and the other issue is, is comey justified in claiming classification? i think it s a phony claim. we basically know what it is, and he should declassify it and he shouldn t hide behind classification just to protect his own reputation. we ve seen too much of that in history, people classifying documents not to preserve the national security, but to preserve their own reputation. all right. this is just an effort not to sway the american opinion, but this is an effort to sway the fbi and they look so gullible, number one. what really put me around the bend is they had this in march of 2016 and they just passed it around and debate it rather than do one on one investigation. call loretta lynch before the july a fifth press conference. they called her afterwards. if our top investigative domestic investigative agency is so i don t want to if they re so incompetent, they
whitehouse, democrat from state of rhode island who serves on the senate judiciary committee and has had very strong words for the president after the washington post report that the president asked top intelligence leader to push back on the fbi russia investigation. senator, white house saying the president is engaging in obstruction. senator joins us. nice to see you, senator. thank you, greta. your committee asked on may 17 documents be produced by today from the white house and the fbi of any conversations, records, documents of former fbi director comey with the president. have you received those? we have not, and it s consistent with conspicuous nonproduction of things that we ve asked for. what are you going to do about it? well, work with the chairman. i m trying to make sure we pin it down, but we have a perfectly legitimate right to ask these questions. and just because the executive branch doesn t want them
the fbi that a document is real or fake? you make a phone call. that s it, that s just it. comey did not. but the washington post did. thank god we have good media, right? washington post, one of the people in the memo heard about it, she got a call from the washington post a year later. i think it goes back to the original point, which is that donald trump it s still early enough in the day could start tweeting about this today, possibly tomorrow. that is the argument about this adminiration. he s incompetent. that s why i fired him. it will bolsterhe argument even though that s not why james comey got fired. james comey says it s classified. he didn t want to tell anything. that made the spin to cover up what he didn t do in the investigation. all right. if you need a crisis manager, it politico is reporting the president is looking for a
i don t necessarily disagree with you. i think if you listen to the fbi and former director comey, he would point to the infamous tarmac meeting between attorney general lynch and bill clinton. they, too, have pointed to this memo as motivating the director in large part, at least, to do what he did. so, i think it is that s huge. that s where it could have an impact on history. that s right. and, of course, the other thing, too, frankly i imagine that president trump when he hears this news is you re going to say, see, i told you why he should be fired. i mean, because actually it gives ammunition. if the fbi director can t get his people to make a phone call to do a basic investigation on something so critical accusing the attorney general trying to quash a investigation. i think if you really think about this and you think about how this could have changed history, had jim comey not gone forward with the july fifth press conference, he then would
no one has seen it. there is an attempt. my question is why it would have impacted comey s decision to have this press conference. why would a potential collusion why does that force his hand on that? i don t understand. it s not clear. it is dispute ed in an article by some officials that is the reason. here s the reason. he was doing something the fbi directors don t do. he was publicly coming out, without permission of the attorney general, hadn t even told her, loretta lynch, and he makes this pronouncement no reasonable person would prosecute and he made all these pronouncements about it. and lawyers why did the document force his hand? because in the document, if he believes that document, loretta lynch was up to her eyeballs in a scandal. but they never bothered to call her. hillary clinton did nothing wrong? no, no, he s the big hero. i can t let the attorney general do her job. i m going to do it and this is what i m saying. right. i think that s exactly what