc contributor eugene robinson. and former chief of staff for the cia and department of defense and msnbc national security analyst jeremy bash. thanks to all of you for coming in on a sunday night. eugene, i have to start with you. because the questions all morning this morning have been, is this president a racist or not? that was certainly horrendously racist thing he s said. it s not the first racist thing he s said. he s got a long history of saying and doing racist things. so you don t have to try to get to the existential core of a person because in the end, that s an unanswerable question. you can judge and assess what he says and what he does and what he says and what he does is racist. ashley, is this out of line with behavior we ve seen from the president before? does it stand apart worse than some of the other examples eugene referenced? it s not out of line at all
does not mean they re not interested in all aspects of russia. vice versa. the fact they may not have asked questions about leaks doesn t mean they re not interested in them. . you have jurisdiction over all of it. so, god bless you as you go on this journey for the facts. people can draw whatever conclusions they want. i hope that you will feel the vacuum that is created when y all are not able to answer questions. with that i ll yield back to the chairman. gentleman yields back. mr. comey, i want to make sure we get this on the record. do you have any evidence that any current trump white house or administration official coordinated with the russian intelligence services? not a question i can answer. i figured you were going to say that, but i just wanted to make sure we got it on the record. how about consequenunselor to pt kellyanne conway? same answer. i constantly say, don t
mentioned, this is one in a series of hearings that will be happening. does the president, now that we know there s an ongoing investigation by the fbi, does the president stand by his comments that he s not aware of any contacts that his campaign associates had with russia during the election? yes. the second one is, has anyone from the white house well, can i just amend? obviously, just with just to be clear, i know that i m trying to think through this for a second. obviously, general flynn again during the campaign. right. and i m not aware of any at this time. even general flynn was a volunteer of the campaign. obviously, there s been discussion of paul manafort, who played a very limited role for a very limited amount of time. beyond are you on jonathan, can you hold on. can you stop interrupting other peoples questions? jonathan, someone else is asking a question. its not your press briefing. julie is asking a question. please calm down. that lec
that? we saw with general flynn last week he s now registered as a foreign agent. conceivably he should have done that on his sf-86. my sense listening to it is the focus of the investigation will be on the binary question that relates to sf-86s and foreign contact and foreign disclosure. it is such an important one. i can t stress enough that just because you had contact with a foreign even foreign intelligence officer, that may not be illegal, not sdloegs to the u.s. government with top secret clearance, may be. are you struck by the wording we ve heard, even in our own discussion people saying the russian attempt to affect the election. seems to me we can move that to past tense. that s ball game. absolutely. i think at this point clearly the russians, you know, this wasn t this was a very planned and, you know, malcolm nance has written a definitive book about this. this was a clear, deliberate attack. this was an attempt to undermine our very core of democracy. i think it