point. in fact, just days after the president asked comey, he said to lester holt that he did it because of the russia thing. that fbi opened an investigation for no reason in response to the new york times reporting when they make clear all of the many reasons why fbi officials felt compelled to launch this counterintelligence investigation and then sarah sanders said he is tougher on russia than his predecessors, obama and bush and clinton. but there is a gap between president trump and others approach to russia. and in helsinki he stood beside vladimir putin and stood up for him. so these statements the president is making are entirely off the mark, richard. so the criticism that was so well outlined by geoff here, barbara, this does not happen very easily, there are guidelines in place and attorney general playbooks if you will,
what s protected by privilege? the mueller documents that were shown to a grand jury that reflect the thoughts and impressions of investigators and prosecutors or where witnessewitnesses were promised confidentiality. steve: that s everything that they want. exactly steve. that s everything that they want. when that subpoena arrives today at the doj. they are going to go, i think, across the street to a federal court to ask that it be quashed. that means that a federal judge will get to look at all this stuff tens of thousands of pages here in private and decide what stays secret and what the congress gets. ainsley: all right. judge: meanwhile, these two are going to be testifying all day today on the house side. brian: 770 questioners today. ainsley: asked comey to testify. asked twice. spokesman says out of the country and went on twitter and shows is he in iowa. not the iowa caucuses. ainsley: can he do his tv and book tour but can t talk
nature of how the president operates and talks about things. also just as i m reading through this as we all are, some things are sticking out to me, on one of the pages it talks about trump brings up the fact that he told o reilly, we are killers like russia is. russia seems to be continually brought up in these conversations with comey, and apparently, the president asked comey, you think my answer was good, right? comey responded i think it was fine except the killers part. comey making the point that we re not the kind of killers that putin is and the way that comey perceived it, the president did not like his answer to that. he said the president paused noticeably. i don t know what to make of it. he clearly noticed i had directly criticized him. it is interesting, though, to see, while the president was bringing up all these different issues, all over the place, it was clear the russia bit, cloud of the russia investigation as he put it was top of mind and really still is
this as we all are, some things are sticking out to me, on one of the pages it talks about trump brings up the fact that he told o reilly, we are killers like russia is. russia seems to be continually brought up in these conversations with comey, and apparently, the president asked comey, you think my answer was good, right? comey responded i think it was fine except the killers part. comey making the point that we re not the kind of killers that putin is and the way that comey perceived it, the president did not like his answer to that. he said the president paused noticeably. i don t know what to make of it. he clearly noticed i had directly criticized him. it is interesting, though, to see, while the president was bringing up all these different issues, all over the place, it was cloear the russia bit, clou of the russia investigation as he put it was top of mind and really still is to this day. it s something that still irks him a great deal, don. josh, in addition to the
what was happening last june when president trump ordered his white house counsel to fire robert mueller. as you know, mueller was appointed in may after the president fired the former fbi director, james comey. here s what went on in the month that followed. on june 7th, comey releases a written statement about his interactions with the president. that statement alleges that in january of last year, the president asked comey for loyalty and to stop investigating his friend and former national security adviser michael flynn. one day later, comey publicly testifies before congress about these allegations detailing how uncomfortable these conversations with the president made him. and about a week later, on june 15th, mueller requests interviews with top intelligence officials, including the director of national intelligence dan coates of the national security agency. according to reports, the president had previously asked both of these men to intervene in the russia investigation. and