whatever country you re targeting. in the united states, it s going to be for russia, everybody wants to have a recruited spy who s sitting at the table and saying, oh, my god, can you believe that president trump is so mad at comey? in this case the russians didn t need it because the president provided it himself. here s a group of people who are not tuning this out and that s not the russians, they don t see it through this western lens that they see it. they remember candidate donald trump saying things like well these sanctions, maybe we can lift them, ycrime mia is not suh a it could have been a guy in a basement or it could have been the chinese. now he s in the oval office with guys that the previous administration left out of the
he should also have a personal lawyer, hiring a lawyer doesn t mean you re guilty of anything, but this is a real situation, there is a special counsel investigating donald trump s campaign including his behavior, including some pretty darn good evidence that trump ihimself committed obstruction of justice, of course he should have a lawyer. we should not even get into a conversation that there is no there there. there is some there there already. whether or not these are impeachable offenses are different. but there is there there with flynn. he was approved as the national security advisor. he was, you know, already kind of compromised by his illegal activities. there s there there from what the president said himself about how he has dealt with both flynn and with comey. there is there there already. whether or not that rises to
the pattern here is the president goes to comey, the fbi director and says i need your loyalty. and comey refuses to give it to him. and according to these reports, comey the president pressures him to let the flynn investigation go. what does the president do, he can t get comey to drop it so he fires comey. and we know hear him tell the russians openly he s a nut job. the clear implications was i have political pressure coming on me about these investigations. it s something i don t want, and i fired the son of a gun. it was something i had to do. and we find out new pieces on the puzholech it s very disturbing. we should point out the dinner, which i believe the night the day sally yates went to the white house and said flynn could be compmized and
and who has passed himself off as an independent national security just asessisessing merits of this. you have the strange reality that trump who is not super loyal to people who have not been with him for a long time think of how he has been treatitreat ing steve bannon. he has been very loyal to michael flynn. the president called the fbi director a nut job and firing him eased great pressure. what do you make that was? is that something the president should be saying to the russians in the oval office? well, nut job, of course, is beneath the presidency. i think the more significant point is the one jeffrey toobin has been underlying tonight. that is this adds new evidence to the point that the president essentially what is the pattern here? i think patterns are emerging. the pattern here is the president goes to comey, the fbi director and says i need your
point. i m not clear if he is making the point that he has made 1,000 times publicly, it s not me under investigation and james comey told me that. he said he was relieved. the pressure is off of him. the pressure is off because comey s gone. that is our understanding of what he said based on the reading of this document and what a defender of the president s argues is that what he was referring do is that spirs essentially said it, that comey was a grand stander, all of what the president has said, he was politicizing this investigation and that made it hard and this investigation is going on regardless. i m not saying that is actually what he meant, but that is what he said. let s be clear, the president can say what he would like to say, however there is legal consequences on what he says. if you have fired the fbi director who s leading an investigation into whether or