up the testimony of the accusers. let me ask you an fbi question, chris. there s a lot of talk in the senate about kavanaugh s yearbook and his calendar. how do those factor in for the fbi? these are contemporaneous records. they re probably some of the better records that i ve seen in this context. so contemporaneous records have some credibility. you don t think that somebody s going to make up things they put in their calendar or the yearbook. the yearbook sets the environment they were operating under both that yearbook and the yearbook of the other prep school, as well. i ve seen pass ands from the female prep school. so i think all of that sets the context around the allegation. so juliette, there are also tools the fbi has to look at, text messages kavanaugh may have exchanged with mark judge or any possible witnesses and on and
the standpoint of any investigation to figure out what happened. if there is no recording of this sessions conversation with the ambassador, there anyway to piece it together? yes, it is, we would expect a special counsel to take something like this hot in the headlines and corroborate and investigate if they see investigative interests. we hard they are looking at the meeting with don jr. and the russian nationals who previously represented russian interest. this is obviously the kind of thing that can be of interest. the interviews could include people that know about the meeting, contemporaneous records made at the time, the special counsel would sit down with jeff sessions and self compare that to the transcript and physical out who is telling the truth. anthony parker, one of the issues when a story look this breaks, one of the issues jeff sessions has to contend with, when it comes to conversations with russian officials, he has been less than forthcoming in
in a room anywhere where president trump because he s asking inappropriate things of me. so did that, in your mind, go far enough? no, i don t think it did. but what did go far enough was making the record, talking to his colleagues, contemporaneous records, contemporaneous discussions and deciding this should be entered into the file of the investigation, of the larger investigation for use later in the investigation. that s the line that really struck me. so let s squeeze your intellect on what you are hoping is asked today. what are you thinking? well, i think we need to hear from him, was this a suggestion? was its an order? when you said the president wasn t the subject of an investigation, why did you say that when his campaign was. why did you say that you couldn t say that publically
where the president is really going to be in trouble is that when you get deeper into these investigations, the people who have contemporaneous records of a conversation, the way comey does and trump does not, have a distinct advantage with investigators, juries, whomer is assessing the conflicting accounts. so, this is i mean, you guys aren t lawyers, but this does become one person s word at the other person s word. the advantage goes to the person who kept notes. absolutely. he was trained as a lot of people in the government and law enforcement are trained to make what memorandums of conversations. this will come in extremely useful for comey even if it s not evidence, per se. i think this report gives us fascinating insight into director comey s approach to handling donald trump and all these details just give us some great color. but they re not surprising. he prepared before and he prepared after for the
2001 to january of 2009. the report does not include considerable detail on the cia s interactions with the white house. excuse me, it does include considerable detail on the cia s interactions with the white house, the departments of justice, state, defense and the senate intelligence committee. the review is based on contemporaneous records and documents during the time the program was in place and active. now, these documents are important because they aren t based on recollection. they aren t based on revision, and they aren t a rationalization a decade later. it s these documents referenced repeatedly in thousands of footnotes that provide the factual basis for the study s conclusions.