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To officials who spoke on condition of anonymity. another bombshell report. >> right. its very much in line with what the president asked comey to do which was to end the investigation completely, according to comeys memos. so you have the president of the united states now going to three key people in his administration, assuming this report is accurate, and i have no reason to believe it isnt but lets assume its accurate. that the president has gone to three top people in his administration sa...

If you have a president interferin interfering, the director had an obligation to do something about it. >> the former fbi director comey, as you know hes going to be testifying publicly the week after memorial day, that following week. how far do you think that will go in setting the record straight? >> it will be difficult. ive regard for jim comey. i never had problems with jim comey at all. as far as i know we had a good relationship on the homeland security committee and the house intellige...

I mean, hes -- president trump has never served in government before. like you said, this is not the trump organization. the trump organization wasnt even a large public company. >> but if you hadnt served in government before, would you do that? >> i would not. >> seems like he doesnt want to learn the rules. >> i want to bring in our pentagon correspondent, barbara starr. we have a military officer, admiral mike rogers, the head of the national security agency, the top secret intelligence-gath...

I trust him i think it was the right appointment to make. theres a cloud of ill legitimacy and corruption hanging over 1600 pennsylvania avenue. the only way to remove is to have a fair investigation. the special counsel is likely to deliver that. so a balancing of interest that needs to occur. but the american people do deserve transparency about what took place. so at some point james comey should testify. >> you want it instead of congressional oversight, you want a special outside panel, a c...

Business of governing, try to get that done, and let the legal issues take their own path and keep it out of the white house. >> jeff, i spoke to wolf blitzer earlier about an off-the-record meeting that sol journalists had with the president today and wolf was one of them. lets listen to what he said. >> he clearly was not happy about the appointment of a special counsel. and im looking at my notes. the president said he believes it hurts our country terribly. he says because it shows were a di...

Democratic congressman is a member of the judiciary committee. also co chair of the democratic policy and communications committee. you were in that closed door meeting. what did you think? >> she was very guarded, wolf, when it comes to the circumstances surrounding the se termination of james comey and thats important because its quite possible that the president of the united states fired james comey in order to obstruct a pending criminal investigation looking inthe int the possible collusio...

Saying i knew that trump was going to fire comey even before i started writing my memo. it feels a little bit like the gang who cant shoot straight. i think its because they dont necessarily want to say the real reason that donald trump didnt want jim comey around which is frankly by everything i can tell, wolf, that he didnt like him. which honestly the president gets to make those picks. it would have been somewhat controversial. he would have i think done better to be more candid about it. lo...

Theres no good time to do it by the way. >> because in your letter you said i accepted their recommendation. >> well -- >> you had already made the decision. >> i was going to fire regardless of recommendation. >> all right. this is what the deputy attorney general said in remarks to the house and the senate and im quoting him now, rod rosenstein, on may 8th i learned that president trump intended to remove director comey and sought my advice and input. notwithstanding my personal affection for ...

Country, before president trump took office, many of them told me that they believe that perhaps the president, donald trump, would be similar to the businessman donald trump, that he would be pragmatic, perhaps someone that iran could do deals with. they see president trump as somewhat erratic, someone who handles it very quickly and a real water shed moment was when iran conducted ballistic missile tests eig tests and the trump administration lashed out with additional sanctions. that is certa...

Senior development in the u.s. senate and he said plainlily, wolf, this is what is obstruction looks like. pointing to the "new york times" story saying i faced great pressure because of russia and thats been taken off. the big question is what happens next and this is a very fast-moving story and were already starting to see action on that front elijah cummings, the top government on the house oversight and government committee has will have informed jason chaffetz, the chairman of that panel, ...