all right. big headline. fired fbi the director james comey is expected to testify before the senate intel committee as early as next week. source tells cnn comey is expected to confirm his account that president trump did pressure him to end his investigation into michael flynn. what would that mean? joining us now is democratic congressman from new york a member of the house judiciary committee. how big is this? well it s very big. if the president remember the president fired comey as head of fbi. first put out, they had the vice president go out and say untruth about why relating to comey s conduct with respect to hillary clinton investigation last year. then the president himself came out and said that wasn t the reason. did the president fired comey because he asked for loyalty and hadn t gotten it. he asked him to ease off on the investigation of flynn, because in fact he was asking him to lay
president trump to drop the investigation into former national security adviser michael flynn and flynn s ties to russia. sources tell cnn comey documented his february 14th meeting with president trump detailing the president s plea this way. i hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting flynn go. he is a good guy. i hope can you let this go. the president was on the attack once morning, referring to the false or misleading testimony by james comey, john brennan, witch-hunt. comey has spoken with special counsel robert mueller to work out the parameters of his testimony, and comey will likely sit down with mueller afterwards. this all comes as congressional investigators are widening the scope of people they have reached out to. at least nine trump associates so far. president trump s personal attorney michael cohen after resisting requests from house and senate intelligence says he will cooperate if congress issues him a subpoena saying he has nothing to hide. the
director james comey with top russian officials in the oval office. the president reportedly said this. quote, i just fired the head of the fbi. he was crazy, a real nut job. i face great pressure because of russia. that s taken off. meanwhile, a source close to the fired fbi director is speaking out. telling cnn comey believed president trump was trying to influence him in regards to the russia investigation. now we re going to hear from comey himself. comey is expected to testify in the coming weeks before the senate intelligence committee. but until then the investigation goes on. let s talk it over with cnn legal analyst paul kalen and kru hayesings college law professorer reportery little paul start with you wrote interesting op he had on friday potential for obstruction of justice case against president donald trump took a quantum leap how so. i think it took a quantum leap in legal sustain ability
in lynchburg. it s been a whirl wind of questions, doubts and anger around the white house this week. starting with the dismissal of fbi director james comey and ending with president trump publicly threatening comey in a tweet. reporter: it was tuesday that the news broke. in his dismissal letter, trump cited a recommendation from deputy attorney general rod rosenstein and attorney general jeff sessions who recused himself from anything having to do with the russia investigation. why did you fire director comey? because he wasn t doing a good job. reporter: upon his firing, sources told cnn comey asked the justice department for more resources for the investigation into russian meddling in the 2016 u.s. election. a doj spokesperson denied that as did acting fooikcabe. you don t need any additional
attorney general to remove director comey because of the actions that the deputy attorney general outlined to the president to act on the recommendation of the deputy attorney general. reporter: now trump is doming clean about his ill will towards comey. look, he s a showboat, she s a grandstander. the fbi has been in turmoil. reporter: sources tell cnn comey s testimony last week enraged president trump. look, this is terrible. it makes me mildly nauseous to think we had some impact on the election. reporter: targeting one of his insecurities, the legitimacy of his election. sources familiar with the president said he was white hot and couldn t let it go stewing all weekend while at his property in bed minster, new jersey. one trump source tells cnn he was already holding a deep grudge against comey since march for publicly contradicting