jaime comey and house republicans made a break through in their standoff over his testimony. he will address the house gop committee this friday, which means republican can grill him. the context is critical. after two years in power, why are house republicans pressing this fight against comey right now? republicans on the judiciary committee want comey to only appear initially they said in a closed session, and comey went to court to argue everything should be in public. his lawyer says the public hearing would combat gop efforts to peddle a distorted partisan narrative through selective leaks that republicans might do about this week s hearing. the news tonight is that the content of this hearing, the words themselves, will be public. comey ice side, according to this new agreement, will get a transcript of the hearing within one day. why is so comey skeptical? consider it was just 13 days ago
fact that it wasn t just about the conflict that jaime comey had and overseeing the hillary clinton e fail investigation but he officially talked about russia as well. we ll see how sort of inflaming those and how bad those are for the president ultimately when we see what robert mueller has. i think in the short-term, we also have to remember that andrew mccabe is somebody who had a conflict with rod rosenstein, who didn t always see eye to eye with a lot of people inside the fbi, and obviously we also know that he is the subject of his own inspector general report that didn t do so well. so, there are a lot of conflicting characters and story lines that robert mueller understands he has to sift through. talk about let s unpack this more, jack. andrew mccabe recounts a conversation. here s what he told new york
special counsel robert muellers runner investigation. his questirequest lays out inci including the firing of michael flynn and jaime comey. the team is interested in this meeting, the according to the new york times president trump told them firing comey relieved great pressure on him. we should point out the washington post also had the story in another development tonight. it said then trump campaign chairman offered to carol joins me now. she broke both the stories. is there any way to interpret mueller seeking documents about president trump s own action other than now he s
what evidence about what was said in that meeting. former fbi director jaime comey was fired he testified before the senate and told the committee, here s what he said about the tornado warniattorney. watch this. our judgment as i recall is that he was going to or inevitably going to recuse himself. for a variety of reason we were also aware of facts that i condition discuss in an open setting, that would make his dealings in the russian investigation problematic. so we were convinced, i think the career people were recommending that he recuse himself, that he was not going to be in contact with russian-related matters much longer and that turched out to be the case. is it possible this new report g is what he s talking about? it s entirely possible, it s likely. even if it s not, what we know
of intelligence, former fbi jaime comey knew was bogus, nevertheless forced his hand in the hillary clinton investigation. dana bash explains. cnn has learned that james comey knew a piece of information related to the hillary clinton was fake. they feel he needed to headache action anyway because if it become public it undermines the investigation. this comes from my clients and myself, these were major factor that comey publicly declared that the clinton probe was over you may remember earlier th this week the washington post reported on this doubt ability. comey fell he had to act based