committing a crime i did nothing wrong. what he did was perfectly legal. i m still scratching my head and trying to figure out why he lied what was his motive? is it possible he misremembered? and by the way why were the feds spying on the incoming national security advisor? is that normal? i don t know. professor, thank you very much. comey told us, he said look, i could get away with it comey said. i don t know i don t think you should be spying on executive branch unless there is a good reason to do it. thank you very much. good to see you. thank you. tucker: yesterday, the president accuse the muller investigation ininitemly and illegally deleting 19,000 text messages between peter strzok and lisa page. the doj claims they were not erased intentionally but lost due to neck nickel errors. speaking of lying is that lying or the truth. tim fitton of judicial watch joins us tonight.
americans do not believe president trump was telling the truth about the russia probe. meantime back on capitol hill today testifying on both the house and oversight judiciary committees. afterwards james comey spoke about accusing the president and republican lawmakers of damaging the bureau s reputation and in the president s case he says, lying about it. he also slammed the president for calling michael cohen a rat. we have have to stop being numb to it comey said. senator bloomenthal, i want to start by getting your reaction to this breaking news from the washington post that months after the president took office, russian disinformation teams were specifically targeting special counsel robert mueller. what do you see there? what i see is that the sprawling sweeping russian disinformation campaign is continuing. and it is continuing to echo and
parts look like. clearly there is more to come here but there are still things going on. bill: just to keep track of it comey behind closed doors with house judiciary members, michael cohen gets a sentencing of the judge. what happens with manafort tomorrow that we think we know? the filings for the special counsel that they are going to say why they have a problem with manafort and how he has backed off of this plea deal and what exactly is happening. essentially laying the ground work of the case against manafort and whether they ll retry some of those things they decided not to go forward with on their first time around. bill: all clear on that. let s look at china and the stock market. tough to look at. we re off 1200 points in two days of trading after a closed day yesterday. you were with peter navarro tuesday at the white house. what did he tell you that you think is relevant to what we re watching for the dow drop? he basically said in not so
just to get you? that s the argument they re making for flynn. we have no reason they believe they want to do that. perjury is what they re really worried about, a material misrepresentation of fact for the purposes of deception. it s a crime. so the idea if they believe comey instead of trump and that s it, that s not it. it s a crime. they would have to prove it beyond a reasonable doubt. okay, now, i argue rudy uses this phrase because it s part of their narrative, if the president is being victimized. but what they re really worried about is perjury, that the president is going to do something to himself. he s going to freelance, he s going to go off script, he s going to embellish in a reckless way that will be abusive of the truth and in that context it could be a crime. the scenario they want you to accept, different stories, prosecutors like comey, prosecutors don t like president, and then they re going to get him for perjury.
certainly trump s lawyers have taken and will continue. and i think bakari alluded to it. if i were on the trump legal team, i d be advising him not to sit down with mueller for both of the reasons you started out with, chris. again, they re not exclusive of each other. and rudy giuliani very inartfully talked about who do you believe? in his example, is it comey s truth, or it trump s truth? and it s only one or the other. and you still have to prove it though, ken. you are correct. you are correct that there is an objective truth. something happened, and the american people as a general matter would like to know what those things are when it relates to their government. but let s not forget the people decide who s telling the truth. we don t get the god s eye view of who is telling the truth. well, that s not always true. that s not always true.