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Conversations and whether comey was pressured to drop the investigation on michael flynn. we have diane gallagher live in washington with more. >> reporter: alisyn, this is must-see tv. no one was sure this would happen. sources tell cnn that comey consulted privately with robert mueller to work out what he can and can't say legally in public. at this point, we are not sure how much the public will learn on june 8th. you should expect a hard line of questioning from senators and courses told us comey recorded conversations in memos and was told to go easy on michael flynn. if he cannot answer ...

On internal documents by the media. i'm sorry the free press is an inconvenience to you, sir. but the reality is, this is not political. this is real reporting -- >> it's certainly not political. >> you're making a lot of ass e assumptions about the timing of this statement, as well, whether comey already said there was an ongoing investigation. >> let's talk about comey. here's a guy that said there was obstruction, february 14th, but he sat on it, didn't tell anybody, and then, on the 5th of may, had the opportunity to answer a question, very closely related to it, in front of the u.s. congr...

>> i think the whole thing sends a messagemism obviously having a special counsel in place shows the seriousness of this matter. it's not like we're sets up with the various senate and house committees muddling along. we've got somebody in there trying to dig into the facts now, get subpoenas out there, going to be working with the fbi regardless of whether comey is there. they're going to be directed. they're going to be supervisorized. and i think you're going to see action. we're not going to see it, but it's going to happen. >> before we talk specifics, jill, let's just talk overall. what ...

Out there. i want to read the memo first, but on the surface that seems like an extraordinary use of influence to try to shut down investigation being done by the fbi. i don't know if this is true yet, but i want to find out if that's actually out there. and here's senator burr, who said something interesting. since you're the reporter at "the new york times" who broke this story, i want you to respond to it. senator burr saying you have a burden to produce the memo. take a listen. >> i think the burden is on "the new york times" if they're reporting it and they've got somebody that's got the ...

And, you know, what remains to be seen here is whether comey will be brought up to capitol hill and asked to testify about this because comey has said that he wants to testify publicly about this. >> well, i mean the thing that -- the suspense that all of us who have not seen the memo, and you've been read portions of it, have is how many memos are there? what's included in them, and what is james comey's side of the story? but it appears to be inevitable, and i wonder if you think this is true, that he will testify at some point in an open hearing, and those memos would probably be produced. ...