Page 18 - Potential Wrongdoing News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

One final question. what do you hope to hear a week from today when the fired fbi director james comey appears in public before the senate intelligence committee? >> well, i'm glad that he's testifying. i think it's very important and it's very important that this be done publicly. of course we want to know did the president attempt to curtail the russia investigation in any way, shape, or form with respect to his own conduct of it, with respect to the investigation involving michael flynn. did he demand loyalty from the director which would be completely inappropriate. did he interfere or obs...

If you're innocent, why are you taking the fifth amendment. >> reporter: sources tell cnn russian officials in conversations picked up by u.s. intelligence bragged they could use flynn to influence trump. newly appointed special counsel former fbi director robert mueller now looking at whether president trump sought to obstruct justice by trying to pressure then fbi chief james comey to drop the bureau's investigation into potential wrongdoing by flynn. in february cornering comey alone in the oval office telling him, quote, i hope you can let this go according to a memo comey wrote recalling ...

Mishandling classified information is a serious one and the combination of firing comey after having requested that he not pursue the anyoflynn mattera serious one. and i think that there is an obstruction of justice. the fact that trump asked other people to leave the room so he could have this conversation is a very welling sign here. >> i think it's very serious. i think it is important to remember that the trump white house has pushed back the account on this memo and whether or not this memo exists. you put congressmen in a terrible position. i'll tell you as someone who, you know, has be...

This was the targeting of the president's political enemies, effectively, and lies about it during the election year so that it was not discovered until afterwards. >> never let the facts get in the way of a good story. that was a super serious charge house oversight committee chair darrell issa made against the obama white house against the handling of the tea party negotiations for irs status. it is a potential wrongdoing that the committee would want to ask about when they rooted in cincinnati where they were processed. question, in your opinion was the decision to screen and centralize the...

I.g. investigation. it probably also means they knew of potential wrongdoing even before that investigation was initiated. so now we have this whole conversation about how far up the chain this information went. if anything inappropriate was done. the problem here is the question of timing. clearly the number one goal of the first term of the obama administration was to get a second term and having these embarrassing revelations come out before election day would have had a negative impact on their chances. they did everything they could to delay these findings and we're going to find out, loo...