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The united states? >> coats is a guy with an ethical center. he's also a really smart and careful politician, having served in the senate for a long time. you should read his statement last night very carefully. he says he never has felt pressured by the president. that doesn't mean that the president didn't ask him to back off -- to push comey to back off the investigation. >> senator, it also doesn't mean that the president wasn't trying to pressure him. somebody could ask me to do something illegal. i wouldn't feel any pressure. i'd smile and tell them to go to hell and walk out of the room...

The department of justice that you are no longer able to effectively lead the bureau. where does this say that the president asked fbi director comey -- >> it does not say that he expressly ask kd hed him. i'm asking how can it be possible that the president of the united states would allow communications between him and the fbi director about whether are or not he's under investigation, it is unethical, it is arguably illegal for that to have happened once let alone three times and a lot of people who know james comey can't believe it would have ever happened. how do you explain it? >> those ...

Now. the president has met with him, but the reporting is you don't know anybody. >> why wouldn't that make the press happy? his wife ran for office as a democrat. it's not personal -- >> when are you going to announce the new director? >> that's up to the president of the united states. >> but does he have somebody? chris, i'm not going to answer that question because the president of the united states confers with his team and it is up to him to find the timing. it's inappropriate. he'll do it when he wants to, just like he fired fbi director comey when he was faced with evidence that was un...

If it's true admits that he asked the director of the fbi whether or not he was directly under investigation. >> it doesn't say that. >> oh, yes, it does. >> it says while i appreciate you informing me on three separate occasions that i'm not under investigation. where are is it that the president asked him that? >> how did he find out? >> chris, i'm not going to reveal to you conversations between the president of the united states and the director of the fbi. >> it is so wrong that that communication happened. i don't know that it's false. i don't know that the president didn't ask him. >> t...

Have you in it's a wonderful assumption we're all making. >> with michael flynn, would he have had a conversation about sanctions with the russian ambassador of his own volition? is that something he might have done? >> michael flynn does things because he wants to do things. >> there are a lot of questions now about who knew what and when. >> i think it would be pretty shocking if he made a decision like that without running it by his boss, and if he did, i think it would be pretty shocking if donald trump didn't ask him, hey, what did you talk to the russian ambassador about after the news r...