the president did seem very focused on that december hearing that rod rosenstein where he was asked about whether he had been asked for a loyalty pledge. why was the president so focused on the hearing? >> right. that s right. the president brought up the upcoming hearing during the white house meeting. trump went so far as to suggest questions to members of congress could ask him. one line of inquiry trump was asking lawmakers to ask whether rod rosenstein appointed mueller as special counsel to investigate this russian meddling in the 2016 election because mueller was not chosen as fbi director. remember he interviewed for the job. doesn t appear by the way erin that the questions president were not asked. >> important not asking that, but requesting is significant. thank you so much. and evan reporting, the very reason rod rosenstein was at the
and fbi. release a memo by nunes allege fbi abuse of surveillance during the russian investigation related to the trump campaign as soon as tomorrow. but fbi led by trump choice wray is urging them to reconsider damage by release. out front republican from new york who sits on the house foreign affairs committee. congressman, i appreciate your time. thank you. i know you have had a clans to read the memo. cathedr called for the president to release it. now the fbi has said with christopher wray himself grave concerns. trump department saying it could be reckless to release it. do you think the fbi and justice department are both wrong? >> they were wrong as it relates to the fisa abuse. and it would make sense that there would be people at the doj and fbi that wouldn t want this memo to go out because it s
believe in me, you are off the team. >> and kirsten, this issue of the team, just to make the point, president trump picked christoph christopher wray his fbi director. he was not involved as memo tries to cherry pick there was abuses at the highest levels of the fbi. but wray is coming out and saying this memo is inaccurate. this memo is not okay. and poses grave consequences for national security. >> yeah. >> does that impact how people should view this? >> well, i think so. look, he chose him. and he also went out of his way and white house to really set him a side and say basically christopher wray is honorable man other like other people in fbi political and out to get the president. so they established he s credible in their eyes so why are they ignoring his opinion. and we all know best case scenario, i don t think anybody
oversees the federal bureau of investigation, also run by a trump appointee, jeff sessions mind you, sent a letter to nunes saying it sees no evidence of abuse of the fisa warrant powers. in addition to that, i spoke to current and former u.s. intelligence officials who believe that releasing this memo does pose a risk to classified information because it reveals how these surveillance decisions are made. so three people telling the president not to release this memo. >> okay. obviously crucial. thanks very much. and now with the breaking news, go to chris coons. senator, i appreciate your time. your committee oversees the department of justice which means you oversee rod rosenstein. do you have a problem if he was asked by president trump whether if he s quote on his team? >> absolutely. this is just another example of president trump failing to understand and failing to respect long standing norms. the department of justice is not
cowrote the first draft that was sent to congress the next day. now also separately source familiar with strzok said he supported reopening the clinton investigation. once those emails surfaced on the laptop of the disgraced former congressman whiner. this is significant because he has come under enormous criticism that he exchanged with fbi lisa page who he was having extramarital a fair. and those messages are under investigation in congress and by the department of congress inspector general. trump even suggested they committed treason. and we saw also they may have had reservations going public two days before the election when comey announced separately flg to the emails. but all these documents are painting much more complex picture of strzok as republicans have used his text criticizing
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