mccain has announced tonight that the arizona senator has been diagnosed with a brain tumor. the 80-year-old republican from arizona has the same type of cancer that took the life of senator ted kennedy. survival is somewhere between 14 and 15 months. that said people with a fighting attitude such as senator mccain tend to do better. i suspected something because there were just little things that were telling me something wasn t right with him. well, at least in the minds of this member, there s a whole lot of questions remaining. he was complaining of being very tired and he had gotten wrapped around the axle of the fbi direct or comey hearing. you re gonna have to help me out here. anything that former secretary
session and a half gainavigates mine field. thank you for being with us. good morning. reporter: another week. this other potential blockbuster hearing we are hearing about. your reaction, first of all, to the fact that sessions has offered up himself to the senate intel committee on tuesday. i served with jeff sessions and i think a man of integrity and have confidence he will be forthright in answering whatever questions they may have. this probe, obviously, you have robert mueller having his own special counsel crew. i actually think that this probe is focused originally and, as you call it, a fishing expedition. a comey hearing showed and he indicated not the first time the russians have tried to influence elections here. we know they have done it in france and elsewhere around the
ask chris christie or rudy giuliani or any of the people he s in listening to everybody here. jeff sessions, right. two lawyer friends here, just politically speaking, the juice isn t there for this. if you re going to have this much division already and i think the congressman was talking earlier about the blowback that s coming, it is coming. and there is no smoking gun here. this is going to fall apart. maybe right away. maybe gradually. falling apart it is. the story isn t there. jen? politically it is not i think one of the points a number of people has made this is the beginning of the process. the comey hearing is not the end. not the conclusion for the members of the my party who think that trump is going to be, you know, handcuffed and taken to jail tomorrow. that is not going to happen. it is interesting that the fbi director who was fired is contradicting the president under oath in statements he made so there s a significance. however, at the same time,
he does. he does. i mean, i have a different view of his loyalty. i think he s a loyal guy. really? hello. yes. ask chris christie or rudy giuliani or any of the people he s in listening to everybody here. jeff sessions, right. two lawyer friends here, just politically speaking, the juice isn t there for this. if you re going to have this much division already and i think the congressman was talking earlier about the blowback that s coming, it is coming. and there is no smoking gun here. this is going to fall apart. maybe right away. maybe gradually. but falling apart, it is. the story isn t there. jen? politically it is not i think one of the points a number of people has made this is the beginning of the process. the comey hearing is not the end. not the conclusion for the members of the my party who think that trump is going to be, you know, handcuffed and taken to jail tomorrow. that is not going to happen. it is interesting that the fbi director who was fir
we have seen from richard burr and from mark warner the adults in the room that are willing to ask the hard questions. and don t underestimate the possibility of a bombshel at the comey hearing. it might be wi a lot of drama, but it might be as simple as james comey answering yes to a very important and indicting question of this president. which we will find out just one week from today. that s right. when he does sit down in that chair and take questions from a number of senators. that s right. we have bill neely with us, and bill is our, of course, our chief global correspondent. he s here in from london. and we re talking about russia and talking about comey going in and getting grilled by the senate, asking to find out what he knew about the investigation. but the other thing we have going on, is vladimir putin putting his tongue in his cheek as eddie said a moment ago, basically saying that yeah, maybe it was some patriotic minded russians. get us into the mind of what