zeleny is standing by. reporting on mccabe and comey, any reaction from the white house tonight? reporter: there is no reaction on this new reporting from the white house tonight. reached out to several officials to ask them directly about this loyalty pledge of course, and fact that it seems to be backing this original story up. we ve not gotten a response. at the time though wolf, white house defended that private meeting saying that the president asked for pledges of loyalty and expects it from a lot of people who work for him. but of course this was so much different, the fbi director. but on the new reporting, there is no reaction yet. also new cnn polling about the president s and robert mueller s handling of the russia investigation. fe tell us about that. reporter: it offers an interesting look at how the different figures are viewed by the american public.
well, this closing door hearing that we ll be in tomorrow was call eed not by th democrats on the committee. as far as i know, we weren t consulted at all. the letter i saw was come frg the chairman, the republican chairs of the oversight and judiciary committees. this looks like it s part of this bizarre and orchestrated campaign to discredit and undermine anybody who s got anything to do with the investigation and the fbi and appare apparently, the attack on mccabe is that he is married to a woman who is an active democratic politician in virginia. big deal. there are lots of people in the fbi and the u.s. attorney s office and doj mare rried to pee involved in politics and there s no rule against that. a lot of mixed party marriages in d.c. congressman, thanks very much for taking the time tonight. totally my pleasure. outfront next, donald trump jr. taking heat tonight after claiming there is a government conspiracy to bring down his
campaign trail. rough on mccabe? by his own account, he said he was rough on mccabe and mrs. mccabe on the campaign trail. how is he going to be? i shared with the president, andy is a pro. no issue at all. you have to know people of the fbi. they re not so the president turns to you and says, remember, i never brought up the mccabe thing because you said he was a good guy, did you perceive that to be a statement that, i took care of you. i didn t do something because you told me he was a good guy. so i m asking you potentially for something in return. is that how you perceived it? i wasn t sure what to make of it. that s possible. it was so out of context i didn t have a clear view of what it was. on a number of occasions here, you bring up let s talk about the general russia investigation, okay? page 6 of your testimony you say, the first thing you say is, he asked what we could do to, quote, unquote, lift the cloud, the general russia investigation, you responded, we a
conversation. i do believe that prima facia case has been made. affirmative case has been made by asking director comey can you see your way clear to dropping the flynn investigation. comey makes clear and comey knows what he is doing. he makes clear he felt that was a request that was to drop an active investigation. that is affirmative case. there is more to go. i don t go as far as some saying the case is proved. open and shut. cut and dry. no. we have miles to go to turn that affirmative case into something more. jason miller, what do you think? chris, if director comey wanted to say obstruction of justice, he would have written in the opening statement obstruction of justice or gone to attorney general sessions oregon to white house counsel don mccabe. don t take it from me. look at respected legal scholars like jonathan alan
believe that he could trust the justice department and he did document it. he wrote a memo. he reported it to his internal staff and said we ll see how the investigation unfolds. norm, why didn t he take it to attorney general sessions? why didn t he take it to white house counsel don mccabe? why not hold the press conference like anthony weiner and the laptop? if there was this activity he was seeing and concerned about it, i don t understand why it wasn t elevated and made a bigger deal at the time. jason, he knew as a matter of law that the attorney general needed to recuse himself because of the campaign activity. that would be inappropriate. sally yates took concerns about flynn to don mccabe. i think he was right to report it to senior staff and let the investigation unfold.