t. s against russia in the eventuality that it s needed the obvious option or an obvious option would be to target a launch cyber attacks against and has no organizations within russia that are responsible for information warfare disseminating fake news creating fake profiles on social media and so on and so forth. and do fox all there well let s bring in emily now from our moscow bureau emily the sabers are rattling russia s facing retaliation for an attack it says it didn t carry out what s the response from the kremlin. well we don t know yet what the actual measures will be that russia will take in response. to spokesperson meeting because golf has said that the mere putin himself will be taking a final decision on what the measures will be but there has been outrage and denial here in russia over these accusations the kremlin spokesperson said that putin
one republican senator tried to suggest that president trump only expressed his hope, his hope to james comey when he said i hope you can see yr way clear to letting this go, to letting flynn go. he is a good guy. i hope you can let this go. james comey did not take that as a hope. circumstances i took it as a direction. when marco rubio characterized it as an order, comey agreed that it was an order. it could be characterized that way. james comey didn t carry out that order or direction or hope or whatever you want to call it, and he was fired by the president, whose order, whose hope he defied. as reported on this program, president trump was unable to hire an experienced washington lawyer to defend him in this investigation. and so he is stuck with the same new york lawyer with no experience in washington who has participated in donald trump s
only expressed his hope, his hope to james comey when he said i hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting flynn go. he is a good guy. i hope you can let this go. james comey did not take that as a hope. circumstances i took it as a direction. when marco rubio characterized it as an order, comey agreed that it was an order. it could be characterized that way. james comey didn t carry out that order or direction or hope or whatever you want to call it, and he was fired by the president, whose order, whose hope he defied. as reported on this program, president trump was unable to hire an experienced washington lawyer to defend him in this investigation. and so he is stuck with the same new york lawyer with no experience in washington who has participated in donald trump s frivolous lawsuits against people who have criticized donald trump, and who has defended donald trump in the
before a jury, you want them to be consistent, but you also want them to be human. and that s what i think was conveyed today. and. why didn t you stop and say, mr. president, this is wrong? i cannot discuss this with you? ? that s a great question. maybe if i were stronger i would have. i was so stunned by the conversation that i just took it in. and the only thing i can think to say because i was playing in my mind, remember, every word mika, i don t know about you as a staff person, but i know i had moments like that as a staff person in the senate including in the oval office where i realized in this moment what is important is not what i say but what i remember. and i need to record in my mind every word that s being said right now and on the way out of the building, out of the white house, i would pull the reporter s noted book i would keep in my pocket out and start writing it down right there.
at that point mr. comey said yes. at this point, then, dianne feinstein, democratic senator from california says, well, why didn t you object? and he said well, i was stunned and i didn t have the presence of mind. that does not pass the test it seems to me. it s a fair question, and a good one. why did mr. trump clear the office before having this conversation. an equally fair question raised by senator feinstein, why did mr. comey at this point lose his voice. but the person now whose in the crosshairs of the investigation is the president, not general motors. so for him, he is the run who really needs an answer to why did he clear that room. yes. look, there is no question what the president did was unseemly and wrong, and mr. comey is