straight to our top story, james comey s testimony confirming what the president said all along, he did not collude with russia. this is the former fbi director exposes himself as one of the leakers trying to take down the trump administration. the fallout this morning, good morning. there was a lot we learned in yesterday s hearing, james comey confirmed donald trump was not the target of an investigation but also said repeatedly he could not trust the president, at one point called him a liar. he refused to say whether or not he believed the president committed obstruction of justice. that is what immigrants were going after. as they peppered him with questions about a meeting with the president in which comey alleges he asked him to drop the
the president is not a liar, strong words from the white house after former fbi director james comey repeatedly accuses donald trump of the flaming him. reaction from the hearing. reporter: the white house is backing donald trump following james comey s testimony, deputy white house secretary sarah huckabee sanders making one thing clear. i can say president is not a liar. it is insulting that question would be asked. donald trump s outside counsel responding to the testimony. it proves what the white house has been saying for months. mister comey has finally confirmed publicly what he repeatedly told donald trump privately. that is the the president was not under investigation as part of any probe into russian
understandable basis but after he fired comey, an actual act and followed up with tweeting it was as a result of taking pressure off of the russian investigation, gave the lester holt interview indicating he was fired because of the russia investigation and made a connection between a russian investigation, what was going on there and in action, firing comey and then in my mind caused the fbi, have no doubt in my mind as a former head prosecutor appointed by the governor through the senate, the same way comey is open then investigative file as to whether that was motivated do to try to quash the russia investigation. that things like a problem. let me ask, this whole thing started with russia. we find out to comey s worth that he doesn t believe donald trump had anything to do himself with russia but we are talking
into hillary clinton s email server and conserving behavior by loretta lynch, causing him to leave her out of the loop when announcing findings in july. with your decision influenced by the attorney general s tarmac meeting with bill clinton? yes. ultimately conclusive way. the attorney general directed me not to call it an investigation but a matter which confused me and concerned me. rob: donald trump did not send out any tweets during the meeting but this afternoon we may have a chance to hear his thoughts, a joint press conference with the president of romania, stay tuned. idaho senator james richard says the former fbi director had a duty to clarify the
released text message from peter strzokro and lisa page, this is where to get interesting. it appears to show that both of them, and now tonight, the attorney general, formerr attorney general loretta lynch knew that hillary clinton would not be prosecuted in her email server investigation. it s important that they are saying this before they interviewed hillary. before we show you the message, let s give you a little back story. remember in may, comey and strzok and other top fbi officials come over member they were drafting the clinton exoneration of the email server scandal before ever interviewing hillary and 17 other key witnesses? so exoneration before investigation, yeah, that is called being rare to rigged in the fix was in. you have loretta lynch meeting bill clinton on the tarmac talking about grandchildren for 40 minutes at the end of june. they have not interrogated or asked questions of hillary clinton and the key people in the investigation. lynch also called comey, had