Democratic colleagues complaining about the removal of an fbi director whom they themselves repeatedly and sharply criticized, that removal done by a man Rod Rosenstein who they repeatedly praised. When mr. Rosenstein recommended mr. Comeys removal for many of the reasons they consistently complained about. Charles joininge congren pete hoekstra. The political kabuki theater, everyone jockeying for different things. What are we watching . What are both parties trying achieve right here . What youre seeing here is why grassroots america hates washington. I think Steve Colbert announced james comey was fired, and his audience applauded. And its like, no, no, guys, thats the wrong answer, youre supposed to be upset he forgot to tell them, when i tell you james comey has been fired, i know the democrats have been telling you for ten months hes a terrible person, now youre supposed to boo because you want him in office. This is washington and the democrats being totally out of touch with wh
Leader, Chuck Schumer. Did Obama White House officials leave a trail to make it easier for congress to investigate russia and the election . Ill ask a man who would know, the former director of National Intelligence under president obama, james clapper. And President Trumps tweet claiming president obama tapped his phones. Can the white house provide evidence, or is the president just trying to get people to stop talking about russia . Joining me for insight and analysis, tom freyiedman from t New York Times. Kim strassel. Democratic polster Cornell Belcher and Danielle Pletka from the American Enterprise institute. Welcome to sunday. Its meet the press. Good sunday morning. Its a pretty good bet that the white house hoped and expected that the big story this week would be President Trumps initially well received speech to the nation on tuesday night. Instead, almost immediately the white house was back in a defensive crouch, forced to fight off a parade of new revelations linking the
That meeting. I have recused myself in the matters that deal with the Trump Campaign. That statement by the attorney general on thursday came after the Washington Post revealed sessions met twice last year with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. Sessions scrambled to clarify. In retrospect i should have slowed down and said, but i did meet one russia official a couple of times. That would be the ambassador. Sessions met with kislyak on july 18th after speaking to a group of ambassadors at the republican convention. And he met again with the Russian Ambassador at his Senate Office on september 8th, just three days after president obama took a hardline on russian sanctions in a g20 meeting with Vladimir Putin. Since the election mr. Trump and his surrogates have repeatedly denied any contact between the campaign and russian officials. I am just telling you, its all phony baloney garbage. All the contact by the Trump Campaign and associates was with the American People. So youre not aware
Leader, Chuck Schumer. Did Obama White House officials leave a trail to make it easier for congress to investigate russia and the election . Ill ask a man who would know, the former director of National Intelligence under president obama, james clapper. And President Trumps tweet claiming president obama tapped his phones. Can the white house provide evidence, or is the president just trying to get people to stop talking about russia . Joining me for insight and analysis, tom freyiedman from t New York Times. Kim strassel. Democratic polster Cornell Belcher and Danielle Pletka from the American Enterprise institute. Welcome to sunday. Its meet the press. Good sunday morning. Its a pretty good bet that the white house hoped and expected that the big story this week would be President Trumps initially well received speech to the nation on tuesday night. Instead, almost immediately the white house was back in a defensive crouch, forced to fight off a parade of new revelations linking the
Leader, Chuck Schumer. Did Obama White House officials leave a trail to make it easier for congress to investigate russia and the election . Ill ask a man who would know, the former director of National Intelligence under president obama, james clapper. And President Trumps tweet claiming president obama tapped his phones. Can the white house provide evidence, or is the president just trying to get people to stop talking about russia . Joining me for insight and analysis, tom freyiedman from t New York Times. Kim strassel. Democratic polster Cornell Belcher and Danielle Pletka from the American Enterprise institute. Welcome to sunday. Its meet the press. Good sunday morning. Its a pretty good bet that the white house hoped and expected that the big story this week would be President Trumps initially well received speech to the nation on tuesday night. Instead, almost immediately the white house was back in a defensive crouch, forced to fight off a parade of new revelations linking the