And bill cosbys victim. How she says one of the most famous men drugged and sexually assaulted her. But we begin this morning with todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. This testimony has all the makings of a bombshell. Every page reads like a john grisham novel. All eyes on washington as james comey prepares to testify. To any lawyer with half a brain, they really wouldnt let james comey testify if there was an obstruction of justice to be made because you wouldnt let your star go out the world. Im surprised. Arent you . Is it concerning to you . Of course. Is it appropriate for the lawer to ask a question of the fbi director. Honestly i dont think it is. What he was doing was trying to seduce him but seduction is not an impeachable offense. Perhaps in the 90s, but its not anymore. Hes going to tweet something idiotic tomorrow and ruin his own good chris wray news cycle. We dont know. Its 4 30. Nothing yet. Another force by north korea. It is election day across the uk. A little dog. There he goes. All that a man stole a backhoe and then used it to try to rob an atm. Theyre calling him the backhoe bandit. Durant for three. Its good. Golden state stays perfect. A crushing loss for the cavs. And all that matters anticipation building as the country waits to hear directly from director james comey. Can you imagine being fired and the next thing you get to trash talk your boss in front of the whole world. A dream come true. On cbs this morning. Extra, extra, reeds all about it. Comey christmas comes early. Can you feel the an anticipation . I can feel it. I can feel it. Comey in the air tonight, o lord thank you very much. Announcer this mornings eye opener presented by toyota. Lets go places. Welcome to cbs this morning. Former fbi director james comey is ready for what could be historic testimony on capitol hill. It all starts at 10 00 a. M. Eastern, and we will bring it to you live here on cbs. Comey will tell the Senate Intelligence committee that President Trump told him he needed and expected his personal loyalty. James comey will also testify that in february mr. Trump asked him to drop the fbi investigation and to Fire National security adviser Michael Flynn, saying, i hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, letting flynn go. And according to comey weeks later he wantewanted to, quote, the cloud with regard to the russian meddling. Comey told the president three times he was not being investigated. John dickerson and jan crawford are in our studio 57 this morning and we have nancy cordes and jeff pegues on capitol hill. Well begin with nancy. Good morning. Good morning. Its hard to recall a hearing in recent years that has attracted more attention. Comey will be sitting right here, and theres a reason why he released his Opening Statement in advance. He wanted to give these 17 senators a chance to absorb what was said in those conversations between him and the president before they pepper him with questions today. This testimony has all the makings of a bomb shil. The release of comeys prepared remarks added more intreelg to his highly anticipated testimony. Each piece of evidence that jim comey is raising in his testimony points toward obstruction of justice. The ousted fbi director describes a private dinner with the president just seven days after the inauguration where President Trump informed him, i need loyalty, i expect loyalty. Comey said he didnt move, speak, or change my facial expression in any way during the awkward silence that followed. He said he viewed the conversation as an effort to create some sort of patronage relation ship. In the next conversation, trump urged him to let go of the investigation of National Security adviser Michael Flynn. Comey said he felt it was inappropriate and asked attorney general Jeff Sessions to avoid the future communications between himself and mr. Trump. But a little over a month later the president called comey at the fbi asking him to get the fact out that he was not personally under investigation. Comey told him he 45 to 60minute nothing to do with russia, nothing do with hookers involved in russia, a dossier obtained by russia. If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it must be a duck. Republican richard burr who chairs the Senate IntelligenceCommittee Told reporters i dont think from what ive read theres evidence of wrongdoing. To the best of my recollection, i have never done anything i believe to be illegal, immoral, unethical, or inappropriate. They both told the committee yesterday that they could not share details of their private conversations with the president even though they, too, were asked to downplay the Russian Investigation. Im asking whether or not you have ever been asked by anyone to influence an ongoing investigation. I understand, but im just not going to go down that road. Senators were frustrated. Especially since Robert Mueller had not put any restrictions on their testimony. Based on his opening remarks, comey will be much less restrained today possibly, norah, because hes now a private citizen who no longer has a relationship with the president to manage. Great reporting, nancy. Thank you so much. The white house is already pushing back against james comey. Margaret brennan is there to try to get ahead of the testimony. Good morning. Good morning. The loudest pushback today is likely to come from the president s own twitter feed and a group of former Trump Administration and campaign officials. Their Rapid Response team and an affiliated group has already hit the airwaves. Theyre called America First policies. Its likely to push back the president s lawyers words who said last night the president feels completely and totally vindicated by comeys admission when he told the president hes not personally under any investigation. According to comeys prepared remarks, he will testify that was true, we did not have an open counterintelligence case on him, i offered that assurance. But the fbi probe into russian meddling election is ongoing and comey felt it unwise to publicly say trump was not under public investigation in case new information was uncovered. Comey has not spoken since he was fired back on may 9th and hell be closely scrutinized. So the question today will center on whether the president intended to obstruct justice or whether these conversations, gayle, were simply inappropriate. Thank you very much, margaret. As the fired fbi director prepares to testify, the man chose on the replace him is also in the spotlight today. Christopher wray is a well established washington lawer who was an assistant attorney general under former president george w. Bush. He led the investigation while comey was Deputy Attorney general. Jeff pegues is outside fbi headquarters with that part of the story. Good morning. Reporter good morning. It appears wray steps into one of the toughest jobs in washington right now. The fbi facing scrutiny and there is uncertainty ahead. Comeys firing left a hole in the bureau. If confirmed as its next director, chris wrays mission would be to bring stability to the fbi and its more than 35,000 employees. President trump who interviewed wray on may 30th said he is an impeccably qualified individual and a fierce guardian of the law. He understands how to operate under crises. He understands how the agency works. Reporter roscoe howard, a former u. S. Attorney works with wray at the doa shoo i would be shocked if he had some sort of political agenda. Its just not the chris wray ive come to know. Reporter a graduate of yale law, just before 911 he became associate attorney general and later moved on to handle the Justice Departments criminal division. Last year he served as Chris Christies layer hired to navigate the bridgegate scandal. Former Justice Department officials spoke highly of wray, describing him as the right man at the right time for the nation and the fbi, a person of extraordinary integrity, and someone who simply doesnt make mistakes. Wray will likely take charge, Law Enforcement tells cbs news, in general, this is not a great time at the fbi. Roscoe howard said its clear the fbi is embracing for a challenge position. I think wed be all foolish to think theres no turmoil going on. Is it chaotic . Sure. But any more chaotic than 9 11 . No. Reporter that will be tough do for a someone who has a voracious appetite for testimony. Thanks. The senate judiciary, House Oversight and house Intelligence Committees are also holding heroes on the issue. Congressman adam schiff is a member of the house committee. Good morning. Good morning, charlie. Why do you believe in the opening state of comey theres an indication of obstruction of justice including chair of the Intelligence Committee is saying they dont see anything like that . Theres certainly evidence here and if you were prosecuting a case of obstruction, you would admit the entirety of comeys testimony, theres not a judge on the land that would think otherwise. We have not heard the oral testimony of jim comey. What i would like to try to find out in todays testimony among other things because i think we have seen a lot of the outline of what he has to say is who would be able to corroborate this testimony, who did he share this information with, what can he tell us about the notes that he took and when he took them, what else can he tell us about some of the details around these conversations. But if you have evidence as we do now that the president demanded loyalty from the fbi director in a conversation where he dangles the directors job before him, then asks him to drop a part of the investigation, lift the russian cloud and fires him when he doesnt do any of this, to say that doesnt constitute obstruction of justice, i think you have to be willfully looking in the other direction. In terms of corroboration, he said he shared the memos with the leadership at the time. But let me ask you this. Do you see intent on behalf of the president in terms of obstruction of justice . Well, you know, this is one of the key issues. That is you have jim comeys perception of what this might mean. You have the actual statements themselves. Were going to want, i think, as much detail as jim comey can provide about those conversations. Were there any other statements that would shed light on the president s intention. And in this respect, this is why we cannot also accept i wont answer the question from witnesses like director coats and director roerjs because if he had conversation with some of the other Intelligence Agency heads, thats further evidence. Some of what i believe hell say as is in the written testimony is that the president sent everybody out of the room. Why do that unless youre conscious that what youre about to ask is not an appropriate request. It seems youre looking what he did not say in the Opening Statement, that you need Something Else to make the case for obstruction of justice. No, i wouldnt put i that way. I would say from the four corners of his statement largely what his testimony will be. I academy siem hes going to testify completely consistent with that and i would have to disagree with my colleague Lindsey Graham. The fact that bob mueller is not worried about testifying has nothing do with it. Rather i think it Shows Confidence jim comey will be consistent in his testimony before the senate and in any later proceeding, but i wouldnt read anything into that conclusion one way or the other. Congressman schiff, thank you very much. Thank you. Right now cbs correspondent John Dickerson of face the nation is here along with cbs correspondent jan crawford. Good morning. Good morning. First this. I keep thinking about this. This is a legacyshaping day today, not just for the former fbi director but also how the president himself responds. Thats true. There are a lot of senators who are going to think about their legacy as they ask questions themselves. Theres going to be a lot of show here. How the president responds will be fascinating because one of the questions here is whether the president crossed boundaries. Its been a question thats been throughout his presidency. So if he is live tweeting this event, its another opportunity. Its an opportunity for him to get his message out but another opportunity to cross boundaries again. Jan, lets go through this too. The first meeting comey describes in his Opening Statement today, the first meeting in trump tower where they meet alone, sets the stage for the heart of the relationship. Comey presents this dossier with salacious details. Right. Its written in such a dramatic way. The narrative i was kind of waiting for its a dark and stormy night when we gathered at trump tower, which i think is what he intended, digestible for the public, so they could be taken in on this side of the event. When you look at the encounters he describes for the president , thats troubling. It doesnt sound good. Is that evidence for obstruction . Potentially. But is it obstruction on its face . Thats what were going to see a lot of today. Isnt it interesting that dona donalds layers say he is totally vindicated. Have you jumped the gun . Its going to be political. Hes obviously trying to say that the president wanted those assurances out there. He gets very frustrated that they werent and the question is comey said he couldnt make it public because it might have changed. Adam schiff said to both of you, hes looking for conversations with comey that he may have had with other people. We do not know who they are. He said it after these various points. How did they word it . How did they confirm what he said . Hes got the memos to confirm. The thing we have to not forget, its not just the seven pages and the influence of the investigation. It was the fact that the fbi director himself was fired. There was a link between loyalty and performance and that went throughout their conversations. And then in the end, the threat that comey thought was implicit in his thoughts of what the president said came to be. He was fired for not doing what the president wanted. That was part of it in addition to the outline in the Opening Statement. But did the question fire him because he did not dmo what i want . He said it in his conversation on television with lester holt. Of course, the president is head of the executive branch. He gets to fire executive Branch Officials who dont implement the policies that he sees fit. He might have said, i fired mike flynn, put your policies and resources elsewhere. That hes n thats not it. We look forward to your live coverage. The cbs special report will begin at 10 00 a. M. Eastern, 9 00 central here on cbs and on our cbsn network. Bill cosby hopes to poke holes in his Sexual Assault announcer this National Weather report sponsored by toyota. 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