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That is another factor that you would look at in terms of trying to influence you an investigation which is what the definition of obstruction is. although ultimately the decision about whether anything should be done about it is a political one, not a legal one, for the reasons that jim comey steketch out today. he's not going to be charged with a crime glp and you often don't hear someone say in effect, yeah, i liked it through a. frid of mine, i wanted the papers to get it. >> very candid. and james comey is a lot of things. naive about his public image is not one of them. and so that is i ...

Although he said my lead investigation gait toor thought insisted that we should say he was part of the targeting of the investigation. at the same time saying, well irks flynn wasn't involved either and if there is anybody else involved like a manafort or someone else, they could be thrown under the bus because they were satellite material. so where was the "there" there? he knew there was a big deal here. he knew there was something related to that big deal from the american's side and he never said it. and i think that is a question. what is the missing piece, the heart of what is assumed t...

Elections? >> not to my understanding. i don't think it's for me to say whether the conversation was an effort to obstruct are. i took it as concerning, but that is a conclusion i'm sure the special counsel will work towards to understand the intention there and whether that is an offense. >> what was it about that meeting that led you to determine that you needed to start putting down a written record? >> a combination of things. i think the circumstances, the subject matter and the person i was interacting with. and then the nature of the person. i was honestly concerned that he might lie ab...

De facto voice of donald trump himself. we should know he's not in d.c., he's not by his father's side at the moment, he is in new york city. but the president himself has not come out and tweeted. we can take this to mean that the family is going to try and push back as hard as they can, and they're going to try to call into question james comey's credibility, say that he wasn't doing things properly, that he was somebody who was abiding by his own set of rules, not the set of rules of the department, of the fbi, of the federal bureau of investigations. so, again, brian, he says this idea tha...

Reporting was. fripd friends of mr. comey had been putting out the word on some of these things especially now we know professor dan richmond from columbia was basically advised by mr. comey to call a reporter "new york times" and walk them through what was in the memo about his meeting, his dinner at the white house where he was asked about loyalty. and then the oval office meeting where he was asked can't you -- flynn is a good man, can't you let it go. so for those two reasons, a lot of it wasn't strikingly new. the things that will leave a mark are of course the big obstruction question an...