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The same collusion. >> when senator risch focused on the word "hope," i hope you can do this. do you buy that? if somebody who's in a powerful position, you know looks you in the eye and along in the office, i hope you can do this. this is somebody in a powerful position, this is the president of the united states in the oval office with you alone. i think mr. comey's responsibility would be what was all of us and this is something the president wants done. that's what henry the 2nd said well, no one written me this. >> the president even said as a directive, drop this case, cut my friensome s...

When you get the president of the united states in the oval office saying something like i hope or suggest, would you, would you take that as a directive? >> yes. it rings in my ears, i was just going to quote that. that's exactly of the same situation you are thinking of along the same lines. >> it was interesting to hear director comey and you seizing on that line. >> it was not rehearsed, i promise. >> it came to me as i was listening to risch's question of the power of the word or the sovereign or in this case the president in that situation. i had looked ip t up to get the date and james ...

Director of national intelligence dan coats and said give me some help here. try to go to comey and have him make the information public that i'm not the focus. it was not an effort to kill the entire russia probe which is also corroborated by james comey's prepared testimony sgl. a lot more to go through in time. thank you, catherine. >> shannon: joining us now republican senator james risch of idaho, a member of the senate intelligence committee. he was there asking questions today. he will be back today. thank you for making time for us before the hearing today. >> you should see the traffi...

And most passionate was senator warner, the ranking democrat on this committee. we have a look at some of his statements that we'll get from him today. we have a bit of a preview. after going through the seven pages of what we'll see from comey in his opening, warner said i want to emphasize what is happening here. the president of the united states was asking the f.b.i. director to drop an ongoing investigation into the president's former national security advisor. he continues in further violation of clear guidelines put in place after watergate to prevent any whiff of political interference...

Yesterday. we talked to jim risch, gop senator earlier who was a prosecutor. the way they'll go after this today could be very precise. we know a lot of strategy. james comey also a very skilled attorney himself. who will you be watching for today? >> both sides. again, as we've been saying, you just don't know that moment. it is like a presidential debate. it is very seldom planned but there is one moment that will be the main news clip today and that could have a lot of impact on how the story plays. i will say this about james comey. he is a very effective witness. one case back in 2007 he ...