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Say something they don't know whether it's true or fought. the fact that they don't know where the president stands on this, to jim's point, it was at seven hours ago that they haven't asked is telling. >> yeah. anderson, you may say the silence is deafening. it's remarkable to think the white house isn't in a position to say the president has confidence in any of his cabinet officials, let alone someone as invisible and closely connected to him as jeff sessions. i don't know if it means jeff sessions' days are numbered. i think what director comey's hearing on thursday, don't forget the direc...

Matter in the court of public opinion. >> i think, ryan what do you think of the washington post reporting? it's one thing, obviously, comey was fired, but for him to go to coates to try to get to comey? >> yes, he had this, as carl was pointing out, have you this back pattern. you went to coates to try to influence the election. we went to comey. he ended up firing him to influence the investigation. i mean, trump was obsessed with this investigation for some reason. he just to add one more thing, he asked comey not to lay off of michael flynn as national security adviser. so you had these se...

President wanted to speak about in front of a large group of people. the cia director was also in the room. >> he probably knew what he was doing was improper or at least out of the ordinary and he didn't want to have coates answer the question in front of other people. because, perhaps, he knew that coates wasn't going to answer the question and that it would cause some kind of a problem. what you have here is a president looking for assurances everywhere that this russia problem was going to be put to rest in one way, shape or form. and that he would, you know, he would not have any liabilit...

Pressing ahead and doing your job. >> that by all observation is what he is doing i don't think the testimony by director coates is going to change that. i think you may hear tomorrow when questions arise about what do you and the president say to one another, i think you may hear coates' demurrer on those. i don't know he will answer those questions at all. >> you just said it, tim, carrying water. what i am told by people in the white house is that if the president is in a rage at sessions and it's because sessions did not carry water for him. >> that sessions did not insulate him and stay i...

Director comey multiple times, now reporting on the same instance, director comey is expected to testify to a day-and-a-half from now. efforts why the president should get his top intelligence law enforcement officials to back off on the russian investigation. according to washington post the director asked the national director of intelligence jack coates to intervene with the russia probe. telling coates later discussed the conversation with other officials and decided that intervening with comey, as the president has suggested would be inappropriate. we will go first to the panel. what do y...