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Again brought the dossier comey briefed him about on january 6 at trump towers saying he, quote, had not been involved with hookers in russia. comey also says the president asked what comey to do to, quote, lift the cloud. comey again assuring president trump he was not personally under investigation. april 11th, the president called again, asking comey what he was doing to make it publicly known that he was not being investigated and saying the cloud was hurting his ability to do his job. before the call ended, comey says president trump said, quote, i've been very loyal to you, very loyal. w...

Senate side of the hill, i don't blame him. he wants to wait for the facts which is a pretty reasonable position to be in. the rest of washington is hot tonight. >> i love the sensible wisconsin conversation we just heard. all wisconsin, on wisconsin. yes, here inside the beltway, i think people are just a god. as you pointed out, i think, even the speaker pointed out, in a very dramatically, while understated statement by james comey that was a little bit of ernest hemming way and a little bit of house of cards -- >> yeah. >> he tersely laid out a picture of the president of the united states...

The comey opening statement released to the public just hours after two of the nation's top intelligence officials testified on the hill, director of national intelligence daniel coats testifying before the senate intel committee was asked about the washington post arcle, claiming coats told his associates that president trump asked him to intvene wh comey on the fbi-russia probe. >> are you prepared to say that you have never felt -- that you have never been asked by the president or the white house to influence an ongoing investigation? >> what i'm not willing to do is to share what i think ...

The statement speak for itself, wait till mr. comey testifies. they have not said anything formally about it. they were pretty preoccupied today with the president's announcement of chris ray to be his nominee for fbi director. greta, i think it is important to realize what this statement is and what it isn't. it is certainly more than merely a recitation of his meetings with the president because he talks additionally about his concerns that he expressed to others at the fbi, some that he passed along to senior people at the justice department, asking jeff sessions, the attorney general, to t...

Vindicated, greta. >> thank you, pete. with me speaker of the house congressman paul ryan from the great state of wisconsin. good evening, sir. >> hey, greta, how are you doing? >> i'm fine. tell me first of all your overall thoughts today about the statement james comey has released or the committee has released and he's going to deliver tomorrow before the senate intel. >> i haven't had a chance to read it. i have been briefed on it. i'm going to get through it tonight. been a little busy here in the capital. from what i've been briefed on, sounds like it's much of what's will not been rep...