this comes as a surprise to the president because he was there for most of this. that went on. he i mean, the story, you know, about jared, you know, intervening the day that he was going to name me transition chairman, the president sat through that entire meeting. right. none of this is going to be a surprise to the president. jared is at the intersection of so many of the flashpoints in the mueller probe. it was his advice to fire jim comey, thought that was a good idea. he sat at lunch with you on valentine s day. we with know from comey s public testimony, donald trump asked comey to see to it to let flynn go. and he said to you that this ends the russia cloud. do you have you talked to mueller about any of the interactions? no, no, no, i ve never been called by the special counsel. do you think after writing this you muight be? i don t think so. i don t think there s anything in there of any import on this. as i report on the lunch, they fired flynn because he lie
and eli stokels. jeremy for the legal angle here set the scene for comey s public testimony. he s going to have to walk a fine line, brian, because on the one hand he has the venue there in front of the senate intelligence committee to lay bare everything he can speak about in terms of the president putting the arm on him to try to shut the investigation down. on the other hand, we now know this is a central line of inquiry for the mueller investigation. for the investigation now being led by former fbi director bob mueller as a special counsel. and we know that in part because one of the reasons rod rosenstein essentially recused himself and tossed this over to mueller is because rosenstein is now a witness in that matter because rosen tine stein s memo is a material fact in a will play into this issue. comey is going to have to walk a line here. it is ann clear how far he will go. but when he testified in 2007 about confronting the bush administration that was pretty dramatic. i ex
it s remarkable that a president would demean a director of the fbi that way. it s remarkable he would say that to the russians. this may have been the same meeting where he was also disclosing classified information. and certainly you just can t make this stuff up. senate intelligence co-chair mark warner, the democrat, earlier this evening. we are back with hans nichols, jeremy barb, beiana goal riga and eli stokels. jeremy for the legal angle here set the scene for comey s public testimony. he s going to have to walk a fine line, brian, because on the one hand he has the venue there in front of the senate intelligence committee to lay bare everything he can speak about in terms of the president putting the arm on him to try to shut the investigation down. on the other hand, we now know this is a central line of
associates that the president was, quote, outside the realm of normal, even rgs quo, quote cra. the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein threatened to quit after he was made the fall guy by the white house. everyone and their mother this morning reporting that director comey had asked for more resources for the russia investigation before he was fired. the department of justice is denying those claims and cnn s best reporters picking up word that the president was, quote, white hot, livid or the continued russia probe and comey s public testimony. that is the backdrop for what you will see here live. so much to cover. let s begin on capitol hill with our manu raju. what are you hearing? time the senate intelligence t - committee will be meeting since