fwoofired comey on that recommendation, and then he said it was because of the russian investigation. these are self-inflicted wounds, essentially, he could have even fired comey, a lot of his critics say and he would have been able to do it had they had a replacement lined up. have they not said things that were not true about why they did it. this really is a self-inflicted error, had he not blamed it on rod rosenstein who then felt the need to appoint a special counsel, i am told largely because of that, because of erosion of confidence. this is all self-inflicted. and now the president is now in his first foreign trip, he s in a place where he needs the american people to believe what he says, you can say hi ss
self-inflected. to jeffrey s point, there are many critics of the president who say the conclusion is collusion with russia and i m going to walk or run there no matter what are the actual facts. to me two things are coming together. it s the convergence of the comey story and the russia story together in the person of the president and in his own personal conduct. and to me that is what has turned a page. i think you re right, maggie, that many people are tuning out this, a, because they think it s a way to get to the president. and there are some of them for political reasons, but b because there s so much going on, but that s what turns the page this week, this is his actually behavior and this is his two statements coming together. now you re going to have director comey testifying, because that would have been a big question, now if comey
6:30? sam s baseball practice. 8:30? tai chi. yeah, so sounds relaxing. alright, 9:53? i usually make their lunches then, and i have a little vegan so wow, you are busy. wouldn t it be great if you had investments that worked as hard as you do? yeah. introducing essential portfolios. the automated investing solution that lets you focus on your life. we have got so many breaking stories from director comey testifying to the president reportedly boasting to the russians about firing what he characterized as the nut job. and white house lawyers have begun early preparations for possible impeachment providings. proceedings. what are you learning? reporter: we re learning that white house lawyers have begun researching impeachment procedures, but the administration still believes this is an unlikely possibility
loyalty. comey refuses to give it to him. a subsequent meeting according to the reports from comey, the president pressures him to let the flynn part of the investigation go. comey doesn t do it. he refuses. investigation deepens. what does the president do? he can t get comey to drop it. he fires comey. now that he he tells the russians openly not only was he a nut job, but i did this because i had pressure coming on me about russia. the clear implication was, i have political pressure about these investigations. this thing is something i don t want. i want to get rid of it and i fired the son of a gun. he was a nut job to boot. we should point out new pieces of the puzzle, very disturbing. we should point out that before he even had the dinner where he asked for the loyal tt oath, which was the night of the same day that sally yates went to the white house and said flynn could be compromised, and flynn was interviewed by the fbi and didn t do so well, that s the same night
made a joke that he was the only person the russian ambassador had not reached out for a meeting, why didn t you call me? he talked about his crowd size. he talked to the russians about his crowd size at the inauguration? just in general about his crowd size? i mean, look, a lot of this is stuff that he s not saying much there that he hasn t said public publicly, but he is saying it there in the oval office what two russian officials. and calling the fbi director a nut job. glen fresh and i reported that right after comey was fired, that the president had said that there was something wrong with him or words to that effect. you can have two interpretations of this, you can hear it as adding to the sense that the president fire comey because he was trying to end this investigation, which the president has denied.