. comey upcoming testimony was publicly released >> he will say president trump asked him to let go of the investigation in a former national security vendors michael flynn but there's a lot of angles, it's on the side of our screen, the hottest story at 6:30. comey testifies in front of the isn't it intelligence committee. that very committee heard from top intelligence officials. >> i have never been directed to do anything

illegal, immoral, unethical or inappropriate. i do not recall ever feeling pressured to do so >> heated testimony as roger alongside with nationally intelligence, the fbi director all answered questions >> comey's remarks are taking center stage, he's expected to say that president trump told him during a january dinner that quote, i need loyalty, i expect loyalty. >> fox 5 tom fitzgerald live on capitol hill fitz. there was really important stuff we heard that ran counter to what comey will say and plus now we're learning that we may know who's going to run the fbi. >> reporter: a beat of a pregame, if you will to the big game tomorrow. jim and sarah, we learned about this this afternoon, the statement, the opening statement that former fired fbi director james comey is going to deliver to the senate intelligence committee was released

in addition to the part you just mentioned there is going to be a section tomorrow which comey is going to explain a phone call that allegedly went from the president to james comey in which he will tell senators that he wanted to quote lift the crowd regarding the investigation surrounding former nsa official mike flynn. now, while this was coming out today, of course, the senate intelligence hearing was going o. the white house taking no opportunity to let this go, reading comey's statement. the president's personal lawyer, who's going to be handling the white house's defense on all of this issuing a statement today saying that, quote, the president felt completely vindicated by what was released in james comey's prepared statements. however, keep in mind these are his opening prepared statements. the white house lawyer took a very select section of that

he'll answer the question, if history is any pro log, james comey rises to these moments and is well-known for putting on quite a spectacle when he goes in front of the cameras like he will tomorrow morning with all eyes watching, jim and sarah >> my time of service, which is interacting with the president of the united states or anybody in this administration, i have never been pressured never felt pressure to intervene or interfere in any way with shaping intelligence in a political way or in relation >> all i --. >> reporter: there was dan coats. he's director of the national security intelligence what coats said is very key. because there was a story going around last

director of national intelligence was telling people during a private meeting with president trump that president trump at some point had gone to him and said, can you give me some help in interfering with this fbi investigation? coats was emphatic today. he said that did not happen. he never felt any pressure from the white house. that president trump did not ask him to do this. so when you have admiral mike rogers who is the director of the nsa, when you have dan coats the director of national intelligence making up 2/3 of the top intelligence officials in the country, saying that this never happen, this is a very good thing for the white house today. however, the white house might want to temper its rack to this. we still do in the know what james comey is going to exactly testify to tomorrow or how he's going to answer a lot of these appointed questions that will be fired at him. >> you talked about the pregame, one other thing we learned today from the white house and not in the way

but by way of surprise a tweet. president decided whose going to run the fbi next >> his name is christopher wray. this is somebody who came out of left field. the white house likes its list and drama and that kind of reality show feel. remember how neil gorsuch was presented to the world in that east room announcement a couple of months ago. there were many names floated for the fbi director's job, john pistol who used to run the tsa, there was joe leesburg man, who was the democratic nominee in 2000, even senators like john corner of text were mentioned as possibilities. it's known as a justice department a long-time face, not really known to the general public. he was chris christie's the, the governor of new jersey's private legal counsel during the

in which the new jersey republican was accused of penalizing, a new jersey mayor for not supporting him during a gubernatorial election. there were criminal charges in that, christie was not one of those people but he did seek counsel. the reaction on this, i will tell you quickly, has been mostly positive from both democrats and republicans. had this been a partisan, had this been somebody from the political world, well, you probably would have seen a lot more push-back on this, this is somebody who knows justice department, this is somebody who is worked with both james comey and robert mueller. in too soon and too quick to say given the environment we are in right now, what his chances of confirmation are going to be, given the environment we're in here, but so far, the early signs have been receptive from both democrats and republicans up here on capitol. >> we know that. but we're all going to see

tomorrow morning, it will be interesting, no doubt about it. >> the hype surrounding the testimony coming up, being felt all over washington. >> with us to discuss his testimony in the build-up to it, an old friend of 5at630, scott bolted en criminal defense attorney, how are you >> thank you for having me. >> looking at this from your perspective and legal mind, we have this testimony that came out today, and now everybody is dissecting it. sort of gives, i would imagine lawmakers tomorrow should ammo to throw questions back at comey quite easily without any surprise. >> that's really why it was released by comey or the senate or the house, this will dominate the headlines, one, two gives senators and congress men time to prepare and research and look for a significant exciting hearing based on this short opening statement he's going to give, they will be lots of questions for him. >> let's dive a little bit more into what was released today. you know, everybody is talking about the quote tha

president was asking for loyalty and demanding loyalty. when you look at that, is there anything really legally damaging about something like that? what is is the most, you know, i guess, heat the part of this testimony that we expect that could be legally damaging >> the loyalty piece or lit nus as i would say is not that damaging in and of itself from a criminal standpoint or obstruction of justice standpoint, but when you put that in play with him wanting to remove the cloud, with him wanting the fbi director to walk away from the flynn investigation and the context upon which he asked these things, at one point, he put everyone out of a briefing meeting and said he wanted to talk to james comey alone and doing that meeting that's when he said that he wanted, can't we do something about flynn? he's a good guy, can't we make him go away? i got to tell you, that's intent, it may not be corruptible intent unders

obstruction of justice, but you got a witness, facts and something almost as good as tape, notes taken when the conversations took place, lawyers do this all time. whether they're public or private sector, while it may not be the white house tapes, this is a good as it gets if it holds up under cross-examination, this is a big important building block to obstruction of justice >> let's be honest here in dc going to have 50% of the people who support the president and say not big deal. he said he wasn't under investigation. game over. then you're going to have 50% democrats out there saying smoking gun. do you really expect minds to be changed that may tip that 51-41 one way or another? >> i think as we go through the building blocks as the investigation runs its course, may be. remember, impeachment is a political process. it's not a criminal process. and until the republicans decide they've got -- they can't afford trump in the layer, if you will, then they're not -- nothing will happen

but watch the criminal investigation, because obstruction of justice is one thing. you can try to obstruct justice and be guideline of it. you don't have to complete it if you will. and you couple that with the public statements made by donald trump on nbc as well as the other public statements he's made and building a pretty good case for that. but look at the other elements, does flynn get immunity or not? are there any other witnesses targets or subjects? we got to let it unfold and ultimately the end of the report will either include obstruction of justice or recommendation of charges against others in the trump administration >> it will be interesting no matter what. >> it will be. >> on the edge of these seats, scott criminal defense attorney thanks so much for coming in tonight. >> thank you. >> a and a beautiful suit. >> i wore this the day before i was invited. >> good seeing you fox 5 will complete coverage of the testimony tomorrow, the broadcast live right here on fox 5 starting at 10:00 tomorrow, if you can't be near

as well as youtube and on fox5dc.com as well as the fox 5 news ap. a lot of places to watch this tomorrow >> there's no to excuse. >> another place to watch it coming up in a moment. let's talk with gary mcgrady get the latest on our weather there. gary? >> reporter: couple of showers moving through, most of this is cleared dc. and the clouds have been stubborn, just stayed in place all day long that's kept temperatures in the 60's and i think temperatures will calm down tonight and get down into the 50's area-wide, some places will be flirting with the upper 40's, 67 degrees at 7:00 maybe a shower or two lingering, 9:0064, a possibility of a shower, a sprinkle wouldn't surprise me even into the late evening hour, it does look like we'll start a drying trend overnight tonight. clouds in places definitely been a little gloomy.

not one of our best but enjoy the next couple days, 75 tomorrow with sound and clouds, then we turn up the heat saturday, 88, sunday, 94 and next week, middle 90's, by monday, tuesday 10 wednesday of next week. not only will it be hot. but it's going to be humid is and the feels like will be over 100 degrees. how about that? >> thanks >> we're mixed on that >> much like the united states, sarah and i are divided on the forecast. >> yes, we are, but we'll agree to get along in some form or fashion. let's talk about virginia primary race, it is getting down to the wire >> the democratic candidates used donald trump in the campaigns we'll talk about that and more when 5at630 comes right back. back.

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♪ ♪ music choices are interesting sometimes. >> just enough for us >> virginia primary race for governor. it is less than a week away, it is the first time if state history both parties holding contested primaries for governor >> the policy on the democratic side show the two candidates in tight race, former congressman tom pre yellow and the established favor ralph northam, perry raised about $7.4 million. there was an ad before we came back from break, northam is raised $6.5 million. republican ed gillespie raised 4.9 million dollars more than four times of his opponents. >> so jeff, thanks for talking with us here.

we're really interested in the gubernatorial primaries. how much of this do you believe is really the trump effect, that really has people jumping into this race? >> i think on the democratic side there's no question, for one thing, he may not have run without trump victory, he said that was a catalyst for his campaign and considering his late entry in the race in january. i sort of take him at his word on that. looks like turn-out could be high and an uncompetitive in jersey which is state roughly the same size as virginia had about a half million voters. and it wasn't competitive >> i'm glad you mention new jersey because eight years ago when chris christie was first elected he john core sign who was the incumbent democrat and that was early on in the obama administration and the

like instantly a reputation of president obama early on based on that one state-wide race, will there be that similar retention paid to virginia considering how blue it's gone last couple years? >> i think the virginia race is probably the marquee contest of 2017. i mean, the new jersey race, at least at this point doesn't look all that competitive in the general electric, things can change, of course, but the virginia contest seems much more likely to hold the interest of people around the country. >> let's talk a little bit about the republicans, we got three here, ed gillespie co-ry steward and franking wagner. corey stewart gone out there and stands by trump and if i'm right, he was trump before trump was trump. >> he's saying he wants to make virginia great again. >> right. so do you think that's a smart tactic to be take to go now or do you think that is a smart one for the state of virginia for the commonwealth >> at the end of the day, trump has a very

among republicans. so i don't think it was a bad strategy for sure to pursue. at the same time, looking at what polling we do have it doesn't look like he's broken through, and you know, he's turned more to the message where he's spending a lot of time talking about confederate around the state of virginia. i'm not really sure if either strategy paid off for him. >> thank you so much for coming in and talking with us, jeff skelly. moving on, how about wearing the same outfit over eight years? president obama apparently did and no one noticed because he has more important things to do because he was the president of the united states. however, if it were a woman, let's be honest, we'll talk about it when we come back. hen we come back. ♪ ♪ hen we come back. pro-tip. get these great smoked ribs. twenty minutes on the grill, they're done. you think he cares if i smoke ribs for six hours? what? the best food at amazing prices, giant.

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. the former first lady said her husband wore the same topics di all eight years during the presidency. how dare he? >> kept me up eight night >> mrs. obama spilled the beyonce during her appearance at the were developer's conference tuesday. she said she was scrutinized year in, year out for her dressing and her accessories as every first lady is and in the meantime her husband got away with wearing the same out if it all the time and he was proud of it. people take pictures of the shoes i wear, here's her statement, the bracelets, necklace, they didn't comment on that's for eight years, he wore the same tux, shoes, she was talking about how he'd say i'm ready, let's get out. he's ready to go, takes him two minutes to get ready. >> long endeavor. that's the whole thing, i think i've had the same tux i've kept that for long periods of time but i wear it once a a year. >> it's the cross

bear. >> there you have it. moving on we're going to talk aly little bit about milania trump. she's the latest admission in bosnia >> artist created the statutes, the first lady wearing a white dress stands on one side as her husband, president donald trump has his hand on vladimir putin's shoulder. the first couple stands alongside the sculpture's own family members in his garden? can we keep this going? i want to see what other shots, doesn't look like her. >> not at all >> give him credit for the artistic license he took >> yes. the vision. >> yes. james comey viewing party popping up all around dc, several bars and restaurants hosting watch parties >> shawn's tavern is one of them, they're here with us at fox 5 mixing it you mean. they will show you what they're offering up tomorrow for the big watch party. stay with us.

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we're going to spread the word shawn's tavern opening its doors. it's called the comey hearing covfefe. he's here to show us what you're offering up >> these are some staple items. fried chicken on biscuits and we have a fried chicken and waffles to, you know, things you can get all the time. tomorrow, with a little bit of a play on words for the fbi, we have fried chicken, bacon and iceberg lettuce sandwich. french toast with bacon and ice cream. marsh mellows. >> i also understand you're serving drinks, not russian drinks like i was say arbitration agreement the break, drinks with russian vodka >> russian theme.

two of our favorite cocktails, we have, the orange crush. you can never go wrong with an orange crush in the summertime and if you happen to be drinking a little bit early. which it's supposed to start at 9:30, we have fresh squeezed oj. stolely orange. >> it is the morning. >> does something like this only seems like it would work in dc where you would have people grouped around tvs to watch a senate hearing >> that's the thing. we did all the election watch parties for the debates and election night, that sis really taking off. everyone is kind of saying indecent something like this like this really takes off >> thursday nights are a big happy hour night. so people >> it will just be a full day. >> thursday happy hour day. there you go. all right. >> i walked in he was standing

>> he's the one >> cleaning everything up. this is the -- which is the french toast bacon and ice cream >> yes. >> give this a try as sarah sips away. >> what's the next thing you'll be coming up with to have a party >> i guess we'll have to wait and see what's the next thing that happens. >> there's big hearing tomorrow. who knows what's going to come out of it. maybe you'll have things from that >> what i was telling eric when he walked in, when the first healthcare vote went down when they didn't have the votes, i was at shaw's attach and a lot of people watching the tvs and one of the bartenders said we should have specials for this, people are here to watch the votes. it's perfect. >> thank you for coming in, good luck i'm sure it will be a big day for you. we'll see you back at 10:00, 10:30 and 11:00. it is what are you calling it? the

starts at 9:30. >> meantime we'll be back tonight later on see you tonight on the final five at 11:30. good night.

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