Our headquarters in new york. Day 132 of the trump administration, and again tonight, the russia story seemingly without end. Supplies us with our lead story and that is were going to hear from james comey. A source close to comey tells nbc news, the fired fbi director has been, quote, cleared for takeoff, to testify in public next week to the Senate Intelligence committee. That clearance came from special counsel, bob mueller whos now over seeing the russia investigation. It will be comeys first Public Comment since he was fired by donald trump. Its been 22 days ago now. And about what comey will say. Tonight the wall street journal reports, comey to testify that trump asked him to back off flynn investigation. That would certainly match his notes. And although we werent allowed to see him today, heres how sean spicer reacted when asked about comeys testimony in the offcamera audioonly briefing. Did the president engage in obstruction of justice in repeated meetings with james comey .
Day on capitol hill. James comey under oath in front of the Intelligence Committee saying President Trump and the Trump Administration told lies to try to defame him and trying to defame the fbi that comey knew he had to document his meeting with President Trump even though he had not done the same with either president obama or president bush because he worried that president , there tru mr. Trump, may lie. He took the president s desire letting go of the Michael Flynn incident is a directive. He describes that as a very big deal. There is no other way to walk away from comeys testimony today, without thinking the former director of the fbi thinks the president of the United States is a liar who he could not trust and who took actions that he thought were attempt to under mine the integrity of the american Justice System itself. The white house is responding to these charges and well get to their response in a moment. First, jim sciutto is joining me. Some are suggesting that comey de
His son, marine lieutenant robert kelly, was killed in action in afghanistan in 2010. It was a devastating loss for him and his wife karen. Of a parents loss of a child, shakespeare once wrote, grief feels the room up, lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, unquote. And i know its clear to all who know john kelly and karen kelly that a robert is a constant presence in their lives, john kerry has been reluctant to speak publicly about the very personal and distressing loss i had suffered, but given the political fights about President Trumps false charge that president obama never called the familys of the fallen, and then later in the week, the charge by a democratic congresswoman that trump himself was insensitive when he called a grieving widow earlier this week, kelly obviously felt he needed to explain his behind the scenes conversations with President Trump. Lending advice to the president that someone who knew best how those families were feeling from both ends of that phone
Singapore. We have one of the architects of the summit strategy to do just that in a second. But also tonight, President Trump isnt tweeting about it, but this should be on your radar. First the attorney general aimed to get rid of preexisting condition protection. Now a move that could be really bad for women seeking asylum in the u. S. Well take you through it. And no more redos. Bill clinton just dug himself an even deeper hole. We debate that, next. So what do you say . Lets get after it. All right, little white board action for you here, okay . What are the points the administratis looking at in terms of why it was a win in singapore . We are now talking nicely. Thbrinkmanship seemed to have ended. Tough talk worked. Thats what brought kim jongun to the table. The administration said he was afraid. Great deal, the president says was made. Is that what he can point to . Have you red the declaration which is really just a letter of intent and the four points that are in it . Denuke.
Believe its possible. Isnt that kind of cute . Youre not saying that you have evidence of it. Youre saying its possible. Do you have evidence that President Trump has been compromised by the russians . Have you seen evidence of it . No. Im trying to be transparent. Heres my reasoning. Heres an honest answer has to be its possible. Im not saying its likely. Ive said all along and im repeating it here today, its unlikely in my view. But its possible. Lets talk about the investigation and what you can talk about it. In 2017, when you met with President Trump and you did the oral presentation of whats in the twopage memo summarizing the steele dossier, we know from the book that you talked about unverified ail vallegations invg prostitutes. Did you brief him on other things in the dossier . Claims that associates were potentially working with the russians . Or was it only about the prostitutes . It was only about the salacious part of it . Mi why . That was the part that the leaders of the