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Is the president secretly recording conversations . Ill tell you about that maybe sometime in the very near future. Oh, youre going to be very disappointed when you hear the answer. If so, what happens next . Two leaders of the Senate Investigation join me live in minutes, and the best political minds will be here with insights on another wild week in washington. Hello, im Brianna Keilar in for jake tapper in washington from the state of our union is pointing fingers. President trump is in a war of words with fired fbi director james comey, who accused the president of asking him to back off the Flynn Investigation earlier this year. Trump came out swinging, with a strong denial of the account. He did say under oath that you told him to let the flynn, you said you hoped the Flynn Investigation you could let, he could let go. I didnt say that. Well he lied about that . I didnt say that. I will i will tell you i didnt say that. And there would be nothing wrong if i did say it, according to everybody that ive read today, but i did not say that. Comeys testimony also put the spotlight on attorney general jeff sessions, who recused himself from the russia investigation but recommended comeys firing. Sessions announced yesterday that he plans to testify before the Senate Intelligence committee on tuesday saying in a statement, in light of reports regarding mr. Comeys recent testimony before the Senate Select committee on intelligence, it is important that i have an opportunity to address these matters in the appropriate forum. The Senate Intelligence committee is the most appropriate forum for such matters, as it has been conducting an investigation and has access to relevant, classified information. And im joined now by a leading democrat on the Intelligence Committee, senator dianne feinstein. Thank you so much for taking time with us this sunday. Thank you, brianna. You heard that from the attorney general hes going to testify tuesday before the Intelligence Committee. Is that going to happen and is it going to be public . Dont know whether it will happen, dont know whether its going to be public and i challenge the jurisdiction, to some extent, im on both committees, as you know. Judiciary and intelligence. Yes, and i believe that the Judiciary Committee has the oversight responsibility for the justice department, and therefore, it is very fitting for the attorney general to appear there. Ive written two letters to senator grassley, suggesting that. I pointed out that his predecessor, mr. Holder, had a hearing of oversight in june of the first year of his term, as sessions has not, and sessions ought to come back before the Judiciary Committee. You said in that letter to senator grassley, who is the Top Republican on the Judiciary Committee, that you want him to investigate potential obstruction of justice. What tells you that that is appropriate, that that has happened . Well, let me tell you in the first place, ive served for 16 years on intelligence, and 24 on judiciary. The intelligence staff is just that. Its intelligence staff. Most are not lawyers, and they are restricted to the world of intelligence. The judiciary staff are all lawyers, most very good lawyers, and so there is an opportunity to look at the law with respect to obstruction of justice, to hold a hearing, and also to have those relevant people come before the Judiciary Committee. Ive been very concerned by the fact that both director coats and director rogers refused to answer the questions when put to them by members of the Intelligence Committee. They were asked essentially if they had been pressured by President Trump, and they said they would talk about that in a closed hearing. Have they spoken in a closed hearing to senators . Well, no, they were not in a closed hearing. The closed hearing that afternoon was just with the former director of the fbi. But you feel that thats obstruction of justice, even though theyve indicated a willingness to talk about it in a classified briefing . I dont know whether its obstruction of justice, and i dont intend to draw any conclusions until investigations are finished. I think this is very important, and i believe, i think the Intelligence Committee is doing good work, and should continue. I think senator burr and senator warner did a good job in the chairs at the hearing, but i also know that theres another part of this, and that part should not be given short shrift, and it has to do with the department of justice. What we heard from former director comey was that he said President Trump tried to derail the fbis investigation of Michael Flynn pressured him to do that, he of course was the former National Security adviser to the president who was fired. President trump and his personal lawyer, they say this isnt true and theyve accused comey of not telling the truth, of perjury. Heres what he said. The president never in form or substance directed or suggested that mr. Comey stop investigating anyone, including the president never suggested that mr. Comey let flynn go. The president also never told mr. Comey i need loyalty. I expect loyalty. The president says he didnt say it. The fbi director says he did. Who do you believe . Well, at this point, i believe the fbi director. I know him the best. Ive observed him the longest. I know he has his own band of integrity. Disagreed with him on the emails, let him know that mono syllabically. But in this kind of thing, hes not going to lie. Hes just not in him to do this. So im one that believes we need the Judiciary Committee to step up and carry its weight on these hearings as well. That was, of course, the focus of this hearing, but there is Something Else we learned separately from jim comey, and that was some tough words that he had for the former attorney general, Loretta Lynch, under president obama. Comey thinks that lynch improperly injected politics into that investigation of Hillary Clintons emails. Heres what he said about that. The attorney general had directed me not to call it an investigation, but instead to call it a matter, which confused me and concerned me, but that was one of the bricks in the load that led me to conclude i have to step away from the department, if were to close this case credibly. Comey said that lynch, the request gave him a queasy feeling. He felt clearly that Loretta Lynch was giving cover to the clinton campaign. Was she . I cant answer that. I would have a queasy feeling, too, though, to be candid with you. I think we need to know more about that and theres only way to know about it, and thats to have the Judiciary Committee take a look at that. So you think its worth investigating, if in a way this was semantic cover given to the clinton campaign. It was clearly an investigation being described in the matter. Yes, but this is a separated investigation were talking about, and i dont think we should mix the two. Right now, this is the total integrity of the president of the United States. This is a very big deal, brianna. It should be all hands on deck, and everybody should welcome a Second Committee getting involved, particularly on the technical legal aspects of obstruction of justice. I have no doubt well, you see, there is also time, manner and place. When this episode took place that the president s referring to he did not say was on february 14th. There was a scheduled Counter Intelligence briefing. The Vice President , the attorney general, the fbi director, jared kushner, and others were in the room. The president asked that the room be cleared. The attorney general apparently hung back. I thought the attorney general should have said something. This man works for me. I think i should be here, too, mr. President , but the fbi director ended up alone, and thats kind of where this began, and thats where i want to talk about the flynn case. And cant you just let it go . Now, cant you just let it go, are the words that are fairly indelibly impressed upon my mind. What comey says the president said. And what the president says he did not. Yes. And there were no witnesses. If there are tapes, please, and the president s equivocal on this, bring those tapes forward. House minority leader nancy pelosi, a fellow democrat from your home state, hometown, she said friday theres no question that President Trump abused his power and she also questioned his fitness for office. Lets listen. Im very worried about his fitness. The president s fitness for office is something that is being called into question. Do you agree that . Do you worry about the president s fitness for office . I think here is the problem. Republican or democrat, when you serve in either the house or the senate, you are accustomed to stability in the white house. You are accustomed to the protocols that go along with it. You are very careful about what you do and what you say. All of that is out the window now, and so what we are does it make him fit or unfit . Is that every day is a new crisis and that has a destabilizing effect because weve got big issues to solve. Weve got a huge opioid epidemic, weve got health care that needs to be tended to. But does it hit that level of fitness, where you might say that he is unfit as nancy pelosi did . Well, i wouldnt say im not there yet, but i understand why the leader feels the way she does. Theres an unpredictability, he projects an instability. He projects a different issue every day, doing policy by tweets is really a shakeup for us, because theres no justification presented. Theres no state department analysis. Theres no nothing. And now theres a reluctance to respond to questions submitted by democrats, even the democratic Ranking Member, for example, if i were to write a letter as Ranking Member of judiciary to the white house, and ask some questions, not controversial, they dont necessarily have to answer me. Yes. Thats never existed before, regardless of party. Senator dianne feinstein, thank you so much for joining us. Youre welcome. And coming up, are there secret white house recordings of the president s conversations . Congress is demanding answers. You heard one senator do that. New details on their possible existence, and when well know, next. Tech when you schedule with safelite autoglass, you get a text when were on our way. You can see exactly when well arrive. Im micah with safelite. 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The bipartisan leaders of the russia investigation and the house of representatives sent a letter to White House Counsel Don Mcgahn after the president s statement asking if any recording or memoranda exist and if so, to turn them over by next friday. How is all of this going to affect the investigation . With us now to talk about that, republican senator Susan Collins. She is on the Senate Intelligence committee. Senator, thanks so much for joining us. My pleasure. I want to ask you about something the president has been cagey about, and that is these tapes, of course. I wonder if you would support issuing a subpoena to the white house. Right now its just a request coming from congress, would you support issuing a subpoena for the recordings or any documents that might come from that . This is an issue that the president should have cleared up in his press conference. He should give a straight yes or no to the answer, to the question of whether or not the tapes exist, and he should voluntarily turn them over not only to the Senate Intelligence committee, but to the special counsel. So i dont think a subpoena should be necessary, and i dont understand why the president just doesnt clear this matter up once and for all. If he doesnt, and a subpoena would be necessary to find this out, you support that . I would be fine with issuing a subpoena, but that most likely would come from the special counsels office. Okay. President trump, speaking of the special counsel, said he would 100 be willing to testify under oath about his interactions. Do you think that that is something that should go before robert mueller, the special counsel, or do you think it should go before congress or do you think both . The president should fully cooperate with a special counsel and hes indicated that he will do so. We have to keep in mind that the focus of the Senate Intelligence committees investigation is to the extent of russian influence on our elections last fall, and whether or not there was collusion, collaboration, cooperation between the russians and members of President Trumps campaign team. So they are two different investigations with two different imif a emphases under way right now. Both are critical. Both are really important to our country. So it sounds like if he were to talk to, you would be comfortable with him just talking to bob mueller . Yes, i would be. And if he does, should video of that testimony be made public, do you think . Well, that really depends on how the special counsel decides to proceed. It would be unusual if in the midst of the investigation he were to release a video or a transcript, of the investigation, before the investigation is concluded. That is frustrating, because we all want to know all of the information, but keep in mind, that his job is to determine whether or not there are any violations of criminal laws, and he wants to make sure that he has all the evidence put together, rather than releasing it in a piecemeal basis. Our committee will release a public report at the end of our investigation, and were proceeding, and i really commend the two leaders of our committee for what i thought was an excellent series of hearings last week. Bipartisan support backing up what you just said there. The former fbi director says the president pressured him to back off from investigating general Michael Flynn. He wrote a note of an interaction with the president at the time he had it, saying as much. The president says that never happened. So who do you believe . President trump or james comey . I found director comey, former director comeys testimony to be candid, to be thorough, and he testified under oath. So i believe that the information that he gave our committee is what he believed happened. That doesnt eliminate the possibility that there was a misinterpretation. What i dont understand is when the president did say to him that he should let go of the Flynn Investigation, which was clearly wrong on the president s part. Why the director did not say back to the president , mr. President , that is so inappropriate for you to do that. The independence of the fbi is really important, and we cannot be having discussions like this. I think he should have said that at the time. If it was so inappropriate, then it sounds as if you understand in the context of what happened that that was some sort of direction coming from President Trump, so does that make what he said in the rose garden this week a lie . Certainly mr. Comey understood it as a directive. The exact language makes it more ambiguous because he says the president says i hope you can see your way to letting the flynn matter go. Thats still wrong for him to do that. Whether its illegal is a whole nother issue, and thats up to the independent counsel, but it was wrong of the president to even bring up the subject. If he said to you, senator, in the white house, if President Trump was talking to you and he said senator collins, i hope you can vote for the Health Care Bill, i mean, how would you interpret that . You would interpret that as a directive, right . Actually, i wouldnt. I think he would be saying truly that he hoped that i would, since he knows i have a lot of reservations about it. Okay. But listen, the conversation should not have occurred. Theres just no doubt about that. So you told cnn on friday that perhaps it was the inexperience of the president essentially thats what you said, that maybe he thought all of the meetings with the fbi director should be one on one. Is that an excuse for him . I mean, is that just an excuse or do you think thats really something that is, makes, i dont want to say makes sense but really could have happened . Let me go back to the first meeting that the fbi director had with President Trump. At that meeting, which had several people in it, the fbi director asked that everyone leave the room except for him true. And President Trump. Im running out of time, senator, thats an important point you make. Then the next meeting is in person, a dinner between the two, which is something that takes lead time, clearly by this point in time the president should have been aware that this was inappropriate, so how is it possible that this was just him being inexperienced and taking cues from the first meeting, if this is something that was set up with considerable advance from the white house. My theory is the president thinks thats how you interact with the fbi director, but someone should have stepped in. The fbi director should have stepped in, the Deputy Attorney general, the white house counsels office, to explain to the president , its not an excuse. The president clearly does not fully understand or appreciate the boundaries, but he should. Im not excusing his behavior but im saying there were a lot of people in government who should have set him straight. And we dont know whether they tried to. Maybe a potential explanation, if not an excuse. We hear you on that. I do want to ask you about health care before i let you go. Right. Theres a quarter Million People in your home state, maine, and they rely on medicaid. Are you willing to support a Health Care Bill that would result in people losing medicaid coverage . I am not at all comfortable with the house bill and i would oppose that bill. The senate bill is still in progress. We havent seen the actual language. Were trying to influence the direction of that, but a bill that results in 23 Million People losing coverage is not a bill that i can support. So well see what the senate comes up with. Its still being drafted. It seems it would be almost impossible for a bill that does not cut some medicaid to make it through a Republican Senate and a Republican House. Do you think youre being heard on what youre saying about people losing medicaid . Certainly the outline of the senate bill is far superior to the house bill, but weve got a ways to go yet. Now, there are ways to reduce the cost of medicaid, and picked you can do that through managed care such as the indiana model, and that has produced Better Health outcomes and lower costs, so there are ways to reduce the cost of medicaid without throwing people off the rolls. Senate collins, thank you so much, senator Susan Collins of maine joining us this sunday. We appreciate it. Thank you. 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Here with their insights on it, former Trump Campaign strategist david urban, democratic congressman luis gutierrez, former Republican House Intelligence Committee chairman mike rogers and neera tanden, president and ceo of the center for american progress. David, to you. Will the president regret this pledge of 100 hes willing to testify . No, the president is not going to regret it at all. The president wants to cooperate. The president will cooperate, has been cooperating and will continue to do so. Listen, director mueller has an investigation ongoing and it will be ongoing for quite some time. The president will have a great big, has a legal team, has a lawyer in place, and will listen to his lawyer but the president will cooperate i dont suspect that he will not for one second, so what he said he will follow through on. We asked the question over and over, do you believe the former fbi director or do you believe President Trump on this . Its a he said he said thing, but in a court of law, chairman, thats not always the case, right, considering that comey had memos here. Those get some weight, dont they . They do. The one problem here i think on both sides of this well, first of all that were talking about this at all with the russia influence in the investigation hardly came up with those influence in the election excuse me hardly even came up with those things, with all the world problems, we are narrowly focused and what i saw in that hearing was really i think confirming my mothers old adage that if youre going to practice the lesson of meanness, be careful, it might just take. And what you saw there was two personal individuals, both pretty angry about what was going on, play out in the court of Public Opinion. Bad day for the president in the court of Public Opinion. What i saw there did not rise to the legal status of obstruction of justice. Youre shaking your head, neera. What happened here is the fbi director took contemporaneous notes so it does add to the legal weight of what happened and we must have watched different hearings, seemed to me i saw the merits but it doesnt matter what i think. It matters what a court of law and what the special prosecutor thinks and i think after what the president said on friday i hope he will obviously cooperate with the special prosecutor, but we need to get answers in the public, so i hope he will testify in congress about this conversation. Director comey has testified. He should testify. We should be able to see the president answer questions specific questions about this, not at a press conference but with the senate. I do want to talk about something donald trump jr. Said because its fascinating, this was an interview to fox news, and he seems to suggest that the president did indeed tell james comey, hey, i hope this happens, i hope that you will let this go. Take a listen. When he tells you to do something, guess what . Theres no ambiguity in it. Theres no, hey, im hoping. You and i are friends. Hey, i hope this happens but you got to do your job. Thats what he told comey and for this guy as a politician to write a memo i felt threatened. He felt threatened . He didnt do anything. Hey, thats what he told comey. Now the president says that is not what he told comey. Hes saying that he didnt express any hope on this, congressman. Well heres i think, he said 100 hes ready to testify under oath. Comeys already testified under oath. Theres one thing we all know about fbi and fbi agents you cannot lie to an fbi agent, that in itself is a lie. Its a crime. Its a crime, and he came under oath and spoke, so heres what i think we should do, we should call his bluff. This is the same president of the United States that said to us 100 im going to give you my income taxes. If i could just finish that way we could all get a word in. He said 100 im going to give you my income taxes, 100 . 100 . Weve never seen them. Lets call his bluff now, and lets remember, as my friend mr. Rogers suggested to us, what happened to the investigation into the undue influence of a foreign country in our electoral process . But at the same time this has gone from an Intelligence Committee setting to Judiciary Committee setting. Theyre doing that with if i could just finish, if i could just finish. Why is that . Because now were talking about what the president said to the director of the fbi. Is this a problem he asked the Vice President to leave the room. He asked the Vice President to leave the room and he asked the attorney general to leave the room when he had that conversation. So weve heard from david, just back to the point about don jr. , he is saying that his father did do this thing that his father says he didnt. Two people were in the room. Inappropriate weve heard from numerous legal scholars, okay, lawyers, professors. Other than jeff toobin, nobody thinks theres a crime here. Its my turn. Its my turn neera, sorry. Were taking turns, its mine. But there are inappropriate. No, wait a minute, can i finish . David, there are people who say this is a problem. May i finish . Inappropriate doesnt rise to the level of specific corrupt intent. It could and thats what some legal experts are saying. Yes, many legal experts are saying exactly its wrong. Tell me who they are, neera. Locklear, the washington post, the five legal scholars. Based on what you heard there yesterday yes, based on what they heard on friday because as the president getting people out of the room. If what the fbi director said is true the language thats a chasm the size of the grand canyon. This whole thing tells you why it should be left in the hands of a special prosecutor. You are never going to get an honest assessment of what that testimony meant or did not mean. You can have lawyers. Theres lots of impeachable statements by the director of the fbi in his testimony. If you talk about a Legal Standard which should be very, very high, certainly that testimony alone didnt meet it, and so best to leave this really, other than the court of Public Opinion. Last week let me just say there are numerous legal scholars who say that what the president did rises to obstruction of justice. Now, maybe you dont think it is and im glad we have a prosecutor that thankfully we have one that will make this determination but it is absolutely false to say nothing the president did, if director comey is right, and trump is wrong, which you know, he said he had tapes, were going to we have a case of obstruction of justice. My friend that is where we are going unfortunately to have to leave it. Chairman, neera, david, congressman, thank you so much to all of you on this topic. 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Hes new to government, and so he probably wasnt steeped in the long running protocols that established the relationships between doj, fbi, and white houses. Hes just new to this. House Speaker Paul Ryan offering his take on accusations President Trump asked former fbi director james comey to back off the Flynn Investigation. Will that fly . The panel is back with me now. So this is the argument, david. President trump didnt know any different. Hes new to this. Does that fly . Brianna, thats not the argument. That was one explanation from one person. We also heard it from senator collins, more than one republicans saying this. Thats some peoples explanation. I dont believe is an explanation from director comey when asked if he was so uncomfortable if he felt so awkward, if it was so inappropriate what the president did nine times, why didnt he address the president , say directly to president the, this is an inappropriate conversation we cant have. Instead he scampered out into his suv and scribbled in his moleskin, in case of emergency break glass and leak those to a columbia professor once he lost his job. The president s not some kid in some internship as president of the United States, that doesnt know what hes doing. He sold himself as i know how to get this job done, to the American People he knew exactly what he was doing. A, he asked his soninlaw to leave the room. He asked the attorney general to leave the room, and he asked the Vice President to leave the room. That sounds like somebody who knew exactly what he was doing because he didnt want any witnesses when he went and spoke to the director, and we shouldnt blame have you never done something can i Say Something . I know a con artist when i see one. I was a con artist that day. I take umbrage. This is the president of the United States that went congressman to the fbi director. Youve never done that with one of your constituents . And went to the fbi director and said to him, end an investigation, and then were supposed to believe he really doesnt know what hes doing. Have you ever asked in a room with your constituents hang back, to your staff, i want to talk to you . A simple question. I dont know if thats apples to apples. Can i say here you mentioned the leaking. First of all, plenty of just to answer your question, plenty of courts have said things like when you ask everyone to leave and hold someone back is actually a determination of motive, so just to answer that question, that for a court of law usually does show motive. Number two, the whole issue of leaking, i look at what director comey did in this situation as whistle blowing. What happened with the president is on friday you can laugh, but what happened with the president is, on a friday, he said there were tapes. He said there were tapes of the conversations or there may be tapes of the conversation, and that is when director comey decided to say okay, i need to get an alternative set of reality here, which are the actual facts. On nine times but back to its whistle blowing. Is im new here an excuse, a way to explain, oh, i didnt know what i was doing, its not nefarious, when youre talking about several meetings and phone calls . No. Its not. And what the special prosecutor will have to do is take the totality of all of this, this one testimony, in my mind as a former fbi investigator does not rise to the level of obstruction of justice but thats why you have a special prosecutor. Theyll go all the way around it. Do the nine meetings give it weight . The worst, i think the worst problem this president has in this instance is the president himself. If he would stop talking about the small ball individual tweets, attacking director comey personally, i think we could get beyond this. I think the special investigator is going to have to have some room to investigate. Listen, the president of the United States under oath said 100 hes ready and i think we can settle this. He said himself the reason why he said in his 100 . In his interview with lester holt he gave the reason why he was fired. He said i fired him because i had the russia investigation on my mind. So youre right. I say look at the totality and look at the president s own words in the lester holt interview and tells you why. David urban, final word to you here. Lets go back to what director comey did. The assistant director of the fbi of the Criminal Division was on this show, not this show but on this network last week saying what the director did was inappropriate. After that first meeting dont roll your eyes, neera, go back and watch the tape. If he was a part of this investigation he should have recused himself. He was a material witness, a fact witness, part of it, he should have walked across the street and handed off, could have gone to the hill, congressman guttierez, senator feinstein. He gave his reason for this. He tried to do the investigation. Under oath. Under oath shall give his explanation of what happened. And my friends then the president would have impeded the investigation. Court of Public Opinion and court of law are two very different things. Thank you so much, congressmen, david, neera tanden and chairman rogers. We appreciate it. After the break, joe biden echoes democratic anger with donald trump and turns to a republican . Who does he want to run for office . Some shocking new political bedfellows next. People confuse nice and kind but theyre different. Its nice to remove artificial ingredients. Kind never had to. We choose real ingredients like almonds, peanuts and a drizzle of dark chocolate. Give kind a try. 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