Accusations affect impeachment . Parnas is under indictment from the Southern District of new york. He walks to work with the lawyers. Should we take his claims about ukraine a grain of salt. What about impeachment . Never ending grand jury like trial which critics warning democrats want . While they call witnesses like john bolton . With something momentous as this, should voters hear from those at the heart of the controversy, the bidens, about their involvement in ukraine . We have the debate. This debate. Critics pointing out Nancy Pelosis rhetoric getting increasingly heated, over over e top . Will that hurt impeachment in the eyes of voters as well as pelosis credibility . It is more than just pelosi and her souvenir impeachment pens. Pelosi claims impeachment is not about the evidence. It is really about allegations. This debate tonight, critics say past time for pelosi and leftleaning media stop with the rhetoric. Stick with the facts. Stop comparing trump impeachment to the cl
President trump thank you very much. Hoping the hurricane may be makes a right and goes up north but that is about a 5 chance. It is one of the biggest hurricanes we have seen in a long time. It could be very devastating. I just spoke to rick scott. We have a lot of people we are speaking to. I spoke to marco rubio. Doinga and florida are really well, they are working hard. Florida seems to be the main target at this moment. I think a lot of good things are happening. Tremendous work is going on. Guests are coming in from louisiana and all over. We dont know about evacuation. Locally, we will see where it is coming in. We just dont know exactly where it will be coming and how far it is coming. I am going to camp david. We have a lot of experts with us. E have a lot of fema people a sunday at 12 30 we have meeting at fema headquarters. That will be about the time that we will know where everything is going. A lot of decisions will be made. A little bit less than a day before it hits. We
New survey looking at School Safety issues. As always, we will take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Next. This good morning on friday, august 30. We will begin with the Justice Department watchdogs latest report that found former fbi director james comey violated Agency Policy by releasing official memos. Your reaction to the reports findings in our first hour. Republicans, 2027488001. If you are a democrat, dial in at 2027488000. And independents, 2027488002. You can also join the conversation if you go to twitter at cspanwj and on facebook. Com cspan. We will get to your calls in a minute. Lets begin with june 2017. James comey had been fired a month earlier by President Trump. He is summoned to capitol hill to testify and asked by senator Susan Collins about memos and releasing them. [video clip] did you show copies of your of theo anyone outside department of justice . Yes. And to whom did you show copies . The president tweeted on friday after
These memos that he had been keeping to a law professor he was friends with at Columbia University. And then he had that law professor leak those memos to the press. Even though he says he found President Trumps request to end the Michael Flynn investigation, troubling and appropriate, he never alerted his superiors. I am trish regan. Welcome, everyone, to the Intelligence Report. I want to point out that the market has seen new highs today. Were continually seeing green on the screen. You can see up highs on the session, but nonetheless up 37 points. And the reason is investors are cheered by the fact that you probably have no concerns for impeachment here because there does not seem to be any obstruction of justice. Now, as we await for the First Official response of the president s lawyer, i want to go to our own blake burman who is at the white house. And, blake, im told his team doesnt like the way comey was presenting him by saying that comey considered him a liar. Well, well hea
Was fired. Reporter form fbi director james comey testified he has no doubt that russia tried to testify and interfere testify in the election income testified that the president never directly ordered him to stop the Russian Investigation but referencing a cloud over the administration because of it. When he was asked if he thought that comey thought that trump colluded with russia he said he did not think he should answer it. He made it clear that the president was never under investigation. He said it was the gut feeling of the nature of the person he was with that he felt compelled to document his private conversations with President Trump. He said the president asked comey if he would like to stay on as the fbi director. What is going on is that he is looking to get something in exchange for granting my request to stay in the job. Reporter during another dinner with the president comey said that mr. Trump said that he needed loyalty. Why did you not stop and say mr. President , th