Him before he became their hero, that hed hurt the fbi. When Hillary Clintons campaign did a version of that during the campaign, mike pence, then governor of indiana, called it the politics of personal destruction. Of course as weve heard, comey had his own character claims to make about the president ial, said it was in his nature to lie. But then at the end of the day the president s personal lawyer had the final word on character, saying that comey had anonymously leaked that information and that he should be investigated for it. The president has called comey a nut job in the white house. You know, the president said that he had been vindicated, if you will, by comey, told that he was not under investigation three times. But now theres a special counsel. Well, thats right. So the president comey did tell the president that back then, but suggested the president was under investigation in his testimony today. Yesterday the acting fbi director also said he couldnt answer certain que
States said, we had that thing i would like to know what that thing is. This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley former f. B. I. Director james comey told the Senate Intelligence commit they President Trump ordered him to call off the investigation of former National Security adviser Michael Flynn. For two and a half hours today, comey described a series of highly unusual meetings and phone calls in which mr. Trump bypassed comeys boss, the attorney general, and asked comey directly to publicly clear the president of wrongdoing. A special counsel has taken over the russia investigation and could look into whether mr. Trump committed obstruction of justice when he asked comey to drop the flynn inquiry and then fired comey when he did not. In perhaps a sign of the legal and political jeopardy, the president for once did not speak for himself. He left it to his lawyer to deny all. We have extensive coverage beginning with nancy cordes. I was honestly concerned that he might
What that thing is. This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley this is our western edition. Former f. B. I. Former f. B. I. Director james comey told the Senate Intelligence committee that President Trump ordered him to call off the investigation of former National Security adviser Michael Flynn. For two and a half hours today, comey described a series of highly unusual meetings and phone calls in which mr. Trump bypassed comeys boss, the attorney general, and asked comey directly to publicly clear the president of wrongdoing. A special counsel has taken over the russia investigation and could look into whether mr. Trump committed obstruction of justice when he asked comey to drop the flynn inquiry, and then fired comey when he did not. In perhaps a sign of the legal and political jeopardy, the president , for once, did not speak for himself. He left it to his lawyer to deny all. We have extensive coverage, beginning with nancy cordes. I was honestly concerned that he might
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