i don t have any inside baseball here but that mueller inherited whatever the fbi had done after the firing of mueller but before he stood up and i am quite confident that bob will cross every t and dot every i in coming to a conclusion about this, particularly with respect to the president which, obviously, is sensitive and politically explosive and all of that. you know, just days after comey was hired, trump met with russian s foreign minister. the russia ambassador, there s a picture. in the oval office. that s when he said firing nut job comey erased pressure on him. how would that resinate in the intelligence community? not well.
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and add phone and tv for only $34.90 more a month. call today. comcast business. built for business. we are covering two big friday afternoon bombshells. one, the new york times reporting that trump told russians that firing nut job flynn eased pressure from investigations. the second from the washington post headline reads, russia probe reaches current white house official. people familiar with the case say. we re bringing in ari melber to break down the legal ramifications of the two stories. let me start with the second. who could the senior white house official be? i m told almost the entire white house staff is on this trip for an interesting reason, they feel like it s less likely they d get fired if they were all in the bubble. that s what you call it when you re accompanying the president on a trip. do you think that they know or do you think that someone back
stories tonight. the story about michael flynn, conversations with the russians and concerns the administration had about it. the story about comey will testify. before all that happened, this happened. a piece hitting the new york times home page with seismic impact. the headline is, trump told russians that firing nut job comey eased pressure from investigation. they write, president trump told russian officials in the oval office this month that firing the fbi director james comey had relieved pressure on him according to a document summarizing the meeting. the piece quotes the president as telling the russians, i just fired the head of the fbi. he was crazy, a real nut job. the president reported as saying, i face great pressure because of russia. that s taken off. remember, that meeting featured the president sharing code word classified information on isis gathered by israel that must have put lives at risk. maggie haberman joins us. explain what we know about this meeting, wha