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athena, i'm going to start with you because this is a day after the former fbi director comey, his bombshell testimony, president trump is fighting back. >> he certainly is punching back, don. after comey repeatedly called the president a liar during his testimony yesterday, the president now saying the former fbi director is the one who's being untruthful. the president arguing that parts of comey's testimony completely vindicate him, while other parts are lies. and he's also accusing comey of leaking his own notes. watch some of what the president had to say in that press conference today. >> this morning on twitter, you were referring to the testimony of james comey vindicating you. but i wondered if you could tell us in person, sir, why you feel that his testimony vindicated you when it really boils down to his word against your word and if you could also tell us, sir, do tapes exist of your conversations with him? >> well, i'll tell you about that maybe sometime in the very near future, but in the meantime, no collusion, no obstruction. he's a leaker. but we want to get back to running

the james comey bombshell. on the eve of his testimony before congress and the american people. ns to say. what comey revealed to the president about whether the president was under investigation. comey saying the president demanding loyalty. what did the president allegedly say about the investigation into michael flynn zblfshlts also tonight -- the showdown on capitol hill, in addition to james comey, did the president go to the heads of the intelligence community? what did he ask them about the russian investigation. tonight, their answers and then the outrage from senators on both sides. >>> we have breaking news from london. the new images just in tonight, the moment attackers are taken down. >>> the tornado touching down in this country. several reports of funnel clouds tonight. >>> and she was a high school teen at the

the james comey bombshell. on the eve of his testimony before congress and the american people. he plans to say. what comey revealed to the president about whether the president was under investigation. comey saying the president demanding loyalty. what did the president allegedly say about the investigation into michael flynn zblfshlts also tonight -- the showdown on capitol hill, in addition to james comey, did the president go to the heads of the intelligence community? what did he ask them about the russian investigation. tonight, their answers and then the outrage from senators on both sides. >>> we have breaking news from london. the new images just in tonight, the moment attackers are taken down. >>> the tornado touching down in this country. several reports of funnel clouds tonight. >>> and she was a high school teen at the

the james comey bombshell. on the eve of his testimony before congress and the american people. learn what he plans to say. what comey revealed to the president about whether the president was under investigation. comey saying the president demanding loyalty. what did the president allegedly say about the investigation into michael flynn zblfshlts also tonight -- the showdown on capitol hill, in addition to james comey, did the president go to the heads of the intelligence community? what did he ask them about the russian investigation. tonight, their answers and then the outrage from senators on both sides. >>> we have breaking news from london. the new images just in tonight, the moment attackers are taken down. >>> the tornado touching down in this country. several reports of funnel clouds tonight. >>> and she was a high school teen at the

the james comey bombshell. on the eve of his testimony before congress and the american people. we learn what he plans to say. what comey revealed to the president about whether the president was under investigation. comey saying the president demanding loyalty. what did the president allegedly say about the investigation into michael flynn zblfshlts also tonight -- the showdown on capitol hill, in addition to james comey, did the president go to the heads of the intelligence community? what did he ask them about the russian investigation. tonight, their answers and then the outrage from senators on both sides. >>> we have breaking news from london. the new images just in tonight, the moment attackers are taken down. >>> the tornado touching down in this country. several reports of funnel clouds tonight. >>> and she was a high school teen at the time. now on trial. accused of sending a text to her boyfriend to take his own life. he did. the boy's mother on the stand and today what the judge did. >>> good evening and it's great to have you us with here on a wednesday night. >>> we

some democrats see a stronger case for obstruction after the comey bombshells yesterday. if you want to read that. on "politico's" website. and one more from fox news talking about the articles of impeachment that have been filed by congressmans green and sherman, democratic members of the house. lots of fallout from yesterday. host: john. thank you. thanks for your calls and comments on the friday "washington journal." live on capitol hill. the house democratic leader, nancy pelosi. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2017] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] ms. pelosi: our national security has been jeopardized y his attitude toward putin. put putin on a pedestal. he's questions article 5 of nato. he's flirted with the idea of not enforcing or expanding any sanctions against russia in terms of their aggressive military behavior in europe. it is -- in terms of our economic security, where are the jobs? the election is about jobs, jobs, jobs. where has he b

comey is a leak or. the latest on the bombshell testimony.huber not hitting the brakes, the ceo under fire after crude comments in a memo that he sent to employees in 2013. this memo surfaced, the fallout for the embattled executive coming up, tom cruise hopes to unwrap a win at the box office. >> meet the princess. she will claim she has been denied. >> despite getting slammed in reviews the mummy is back and hoping for a monster weekend. top story this half-hour, stunning blow for teresa may. her gamble to strengthen the conservative party's power within early election backfired leaving the country with a hung parliament ahead of key negotiations for leaving the european union, the tories won 318 feet failing to grab the working majority in the parliament. the labor party picked up 6 stuart: seats under jeremy corbin. the conservative party had a wide lead. that narrowed quite a bit. the result left voters wondering whether teresa may will step down. >> i don't know. >> teresa may has got to resign, she has gone backwards now. relying -- ju

is there a bombshell which comey could reveal which would hurt the market? >> that issue that you're just talking about. i think jim comey at the time did not believe that the president was obstructing justice and quite frankly special counsel bob mueller, who is allowing jim comey to testify today, could potentially in any case of obstruction be, you know, bob mueller's key witness, he is already allowed him to speak about this. so i don't think, i think analysis is correct. this is a political situation where the people will hear both sides of a political case but the legal case is just not there. stuart: james comey, by the way just walked into the hearing room.

members of the senate intelligence committee are speaking out about former f-b-i director james comey's bombshell on capitol hill. (justine) reporter david daniels explains how the reactions ..come just days before attorney general jeff sessions plans to testify. "well, at this point, i believe the fbi director."just days after former f-b-i director, james comey's dramatic testimony on capitol hill... two members of the senate intelligence committee say they believe comey was being truthful.sen. dianne feinstein / -d- california: "in this kind of thing, he's not going to lie. it's just not in him to do this."butt sot sen. susan collins / -r- maine: "i found director comey, former director comey's testimony to be candid, to be thorough." butt sot i believe that the information that he gave our committee is what he believed happened."comey accused the president of asking him to back off the investigation into former national security advisor, michael flynn and the nature of his ties to russia. president trump not only denied those claims...trump: "i will tell you i didn't say that."..he went on to

liz: a preview of tomorrow's jeff sessions testimony, what is likely to come up is comey bombshell about obama interference, diane feinstein said that congress needs to investigate the claim that loretta lynch pushed fbi to soften its investigation to hillary clinton's private e-mail. >> i would have a queasy feeling too, to be candid with you. i think we need to know about that. and there is only one way to know about it, that is to have judiciary committee look at that. liz: diane feinstein quoting jim comey, when he said he felt queasy when loretta lynch said to him, you bust it down to a term a fbi matter. do you think that there is more to this story of obama administration interference, here? >> you bet i do. interestingly, when this whole thing of russia hacking. who was president what that happened? barack obama, not donald trump. who was the attorney general, loretta lynch, it was obama who said he was taking care of this and making it real clear to putin they would not tolerate it they tolerated a lot. but i do think that there is something of great consequence, when jeff sessi

. >>> in the wake of fired fbi director james comey's bombshell testimony, president trump is responding by calling comey a liar, a leaker, and hinting at the possible tape recorders of ittet so where does the investigation of the investigation and possible collusion go from here? let's bring in cn crime and justice producer. what is next for special counsel robert mueller? >> it certainly seems, fred, he has a lot on his plate now, aside from taking over the investigation of the meddling and collusion into the trump campaign as to whether or not anyone was cluding with the russians during the campaign. it now seems the obstruction of justice investigation will probably take lot of focus. certainly he laid out the justice of the firing and leading to if investigation and his investigation of russia and his unwillingness to drop it, certainly the question about flynn, michael flynn and whether or not he would drop that case, you know, comey was very clear in his testimony that he felt he was fired because of the russian investigation. so bob mueller, who is a special counsel, now undorted

bark >> kat: new aftershocks from james comey's bombshell claim last week that last year then attorneyetta lynch told comey to refer to the hillary clinton email probe as a matter instead of an investigation. the revelation is so stunning that now one of the most powerful democrats in congress is demanding answers. >> i would have a queasy feeling too, to be candid. i think we need to know more about that. there's only one way to know about it, and that's to have the judiciary committee take a look at it. >> kat: i lately agree. -- i completely agree. >> kisha: comey said, i got fired. i have bringing everyone down. all the things coming out of the testimony. the president being accused of obstruction of justice. loretta lynch and sessions. it's crazy. >> eboni: plenty of comey ammunition to go around. i have to say, eric, i've pretty much been supportive of loretta lynch but i have a problem with this because you can't be taking your talking points from a presidential campaign. that's what this amounts to essentially. that language comes straight from the clinton campaign. >> eric: wo

. >> coming up on gma, all eyes on capitol hill this morning for former fbi director james comey's bombshell, what didn't he answer and how will the white house respond to all of that? we're going to tell you who to look out for during the hearing, full team will join us with all of that and we'll have live coverage of comey's testimony right here starting at 10:00 a.m. eastern on abc. also ahead first on gam bill cosby's accuser back on the stand desperategrilled for hourr testimony may meaning legal analyst joins us and as your families head outside for summer and it's starting to finally feel like summer, we have new tick alerts for you this morning, how to avoid them and inspect yourself and safely and quickly remove them, dr. jen ashton with all of those important details coming up next right here on gma, matt and tam >> something to do. >> pictures like. >> let's think about sunshine, why don't we? >> eastbound traffic on your left headed towards king of prussia headed from oaks to 23. sunshine causing sun glare mass transit 10 the ken wood line continues to operate >> check the hair a

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members of the senate intelligence committee are speaking out about former f- b-i director james comey's bombshellpitol hill.(justine) reporter david daniels explains how the reactions ..come just days before attorney general jeff sessions plans to testify. "well, at this point, i believe the fbi director."just days after former f-b-i director, james comey's dramatic testimony on capitol hill... two members of the senate intelligence committee say they believe comey was being truthful.sen. dianne feinstein / -d- california: "in this kind of thing, he's not going to lie. it's just not in him to do this."butt sot sen. susan collins / -r- maine: "i found director comey, former director comey's testimony to be candid, to be thorough." butt sot i believe that the information that he gave our committee is what he believed happened."comey accused the president of asking him to back off the investigation into former national security advisor, michael flynn and the nature of his ties to russia. president trump not only denied those claims...trump: "i will tell you i didn't say that."..he went on to accuse

. >> this evening president trump not holding back responding to james comey bombshell testimony on capitolill after he stayed silent yesterday, on the day of the comey hearing, president trump is firing back this afternoon. >> the president is 100% willing to testify under oath disputing the testimony of james comey pressuring him to drop the investigation. >> reporter: giving way to a tidal wave of reaction most notably from the president who fired him. >> no collusion. no ob production isstruction. he's a leaker. >> reporter: leaving him totally vindicated. >> we were very, very happy and, frankly, james comey confirmed a lot of what i said, and some of the things that he said just weren't true. >> reporter: from republicans outrage as comey's admission he had a friend share memos about his interactions with the president to the press, now prompting the president's attorney to feel a leak complaint ghent comey. the question, were those memos classified? >> this is not in didiary. these are fbi documents. wrote them on a computer. >> leak is the wrong term for this. what jim comey provide

james comey's bombshell testimony on capitol hill.peaking publicly for the first time since president trump fired him on may 9th. he claims the senate intelligence committee that president trump lied about the reason for his firing and also revealed some remarkable new information about the hillary clinton email investigation. but perhaps the most stunning news is that mr. comey admitted he initiated a leak of one of his memos about a conversation he had with president trump. >> he tweeted on friday after i got fired that i better hope there's not takes. i woke up in the middle of the night because it didn't dawn on me originally that there might be corroboration for our conversation and a tape. my judgment was, i needed to get that out into the public square. i asked a friend of mine to share the content of the memo. with the reporter. i didn't do it myself for a variety of reasons but i asked them to you because i thought that might prompt the appointment of the special counsel. >> kimberly: when in doubt, call a friend. dana perino

melissa: james comey's bombshell announcement. president trump's legal team doubling down order aring an investigation into the fired fbi direct director. preparing to take action. coming up jordan sekulow, american center for law and justice, danny coulson, former fbi assistant director weigh in on next steps for the white house and if comey's testimony hurt the reputation of the fbi. david: hash reality. prosecutors claim the alleged nsa leaker may have had far bigger and more dangerous plans in mind. why they're considering her a flight risk. melissa: plus the blockade of qatar. a new warning for the u.s., that the mid-east rift is hindering military operations in the fight against isis. >> they have blood on their hands. of this blood on their hands. why is qatar the only country in the world that no incident of terror, terrorism happened there? why? horseheadswivellychair.com it could be the next big thing i should totally get that domain name... get your great idea online too... get your domain today, and get... thithis is t

but we begin tonight with the chain reaction from james comey's bombshell testimony. in a surprise move, attorney general jeff sessions will testify tomorrow under oath publicly in front of the senate intelligence committee. sessions says he personally wants to respond to the former fbi director's allegations. it will be the attorney general's first public testimony since his confirmation hearing back in january, which means he's likely going to be grilled in a number of controversies embroiling him, the president and the department of justice. last week, for instance, comey testified that he had serious questions about the attorney general's role in his ouster. >> if, as the president said, i was fired because of the russia investigation, why was the attorney general involved in thatchn? i don't know. and so i don't have an answer for the question. >> sessions recused himself from any matter connected to trump's campaign, which does include the fbi's russia probe. but did his role in comey's firing violate that recusal? comey also testified that the fbi knew sessions

bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum ♪ >>> fired fbi director james comey's bombshell testimony overshadowed whatrastructure-weak. the ongoing investigations into the russian meddling's impossible campaign ties and the obstruction of justice question. with me to discuss this is grover norbert. good to see you. >> thank you. >> are you worriey eiey eied th investigations surrounding the president and the gop will be difficult to get anything accomplished? >> no. they ee focused on all of the russia inquiry. the house and the senate have passed 14 laws undoing significant clinton regulations. all have been signed by trump. those got almost no attention. it had only been done once before in american history. it's been done 14 times since trump came in. the keystone pipeline was approved in which the previous administration stalled. there are a series of permits rolling out. legislatively, the house, the senate, and the white house principals are meeting. the senate's meeting -- the entire republican caucus in senate is meeting three time as week and twice a week for the subgroup that's working on th

james comey's bombshell senate testimony. this is "cnn tonight." i'm don lemon. r questions in the senate tomorrow, but he made his opening statement public ahead of time. we're going through everything. so far comey has reported briefing the president on that salacious russian dossier, talked about an uncomfortable private dinner at the white house and explained what the president said about michael flynn. so here with me tonight cnn's david gergen nia-malika henderson, mike ana in a varieso, and van jones. we're walking through the critical february 14th oval office meeting. comey says president trump asked him to let flynn go, he's a good guy. fbi director comey now had a difficult decision. should he report this conversation with the president to the attorney general? the fbi leadership team agreed with me, he writes, that it was important not to infect the investigative team with the president's request, which we did not intend to abide. we also concluded that given that it was a one on one conversation, there was nothing available to corroborate my account.

james comey's bombshell testimony on capitol hill. for the first time since president trump fired him on may 9th. he claims the senate intelligence committee that president trump lied about the reason for his firing and also revealed some remarkable new information about the hillary clinton email investigation. but perhaps the most stunning news is that mr. comey admitted he initiated a leak of one of his memos about a conversation he had with

fired fbi director comey dropping a bombshell on capitol hill admitting he created memos and leaked the memos to get a special prosecutor to look into president trump. u.s. markets seeing through the d.c. swamp as traders see no smoking gun from comey today. the dow and the nasdaq hitting new all-time highs. welcome to "risk & reward," i'm elizabeth macdonald in for deirdre bolton. fired fbi director james comey admitted he created a memo, leaked a memo he was writing about for his meeting with president trump in order to get a special prosecutor pointed to look into president trump. that appointment did happen. that's robert mueller. let's look what was said. >> president tweeted on friday after i was fired, i better hope there's not tapes. i woke up in the middle of the night monday night, it didn't dawn on me that there might be corroboration for our conversation, might be a tape. my judgment was i needed to get that out into a public share. i asked a friend of mine to share the content of the memo with a reporter. didn't do it myself for a variety of reasons. i asked him to, that mi

the hot seat still smoldering from james comey's bombshell testimony last week, about to get fired upnce again. in the spotlight today, attorney general jeff sessions. he will be testifying in public before the senate intelligence committee about the russia investigation and the firing of fbi director james comey. a major question still to be answered -- will sessions say that he can't answer key questions, asserting executive privilege from the president? cnn will definitely be bringing you special, live coverage from washington starting at 2:00 eastern for that hearing. let's go to cnn's justice reporter laura jarrett, though, right now, ahead of that hearing, to lay out -- there are a lot of questions, clearly, that he's going to be facing, but what do you think some of the key ones are, laura? >> yeah, absolutely, kate. another huge day on capitol hill. this time, attorney general jeff sessions in the hot seat, and there are five key questions we think he's likely to face. first and foremost, why exactly did the president of the united states fire james comey, and what was session

off in washington.catherine heenan is here to tell us about the president's response to james comey's bombshelltestimony. (catherine) the two men are now accusing each other of lying. james comey did so - after taking an oath to tell the truth. president trump did it in the white house rose garden. "some of the things he said weren't true." "i didn't say that." "so he lied about that?" "well, i didn't say that. i mean, i will tell you, i didn't say that." "and did he ask you to - " "and there'd be nothing wrong if i did say it according to everybody i've read today. but, i did not say that."in other words, i didn't pressure comey, and even if i did, it wasn't illegal.

and that's one of the biggest bombshells today-- comey flat out saying the president lied. in fact, comey said this when asked why he took such detailed notes: >> a combination of things. i think the circumstances, the subject matter, and the person i was interacting with. >> stephen: so the only things that raised red flags about his meetings with trump were: where, why, what, and who. when was fine. anything specific about the person you were interacting with? and please be honest. >> i was honestly concerned that he might lie about the nature of our meeting. >> stephen: he thought trump might lie? that's that razor-sharp f.b.i. instinct. ( laughter ) ( applause ) fellas, look -- look, fellas -- i don't want to get out over my skis here, but i think this dead body might not be alive. ( laughter ) of course, with an accusation like that, you can't get that go unanswered. anything from the white house? >> i can definitively say the president is not a liar. >> stephen: okay. okay. but that's sarah huckabee sanders. does the president have anything to say? >> i'm not a crook.

session's hearing coming days after comey's bombshell testimony before the same committee. >> bill: sessions recused himself from the russia investigation back in march. it left rob rosenstein appointing the special counsel. and calls for president trump to testify under oath. he said on friday he would be happy to do that. kellyanne conway answered that question just this morning. >> we heard donald trump is not under investigation, never was. all the media who said he was and misunderstood jim comey are yet to apologize. one little retraction. there is no evidence of obstruction of justice or collusion. >> shannon: we have more. good morning, john. the question is do we really think the president is going to testify? >> if i could offer you a little bit of advice i would not hold my breath for very long waiting for the president to testify before congress. as you pointed out a couple of seconds ago the president did in the rose garden on friday offer 100% to tell his story to the special counsel robert mueller. the white house trying to get back on message this work. workplace development

justice department official christopher ray as the fbi director ahead of fired director james comey's bombshellk at the new video showing new zealand's boat capsizing. three were thrown overboard but everyone is accounted for and new zealand is leading against great britain. >> we start with the latest on the 25-year-old intelligence contractor reality winner who is charged with leaking classified information about the russia hacking. her family speaking out and brian ross with the details. good morning brian. >> the mystery is unraveling about the young woman who took the bold step of sending a top secret document to reporters to prove the russians were hacking the american election. it's a clear violation of the law if true and her life will never be the same if the u.s. government and the fbi prepare to make an example out of her for leaking. until now, reality winner, her real name was best known as a fitness enthusiast who posted videos online of her exploits. >> yes! >> reporter: but now the 25-year-old gym rat faces prosecution under the espionage law for sending top secret documents to

this all ahead of fired fbi director james comey's bombshell testimony that will happen tomorrow. >>> zealand's boat capsizing in the america's cup semifinals. everyone was accounted for. >> we'll start this half hour with the latest on the 25-year-old intelligence contractor reality leigh winner. her family now speaking out and our chief investigative couldn't brian ross here with the details. >> the mystery is unraveling about the young woman who took the bold step of sending a top secret document to reporters to prove the russians were hacking the american election. it's a clear violation of the law if true and her life will never be the same if the u.s. government and the fbi prepare to make an example out of her for leaking. until now, reality winner, her real name was best known as a fitness enthusiast who posted videos online of her exploits. >> yes! >> reporter: but now the 25-year-old gym rat faces prosecution under the espionage law for sending top secret documents to an internet website called the intercept. her parents in augusta, georgia, told wsb reporter nicole carr, th

and don't underestimate the possibility of a bombshel at the comey hearing. it might be wi a lot of drama, but it might be as simple as james comey answering yes to a very important and indicting question of this president. >> which we will find out just one week from today. >> that's right. >> when he does sit down in that chair and take questions from a number of senators. >> that's right. >> we have bill neely with us, and bill is our, of course, our chief global correspondent. he's here in from london. and we're talking about russia and talking about comey going in and getting grilled by the senate, asking to find out what he knew about the investigation. but the other thing we have going on, is vladimir putin putting his tongue in his cheek as eddie said a moment ago, basically saying that yeah, maybe it was some patriotic minded russians. get us into the mind of what it is like in russia. you spent so much time there over the past few months. what do russians feel about what is going on here? do they think that we are all just making this up? are they b

it stems from james comey's recent bombshell testimony to congress. attorney general directed me not to call it an investigati investigation, then to call it a matter which confused and concerned me but one of the bricks in the load that led me to conclude i have to step away. >> calling it a matter, instead of an investigation. democratic congressman adam stiff spoke to dana bash questioning loretta lynch's actions and possible motivations. listen. >> gives me a queasy feeling as well. there may be a perfectly accurate explanation by loretta lynch why she thought "matter" was the appropriate term rather than "investigation." i wouldn't sassume james comey' explanation was it's last of it. i'd like to hear loretta lynch's explanation. >> and not the only one brought about because of his testimony. this could expand to whether or not president trump committed obstruction of justice in firing the former fbi director. >>> coming up, as the rift deepens upon senate republicans over medicaid funding, america's opioid epidemic is pushed into the spotlight.

comey's testimony. the one thing people agree on is this is just the beginning and we are going to hear more from the president when he has a joint conference today at 11:45. the bombshell james comey testimony brought new headlines. >> i was concerned he might lie about the nature of our meeting and i asked a friend of mine, and i hope there are tapes. >> comey painted a picture of an fbi director trying to navigate murky waters. comey recalling a meeting in which the president said of the flynn investigation, i hope you can let this go. >> i took it as a direction. as the president of the united states with me alone saying i hope this i took this as this is what he wants me to do. >> the personal testimony disputed much of the testimony. >> the president never told mr. comey, quote, i need loyalty. i expect loyalty. closed quote. >> and then the speaker of the house came to the president's defense in a different way. >> he's new. >> it's my judgment i was f because of the russian investigation. is that a very big deal. >> and the president is punching back on twitter writing despite so many false statements and lies, total and complete vindicati vindication, and he sa

the bombshell james comey testimony brought a new headline. >> i asked a friend of mine to share the content of the memo with the reporter. >> i hope there are takes place. >> reporter: two and a half hours comey painted a picture of an fbi director trying to in fact murky waters. >> i took it as a direction. it is the president of the united states with me alone saying i hope this, i took it as this is what wants me to do. >> the president never told mr. comey, quote i need loyalty, i expect loyalty, close quote. >> reporter: while the republican speaker of the house came to president trump's defense in a different way. >> he is new to government. >> reporter: comey confirmed that he had reassured the president he was not personally under investigation. >> it was my judgment i was fired because of the russian investigation that's a big deal. >> reporter: ed president himself is keeping mum at least for now. >> any reaction to comey's testimony? >> thank you very much. >> reporter: the silence from the president is likely to end today many people were wondering he was going to tweet,

back now to fired fbi director james comey bombshell testimony on capitol hill yesterday he's accusingump firing back on twitter but not until this morning. joining us now with more on the key moments from that hearing chris wallace anchor of fox news sunday. chris, good morning. >> good morning to you allison. >> i'm sure you were just glued to the television like everybody else yesterday. >> absolutely. pretty compelling and you know you said the white house -- that comey accused of white house of lying. no he accused the president of lying. >> right. >> multiple times. which is pretty shocking and then told a story his story which is quite damaging and i take, v-2 take aways from yesterday. in a legal sense i don't think it was bad day for the president. comey said that when he was fired in may that the president still was not the target of criminal inves did not accuse the president of obstruction of justice he said that's a decision for the special counsel. on the political side, it was much more damaging for the president as i say he accused of him of lying repeatedly felt he had

comey's highly anticipated senate appearance just hours away. this is cnn tonight, i'm don lemon. as we look ahead to tomorrow, we have some of the fbi director's bombshell testimony. comey asked the senate to make his opening statement public ahead of time. and it is packed with dramatic revelations of what happened in his private meetings with the president. we're going to go through the whole thing for you tonight as %-p sometimes awkward, and recorded at a time in memo form by an uneasy comey. he begins by promising to describe his interactions with trump on quote, subjects that i understand are of interest to you. that is for sure. he goes on to say, i have not included every detail from my conversations with the president, but to the best of my recollection, i have tried to include information that may be relevant to the committee. so here with me tonight to discuss all of that is david gergen, malika henderson, david ax axelrod, ana navarro. also scott jennings, former special assistant to president george w. bush. let's get into it, james comey describing his first meeting with president donald trump on january 6th, at trump tower two weeks befor

the bombshell james comey testimony brought a new spate of headlines. >> i was concerned that he might lie about the meeting and asked a friend of mine to share the content of the memorandum with a reporter. >> reporter: comey painted the picture of an fbi director trying to in fact murky waters. comey called a meeting in which he said of the flynn investigation i hope you can let this go. >> i took it as direction the president 69 united states i took it as this what he wants me to do. >> the president appear personal attorney dispute hissed hissed -- dutied his testimony. >> reporter: while the speaker of the house said. >> he is new to government he probably wasn't steeped in the long-running protocols. >> reporter: comey confirmed he reassured the president he was not under investigation, but it did not save his job. >> it is my impression i was fired because of the russian investigation. that's a big deal. >> any reaction to the comey testimony, reaction at all. >> reporter: we have learned from the white house, the president plans to hold a joint press conference with the preside

comey. one of them is telling the truth and one of them is not. this is "cnn tonight." i'm don lemon. the president striking back at the bombshell testimony of the former fbi director, accusing james comey of lying and finally telling reporters during a news conference in the rose garden how he's prepared to respond. >> so, he said those things under oath. would you be willing to speak under oath to give your version of events? >> 100%. >> a classic example of he said-he said. i want to begin this hour with joe madison, a host on sirius xm and syndicated talk radio host john fredericks, my dream team of radio guys back right now. good evening to both of you. >> glad to be back. >> joe, i'll start with you. yesterday we heard from former fbi director james comey, long-awaited, bombshell testimony. what was your reaction? >> well, my reaction was that i think he was extremely credible, he did exactly what a lot of times i used to tell people when i worked for the naacp, that if you think you're going to have an issue with an individual, the best thing to do is make sure you immediately go out and memorialize the conversation. and

so you're going to have comey with more bombshells, you'll have trumpagely tweeting about comey, you'llave schumer talking about impeachment, you'll have the republicans saying it's not warranted, and you'll have the markets probably still doing well. >> yeah, that's my question, because you advise wall street on what's happening in washington. and ceos, we hear they don't want to be tarnished with brand trump. >> right. >> but they still have really profited under the trump presidency. >> yeah. >> i mean, square that for me. >> well, the regulatory environment clearly has been less adversarial than it was during the last eight years. so i think business leaders like that knowledge that things are a little more friendly for them. and i still think they're hoping down the road that we're going to get really significant tax reform. unfortunately, i think that tax reform could be a year away before it gets enacted. >> a year away. there's a lot of work to do. >> yeah. >> we hear there's a bill, but there's no bill. i mean, the president said there's a bill, but there's no bill. >> yeah, th

republicans want to hear from attorney general loretta lynch after comey dropped a bombshell revelationed him to refer to a clinton investigation as quote, a matter. it was not a matter, right? it was an investigation. this is what loretta lynch was doing. what does that tell but the obama administration? this is a big deal. yet nobody is talking about it. i'll tell you we are. that is next. stood with us when a fire destroyed everything in our living room. we replaced it all without touching our savings. yeah, our insurance won't do that. no. you can leave worry behind when liberty stands with you™. liberty mutual insurance. trish: okay. take a look at this, lots of green on your screen. up 114 points on the dow. we're seeing a lot of upside. the s&p and the dow both hitting all-time highs today. a lot of it being companies doing very well in addition. you see the nasdaq is trading best of all, 1.2%. oil also one we're watching closing out the day moments ago down 1.2%. basically you have concerns about too much supply and not enough demand. opec meanwhile continues tlead the effort to

comey's testimony. the one thing people agree on is this is just the beginning and we are going to hear more from the president when he has a joint conference today at 11:45. the bombshelltestimony brought new headlines. >> i was concerned he might lie about the nature of our meeting and i asked a friend of mine, and i hope

former fbi director james comey has dropped another bombshell on the eve of his much-anticipated appearance before congress tomorrow. in a statement, he claims president trump repeatedly asked for his loyalty, and on a separate occasion urged him to let go an investigation into his national security adviser michael flynn, who had been forced to resign. as mr. comey remembers it come -- remembers it, "i had understood the president to be requesting that we drop any investigation of flynn in connection with false statements about his conversations with the russian ambassador in december." mr. comey goes on to say that he found it "very concerning, given the fbi's role as an independent investigative agency." for more on this, i spoke with our north america editor jon pel. the detail in this statement is extraordinary. what are we to make of it? jon: it is absolutely fascinating. it shows a deeply uneasy relationship between 2 men who could not be temperamentally more difficult. if you bear with me, i want to read certain sections of it, because it is utterly gripping and fascinating it affirm