but that he believed flynn had misled the fbi as well. a source tells cnn. he recommended the president fire flynn which he did. but before that january 27th, three days after that flynn fbi interview that we re celebrating the anniversary of today, on that day, president trump invited then director comey to dinner. according to comey, that s when president trump asked him for a pledge of loyalty. i got the sense my job would be contingent upon how he felt i conducted myself and whether i demonstrated loyalty. reporter: on february 14th, the day after flynn resigned, the president, comey said, said to him privately, quote, 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,
can t guess what s going on with that. that plays into his decision to eventually fire flynn. and i agree with nick, what we re seeing here is mueller going full bore on the obstruction inquiry, and the people all being interviewed all have something to say about being pressured, pressured to recuse, pressured to get comey to drop the investigation, are privy to trumps thoughts about why he should fire comey. we re seeing a pattern of obstruction involving the president. nick, how difficult is it to get the president for something like obstruction of justice? it is easier to get an average citizen, like you or me. we re talking about the president of the united states. we know he s a different kind of guy. they will spin this to say, listen, this is how he speaks. he s a straight talker. he s a new york. if he is a straight talker herhe talked himself into an obstruction charge. he admitted it to lester holt when he said he fired comey because of this russia thing.
good sunday morning. we have two huge stories we re dealing with this morning, one is the tax plan passed by senate republicans over night friday into saturday, a bill that democrats point out favors the wealthy at the expense of parts of the middle class, while republicans insist the bill will pay for itself with economic growth. the other big story is former national security adviser michael flynn pleading guilty to lying to the fbi about conversations with russia s ambassador to the united states during the presidential transition. yesterday, president trump tweeted that he had to fire flynn in february because he lied to vice president pence and the fbi. that tweet suggests the president knew he lied to the fbi when he asked james comey to drop the flynn investigation. so in an attempt to clean this up, mr. trump s personal law john dowd has taken the fall and said he actually wrote the tweet. we have asked him how many times he tweeted for the president and he has told us just o
trial begins. that is a question the people are asking, what might president trump do. we know he s thought about firing the attorney general jeff sessions for recusing himself from the investigation. it is possible that given this mueller news, which i m sure the president doesn t like and given the fact that he blames even on mr. mueller. held have to jump through hoops and get a bunch of people at the squus department fired before they would be handgwilling in r to fire flynn. it is not in his interest politically politically legally to do so. northbound but the presidehan
they could just be enemies of kushner trying to pin the white house s probably worst decision yet on him. consider this. another former trump campaign aide has blamed him for the firing on the record. you may recall, when sam joined the beat for a spirited, even energetic interview, he brought up comey s firing. what i do know, he said we should fire flynn, you should fire mueller, you should do this, you should do that, you should make deals on things that would be direct. comey. on comey. yes. he said fire comey. a lot of people suspect, i don t know, nobody has really reported, that comey started looking is that jarrod s financial dealings in the real estate dealings. jared is a major problem. he owns the observer. he has a big deal on 666 avenue.