recordings exist an idea invented by the president in twitter will come in the quote very near future. that i our broadcast for tonight and for a busy news week. have a good weekend. good night from new york. is that our control room sound was being broadcast over the pa? that was impressive. it was like -- i'll tell you what happened before the cameras came on. it's kind of the equivalent of the fire alarm going off, except it was the voice of somebody working in another room not on this show. that was kind of amazing. i'm going to assume that wasn't god and it's a technical difficulty. thanks for being with us tonight. dan rather is here which i'm excited about. we have a few new pieces of information to break on what is going on in washington with the, what appears it be the mush rooming scandal around the president. we have a few new exclusive pieces of information on that

tonight. last night and columbia law school professor received a letter from congress. this was the letter. dear professor, daniel richman at columbia, yesterday in the senate the fired director of the fbi, james comey, put the spotlights on professor daniel richmond when comey told the world about his decision to make public his notes that he wrote up after this meing at he had with the president in which they says presidents told him that the fbi should let go its ongoing criminal investigation into this trump national security adviser mike flynn. director comey explained yesterday under oath that the way he decided to publicize those notes and that memo he wrote about his interaction with the president was that he gave

it to his good friend who worked at columbia law school, and he give his professor friend the instruction that he should then pass on that memo to a reporter. and so after that testimony under oath yesterday from james comey, last night james comey's professor friend at columbia law school, he got this letter from congress, from the senate explaining that director comey had all but said that professor richmond had in his possession this potentially incriminating memo about the president, and could professor richmond please hand the memo over to congress right now. and i mean i had the when i say right now. mr. comey's memoranda we ask that you provide copies of all the them that you received no later than june 9, 2017. check your calendar.

it's june 9th, 2017, today. quick turnaroundght? the senate heard yesterday from james comey this professor at columbia had comey's memo about trump supposedly trying to kibosh the investigation. they heard that yesterday that the professor had that memo. they wrote to the professor last night telling him to hand it over, and they gave him a which is interesting. we can report tonight as of a couple of minutes ago the professor has not turned over comey's memo about his conversation with the president which is interesting. cnn's man raj, he further reports tonight that professor richmond has been in touch with that committee as of tonight, but we can report that whether or not he's been in touch with them, he has not handed over the memo.

microbiology this is kind of a stressful position for your average law professor to find himself in. but, hey, it's turning out these are stressful times. now, there's obviously a lot going on in the news at large right now. first and foremost, there's the u.k. election, which is fascinating and a total shocker and has implications for the u.k. and europe. also has interesting implications for us. the president's offer today that he'd love to be deposed by the special counsel investigating the trump russia matter. seems unlikely that he really wants to do that, but he said today he'd love to. there's also the matter of this ticking time bomb that is now potentially set to go off in the u.s. senate when it comes to health care. the senate may be moving toward at a vote that would kick over 20 million americans off health insurance. there's a t going on. we're going to get to all those thingshis hour. have dan rather here and some expert legal advice coming up on

the show tonight, advice that may surprise you. but there are a few new things we've been able to report out tonight that i want to let you know right off the bat. the first is the news of that law professor who has a copy of james comey's memo describing the president supposedly trying to shut down on ongoing fbi investigation. that law professor not turning over that memo to the senate despite the senate telling him he had until today to hand it over. that obviously relates to the possibility of obstruction of justice, which is this central question in terms of the fate presidency. did the president try to stop ongoing fbi investigations? now, the special counsel, mueller, he was appointed to look into the russia issue, right? he was appointed to look into the specific question of who

weather the trump campaign or any trump associates helped or cooperated with the russians in this russian attack on our election last year. the order appointing bob mueller to be special counsel said i don't have any idea that investigation he could also investigated and prosecute any other matters that, quote, arise from that russia investigations. well, it now seems clear that one of the matters that has arisen from the russia investigation is this possibility there's been an attempt to obstruct justice in this matter potentially by the president of the united states himself. and although the mueller investigation, the spokesperson for bomueller is not confirming that overtly, that bob mueller isow investigating whether the president obstructed justice, we're sure that's what he's working on. we're pretty darn sure of it tonight for two reasons.

first reason is because james comey said so under oath yesterday twice. >> do you sense the president was trying to obstruct justice or just seek for a way for mike flynn to save face given he had already been fired. >> general flynn at that point was in legal jeopardy. there was an open fbi criminal investigation of his statements in connection with the russian contacts and the contacts themselves. so that was my assessment at the time. i don't think it's for me to say whether the conversation i had with the president was an effort to obstruct. i took it as a very disturbing thing, very concerning, but that's a conclusion i'm sure the special counsel will work towards to understand the intention there. >> do you believe this will arise to the obstruction of justice? >> i don't know that's bob mueller's job to sort that out. >> the special counsel will try to work to understand whether the obstruction intent was there. that's the first obvious reason

we believe the special counsel, bob mueller is investigating whether anyone potentially including the president might have try to obstruct justice in the russia investigation. first reason we think that is bluntly because james comey said so yesterday under oath twice. the other reason we believe that the special counsel bob mueller is investigating whether there was an obstruction of justice is because of this. >> so you didn't consider your memo or sense of that conversation to be a government document? you considered it to be somehow your own personal document that you could share with the media as you wanted to? >> correct >> through a friend? >> i understood this to be my recollection reported of my conversation with the president as a private i see citizen. -- as a private citizen. i felt that important to get it out. >> were all your memos that you reported on classified or other documents memos that might be yours as a private citizen? >> i'm sorry. i'm not for that the question. >> you used classified --

>> not the classified documents. unclassified i don't have any of them anymore. i gave them to the special counsel. >> so that means any notes, any memoranda james comey wrote about his interactions with president trump, he has handed them over to the special counsel, mueller. and that's a simple thing, but it has a couple of really important implications. the first of which is that may be what's complicating the issue of this poor law professor. the fact bob mueller has these documents, that may be the complicating factor as to whether or not jim comey's friend, this law professor can hand over his copy of the memo to the senate. that may be what's making this a hard night for that law professor. but the fact james comey gave his modems about his conversations to the special counsel that implies pretty

strongly they are investigating potential obstruction of justice by the president. we know he never talked to the president about russia or about the russian attack on our election. james comey said under oath the president never brought that attack up, never expressed any concern about that russian attack to him ever, even once. so bob mueller's only investigating the russia attack and possible trump campaign involvement in the russia attack. these memos aren't about the russia attack. if that's all he's investigating there's no reason for him be reviewing james comey's memos about his interactions with president trump. the only reason they would need those memos is if he's investigating the possibility of something else besides the russian attack. >> do you believe this will rise to the obstruction of justice?

>> i don't know. that's bob mueller's job to sort that out. >> bob mueller, special counsel, as of tonight appears very strongly to be investigating whether the president of the united states, donald trump, committed obstruction of justice. now, the race is on to confirm that for a fact, but in the absence of direct confirmation, it really seems clear by every indication that that's what he's doing. so we've got james comey saying under oath that president trump was not the subject personally of a counterintelligence investigation by the fbi into the russian attack on our election and possible collusion. president not personally the subject of that. but it appears that he very much may be the subject of the special counsel's investigation into the potential obstruction of justice. so here's the other thing going on about that tonight that is turning into a really

interesting question. bob mueller appears to be investigating obstruction of justice. is congress investigating that too? we know the intelligence committees are investigating the russia side of this, the russia attack, whether they colluded in the russia attack. mike flynn handed over this week hureds of pas to the house and senate intelligence committees in response to their subpoenas after initially taking the 5th. the intelligence committee as we know they're looking at russia. is anybody in congress looking into whether or not the white house tried to obstruct justice or illegally me ll lly medlled r block the russia investigations? is that bob mueller alone or is congress working on that too? as of tonight we have a lot more information about it. it looks like the answer to that

is possibly the committees in congress that would have jurisdiction over obstruction of justice by the president or obstruction of justice by other officials in the executive branch, the committees that would have jurisdiction over that would be the judiciary committees. the chairman. judiciary committee in the house is republican congressmen bob goodlat. he appears to have no interest whatsoever in investigating this matter. he's certainly taken no steps to exercise his committee's oversight role in this at all. i should tell you as an aside, since president trump has been in office, the only reason he's made any news at all is because he brewed up a local controversy home in virginia when he got his speeding ticket amendment, so they dinged him for a faulty speedometer. that's the only way he's made news. and he's got the committee in the house that would oversee somethg like an investigation into obstruction of justice. a democrat ohis commtee,

congressmen lewis gutierrez wrote and said basically we're the judiciary committee, this is our turf, we should be investigating potential obstruction of justice now that the serious allegations have been levied against the president, let's have the president testify under oath before our committee. but that's just a request to the chairman by one democrat on the committee. doesn't seem like he's going to do anything on this. on the senate side though, ding, ding, ding. >> comey said this would be the only testimony tomorrow. are you prepared to issue a subpoena or try to get him before the senate judiciary committee? >> if under you are laws -- our rules of our committee, if senator feinstein would agree to subpoena, i would. >> that's that good cnn reporter i mentioned before, manu raj from cnn. that's him door stopping

republican senator chuck grassly being questioned he says if the top democrat on my committee, if dianne feinstein wants to issue subpoenas in this part of investigation, let's say she wants to issue a subpoena to james comey to get him to testify yes we will do that. i will agree to that. you know what, i think senator dianne feinstein might want to do something like that, tonight she has just issued this. quote, mr. chairman, in my capacity as ranking member, it is my strong recommendation that the judiciary committee investigate all issues that raise a question of obstruction of justice. these should be developed by our legal staff, and subject to full committee hearings. this is a letter from dianne feinstein to the chairman of the judiciary committee tonight, chuck grassly. she summarizes comey's sworn testimony, these aolutely

exivallegations against the president at the president pressured the fbi director to kibosh this active investigating into mike flynn. and, of course, james comey says the president pressured him on that, the president says new york city i didn't. the question is whether or not james comey has anything to back up his story. we know he says he has a memo he wrote after the meeting. now everyone's trying to get a hold of that memo. but beyond that memo which they're trying to pry out of this poor professor and trying to pry out of comey and pry away from mueller and pry out of the fbi, beyond that memo, tonight senator dianne feinstein takes it one step further. james comey says there's another way his side of the story can be corroborated. number one, he's swearing under oath, number two, he has a memo

he wrote that night, and number three, he says he told other people right then when it happened who can back him up. and we saw this coming last night. here it is. quote, director comey testified that he spoke to a number of individuals about his conversation with the president shortly after it happened. according to hiss oral testimony, this included the following individuals. one, deputy director of the fbi, andrew mccabe much chief of staff to the fbi director. general counsel of the fbi, james baker, associate deputy director of the fbi, number three person in the agency, and cef of the national security branch. dianne feinstein lists them all by name and tells chuck grassly that the judiciary committee should hear from those witnesses basically to see if they corroborate james comey's testimony. so regardless of the russia

attack and this huge existential question of whether the russians had american confederates helping them in that attack, separate issue, regardless of that, if the president of the united states is potentially in legal jeopardy for having tried to shut down an active fbi criminal investigation, we believe the republican-controlled house so far is basically going to let that go. just not interested. at least not so far. the republican-controlled senate, however, may be showing signs of life, at least if the democrats and the republicans on the judiciary committee there if dianne feinstein continue to work together. we know the special counsel is on that as well. he still the power to investigate and prosecute. and on that, there's three

things to take away on that tonight which we have just learned. on the matter of what appears to be now an ongoing investigation by the special counsel into the president of the united states and whether he obstructed justice. first, if the white house ultimately doesn't like what mueller concludes about the president, they're smearing mueller, they will have a hard time smearing bob mueller the same way, not just because of his reputation as a public certify haven't haven't, they will have a hard time smearing him because npr reports tonight that the trump white house actually went through the motions of maybe hiring bob mueller themselves. they considered hiring bob mueller when they were looking tar replacement fbi director after the president fired james comey.

so in the end, they may end up trying to smear bob mueller somewhere down the road, but it's a matter of record they liked him well enough to interview him and consider him themselves for running the fbi. second new thing to know about bob mueller and the possibility he's now investigating the president for potential obstruction of justice, we can report it concerns grand juries. so far we've known of at least one grand jury that is already involved in this case and issuing subpoenas. the first one we know about is in virginia. so that investigation into flynn operated through the u.s. attorney's office in the eastern district of virginia they've convened a grand jury, issued subpoenas and following a trail there. that investigation has already reportedly been folded into what

mueller's doinat the fbi. in addition to that flynn investigation though, nbc news has reported there's a separate federal investigation underway into trump campaign chair, paul manafort. and i can tell you it's believed, but not confirmed, that that investigation, the manafort investigation, involves a second grand jury separate and apart from the one convened in the mike flynn matter. so that manafort investigation has also now reportedly been folded into what mueller is doing as special counsel. so if you think about that for a second, if you think about what he's doing in washington and these other ongoing investigations involving u.s. attorneys offices and grand juries, subpoenas already issued and investigations underway, those being put under his managerial purview, if the special counsel ends up wanting to issue subpoenas or bring

criminal charges, it is possible that he could do that work, he could continue to work with either of both of those grand juries that are already convened and working on some aspect of his issue. there's also a possibility he could i am panel a whole new grand jury. and that's not the kind of thing that's done in public. but as the flynn and manafort cases show, as the history of lots of other high profile cases show, the impanelling of a new grand jury, that is sort of thing that's impossible to keep secret forever. and that brings us to the last thing to know about this tonight. it's this guy. in "the washington post" tonight, he's described by a former solicitor general walter dell jer most brilliant knowledgeable federal criminal lawyer in america, period. wow. his name is michael dreeben.

he's now part of the mueller investigion into the trump russia affair with increasingly seems like the parking lot obstruction of justice investigation that has arisen along with it. top federal criminal lawyer in america, period. gulp. buckle up.

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fbi investigation into trump and russia. nigel farage is a far right, very anti-immigrant politician in the u.k. in this country he's best known for his unexpected appearances with donald trump. farage popping up atmosphere a trump rally in mississippi of all places. they're like, who's this foreign guy? showing up regularly at trump tower. he was one of the first politicians to be there to congratulate him after the election. there he is again with the same look on his face sharing an intimate delighted dinner with donald trump just after the inauguration. and then there was the time nigel farage was spotted at the embassy of ecuador in london.

that's where julian assange lived for five years. he was seen leaving the embassy. that was march 9th, the same day julian assange and wiki leaks gave a press conference and a buzz feed news reporter caught up with farage as he was leaving the embassy that day and asked him what he was doing there that day. and nigel farage responded that he couldn't remember. i love this quote so much, i want to kiss it. i love this. i can actually do it from memory. approached by buzzfeed news as he left to get into a car waiting around the corner, farage said he couldn't not remember what he had been doing in the building. was i just in a building? really? that may be the sort of thing that got investigators working on the trump russia probe

interested in nigel farage according to "the guardian," a person of interest. "the guardian" reported last week they are looking at him, quote, because of his relationships with individuals connected to both the trump campaign and julian assange. if you triangulate russia, wiki leaks and associates the person with the most hits is farage. there's a lot of attention being paid to him. for his part, farage calls this, quote, hysterical nonsense. i describe farage as as a far right anti-immigrant politician, but he's not technically a politician anymore. he resigned from the party he led, ukip. that's the one responsible for brexit.

it was a little strange when farage resigned as the head of ukip weeks after the brexit vote that he pushed for his entire political life. he responded to that great success by quitting. and that was unusual. i should tell you though that in last night's bizarre and interesting national election in the united kingdom, ukip lost every single one of its seats. his party in parliament is zero. this follows the vote for brexit brexit, which is what their reason for being with us. more substantively, brexit itself is now in question, as is a lot else in british and european politics because of what ended up being a political fiasco for the conservative party.

theresa may is holding on as prime minister now, but by a thumbnail the whole point of this election was to get clarity and to give her a mandate for britain moving forward and brexit leaving the european union. instead, her government is weaker and me divided than it was before by a large margin. she said if her party lost six seats she wouldn't be prime minister anymore. her party lost 12 seats and she's still trying to hold on. nobody seems to know what that country wants to ask for in the brexit negotiations that are supposed to start in less than two weeks. it's chaos. we know a little something about that. it's the second chaotic unexpected turn the world on its ear national vote in a short amount of time. is this the new normal for big country, big power politics now? should we expect more wild, unexpected swings in big, powerful countries? is this the new world? joining us now for the

interview, somebody i'm lucky to be able to turn to to help understand big political moments, dan rather, anchor, now president of news & guts media. dan, it is wonderful to see you. >> thank you for having me. >> i want to talk you to about a few different things tonight, but let me ask you about the election results in the u.k. it was a surprise result. but should we see this as a big global signal, something important about the kind of world we're in now? >> yes. i certainly think we can read much into it. what you have is a pattern of angry voters doing surprising things at the polls. we had it with donald trump in this country, you d it in france with their election. germany had aed a strong

challenge to their leader. what's happening in great britain -- the prime minister was almost thrown out of office. some of the press is calling her a zombie. it's a volatile and fluid situation. if you're a leader of the democratic party in this country, you would be thinking about what happened in great britain because what the country voted to do, they elected more leftist politicians, left center politicians. if you were looking to the 2018 congressional elections in this country, can we tap into some anger about donald trump now? it might be a bridge too far, but i think not, and i think politicians in this country will be studying it for that reason. the democratic party has a real problem if they go far with this analysis. if they take from great britain, an angry public was willing to go left of center, more bernie

sanders, if you will. we democrats in 2020, should we go with warren or toward the middle? the second thing is this is not good news for the united states of america and here's why. it weakness the western alliance. a fluid volatile situation. we'll have germany and france trying to get together to hold center in great britain. france on the rise, germany, the most important country in europe now. britain at least for the moment on the fade. none of this is good news for the united states. it's good news for the russians. >> dan rather, will you st here for a moment? there's a follow-up question i want to ask in terms of the volatility and the hazy future for your own president. will you stay? >> absolutely. you bet. >> dan rather stays with us. we'll be right back.

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back with us now is the great dan rather who's the presidents of news & guts media. thank you for sticking with us. we were just talking about the instability in britain after their big election, the possibility that prime minister theresa may may not be prime minister for long. they may have to hold another election very soon. they had this referendum on

brexit that was going to get them out of the european union. our closest ally has all this uncertainties. and is it's going to be a volatile position for a long time. are we also in a volatile and weak position as a country because of the scandal that hangs over this president? is it a big enough scandal there's uncertainty about the future of this presidency and is our political volatile as a country? >> first of all, i certainly think it's seriously enough to be concerned about this particular presidency. i think it's too far a stretch to say right now that the very vital of the country. after all the institutions are performing pretty well in the country. the courts are performing pretty well, parts of congress seem to come alive. so our system of checks and balances, including the press is part of that, have finally taken

traction, several months ago, i among others were concerned. in terms of president trump, i use the phrase in regards to british election, 's a volatile and fluid situation to say the least. we have a real showdown credibility gap between president and who was in effect the top policeman in the country. president trump did something today. he went into white house survivor mode. to have a president in survivor mode is extremely hurtful because of how people oversee, particularly the leaders of foreign countries reed that. your question was are we in a situation in real peril, i would say the presidency is in peril. and because it's in peril, we are in some danger ourselves because there's a lot that needs to be done in the country. there's so much talk about trump

and comey and who's telling the truth and who isn't telling the truth. i think it's really important for americans to understand the big question and how this all started and how the direction we should go is what did the russians do? because here you have a situation. the russians pulled off what i call a psychological pearl harbor a surprise attack that was devastating to the confidence of our whole system of elections and our whole system of government. it's one of the great psychological war fare victories. >> you can see them doing similar things to smaller countries in their orbit. so we could see it. it was a shock and surprise to us because we thought we're protected by our oceans, but we think of ourselves as the great power in the world, the sole

surviving superpower in the world, not susceptible to the tactics that russia is using. >> we were too confident. if the russians ever tried that here, it would never work in america, well, it worked to devastating effect. and i call it a psychological pearl harbor. but i want to keep the focus on getting the truth of what happens to the russians. this is how this business with the fbi director, the investigations into president trump turned out. president trump todays, he was desperate to change if narrative. comey yesterday for one of the few days in the trump presidency, another person controlled the narrative, and he was masterful in weaving his own narrative as he would in presentation to a jury. and president trump in effect said to himself, i have to get out there tomorrow no matter

what it takes, and i've got to reseize the narrative, which he did today. most people are not talking about comey. they're focusing on what president trump did and didn't do. >> the new bombs. >> he didn't say when he was going to testify under oath, but it's a headline. this business of being so coy about the tapes. listen, this is not normal. let's see it for what it is. if he has tapes, we need to have the tapes played. this business of saying, well, i'm going to doll out a little news today and i'll dole out -- >> in a small period of time, a short period of time you'll find out the answer. he could give the answer now and just won't. >> and the question is why? >> dan rather is the president of news & guts media. much more ahead tonight. busy night.

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big deal, a very, very big deal. >> i was fired because of the russia investigation and the endeavor was to change the way the russia investigation was being conducted. that is a very big deal. >> that is a very big deal.

james comey saying he believes he was fired by the president because of his oversight of the russia investigation. under oath he said the president fired him over the russia investigation. the white house has met that big deal testimony from james comey with their own big deal potentially problematic reaction. the president's personal lawyer yesterday came out before reporters and told them that james comey's sworn testimony was not truthful and james comey leaked information he should not have although there were no allegations that there was any classified information involved here and the only thing james comey said he leaked were his own written recollections of a conversation. the president called james comey a leaker. and said the account mr. comey swore to under oath was not true. the president's attorney

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when the president decided to line up some legal representation for himself on the russia issue, he was not able to persuade any big name d.c. lawyers or big name d.c. law firms to represent him. he did bring on a lawyer who had previously represented him in some business disputes. in fact, the lawyer he brought on is the lawyer who is known for threatening to sue people who cross donald trump in various ways. those threats from this particular lawyer in the past have included him threatening to sue "the new york times" for

reporting sexual harassment, sexual abuse allegations against then presidential candidate donald trump. presidt trump, then ndidate trump, also threatened to sue the women making the allegations themselves. although those threats were made, the suits were never filed. now, now that he is representing the president in this trump russia matter and other things that may arise from it, now the president says he will not file a lawsuit, but he will file a complaint against the former director of the fbi james comey with the senate judiciary committee. for something related to director comey's testimony to the senate yesterday. the president's lawyer came out and said he was going to file that complaint with the senate judiciary committee. nbc news can report tonight that as of tonight, he may have made that threat, but they haven't actually filed the complaint. if they do, is it possible that

that could be the president's lawyer, the president's legal team, his defense strategy stepping in it and making things worse for themselves? joining us now is barbara mcquade. former u.s. attorney for the eastern district of michigan. thanks for being here. >> thanks, rachel. >> it's a narrow question but an interesting one. james comey has made these very serious allegations that the president tried to impede an ongoing fbi criminal investigation. the president is refuting that testimony and now his lawyer is threatening to file various complaints against james comey. aside from the venue of the complaints which i think is itself an interesting question, is there a possibility that this could be seen somewhere down the road as the president and his legal team essentially harassing or tryinto intimidate somebo who is likely to be a witness against the president in some future legal proceeding? >> well, it does seem like a bullying tactic. it seems like a very hollow threat to me. i don't know that the senate judiciary committee or the

justice department has any recourse against james comey in this situation. and i suppose you could suggest this some effort at witness intimidation, which is one of the classic ways that the obstruction of justice statute is charged. now it's been done so publicly and so clumsily that i doubt it would be charged by a lawyer in that way. demonstrating further bullying tactics. >> listening to james comey's testimony yesterday, a lot of us nonlawyers and citizens and journalists look agent this sort of thing see what james comey testified to yesterday. and it sounds us to like he is alleging obstruction of justice on the part of the president, the president trying to impede or stop that investigation. as a former u.s. attorney, that what you heard in terms of james comey's allegations yesterday? >> well, there are certainly some pieces that could lead to that conclusion. he mentioned at least twice that whether this was obstruction of justice is a matter for bob

mueller to look at it which suggests that he thinks that bob mueller is looking at that. it also seems to me that james comey is helping him do his work. he is putting out the breadcrumbs he created for mueller in his written statement a chronology of all the things that happened. one of the first things a prosecutor does when investigating a case is put together a timeline so that you can see the sequence of events. you can sequin siding events. you can see that on the very same day that sally yates was over at the white house in the morning is the same day that trump invites comey over for din they're night and asks him to pledge his loyalty. so it seems that jim comey at least has that in his mind. >> barbara mcquade, former u.s. attorney, thank you very much for your time tonight. i appreciate you being here. >> thanks, rachel. >> all right. we'll be right back. stay with us. isaac hou has mastered gravity defying moves to amaze his audnce.

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so that's about wrapping it up for us tonight. and it wraps up this week which i think will forever be known in the history of this scandal as comey week. i do want to say, though, i want

to put something on your radar for the beginning of next week. one of the big bombshells, the big revelations, the big surprises that came out of comey's testimony were some sort of damning and ominous things that james comey said under oath about the current attorney good evening, lawrence. >> rachel, you're out of sick days for the year. >> i know. >> it has been an astounding week. it's hard to believe that here we are friday already. there was so much anticipation going into thursday. and then we got the surprises in the wednesday hearing. >> yeah. and stuff continues to happen.