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Were specifically about whether the president was the subject of a counterintelligence investigation. first, on january 6th when comey went to trump tower to brief the president-elect on a dossier of allegations involving mr. trump, first reported by cnn, comey says that, quote, during our one-on-one meeting at trump tower, based on president-elect's reaction to the briefing and without him directly asking the question i hovered that assurance, that he was not under fbi counterintelligence probe. the second time in a dipper on january 27th comey says the president told him he was considering o...

>> thanks for having me. >> you heard the statement that former fbi director james comey describing president trump as saying as i hope can you let this go, meaning the investigation into the fired national security adviser michael flynn. do you believe as jeffrey toobin does that that potentially is obstruction of justice? >> i think it's devastating. i'm an engineer, not a prosecutor, so i can't tell you what the exact legal standard is, but if the president said those words, i believe it's absolutely devastating, completely inappropriate and i would leave it to someone like bob mueller to -...

We're following multiple breaking stories including the bombshell testimony that the fired fbi director james comey will deliver tomorrow morning before the senate intelligence committee. comey's opening statement released today at his request, by the way, confirms the president told the fbi director he needed loyalty. comey will also testify that the president asked him to, quote, let go of the investigation into fired national security adviser michael flynn. let's bring in our political and legal specialists. jeffrey toobin, a lot of this is potentially from your perspective very damning and...

Personally investigating president trump. i reminded him hi previously told him that. he repeatedly told me we need to get that fact out. the dossier in particular attracted the president's attention. he said he had nothing to do with russia, had not been involved with hookers-ins russia and had always assumed he was being recorded when in russia. he asked what we could do to lift the cloud. the president comey says was also very interested in establishing his loyalty. in their january 27th dinner comey sailed president trump told him, quote, i need loyalty. i expect loyalty. comey went on i d...

Had similar conversations. we know that at least in march he had a conversation with dan coats, the director of national intelligence in, which it appears that dan coats wasn't necessarily directly asked to help the fbi, to get the fbi off the back of michael flynn, but, you know, i we want to know had a little bit more about how that conversation came across. it doesn't look like the president actually said i need you to help get the fbi off mike flynn's back, but it certainly looks like you can interpret things in that way and it goes to this obstruction idea. i think we need a little bit mo...