media and democrats cast doubt upon republicans knew better doubted his claim and then of course when komi came before congress several weeks ago and testified under oath he had to admit that yes he had told them from three times that he himself wasn't under investigation so i think trump came out of that exchange looking better having established that he was telling the truth about not being under investigation and you can debate whether he should have fired komi or not it was definitely a discretionary move in this. instead it wasn't necessary given political realities but it's something he wanted to do partly because komi wouldn't clear his name publicly even though he had told the senate privately that there was no investigation of donald trump he had led at the time right he let on publicly that things might be otherwise and i think trump was frustrated so i understand there was some debate inside the administration about whether or not to do it but certainly on the democratic side there have been demands that komi be fired that he lost all credibility because of the way he handled th

>> i did not. >> you were his superior and there were fairly harsh thing said about director komi you never thought it was appropriate to raise those concerns?. >> i did not do so. and it happened friday and then notice of serious problems. >> in fact, we talked about this even before was confirmed or he was confirmed it is something we both agreed to a of a fresh start was probably a good thing. >> i could understand if you talked about that before ores had a chance for a fresh start but now suddenly in the midst of thed investigation the timing seems peculiar out of the blue the president friers the fbi director with problems of disarray going to the april 27 meeting by the time that came around your already named to chairp's n of the national security adviser. >> that was the mayflower hotel. >> yes sir but minder standing that jerry was at that meeting as well?. >> i believe he was speaking to recollect if he had conversations with the ambassador?. >> i do not spicule had no conversation at that meeting ?. >> i don't recall that and certainly i canid shirt zeroad negative assure y

types it out like a fact that komi days before being fired asked the d.o.j. for more prosecutors and personnel to accelerate the f.b.i.'s investigation into alleged russia's interference in the presidential election but guess what the justice department flatly denied that komi met with rosenstein to ask for more resources and here is house majority leader kevin mccarthy can. firming that these allegations are nothing but false one of the questions were. public present but he said he's already said it that he has no evidence to call me asked for any further resources that all the restrictions were there but good going nyet and now c.n.n. is raising eyebrows with their exact quote being or what as the reaction to mr rosen stein's anonymous sources statement wow can it get any better than this in the world of mainstream media they even managed to pull off the justice department began francis and thiago r.t. . well the justice department statement came just hours after the washington post published an article saying the very same department at the point of the sp

types it out like a fact that komi days before being fired asked the d.o.j. for more prosecutors and personnel to accelerate the f.b.i.'s investigation into alleged russia's interference in the presidential election but guess what the justice department flatly denied that komi met with rosenstein to ask for more resources and here is house majority leader kevin mccarthy can. firming that these allegations are nothing but faults one of the questions were. for public reserve but he said he's already said it that he has no evidence dick only asked for the resources that all these agents with good glowing n.y.t. and now c.n.n. is raising eyebrows with their exact quote being or what as the reaction to mr rosenstein is anonymous source a statement wow can it get any better than this in the world of mainstream media even managed to offer their justice department big advances and giago r.t. . at least eighteen people have been arrested during a protest in the us state of minnesota now after a police officer who shot dead a black man was found not guilty of manslaugh

again he shored up trumps factual claims and i think that's why people have largely forgotten what komi said and why it's now moving on to all this other stuff you don't hear much about the russia investigations you don't even hear much about what happened specifically with firing james cope you know we're into all kinds of other areas was not quite on his regulations or. arness as that he wants but for especially with health care seemingly to be stalled in the senate right now the leader of the senate mitch mcconnell has recently delayed of the vote on the health care bill until after the july fourth recess so now what so i think there are two things going on here the first is about the health care issue in general people right now are afraid of any change because their experience of change to the health insurance market under obamacare was so negative so i think the country and yet now more people approve of it when it first is pat people like the insurance they don't have under obamacare more than the insurance they might have under the republican plan so there's just this fear aroun

telling the truth about not being under investigation and you can debate whether he should have fired komi or not. it was definitely a discretionary move in the sense that it wasn't necessary given political realities but it's something he wanted to do partly because comey wouldn't clear his name publicly even though he had told the senate privately that there was no investigation of donald trump he had let all of the time right he let on publicly that things might be otherwise and i think trump was frustrated so i understand there was some debate inside the administration about whether or not to do it but certainly on the democratic side there have been demands that komi be fired that he lost all credibility because of the way he handled the hillary clinton investigation and the late announcement in october right before election day that she was being investigated again so turned out you know there was no need to have ever have you know on that well it's interesting you know you talk about you know he came out well through those hearings because trump was almost validated for example but

gave last week and this idea that james comey james komi gave last week and this idea thatjames comey don't believe me on my own with the president again. ifind on my own with the president again. i find that on my own with the president again. ifind that staggering. on my own with the president again. i find that staggering. from having being a staffer, you need to protect the principle, have someone in the room with the president and the attorney general or the fbi director, so if there is one person who may have put himself in a bad spot, it is james komi recognising that he should not be in that position, you need to have someone there to chronicle the conversation between those two gentlemen. ron christie, you could be advising the president. he needs a lawyer to tell him to stop talking. i'm staying right here! for more on how this is changing established orders, heroes nick bryant. you have written a great piece on the bbc website, we have a bit of it we can joke about the us uk relationship and how all the us uk relationship and how all the chaos here is affecting that. you wr

of the i directed james komi when asked about this by journalists mr rosenstein claimed he never said such a thing now c.n.n. a regular in anonymous sources came out saying that according to sources told me would testify that he never told trump that he was not under investigation only as kind of conflict and i took away from it what he did which was he said i've been assured that i'm not under any investigation so trump took away kind of this blanket assurance which we believe comey will say he did not give the president but when mr comey testified he said the exact opposite he actually told mr trump three times that mr president you are not under investigation c.n.n. even retracted their article confirming the original fake news story or how about this new york times article where not even a sources cited but rather the n.y.t. types it out like a fact that told me days before being fired ask the d.o.j. for more prosecutors and personnel to accelerate the f.b.i.'s investigation into alleged russia's interference in the presidential election but guess what the justice department flatl

letter three weeks before the election in which komi said he was still investing. seating her for her unsecured personal e-mail server if you recall that yes so much to unfold there i mean the whole political theme but we know back in april after a wreck tillerson said the u.s. and russia are at an all time low in the past two decades it seems as though relations between the two countries were on their way to a better place but again this so-called investigation washington has rather villainize russia even though again no evidence has been found so what's your take on the recent hostility over in syria between the u.s. and russia. well i'm very concerned as you say. it looked like there was some chance. in trump's administration for a repro show with russia something that i think is just makes common sense frankly . and now i do believe because of this rush to get the pushing of this russia gate scandal both by the democrats and by the media that it seems that the trumpet ministration now feels it's got to prove it didn't collude with russia by now being in tag is

>> it will depend on what komi says. there have been leaks around what he might be thinking about saying. but he has his own questions to answer during the hearing as well. he has previously indicated he was not under pressure but it depends on how this hearing goes and what questions are asked. we don't know yet. we also don't know if there is any evidence yet. we are still waiting to hear details around this. >> there is the possibility that president donald trump will follow through on a campaign promise and withdraw from the paris agreement. what will the impact be of that? >> it will be huge. anytime the u.s. walks away from the situation as a leader of the pack, that is not a good situation. especially when it comes to important issues like global warming. the united states needs to stay at the table. that does not mean that agreement is the perfect agreement but those things should change from the inside and not the outside. backing out of it entirely is not helpful.>> that if he does not follow through on the cam

who is hiring many people or their own private donors he has a close relationship with comi clearly komi doesn't like try. and wants to bring him down through the leaks and even with his testimony he gave a very strong anti trump position and it's obvious that he did that trump did fire him from a job you love so what the miller investigation i think it's more not going to be this obstruction of justice that's the big thing right now i think further down the line similar to how clinton with can starr they found the sexual affair out allegations from that i thought or yeah but that's what clinton peach and al got him and he knows that i that there's a there is they are so there's so i just like is that clinton was only impeached for obstruction of justice not better well regardless if there's something going to be allow down the line that miller might find that i don't like it i don't disagree it's clear that the investigation the further it goes along we find out more standing in terms of trump and the more he continues to make mistakes i don't know about your theory it's an interesting

whenjames when james komi gave whenjames komi gave his testimony, he was asked why he had been fired.judgment, it's myjudgment, that i was fired because of the russian investigation. i was fired, in some way, to change — or the endeavour was to change — the way the russia investigation was being conducted. that is a very big deal. this issue of expanding the reports that we get, that bob senedd robert mueller is expanding this to obstruction of justice, mueller is expanding this to obstruction ofjustice, how credible is that the president? to obstruct justice, you not only have to do it knowledgeably, you have to do it correctly. saying that i hope you can let this slide, that does not meet the legal test. yes, it was lea ked meet the legal test. yes, it was leaked this morning and people were saying that the investigation was expanded. as a lawyer, i say there is not enough evidence to warrant an obstruction of justice is not enough evidence to warrant an obstruction ofjustice charge at this point. if the white house donald trump had been looking at the possibility of getting rid of

. >> i did not really know the details so love those details that he shared but director komis said the russian did interfere into the election process does not give any evidence to the hearts and minds but is it treated different to support it the ngo and to have an impact on the hearts and minds to sway the public opinion and you can put your finger in any country and i know this because i talk to legions of other countries. but everybody says the same. what do they want? we just have the open stance with those covert operations and says there is no evidence so luckily and then to write to a memo but then that was leaked through a friend of his to the press. so when you reverend is the conversation, does that make them any different to mr. snowden? and with persecution we're ready to offer political asylum to director comey is he is -- if he is persecuted in the united states. >> now i am transferring the floor. >> to have 2 million questions so the social media is overloaded. with 1,000 people and i give the floor to one of them. ask your question. >> good day. i very much worry abou

strange if you would get the overall picture i think he was justified he should have fired director komi uponf taking the oath of office i am not sure the timing of when it happened this time was a good idea but i do think the president's instinct about firing him was good. >>host: michigan democratic line. >> caller: i have a comment to make when you have 17 independent intelligence agencies saying the russians colluded in our election that in itself is enough for an investigation.n al so all those that were meeting with the russiansed but our allies did not like united kingdom i would like to hear your comment on that >> will answer your question is spelled the city were from. i am kidding. follow those intelligence bases the agency's then russians were very open but they were involved to influence the election. but the question is is there any evidence that the trump campaign colluded with the russians? people suggested that might have happened but there was no evidence from those intelligence agencies and they repeatedly have gone before congress to say there is evidence and we know

the towering figure of the former fbi head, james komi coming in to give evidence. president trump. this alleged meeting took place after other reports that president trump asked james comey to drop an investigation into michael flynn. all we have heard so far is reports. tomorrow we hear from the man himself. if we have seen frustration today, worth remembering that those intelligence chiefs serve the present still. the former head of the fbi does not. can we talk about president trump's nomination for the mainjob at the president trump's nomination for the main job at the fbi. president trump's nomination for the mainjob at the fbi. a matter of interest today. he tweeted earlier this morning. came as a surprise according to some reports from his white house aides. christopher wray, he has litigation experience, coming from thejustice department. critics say he does not have that much experience when it comes to counterterrorism. certain issues whether or not he has the management experience to lead a global fbi. certainly questions put to him and his confirmation

you know we've now had multiple different people even james komi himself under oath multiple times has said that the no foreign power successfully meddled and effect of the election results in two thousand and sixteen and the general reaction that's coming out inside america is enough already with this rush of which which now admittedly is a which. there is little sign of athol in the simmering rod between germany and turkey you know the german foreign minister say president urged one will not be allowed to hold public events when he comes for the g twenty summit. we have received an official request for president to have permission to address german based turkish citizens during the g twenty summit it is not a good idea the federal government is of the same opinion on this but diplomatic relations between burley and. are at an all time low we heard from sigma gabriele there the german foreign minister martin shultz the social democratic party his candidate for chancellor of course the former president of the european parliament he's also said that foreign politicians that trade on our

you know we've now had multiple different people even james komi himself under oath multiple times has said that the no foreign power successfully meddled and effect of the election results in two thousand and sixteen and the general reaction that's coming out inside america is another fall ready with this rush of which at which now admittedly is a witch. israel's launched a missile strike against a syrian government military position there are no reports of any injuries but the attack came after a stray syrian mortar shell landed in the north of the disputed golan heights which is occupied by israel and israeli military statement later confirmed it's retaliation in response to the project launched earlier from syria towards israel i.d.f. targeted the syrian military position that far the mortar. has been an increasing border fire exchange between israel and syria of late israeli prime minister says his country quote will not tolerate errant shooting and will respond to war firing middle east based journalist martin j. told us the golan heights situation really demonstrates also clearl

you know we've now had multiple different people even james komi himself under oath multiple times has said that. no foreign power successfully meddled in effect of the election results in two thousand and sixteen and the general reaction that's coming out inside america is another fall ready with this russia which which now admittedly is a which so they come out of the break this thursday morning there's a warning that washington's claim of a chemical attack being planned in syria could spur extremists to carry out an atrocity we'll tell you all about it. lol endless. lead. in case you're new to the game this is how it works now the economy is built around corporations corporations run washington or washington controls the media the media control over the voters elected to businessman to run this country business equals power you must it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done before. good morning from me kevin when so russia's foreign ministers slammed the u.s. allegations that the syrian government is planning a chemical attack he said washington's claim coul

welcome to sophie and komi sophie shevardnadze and like much of the world the e.u. is going through turbulent times massive immigration. security threats rocking the very foundation of the union while the link with the common challenges bring the e.u. closer together or ultimately tear it apart. and we're here add to your reign him media for us to not to discuss this and much more with the former commission president. bush and the rise of euro skepticism scaring european politicians into promises of reform while the job. it's our new relations with the west is making brussels think about a tighter union in europe but with so many different voices inside the bloc really biggest single directions will forward it how will the powerhouses of the union bring the newer member states in line with the powerful stronger integration lead the e.u. to new horizons or the complete breakup. plus one hundred virus so it's really great to have you on our show today welcome to pleasure so that. when what's going on in european union right now i met quite a lot of european politician

and a consolation boy you reach at the very end so for me it was a very positive result for germany komi with a very young squad australia of big fish to fry they have to apply japan in tokyo at the end of august because they're not qualified yet. to look forward to speaking to i guess the just joy just think alike alive he said of sports and tourism department nicholai we were just talking about the great attraction saving this is a big part of what you're going to be doing trying to show why. all the people are going to come into moscow the attraction said given a sample of the culture. your rate has to fall or think you for inviting me here one of the best. point there for in moscow i mean you would go a beauty spot right here early this is the best place is my personal appeal it's appealing but there are most cool it's not just there are very. deceiving it's not there to get it all fresh and it's something special in the you can see and we have a lot of things to show our guests. football fans and i guess most mccloy i was here for the champions very final the only all english champi

well welcome to sophie and komi sophie shevardnadze nato is joining the global fight against islamic state but what's to action plan behind the bold declaration. of the military alliance be able to reinvent itself in the face of changing threats to talk about this and war we're joined by a former deputy secretary general of nato i sounded on when you thought it so. isolationists schools appear to be damaging to you. as europe is criticized by the u.s. president for failing to show financial commitment to the long decades old alliance is now feeling the pressure with the e.u. seemingly ready to take its security into its own hands in a few radical european army replace them waits on the transatlantic alliance is the current disagreement just a passing cloud or will it be the catalyst of an unraveling of seventy years of western. sound that will mean the former deputy secretary general of nato welcome to the show it's really great to have you with us now sir at the latest nato summit startled strong scald its alliance members for not pulling their weight financially in fact if they eff

you know we've had multiple different people even james komi himself under oath multiple times has said that the no foreign power successfully meddled and effect of the election results in two thousand and sixteen and the general reaction that's coming out inside america is enough already with this russian which at which now admittedly is a which are. in a few months sweden is set to conduct its biggest military exercise in twenty years it coincides too with russia holding large scale drills as well but there's a third of them in the pipeline on a very different mission they described as the first peacekeeping war games thirty swedish and russian activists take part in a two day exercise called alan seventy with the goal of the escalating in a hypothetical conflict one of the organizers told us that someone's going to reach out with a message of peace. they are of course not physical that you would have if you were exercising the menier of exercises to be prepared if the escalation continues but we have bigger and bigger military exercises on the russian side begin to begin military exe

a welcome to sophie and komi sophie shevardnadze nato joining the global fight against islamic state but what's to actually plan behind the bold declaration. of the military alliance be able to reinvent itself in the face of changing threats to talk about this and war we're joined by former deputy secretary general of nato don when you thought. isolation is schools appear to be. as europe is criticized by the u.s. president for failing to show financial commitment to the block. is now feeling the pressure. to take its security. european army replacing the transatlantic alliance is the current disagreement just a passing cloud or will it be the catalyst of an unraveling of seventy years of western. sound it'll mean the former secretary general of nato welcome to the show it's really great to have you with us now sir at the latest nato summit startles truong scalded alliance members for not. pulling their weight financially effective be effectively for not contributing two percent of their g.d.p. to defense but since it's the united states that will see most influence in the alliance i

a welcome to sophie and komi sophie shevardnadze nato is joining the global fight against islamic state but what's to actual play and behind the bold declaration. well the military alliance be able to reinvent itself in the face of changing threats to talk about this and war we're joined by a former deputy secretary general of nato i listened on when you thought it so. isolationist schools appear to be damaging the unity of nato as europe is criticized by the us president for failing to show financial commitment to the long decades old alliance is now feeling the pressure with the e.u. see. be ready to take it security into its own hands in a few radical european army replace them waits on the transatlantic alliance is the current disagreement just a passing cloud or will it be the catalyst of an unraveling of seventy years of western union. sound it'll mean the former deputy secretary general of nato welcome to the show it's really great to have you with us now sir at the latest nato summit startled chong scalded alliance members for not pulling their weight financially effective be ef

director james komi received a surprising offer from putin thursday that of political asylum the russian president's invitation came joining up for our annual q. and a session and fielded seventy questions from residents across russia trying to listen to. this is the very table where the russian president vladimir putin just spent four hours answering questions those questions from journalists but from the russian people and some of it came from the audience of russian celebrities there were no u.s. media here but still we heard questions about the accusations of moscow interfering in the u.s. elections vladimir putin said that still there has been no evidence of that that washington can present to moscow besides this is russia's got its own national interests and opinion doesn't count as meddling says then seemingly from out of nowhere came a bombshell the russian president was asked about the former f.b.i. director james cole me and then mr putin compared him to edward snowden that was really something that caused wow in the press room. when the head of the security service recalls his

investigation met with her on the tarmac and then that loretta lynch only days later proposed that komi call it a matter instead of an investigation so that it didn't look bad for hillary's campaign so if there's obstruction of justice in america and rob you don't have to firm that. i don't think that it's worth even discussing the clintons were then this is now president trump is is tweeting and he's damaging himself doing that if he should take a lesson from bill clinton's playbook when he was president of the united states he was he was about to be impeached but he conducted business as usual and he proceeded to run the government trump is just sitting there ranting and looking at is handheld devices and tweeting about what's going on you know you stop you actually the president doesn't have any president has has created and we've got to leave it there out of jobs he's restored the stock market ok we had a lawyer there we got to run dr dean aloud and rob great to have both of you with us tonight we could go for hours i appreciate your time another terrorist attack in downtown paris t

the wonder regular economy could go down and everyone to come into this great party oh baking the komi as a romanist solar power pride parade that went from one country to another over a border i think that's something that we can fight if you think those are light going or big cawing max call it of course that i was struck by the we did it together at this in a to nala where was the senate and seen it done and in the done no less drama which is a cinema war movies take place and also stand up comedy and we had the end of very interesting event besides the one that we had we had a meet up last week there it seen it done and with all your mexican fans that were very happy to see you but they all we also had the event we had the movie banking a bit so when the movie came out i saw that no movie theaters were having it here in mexico soit directly come think that the producers and make of that that they wrecked rental inmate would be interesting and screened in mexico and seen it done unless it we would be interested in having this event so we made a big into two dates with this big bitco

off track that he is tweeting about it and in fact one of his tweets apparently it provoked james komi so. much that he sent his own memo to friends at columbia university to leak it to the new york times in the hopes that it would trigger a special counsel which it did so do you think that some of this is of the president's own making i think that a lot of the media attention is of the president's own making but the underlying investigation has about as much credibility is the salem witch hunts and if you look at home and jenkins piece in the wall street journal this morning he's really assess this very carefully and looked at the fact that over months and months and months and several committees now have been able to turn up absolutely nothing so they can continue to investigate but it is a just as you travel keep tweeting about this i mean he's been told look i mean this this is hurting you legally that i'm reading you advise the president what he should tweet about but i think that why not america well because he's got plenty of advisors already i think that most americans understa