of comey even before the president did. and was privy to classified information according to earlier reporting this week. when you see this from your intelligence background, what goes through your mind? i like your comment early, anderson, i think you would be a good case officer. this is something that usually the fbi has to recruit agents for, to find out who dislikes who and who the president is mad at. this is what cia operatives try to recruit agents for to find out the inside workings of putin s officers, this is what cia overs and intelligence officers do? this is the kind of intelligence they want? every single country in the world has on its list to find out about, find out the plans and intentions of x leader in
and there s no reason comey can t testify. can he talk about the notes he wrote, the memo he wrote, what the president said to him, his concerns about the president, or because there s a criminal investigation with mueller, is that stuff going to be off the table? reporter: that s exactly the concern that so many people had up here on capitol hill, this concern that because the special counsel is now investigating and appointed that that might hamstring what he s able to say and i think that still is a very open question, looking forward to this committee testimony, we have heard from so many members of congress that they want to of course hammer him hard, exactly the details of what he said in the memo, who he shared that memo with. of course those details very importa important. our old top story from just a few hours ago, that the president not only boasted about firing director comey, but said
it takes the pressure off him in the russia collusion probe, but also that he said it directly to the russians in the oval 5u6s. reported by the new york times, the president did just that and more. and also trash talking him in front of the foreign minister and the ambassador. 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 fbi director james b. comey takes great pressure off him. he said i just fired the head of the fbi, he s crazy, a real nut job, and he also said, i faced great pressure because of russia, that s taken off. end quote. that meeting also ended with the
president sharing code word classified information that may have put lives at risk. the story hit just minutes before the president departed for an eight-day friendship, starting with an eight-hour flight to saudi arabia. imagine how fun that flight must be, stuck on that plane, with that story just breaking and 14 hours to go. the new york times maggie haverman joins us. it s just fascinating reporting, what more did the president say in the meeting? he said a couple of things, but among them you saw, he described comey as a real nut job, which is a phrase that he s use it,many people, sometimes on twitter, he said this had taken great pressure off him, that he was not under investigation, he said he would like some help on the issue of ukraine from the russians that this is an issue that s important in america,