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Fired him and then went on television and she had he fired him to help end the russia investigation. the idea comey was supposed to take this up with the inspector general rather than alert the meamerican public and try to gea special counsel appointed seems like a complete missive of any real context of what was happening in the real world by the inspector general. >> you make the analogy on your twitter, you were tweeting, i hope you weren't driving looking through this, this was like slapping on the wrist for racing to save a burning village. explain that. what do you mean by that? >> it's ...

Say it wasn't the president's intent to stop the investigation. he wanted director comey to give flynn the benefit of the doubt. that's the gray area where it cops to the statute. >> intent was also the issue with hillary clinton's e-mails, the idea comey referenced this. there's a famous news conference that sharing it you need to have the intent to have compromised it, as well. on the next question then is the question of impeachment because impeachment it seems to me is as much a political question as a allele question. given the standards and practice, could this then be enough to begin th...

President said, sessions, leave the room. why do you have jeff sessions leave the room? because he has already rescued himself from any discussion about the campaign related investigations and russia. enter into the story a conversation about the very topic you know your attorney general, comey's boss socially, cannot be a part of. this intimation gets you a little bit more towards that pendulum shift away from the innocent, benign conversation and far more to someone trying to push their way around and not just inquire as to what type of person i'm talking to, but whether or not i have a mari...

Whether to fire james comey who was leading the russian investigation. >> reporter: you're right, david, sessions was at that critical meeting and we did participate. despite the fact that he recused himself from the 2016 campaign. that's raising big questions with democrats that won't go away soon. sources say, sessions took part because he believes the fbi director's job is much bigger than just one case. i'm told by sources the president said at top of the meeting he was leaning toward firing comey. sessions and the deputy attorney general expressed their concerns of comey being too much of...

As he moves through capitol hill, there's a little tea leaf reading going on, but that was one of those significant events where we know he's giving some information to top leaders here and maybe that will help us shape what comes next. >> kelly o., thank you. my panel, vivian and carol, thank you for being here. carol, to you, let's stick with the idea comey was over on the hill. what do we make of this? >> he's under a lot of pressure. he has lawmakers who are saying on one hand they're not getting enough information. there's pressure for him to address the president's accusations of preside...