that was jim comey's mistake. i respect jim comey.nk she a good man and he made a mistake in deciding he was going to try to game and figure out what would be the at least impactful way of announcing and conducting an investigation. that robert mueller would couldn't his information in the way hi thinks is best to get to the truth. >> you're part of a election security bill. explain to me what you're trying to get past. we have heard ambiguity about who attacked us and whether or not the russians did it and all of that good stuff, but tom rooney and i have put forward a bill that would be a small part of the overall effort of providing the resources and providing the kinds of communication and propagation of best practices that would allow us to have more kcompetence tha we do today in the security of knowing that the russians couldn't do what they did to us in november of 19 2016. and give us confidence that our elections are not hackable. >> i do not believe the russians have been accused of swaying the election. thank you for being

>> yes. >> but only for jim comey, not for the president of the united states? >> well, the president says he didn't say it. and the best evidence of it is comey never reported it. >> contemporaneous memos. you know how persuasive they can be in a court of law. contemporaneous. >> i'd like to see the contemporaneous -- >> you will if there's going to be discovery because of any kind of trial. i'm sure you don't want to get that far. >> no, we don't. but if we do, i would like to see if it was written after or before. i guarantee you it was written after. >> well, he says -- >> and it was written before, he's got a serious problem. he didn't report it. >> i don't see that as a big problem. >> it is a big problem. >> help me understand. >> i'm the u.s. attorney. somebody calls me up and says, fix the case. >> right. >> i write it down, and i bury it for four months. that's a felony. >> but you do not fix the case. >> yeah, but i -- the attempt to influence me is a crime. i'm not a private citizen like you. >> right. >> or me right now. as a u.s. attorney, i would h

jim comey's word today versus rudy giuliani's notes. you have contemporaneous notes that jim comey reported to at the time. you have people -- every account of this that's been given by everyone, including many people who are allies of the president, suggest that that conversation did take place. there are lot of disputes about what did he know about the state of the flynn investigation at that moment. many of those things are in dispute. what has never been in dispute until this weekend is the notion that the question of mike flynn came up in the room with jim comey. and all that is now happening is rudy giuliani is pushing a sustained campaign of gaslighting the country and blatant fabrication with a political end to its logical and obviously what i mean by logical i mean insane extreme to the point where he's getting tripped up on words of his own from just a fortnight ago. >> yeah. again, jon meacham, we can go through jim comey's contemporaneous notes and his friends contemporaneous notes or take rudy giuliani's word for it because

actions like firing jim comey.tions like telling jim comey privately, that he wanted him to let go of the flynn investigation. the investigation of his national security adviser. there's been a lot of hemming and hawing about mueller saying he needs it. trump's team saying they're worried it would be a perjury trap. in this letter, finally and firmly, the team says there's no need for mueller to ask those questions and it's constitutional inappropriate. >> so this is off the docket. is that on the docket? and that, i mean, by questions of other issues such as collusion? is that okay what they're saying, they have some willingness there? >> they have some willingness. it doesn't say, yes, we will do it. it says our door is open to other questions of which we have to make a determination if they're appropriate. and they have said they don't believe there's any collusion, so it's not so worrisome for them to ask those questions. what rudy giuliani, the trump's lead lawyer and jay sekulow, his other lawyer, have said t

who was jim comey's boss at that time, who tried to stick around.dn't want the chief of staff ithat kind of conversatio. comey said in his autobiography he had only had two meetings with obama alone ever. one of them was before he was appointed and the other was during the discussion of all these racially charged shootings. and so it's -- it does raise suspicions and that's the one reason why presidents don't do it, because it does raise suspicions. why ask for that kind of chatter out there. you don't know what's happening in that room, and that's what people are going to talk about. >> obama ever clear the room for a one-on-one meeting with an american adversary? >> no. you need somebody in there precisely to be able to read out the meeting to the rest of our government and to our allies. >> and that was obama, not donald trump. >> our allies are wondering what happened in there, did he sell us out? >> answer thd so later the adve can't make a claim that could be false. >> we have to sneak in one last break. we'll be right back. or plan for tomorr

we've heard from jim comey under oath. before congress. and mueller has heard the same thing presumably from comey and his team about what exactly president trump said. what bob mueller and his team want to know is what exactly was going through trump's head. was there some sort of criminal intent when he said these things to jim comey about michael flynn, when he was interacting with others that are central to this obstruction investigation? unless there is a smoking gun e-mail that is written by president trump that seems to convey his deepest innermost thoughts, that says when i told jim comey to let this flynn thing go, i was trying to obstruct justice. i don't think the muller team is going to be satisfied because that's precisely what they're looking for. they need to go beyond exactly what was said to determine exactly what he was thinking. >> so a.b., let me go back to this whole idea of president trump and what he wants and what's likely to happen here. this whole idea that he simply has to get somebody in a room and he can convinc

so my money is on the former altar boy, jim comey who wrote notes right after the meeting. but this new defense, in fact, changes almost daily is actually going more and more toward having rudy giuliani be a fact witness in that he said on abc news that the flynn was discussed, right? and that the president asked comey if he could give flynn a break. so i'd like to ask rudy first, where did you get that from? because his credibility is shot. >> and i want to ask you, harry litman, how all this plays into what appears to be a charade around the idea of a presidential interview. presidential advisors and people close to the president have told me that -- over the dead bodies of emmet flood, don mcgahn, rudy giuliani and the attorneys working from florida who are the ones interacting with the special counsel's office, will donald trump sit for a face to face in-person interview with mueller's investigators. here's what rudy said to "wall street journal" over the weekend, i believe. giuliani said the president is open to talking to mr. mueller under limited conditions, but in a

that is ultimately not the reason donald trump fired jim comey.s is another piece in the puzzle to someone trying to put together a picture of attempted obstruction. >> the white house says the president was just expressing an opinion, his first amendment rights. what do you say to that? >> that's one of the sillier things that i've heard. obviously everyone has a first amendment right to say what they want but in certain contexts it's not about expression, it's about direction, as you sit at the top of government and you have underneath you a cabinet secretary to whom -- who reports to. so for example, would it be first amendment free speech if at a meeting he directed the attorney general, that speech too, directed the attorney general to prosecute an adversary or let go of someone who's an ally? the mere fact that someone is using their mouth and expressing themselves in english does not necessarily mean you're implicating first amendment rights. >> mueller is investigating if the president is obstructing justice or tampering with witnesses thr

the president's failure of willingness to do that cuts against jim comey's comments. >> is there any way to prove this, the president insists the conversation with comey never happened, and comey says it did? how do prosecutors figure out who is telling the truth? >> sure. so, it's a he said/she said sort of situation. and if prosecutors were going to file charges about this specific incident, they would have to believe that they could prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the president did this. it could be part of a conspiracy or some other charges, but if they're directly going to talk about this incident, they've got to be able to prove it beyond a reasonable doubt. if it's just jim comey's word against the president's, then i wouldn't expect them to go forward. but that's not to say that there couldn't be some circumstantial guarantees, including the fact that the president ushered, in effect, everyone else out of the room for this very unusual one-on-one conversation between the president and the fbi director. >> of course. okay. meanwhile, the president snuck in a broadside agai

because the president of the united states is jim comey's boss. it's also totally different because of the circumstances which is a private setting without lawyers there, without any witnesses. and obviously it's part of a pattern of seeking to in effect squelch, thwart, stop the investigation involving the possibility of colluding between the trump campaign and the russians and also obstruction of justice, both under investigation by jim comey. >> so if rudy giuliani were trying to make a point to george stephanopoulos the argument would have been i've been told a lot of times by my boss to give someone a break, right? that's what the analogy is. not that somebody's friend or family is saying hey, could you go easy on my brother or my friend. this is a story of somebody in a position of authority asking a prosecutor to give somebody a break and someone who might have been implicated in the story themselves. that's key to this. >> there really is no analogy here. this is such breaking of norms and potentially breaking of laws that it's the reason

agree that he fired jim comey because, as he told lester holt, of the russia thing. if the president was willing to do that, i guess that would be a substitute. giuliani is not a substitute. >> you dropped in something that i don't want to let go unremark upon. you talked about mueller could subpoena the president. do you believe now at this point that is mueller's only option with all the shenanigans and b.s. going back and forth between jay sekulow and rudy and the special counsel's office? >> look, if the president keeps saying, i have nothing to hide and i want to talk to bob mueller. well, if you want to talk to bob mueller, talk to bob mueller. and if you have nothing to hide, then hide nothing. but this has been going on and on and on, nicolle, to the point it seems pretty clear to me that if mueller wants to hear from the president, it's going to have to be pursuant to a subpoena under oath and in a grand jury. now, of course, there is another question, which is would he be permit today do that. would the deputy attorney general who is overseeing this investi

i spoke with jim comey about this, in terms of what monies might be moving, to u.s. persons, maybe they were not at all affected the campaign. the term, follow the moni is an important one. organized crime or counter intelligence. i wouldn't be surprised at all if the council uncovered final transacs that do speak to russia's efforts. >> one last specific thing. you were cia director through the transition, your last day, noon on inauguration day. from the campaign, employed for a new purpose during the transition, once trump was elected, and president-elect. published reports, russian efforts were redirected to try to sway the selection of some of the president-elect cabinet. specifically, the russian bots, trying to black ball mitt romney, secretary of state, and rex tillerson. you were cia director at the time those things were happening, can you comment on that? >> russian involve 789 in the aftermath of the inauguration on january 20, 2017 did not stop with election day in november. they continued throughout the course of those months, between election day in in

that happened with the democrats, logo back at hillary clinton and not only hillary clinton but jim comey, peter stzrok, lisa page and not focus on the man in the white house. >> i want to play something for you from spearheading new. he has some advice for the president. >> if he has any interest at all in not only saving his skin but the skin of his child, his children, his son-in-law, his grandchildren this is a time when he has to seriously think about it. >> a lot of people say the way to get to the president who says he is tough and likes these fights got go after his family might be a different thing. >> this is a coup. the people who lost the election in 2016 immediately went into this story about russian collusion through a series of keystone cops steps, got a special counsel, they are talking about what the president did 10 years before he was president and we can't even get an investigation about what obama did while they were in office. the advice of this lawyer is absurd and it is time for republicans and conservatives and trump supporters and fair-minded people to look at wh

jim comey was a director in 2015 when the press conference happened, jim comey towering over loretta lynch who is quite small, and -- >> just a provocateur. one of the things i am talking about is the timing of this. and i should back up and say england was super qualified -- the perfect place for a workout probably. >> it was different. the next story. >> that is another ball of wax. they didn't have airports or freeways or a great soccer tuition, maybe even the soviet days. there were not a lot of good reasons to do that. when obama was president of the russian reset, russia and the us were buddies and obama was hugging vladimir putin and making deals, when christopher steele is finding this stuff, and taking russia off its own sanctions list, a wonderful warm fuzzy time. it is easy to forget that, and you think of russia in stark terms but this is a warm and cuddly russia as far as we knew in 2010 and what we see now is this is the first sign of what we are dealing with now. this is the first incursion of russia into international affairs, we get what we want no matter what. russi

when jim comey investigated hillary clinton's law breaking around he emails and servers and governmentnformation, he said he couldn't prosecute her because it was a close call. if you talk to experts, they will tell you that it's not a very clear shot that president trump committed any violation against any code but yet the special counsel is pressing his advantage. why is it one set of rules for hillary clinton and another for donald trump? this simply can't stand. >> and a lot are looking back on the edwards case and others. it clearly shows a difference of treatment. do you think if the democrats take the house they'll impeach? >> i think there's lossts of tk about it. >> is that true? >> how about this? yes, it's all about impeachment. every voter needs to understand that. [laughter] >>have a great weekend. thanks for weighing in. >> all right. stricken with brain cancer, senator john mccain's family sharing news about his medical care. tonight we'll take a look at his legacy. >> this place is important. the work we do is important. the success of the senate is important to the con

jim comey, i completely disagree with his decision. >> thank you. >> we have a lot more to get to. a busy mop night. stay with us. np night. stay with us. dp night. stay with us. ap night. stay with us. yp night. stay with us. night. stay with us. here's a trip tip: when you search hotels on tripadvisor... enter your destination and the dates of your stay. tripadvisor searches over 200 booking sites... to find the best deal on the right hotel for you. tripadvisor. plaque psoriasis or psoriatic arthritis, little things can be a big deal. that's why there's otezla. otezla is not an injection or a cream. it's a pill that treats differently. for psoriasis, 75% clearer skin is achievable, with reduced redness, thickness, and scaliness of plaques. and for psoriatic arthritis, otezla is proven to reduce joint swelling, tenderness, and pain. and the otezla prescribing information has no requirement for routine lab monitoring. don't use if you're allergic to otezla. otezla may cause severe diarrhea, nausea, or vomiting. tell your doctor if these occur. otezla is associated with an increased

corrupt intent when he took some of the actions that he took, most importantly, firing fbi director, jim comey. he wants the president in the room with him one way or another. the second seems to me likely possibility about this counter offer is he wants to show he's willing to negotiate a little and not be stoic and stubborn. so this is a little move closer to trump's request or the trump legal team's request, but i even hear within the sources close to the president and in the white house, that they're not so sure mueller moved that far, but he certainly made the effort to appear he was reducing some of the questions. >> do you have any hints whether he is prepared to go to the supreme court if trump won't sit down and how do you do that and when do you trigger that? >> one thing we know very clearly he has given the trump legal team, he would like to avoid a subpoena fight. there are all sorts of good reasons. he knows that will take months. very little chance the court of appeals certainly involved on the road to the supreme court would move with any -- and the question never been answered

it was actually the president's decision to fire jim comey, not jeff sessions' decision. but knowing donald trump and i think jeff sessions had a good read on the man, he knew he would also be in trouble. we look back the last summer and the number of times we were on sessions watch and the people i talked to at the justice department said he will hang on by his fingernails for this job. he thought this was his last role in politics. it is one he wanted to get to for a long time. his former law enforcement days are some of the days he holds most dearly. and he saw this as his last big role and really his place to be able to push through a lot of the decisions, a lot of these policies on immigration and the like. he was going to hold on to it for as long as he could. he did see this would be the thing that would fracture the relationship. it has for some time. we saw the president attack jeff sessions just this week. >> harry, the president obviously doesn't like robert mueller. we have known that for some time. but he does keep bringing up what he perceives as a bias that

certainly expressing the frustration he has with the level of corruption we've seen from people like jim comey, peter strzok. theres a reason the president is angry and frankly most of america is angry as well. there's no reason he shouldn't be able to voice that opinion. once again, as i said earlier, the president stating his opinion. it's not an order but he's been, i think, crystal clear about how he feels about this investigation from the beginning. >> you said a moment ago the investigation itself is corrupt, the mueller investigation. you mentioned comey and -- >> the entire investigation is based off of a dirty, discredited dossier that was paid for by an opposing campaign and had a lot of corruption in the entity which was overseeing it peter strzok, james comey, andrew mccabe. we've laid this out many times. we don't have to go through it. >> if corrupt, why doesn't the president end it? if he believes that, why doesn't he follow through oppose it? >> once again the president has allowed this process to play out but he thinks it's time to come to an end. >> on the last point, no. tha

he cleared the room when he asked jim comey to see the investigation on mike flynn go. how do those two hang together in your mind in terms of what an investigator or a prosecutor -- >> when does donald trump want someone to leave the room? when he wants to do something where he doesn't want others to hear what he's doing. one of the concerns that i have, and many national security investigators have with putin, and we still don't even know if the translators were in there for the entire time or if the american translator was in there the entire time. one of the problems is there is no record of what was said. and i think even to this day the director of national intelligence spoke publicly about this. and mike pompeo was questioned about this. they have not received a full debrief about it. it harkens back to putting this arm on jim comey. >> if i give you a two-part question here, if could you weigh in on the news tonight that bob mueller has sent more cases to the southern cases. >> the reason you though everybody out, the reason you want something quote/unquote off

integrity himself, jim comey, his net worth skyrocketed by more than 4000% after he left of the doj in005. in one year alone. 2009, he made $6.1 million for his work with the contractor. that is one year, he worked for other years. we don't how much he made in those years. those numbers have never been revealed, interestingly enough. and mr. integrity, comey, i don't remember him telling this. then under comey, best friend forever, bff robert mueller, granted a huge boondoggle project that some see for what it is. after comey took the reins, robert mueller cashed in big-time himself, started a consulting firm where he made millions of dollars representing clients he had previously doled out contracts to as the fbi director. according to this book, two of mueller's former contractors were facebook and apple. guess what? they are cooperating with the robert mueller investigation. can you say "conflict of interest"? if you think that sounds sketchy, corrupt, and a little financial incestuous behavior here, it is because it is. government officials using their status, leverage it -- and by

agree with that. >> well, now he's taking another step and saying it never happens, which means jim comey is one of the biggest liars we've ever seen in our life. >> that's what the president said, that it didn't happen. comey apparently may very well have had a memo to the file saying it happened. people write memos to the file to serve their own interest. comey is not above that. >> isn't what they're worried about is putting someone we know who has a problem with abusing the truth, who has a problem with freelancing, who has a problem with sticking to what he is told to do and putting him across from people who would be uniquely motivated to point that out? >> i think what they're concerned about is the ultimate fact here, which is that this is not going to end in a trial. it's not going to end in charges. it's going to end in the house of representatives with an argument in favor or against impeachment. and the only thing he would be doing is providing grift for that particular mill. there's no legitimate criminal investigation going on here. >> well, that's an opinion. but the idea t

when he fired jim comey, for example, when he wanted to fire mueller himself, of course. don mcgann actually threatened to quit, so that's an episode he could shed light on for the special counsel's team, but i think it's important just to remember how much the president really does not understand his legal exposure here. i mean, the fact that his attorneys did not waive -- they did not assert, you know, attorney privilege, executive privilege, and allowed don mcgann to essentially sit down with mueller is pretty remarkable and it's because they thought they have nothing to hide, but we've seen over the course of the year that the president's intent here in doing these obstructive acts is really going to prove extremely damaging, and he clearly does not understand the legal jeopardy that he's facing, or the fact that don mcgann is not his personal lawyer. he represents the office of the presidency and he is not going to protect the president. >> glenn, i want your read on this. do you think this impacts the mueller investigation and how so if it does? >> well, you know, i

but if there were ongoing investigations at the time, which jim comey and others have acknowledged that in late july, there were -- those investigations were opened. it's very, very difficult to reveal details of an investigation while at the same time protecting the integrity of that investigation. so i know that the bureau tried to balance their need to warn and to advise the two campaigns about the potential for foreign interference. but at the same time, continue to pull those investigative threads and they continued to pull them throughout the course of the campaign and during the period between election and inauguration day and subsequent to that. but the bureau has to be able to protect sources and methods and be able to ensure that their investigation is going to be able to continue. >> and that was something that was cherished and held dear by every democratic and republican president until this president was sworn in, in january of the beginning of his first term. so i wonder if you take that, that the fbi has to be able to preserve an ongoing counterintelligence investigation

i'll just say this, that -- i know jim comey pretty well and i'll say two things.ty well and i think he accurately rendered what occurred in the conversations that he had with president trump. and, you know, i had a grand total of three one-on-one conversations with president obama over six and a half years, and let me tell you, you remember every word. i didn't feel compelled to write it down at the time, contemporaneously, but i certainly remember those conversations very distinctly. so, when you're hauled into the oval office and particularly when your boss is excluded and you have a conversation like that, you remember that, and jim, to his credit, wrote it down contemporaneously, and i have no doubt about his accuracy. and i think what's afoot here, obviously, is the reason that giuliani was brought on in the first place, was to on his kate, deflect and to sow doubt and confuse. so, now this boils down to a he said/he said proposition. >> let me ask you this. i wonder if it's -- you know, i think about someone of your caliber, if it's fustrating for you to hav

and this was a very intensive effort and, so, as i said in my op-ed, myself and jim comey and mike rogers say we talked about the importance of making sure that our radar, our collection radar was up so that we had early indications or be able to uncover any effort on the part of the russians to work with american citizens. the american citizens were reaching out to the russians, as well. see if they could get any dirt on hillary clinton. so, my radar was going because i knew the russians were engaged in this effort and i was aware of contracts with american citizens that may have been totally innocent on the american citizens part and maybe they weren't betting at all. >> was it clear to you that those contacts were part of the operation? that it was part of the way that russia was trying to accomplish its objectives? >> i was very concerned and aware that the russians were trying to leverage u.s. citizens in order to achieve their objectives in the presidential election. >> while you were in office as cia director before you left on inauguration day, did you conclude that u.s. persons w

that they don't want to have the president sitting down with mueller to talk about the firing of jim comey at the fbi, to talk about the national security adviser mike flynn and what the president said to comey about letting it go, and as giuliani says they really believe mueller has a perjury trap here. but mueller, he is trying to finish this report based on our reporting with federal investigators. and he's trying to get it done before september, but he needs to figure out the president's intent. and until the president sits down, brian, he is not going to really have that. >> barbara, you're the lawyer here. real quick on this phrase "perjury trap" that we hear on a near daily basis. i've heard some lawyers like you on tv say listen, the truth will set you free. if you tell the truth, if those around you tell the truth, there is no such thing as a perjury trap. what do people mean by perjury trap? >> at least at the department of justice, the idea of a perjury trap is forbidden. and that is when you have no legitimate purpose for calling someone the a grand jury other than to try to ca

did you ever hear the president in his deliberations about firing jeff sessions or jim comey, did you -- were you in on that decision? >> no. >> or robert mueller? >> no, i wasn't. thank god. >> when you say it was your job to stay there, you wanted to be there to help elevate the african-american community. since you left that position hasn't been fulfilled. >> no. >> what did you do to help elevate the african-american community? who did you bring in? if without you there's -- >> so glad you asked this question. >> then please tell us. >> let's talk about from day one. within the first day we started working on an executive order for the white house initiative on historically black colleges and universities. i've attended three hbcus. i went to howard university for my masters and pain theological for my ministerial studies so hbcu is my passion. within the first 30 days we passed that executive order that helps 300,000 students at hbcus all over the country. then we moved into black history month where i wanted to enlighten the president on -- >> unfortunately that didn't work. >>

it harks pa back when donald trump cleared the oval office so he could ask jim comey to drop chargesch is clearly bob mueller is looking at in terms of obstruction of justice. >> chuck, i want your thoughts on that. also, if i give you a two-part question and if you could weigh in on the news tonight that bob mueller has september more cases to the southern district of new york. first on jeremy's point about closed door meetings and donald trump's appetite for them. >> right. so i think jeremy's spot on. the reason you throw everybody out, the reason you want something, quote unquote, off record is you're going to do something underhanded. and it seems like a number of these conversations are underhanded. i want to echo one thing jeremy said. he did a nice job explaining the lauf conspiracy. he did that well. one thing i would it doesn't require that you succeed. right? you and i could agree to robbie an bank, nicole. we could get jeremy to be part of this. he goes out and buys a getaway car and then we get stopped on the way to the bank. we're still guilty. all three of us of con si

what jim comey testified to before the house committee was not a criminal investigation. it was a national security investigation. you don't need a special prosecutor to conduct a national security investigation. he corrected that, i think, later on although we don't know what the complete order looks like because it's all been redacted. >> a lot of people make the argument that we haven't seen anything yet. so, therefore, this wasn't worth it. but just in a straight line of duration, this has been -- we have a graphic of it, which will be completely familiar to you. but for the audience's sake, this has not been going on a long time at all as special probes go, let alone what we've seen recently on a political side with benghazi. why make that argument? not you necessarily but i keep hearing it, so i want your take on it of, it's been going on so long. we would have known by now. do you buy that? >> depends what the evidence is that they have. take a look at who they have as defendants. >> right. >> manafort has a co-defendant. >> right. >> named gates, who is cooperatin

whether he said that he had the russia investigation in mind when he fired jim comey, the former fbi director. so i think there's abundant evidence that obstruction and intent to interfere the ongoing investigation into whether or not rush yar committed some conspiracy with trump campaign in order to violate our federal election laws. that's something that's been out there in plain view now for months. frankly, my answer as to why president trump did in this morning is a combination of appealing to his base, delegitimizing the mueller investigation and he frankly partly just can't help himself. >> right, because as we've reported his lawyer's reaction shows that this was coming from the top and that they wanted to say it didn't do what it did. getting to your other piece, you know, sometimes it feels like we're all going through a type of law school together in this era. you would be one of our voluntary professors i suppose. collusion, conspiracy, criminal hacking and theft, fraud fraud against the units, foreign campaign contributions are all felonies that relate to what has been a

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and if president trump knew and learned even just before he asked jim comey to stand down on the flynn investigation i think there could be some powerful evidence of the corrupt intent that's necessary. >> according to murray waa 16789's reporting this is very clear. people familiar with the matter have told me that both priebus and mcgahn have confirmed in separate interviews with the special counsel that they had told trump that flynn was under investigation by the fbi before he met with comey. 24 dismantd lz the key element in the trump lawyers' letter to the prosecutor about why donald trump con have committed obstruction of justice in the flynn matter sxwlp but the trump team's theory from the beginning did not make a lot of sense. their position is trump knew there was no longer an investigation, and then he walks into a meeting and says hey, by the way, i hope you can see fit to let go, parentheses, an investigation that's not going on. that doesn't make any sense. but that's the trump team's position. in a way this bombshell is something that lakes a lot more sense than the tru

he fired jim comey because of the russia thing. i did this to john brennan because he was part of the russia investigation, right? these are all bricks in a wall. this wall is getting a lot higher. >> a lot higher and a lot thicker. frank figliuzzi, you had a concise tweet. you think it is intent to obstruct. explain. >> i do, because obstruction as you all know and your viewers know, is about showing intent, mind-set, what was your purpose in conducting yourself this way. and so he's giving us essentially obstruction 101. and some may say, look, when you strip the clearance of a former cia director, you're not obstructing anything related to the collusion investigation. but in reality, the chilling effect that it has on active on-board investigators and intelligence officials is quite clear. if you cross me, if you continue in this vein, you lose your clearance. and, in fact, there are very recent reports that bruce orr, an active d.o.j. official, is being talked about in terms of stripping his clearance. this is the next step, an

certainly is expressing frustration he has with the lel of corruption that we have seenfrom people like jim comey, peter stru, andrew mccake. >> reporter: this is as his former chief of staff is in court on charges unrelated to the ca. the guilty pleas have come from former trump aides. allen martin, kpix5. >>> a federal appeals court ruled that the president cannot with hold federal funds from sanctuary jurisdictions. he signed executive order last year threatening to with hold money from local and ste at governments that won't turn over undocumented immigrants. the ruling stemmed from lawsuits filed by santa clara and san francisco counties. 9th circuit court of appeals ruled yesterday that the president's executive order is unconstitutional. >>> the senator and the spy. a man who stayed by dianne feinstein's side for decades has been exposed as a mole for the chinese government. >> reporter: the spy who drove me, sounds like the title of a james bond movie. instead it's a rip from the headlines reality from politico and san francisco chronical about senator dianne feinstein. first they reveale

that's at least the third time i've heard rudy giuliani do that in the context of what jim comey may have testified to about the firing of mike flynn. why are they doing that? we know rudy believes in hanging a lantern on your problems, but this is a spotlight. >> as joyce said, when you're deciding something beyond reasonable doubt, you have to put things on a scale, right? and you have to start determining who do i believe here and is there enough credible evidence to make a conclusion. what they're afraid of is that not that the president is going to fall into some trap, but rather the president is unable to tell the truth because the truth is going to jamb him up. that's the problem here. he's going to have to lie to the mueller team if he's going to come out of this and they know that they're trapped. it's not mueller trapping them. they have put themselves in a box. the president himself has said conflicting statements so it's a question of -- not only a question of who do we believe, which statement from the president do we get to believe. so this is simply why i'm continuing

expressing the frustration that he has with the level of corruption that we have seen from people like jim comey, peter strzok, andrew mccabe. >> the president's tweets come as paul manafort his former chief of staff is in court on fraud charges unrelated to his work on mr. trump's campaign. today special counsel mueller's office has secured indictments or guilty pleas from 32 people and three russian companies. three of the guilty pleas have come from former trump aids. allen martin, kpix5. >>> today a federal appeals court ruled that president trump cannot pull federal funding from sanctuary cities. the president signed an executive order shortly after taking office to withhold money from sanctuary cities that don't fully cooperate with the federal government. both san francisco and santa clara county sued. the federal court ruled the president's executive order is unconstitutional. >>> their plane fell from the sky in mexico and they lived to tell about it. dramatic new video and survivor accounts from the terrifying crash after take off. >> now the star studded tribute to the man who made th

president's lawyer, now says president trump did not talk about michael flynn with former fbi director jim comey. >> what happened in that conversation with comey about michael flynn? what exactly did president trump say? >> there was no conversation about michael flynn. >> and our tax cut tracker is back. stock buybacks topping $1 trillion. and companies have no idea about what to do with all that extra cash. >>> we begin this morning with secret tapes. again, allegations of racism and the white house now in a pr war with omarosa. the former reality show contestant turned white house aide. the president once said omarosa always promises and delivers high drama. well, he was not kidding. i have a great team here to break all of this down. but first, i want to lay out what we know. this morning, the white house is dealing with two different pr problems. the first surrounds the content of these new secretly recorded tapes of omarosa talking to the president and white house officials like john kelly. the second is the fact that these tapes were recorded at all. now, as for the first issue, we are n

jim comey, i completely disagree with his decision to talk about the clinton investigation during the presidential election. but not one of those individuals has ever been accused of being dishonest. >> congressman jim himes, thank you for your time tonight. appreciate you being here. >> thank you, rachel. >> we got a lot more to get to, busy monday night. stay with us. fruits and veggies are essential to your health, but it's tough to get enough of their nutrients. new one a day with nature's medley is the only complete multivitamin with antioxidants from one total serving of fruits and veggies try new one a day with nature's medley. sharper vision, without limits. days that go from sun up to sun down. a whole world in all its beauty. three innovative technologies for our ultimate in vision, clarity, and protection. together in a single lens. essilor ultimate lens package. purchase the essilor ultimate lens package and get a second pair of qualifying lenses free. essilor. better sight. better life. whoooo. tripadvisor makes finding your perfect hotel... relaxing. just enter your dest

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and expressing the frustration he has with the level of corruption we have seen from people like jim comey, peter struck, andrew mccabe. there is a reason the president is angry at most of america is an great and there's no reason he should not be able to voice that it can -- voice that opinion. margaret? tesla spent $5 billion building in china. i'm wondering if the administration has concerns about those plans? sarah: we would like to see all american companies invest in here. i don't have anything specific on tesla but we would encourage all companies to build a plant in america, put their investments here and not engage in helping bolster a country like china that has continued to processof a very unfair and very unfair trading practices. john? reporter: there was a reaction to the president's tweets from some of his allies on capitol hill. senator hatch said i don't fully get what he is trying to do. another republican senator said the mueller investigation needs to move forward and they ought to let them complete their work. do you agree with that sentiment expressed by senator coon