. >> you will be our own john madden for comey thursday. set the stage for us.is thursday, perhaps the most important since clarence thomas. >> i fear if there's no smoking g gu if this ends up with comey detailing these conversations, the republicans all day blitzing him, doing everything they can to smear his name and sully his record, that we'll wake up friday morning and we won't be that far away from where we are right now. the only thing that changes is if you can really produce a watergate-like obstruction of justice case and sitting here right now, i just don't see that happening absent a tape with the president's own voice, ordering his intelligence subordinates to obstruct justice. >> i think there are two right now -- two approaches. you have the obstruction of justice case, which goes to state of mind. that's something, of course -- something that mueller will have to -- thomas friedman, thank you so much for being with us. peter baker, thank you. greatly appreciate it. frank, stay with us. >>> just ahead, senator angus king joins us, hoping to get m