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at 6:30. we want to know what you think about what a lot of people are calling comey day. use #f #5at630. i got to tell you today i was hoping to go outside but i was kind of transfixed to the tv as i imagine a lot of people were. >> it was on so i was listening. i wasn't staring at it the whole time and at moments i would i would turn and be like e i think a lot of people were doing the same thing with their popcorn. >> right. there's a lot to talk about tonight. let's get you to fox5's tom fitzgerald to break down the top five moments of the hearing. hey, fitzis fitz. >> reporter: yeah really a remarkable afternoon on capitol hi. capitol hill. we'll start with jim comey get a little bit angry today and what was he angry about? well, not necessarily over the fact that he was fired. comey's frustration and anger spilled out when he started to talk about the story that the president and the white

put out about why he was fired and what was going on at the fbi immediately leading up to that and the president's words at one point there was disarray and upset. at the fbi. comey struck back calling both the president's statement and those white house staffers who repeated those talking points liars. >> those were lies plain and simple. and i am so sorry that the fbi workforce had to hear them and i'm so sorry that the american people were told them. >> reporter: now, the senate intelligence chairman richard burr dug in a little further. he wanted to know flatly a very clear question here, did the president ever directly ask you, jim comey, to close the russia investigation. comey's answer was no. >> did the president at any time ask you to stop the fbi investigation into russian involvement in the 2016 u.s.

elections? >> not to my understanding, no. >> did any individual working for this administration, including the justice department, ask you to stop the russian investigation. >> no. >> reporter: all right, what about that memo taking? we've been talking about that. jim comey writing up these secret memos of meetings he had had with president trump and conversations. why did he do that? well, comey testified today he grew increasingly uncomfortable with president trump's repeated references about the fbi investigation so comey decided he better start writing it down because in his words he was not sure that the president of the united states would accurately relate those conversations at a later time. >> i was honest concerned that he might lie about the nature of our meeting so i thought it really important to document. that combination of things i'd never experienced before but it led me to believe i

write it down. >> reporter: now, did jim comey ever get told by the president that his job was on the line? well, again, comey saying not flat out. but he started to get uneasy with these continued questions from the president about whether or not comey wanted to stay on the job and comey said repeatedly he believed it had already been established that he did want to stay on fbi director and talking to the senate intelligence committee today comey made it clear as these questions continued by the president, he began to believe that there was a connection here, that he would stay on in the job only as long as the fbi russia investigation came to an end. >> my common sense again i could be wrong but my common sense told me what's going on here is that he's looking for something in exchange for granting my request to stay in the job. >> reporter: now, finally what about this comment that we told you about yesterday that the president had asked comey to just let this g

regards to michael flynn. what does let it go mean? well, there were a couple different interpretations based upon whether you were listening to a democrat or a republican today. as for jim comey he said that he believed that let it go in his words meant drawing the fbi investigation to a conclusion. >> i took it as a direction. he's the president of the unied states with me alone saying i hope this, i took it as this is what he wants me to do. i didn't obey that but that's the way i took it. >> reporter: all right, now, there were two portions of this hearing about we should tell you there was a public session which all of you saw today but there was also a private session, a closed door intelligence briefing up here on capitol hill. oftentimes you'll hear people in hearings say that i can't talk about that in open setting. they go behind closed door and they are automobile to talk -- e to talk about classif

not know what it was they discussed behind those closed doors today. >> tom fitzgerald so much to talk about. thank you tom. >> safe to say most everyone else in washington was glued to a tv to see what comey had to say. >> joining us tonight jack burkman, law professorship burman and fatima joining us from stripe. thanks in for joining us. >> was this a good day or bad day for the white house. >> day for the white house, bad day for james comey. comey when you get to the point where he's outlining how he leaked something, you have this perfect law man, first thing he does when he leaves the fbi is to concoct a strategy for leaking documents. >> but it wasn't a classified document though. saying it's low. it's immoral. it's beneath the image he's setting up and then of course he was -- other things he's very tepid today about trump -- he

he was suggesting trump had pressured him on flynn. today at best he was tepid about that. obviously he's afraid of perjuring himself. you can ask the expert here how close he came. >> you want to respond to what jack said real quick. >> yeah, i would say the opposite. i would say that it was a good day for james comey. it was a very civil testimony for him and he -- i think he was restrained in many efforts especially given sort of how he ended up leaving bureau that he loved and did very good work for. no one questioned whether or not that he was lying. the fact that, you know, he says, of course, yeah, i told him that he wasn't under investigation but he also said that, you know, robert mueller is definitely investigating him or trump specifically i'm sure that was the words he used investigating him for obstruction of justice the evidence being one of them that he actually fired and comey s

that he did not like the tenor of the russian investigation. >> yeah. >> association you know, for him he laid out a case. he put the object of suspicion on trump and certainly at least his associate. >> there's an elephant in the room. the elephant in the room is comey is afraid that trump has tapes. i think it's becoming. >> he said release the tapes. >> let's bring -- >> he hopes that there are tapes. >> i think the question is, is -- did comey present sort of a prima fascia case of obstruction of justice. >> what's the take? what's your take. >> and that is did the president try to influence the course of this investigation. and it seems to me if you think comey is that credible which i think most of the senators, republicans and democrats do, then there is a prima fascia case. on two different occasions trump cleared the room and made sure that he had a one-on-one just with comey and on the first he asked for personal l

second he as comey just said in the segment that you just excerpted, understood to have been directed to drop the flynn investigation and then when he didn't, comey got fired. those three things together it seems to me they're not absolute truth but definitely prima fascia. >> i am no legal scholar or scholar of any kind but i can tell you if that's the standard for obstruction you could just about charge every president in the 20th century and going back further with obstruction. >> that's an outrageous statement. >> look, the -- there are only a couple of occasions where presidents have done with the head of the fbi or someone who is investigating his own campaign or his own administration and the last time. >> hold on. >> let him finish. >> and he was in fact impeached. >> put yourself in his shoes. if you had a new national -- if you were president and you had a new natio

adviser, he's being persecuted right away, what's wrong with going in and saying, you know, this is a good guy, lay off him and if you don't do that. >> first thing i'd do is i do not ever talk to the head of the fbi who is conducting an investigation into my administration. i maintain that many fire wall over. >> but the constitution doesn't set up any fire wall. >> flynn is definitely in hot water, that is definitely admitted across the aisles on what's happening within and surprisingly he admitted session center city -- or some things about sessions that we don't know that we don't know of today. >> all right, guys, there's so much that that we could talk about forever and ever here. i have many, many questions but we're getting the wrap. thank you guys so much for being part of our panel. >> thank you. >> jack, paul, fatima thank you. >> the hearing may be over but people are still buzzing tonight. earlier today president trump's personal lawyer responded to mr. comey's testimony.

confirmed publically what he repeatedly told president trump privately, that is, that the president was not under investigation as part of any probe into russian interference. the president, he -- mr. comey also admitted that there is no evidence that a single vote changed as a result of any russian interference. mr. comey's testimony also makes clear that the president never sought to impede the investigation into attempted russian interference in the 2016 election. >> important to note again this was president trump's personal lawyer, he spoke from the national press club today where you rent a room, you use their podium. this was not a white house lawyer. >> let's bring in richard lubbock. richard, how are you. >> i'm doing well, thank you very much. >> what was your take away from everything

>> i think despite what jack said in the previous segment i think it's a very bad day for the president of the united states. it's never a good day when the question for six hours of wall to wall television is obstruction of justice. so i think it's a very difficult day for the president and quite frankly this is only act one of what is likely to be a shakespearean tragedy. >> what is your take on this? i mean, if you were the person who was advising president trump right now or the white house, how would you advise them to respond to mr. comey's testimony? >> well, you know, issue number one is the president says he has these tapes and if the tapes are in fact exonerating, why doesn't he offer to release the tapes? instead, the tapes seem to have disappeared from conversation. two, i think there's a very essential thing that he has to do. where is his crisis team? they put a crisis team together on paper but they don't have one right now. three, they brought a new york attorney up who is a long time friend of the president

law firms have refused to represent the president. he doesn't have either a crisis team or an in depth legal team to help him through this. >> now, there are people who are looking at everything today and they're saying, you know, okay, we saw the opening statement come out yesterday. we saw james comey say what you will, but there are some people out there saying the big loser of the day was loretta lynch because it came up that james comey had said well after he saw that infamous meeting on the tarmac between bill clinton and loretta lynch that's one of the reasons he stuck his neck out and made statements that snow bald that e-mail investigation. >> this is probably going to come as news certainly to this white house but neither barack obama is still in office or hillary clinton. >> well, that's a surprise to a lot of people who reach out to us and wonder why we're talking about this and not -- >> fair question. you know, because loretta lynch did come across poorly today but she is not the center of this investigation and i think at the end of the day what you have is you

a boy scout under oath versus cofeve. >> what grade would you give the white house and where the trump administration is right now. >> i think comey is close to an a to an a plus. remember, he is very closely coordinated with his good friend and mentor the investigator robert mueller. for the administration they're taking too many pages out of the nixon playbook. the president is not a liar sounds a lot like the president is not a crook. the lawyer's response sounded a lot like where is is. >> richard lubbock thanks for weighing in. we appreciate your thoughts. thanks for joining us. >> i liked the way of confeve. >> any way you announce it. >> we saw a bit of it today. >> bars around the region opened up their doors early rolled out some political themed specials including

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>> ♪ >> some people compared today's hearing to a beltway super bowl. they said it rose to the same level of interest as the watergate hearing, anita hill's testimony. >> early this morning you should have seen the line outside of shaw's tavern. just to get inside for the comey watch party. >> it went dark there. >> it was packed once you made it through the door. we talked to some people. this is what they said before and as they were watching the testimony unfold. >> hoping to get to the bottom of the things. i feel like washington has been pretty convoluted but if we can get some answers. >> i mean it's like a historic moment. you have a -- for the first time you have an fbi director that was fired and so of course i want to listen and be around like

washingtonians see what they think as well. >> not a whole lot of bomb shells i don't think but again, just how much he expresses sincerity in everything that he talked about which i think really was conveyed well. >> comey gave a very honest testimony. he had very good candor. i don't think that he wasted time of the participants and that he submitted his testimony beforehand and just answered the questions. i'm glad that the american public were able to see at least the open door testimony. >> by the way we had him in here yesterday and you know, you walk a fine line when you bring politics into a business like that but d.c.'s sort of an exception to the rule. >> yeah, i mean, they were offering specials themed around the particular day but to see the line outside of people that long. >> somebody initially said good for all these restaurants they're going to open for two customers in the 23 journalists inside to cover it. >> did you see that. >> yeah. >> and even the line that was outside waiting to get into e

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>> despite all the criticism about the trump administration polls show people who voted for the president are sticking with him and other members in key gop races in certain states. >> yeah, we've heard a lot about what's going on in georgia right now. crucial special election going on there and closer to home many are watching the virginia primary. let's bring in jason russell for the washington examiner. how are you jason. >> doing well. thanks for having me. >> let's talk about georgia first. the republican, the democratic, a lot of attention being paid to this race. why is there so much attention being if i'd a congressional race in georgia. >> both

this one are making it a referendum on trump's agenda basically so, you know, if republicans manage to hold onto this then it basically validates everything trump has done so far supposedly and if democrats manage to pull off the upset that means trump's agenda is dead on arrival and you know supposedly republicans in congress are going to be more afraid of backing trump and his agenda so, that's why there's so much, you know, attention from both sides of the aisle nationwide. >> jason, when we look at nationwide we mention some of the folks who voted for the president despite, you know, him having very low approval ratings right now those folks are sticking by his side. who are those folks that we're talking about in regards to this particular race in georgia? are these the blue collar workers who helped push him over the edge or other people. >> i think in this particular district suburb of atlanta it's blue collar workers who support the trump throughout his primary campaign and the general election and that's why you're

isn't going out of his way to attack karen handle the republican for being too close to donald trump because this is a largely republican district. trump won this district by about appoint and a half during the general election against hillary clinton so ossoff has to make sure that he doesn't attack handle for being too much [inaudible] that might help her. >> i want to ask you very quickly we have the primary coming up in virginia. we hear about the establishment which would be ralph north that many versus ed gillespie. are we expecting surprises next week. >> it would be interesting to watch. it's a close race. interesting to see is the ads coming f north am. >> thanks for joining us. we appreciate you coming in today. >> who was the breakout star during today's testimony. >> a lot of folks talking about marco rubio's hair. we'll explain that when we come back. >> ♪ >> ♪♪

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>> ♪ >> all right, during today's testimony senator marco rubio's line of questioning was a lot less interesting to twitter than his hair a people including rubio himself have discussed his locks for years. well, today the twitterverse was speculating that the florida senator may actually be balding and wearing a toupee. yes, people on twitter noticed his once thin looking hair appear to be all lush and full and, yeah, why? i guess people are really into the hair thing. >> yeah, he's young, you get a couple strands, you can get some implants if you want to do that right in the front. it does look a little different. >> it does. i didn't notice it. i wasn't paying attention to his hair i was listening to what the they were saying. >> someone asked me said i need the reader's digest version. if you're depending on everything out of today via twitter, you're doing yourself a disservice. >> you're going to miss out. >> take some time

a lot of people talking about john mccain today. >> there was a lot about him because when he seemed to be asking that question to james comey he seemed not to be on the same page. >> he look distorted. >> he later released a statement saying he was trying to ask about something else, it didn't come out clearly, he didn't realize that time had gone so fast but i know there was a lot of comment about that. >> by and large doesn't seem like somebody was trying to make a name for themselves. from both sides. seemed like a pretty straight forward questioning process. >> what i find interesting about the senate intel committee. typically they are very bipartisan. it's not one side or the other. they said we got together on this and that's a huge contrast from what we saw in the house with nunez, all the stuff that happened there so it was interesting to watch them work together on this today. >> the jury is still out on everything of course. this is just the first in a long series of events. we'll talk about it a little bit more later on tonight as well as the final five at 11:30. we'll have fun tonight. ted cruz did not have a good day. we're going to explain. it had n

anything he said but -- yeah, it's fun stuff. >> tune in tonight. >> all right, thanks for joining us tonight. also tune in for 10:00, 10:30 and 11:00. goodbye.

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