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Seeminglyeccilable reports on what james comey did or didn't ask for the trump investigation right befo trump fired him. what we know is this, the day before he was fired, may 8th, fbi director james comey did meet with the leaders of the senate intelligence committee with republican chairman richard burr and democratic vice-chairman mark warner. the three of them met privately. it was just the three of them in the room. and here's where things start to splay out. in the meeting, it appear there's was a discussion about the pace and the progress of the fbi's inquiry into trump russia. it seems...

Comey has said he wants to speak publicly, he has accepted an invitation from senators warner and burr, the senate intelligence committee to come and testify publicly and so, yes, i believe sometime soon after the memorial day recess you'll have a chance to hear from the director and obviously that's going to be a moment of great drama here on capitol hill. >> it certainly will be, the american public will be anxious to hear what comey has to say. you also know "the washington post" is reporting that comey may have been influenced in his handling of the hillary clinton investigation by what is...

You had james comey earlier this month saying nobody in the department of justice had tried to impede the investigation. so we've had a number of people push back on that. john brennan testified today and asked the question specifically if the intelligence community had been asked by the president to drop the michael flynn investigation. he said he was unaware of any of that occurring. so we've seen these stories implying or accusing the president of asking for the russia investigation to be taken off the table. but we have government officials on both sides of the political aisle coming out a...

Time. so his statement on the hill was reassuring and he -- he -- there was a great colloquy with members of the senate intelligence committee who all said well, please, inform the fbi officials who are conducting this investigation that they cannot be fired, that they will not be fired and that we -- we have their backs. and then beyond that, senators warner and burr also had a press conference today stating that they plan to continue with their senate investigation. they met separately with rod rosenstein to discuss the logistics of that and they also issued their first subpoena yesterday, a...

The pretense around this ziegs. and seems to indicate that the white house thinks there is some quick way of expediting it and get going done. and that would obviously dsh that doesn't reflect the reality that this investigation is going to continue to take some time. the mccabe's statement on the hill was reassuring. and he -- there was a great colloquy with members of the senate intelligence committee moua all said please inform the fbi officials conducting the investigation that they cannot be fired. they will not be fired. and that we -- we have their backs. and then beyond that, senators ...