decision. tonight by the president. what did you say about that? i don t understand the timing. i mean you just mentioned this meeting with laugh hoff tomorrow. it s sort of it s at least a political era if he is completely innocent. do you believe he will come to regret in decision. i think politicly yes he has relit the russia fire. again if he is completely innocent he is just gotten all the suspicion going. energized the democrats it s an unforced political error. listen the new thing we got now he is meeting with lavrov what do you think the foreign minister. they could wait, roll it out given comey notice. he is meeting tomorrow with the russian foreign minister. democrats don t trust donald trump maybe that s gnat fair to him but this is going to energize democrats raise suspicions. this is a huge issue there was a comment earlier about the leaks. process there was a story
regret this? yes because he has relit the russia fire. he s energized the democrats and it s ang unforced political error. the can new ec. again, they could wait, given comey notice. democrats don t trust donald trump. and this is going to energize democrats, raise suspicion. there was a storey kwb wrote about piten and trump. that s embarrassing nrmation. this is an investigation nothing to culawsuiting with a foreign country to change the outcome of apelection. john, i want to bring you in now. the president firing the fbi
months earlier. director comey did the right thing when he found no evidence, he had no choice but to report to the american congress. reporter: president trump firing comey in a bizarre letter stating while i greatly appreciate you informing me on three separate occasions that i am not under investigation, i never the less concur with the judgment of the department of justice that you are not able to effectively lead the bureau. the president says in his letter that is between the president of the united states and director comey. reporter: the president s assertion perplexing given comey testified that the bureau is investigating trump s campaign. that includes investigating the nature of any links between individuals associated with the trump campaign and the russian government and whether there was any coordination between the campaign and russia s efforts. reporter: sources tell cnn comey learned that he was fired through tv reports while he was addressing fbi employee
know, there s a danger that the public at some point may throw up its hands and say we don t know what to make of this. right. one quick point to add. mentioned stone, manafort, page, michael flynn. all of them, now, given comey s testimony, have grounds to take the fifth amendment when they re called to testify before congress so we may not hear from any of them. without an actual witness to testify about what happened it s going to make it very hard to reach a resolution. juliet, heard you say many times there s often a lot of circumstantial evidence and no smoking gun and no conclusion should be drawn from that. down that? right and may just be the nature how long that s cases take. don t work on cable news time.
story. reporter: of course, that only raised more questions about the possibility of obstruction of justice. given comey s testimony before congress we re conducting an investigation to understand whether there was any coordination between the russian efforts and anybody associated with the trump campaign. reporter: benjamin wit s, a friend of james comey spoke to anderson cooper about how comey thought personal contact with the president was inappropriate. this is a guy with a story to tell. i think if i were donald trump, that would scare me a lot. he did feel like there were these numerous incidents where the president was kind of probing the edges of his defenses. and all in the service of making him a seeing whether you could make a loyalist out of him. reporter: it wasn t just james comey the president may have been trying to influence. in march, just days after comey revealed the fbi probe into