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Me and it's more political than anything else is something nia was touching on before which is senator reed of rhode island reading back to sessions, quotes that he had stated at the time comey made the mistakes he now says were catastrophic in terms of the hillary clinton investigation and at that time, as nia points out, at that time comey was -- i mean, sessions was not critical at all of comey. in fact, he was complimentary of comey, so, you know, what reed -- what senator reed was doing is raising are the question, well, gee, you seem to have a complete turnaround here. >> all right. >> a...

American people yesterday. the memo which he leaked had no top secret information in it. in fact, every time comey was asked yesterday in the senate committee about top secret information, he said that he could not answer those questions until he got behind closed doors. and, so, this is the distinction that people have to understand. if the information was classified, if it was top secret, comey did not speak to the senate about it. so the information in which he gave to his friend was not top secret, was not confidential and actually helped to protect comey against the charge by the presiden...

Created by the fbi's russia investigation. >> it also confirms president trump demanded loyalty, and it contradicts the president's claim he never asked comey to back off his investigation of former national security adviser michael flynn. comey's statement does support the president's claim that comey assured him he was not personally under investigation. >> comey says the president brought that subject up over the course of multiple conversations. today marks the first time comey has testified publicly or spoken out at all since president trump unceremoniously fired him last month. >> for hi...

Fbi. and that didn't stop that decision. but at the same time comey was somebody a lot of us had been calling for the resignation or firing for a year now on both sides of the aisle. so there's a little more substance to that. it's a little different with attorney general sessions where presumably the only reason he might offer a resignation is if he didn't feel he could be left free to do the job where he's independent of the president to do it independently. who knows when we'll know that. that would be the only -- >> and that's a worrying -- if that is in fact a concern about his ability to...

Far. it is just a touch before 1:00 p.m. in the afternoon here in the us about six in the evening in london. back there live as our coverage continues right there. shannon: there's also political coverage this week because former fbi james comey will testify on thursday in an open testing. russian interference is the topic. and allegations that the president tried to interfere in comey's investigation before expiring him. we are live in washington. the question is what are we going to get from this? >> we certainly expected to be lively. this is the first time comey has spoken out since he was...