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To leave while the fbi director who reports to the a.g. remain behind was inappropriate and should never happen. he did not reply. for the reasons discussed above, i did not mention that the president broach the fbi's potential investigation of general flynn. and that is just one example of what we'll hear tomorrow morning with jim comey. page pate, legal analyst, your interpretation, page, does this sound like obstruction of justice to you in. >> brooke, i think it absolutely does sound like obstruction of justice. it's not important as to which investigation he was trying to obstruct. did th...
Judgment of the department of justice that you are not able to effectively lead the bureau. >> maybe the most troubling thing i've heard from the president in this more than dismissing the director is that part of his basis. that he has had independent conversations with the director of the fbi which seemed to be targeting towards finding whether or not he was in troubling seems to be a broach of protocol if not something really unethical. >> and that i would certainly want to hear comey's side of those conversations because i don't believer comey would ever say anything like that to the presi...
You know, as everybody knows, donald trump has not found it in his heart to say a negative word about vladimir putin during the campaign or since he's been president, despite a lot of trying by journalists. and it's a puzzle and it's a mystery. and, you know, i think mike flynn, you know, had a world view about this and i think it's somewhat explicable. he decided that radical islam and islamic extremists was more of uh danger to the united states than the russian adversary armed with nuclear weapons. that's not a view that's widely held in the foreign policy community, but it is a view mike f...
That's not a view that's widely held in the foreign policy community, but it is a view mike flynn holds and other members of the trump administration holds and he was willing to broach, you know, some kind of agreement with russia over cooperating on counter terrorism and against isis. a lot of experts don't see much hope in having any great effect. that was his idea. and, you know, he found himself at that dinner at r.t., sitting next to vladimir putin and he later was asked about it and said that was one of the reasons he went, to try to forge a new relationship with russia. but there are ju...