Im only talking as a candidate. Not as president where i want to do whats right for the country necessarily. Purely for me to get votes. When he came out with the scathing set of circumstances, the server, the illegal server, the emails 33,000 emails that you get subpoenaed and then you dont show and you erase those, delete them, get rid of them, acidwash them. When he did that stuff it was disgraceful when hes covering everything point after point. This is only one of a string of new developments today including the president issuing what many saw as a thinly veiled threat against former director comey denying he tried to extract a loyalty pledge from him refusing to deny he records conversations in the oval office. Details from sarah murray. Reporter President Trump firing off an apparent threat to the ousted fbi director. Trump tweeting, james comey better hope there are no tapes of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press. Trumps barbed warning comes as the president
Give shall be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you god . I do. Well, some are calling it the congressional super bowl. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to early start. Im dave briggs. And im christine romans. It is thursday, june 8th, 4 00 a. M. In the east, and we are just hours away from what promises to be a riveting show on capitol hill. Fired fbi director james comey will testify to the Senate Intelligence committee about his interactions with President Trump. Now, even before he takes the oath, comey has already changed the dynamic. The Intel Committee releasing comeys entire Opening Statement a day ahead of time, and this is at comeys request. This testimony confirms the president asked comey to help lift the cloud created by the fbis russia investigation. It also confirms President Trump demanded loyalty, and it contradicts the president s claim he never asked comey to back off of his investigation of former National Security adviser Michael Flynn.
Comey is a leaker. The vindication that the president is referring to is the fact that comey confirmed he told President Trump he was not under investigation within this whole russia probe. And the leak piece goes to director comeys admission that he did leak this one memo that detailed how the president told him he, quote, hoped comey could let the investigation of the fired National Security adviser Michael Flynn go. Moments ago, one of the senators who actually, hes not on the senate intel committee, hes a democrat, senator reed, told cnn that the special counsel leading the investigation may actually depose the president. I think director comey made a strong impression. As you noted, he did so under oath. The president , i think, if hes willing to insist upon his position, that should also be under oath, not through an attorney or through tweets. I think thats ultimately what will happen. Because in the course of these investigations, particularly with special prosecutor mueller, s
There had. This is the first time that the two are set to meet since those reports surfaced last week that the president has become increasingly frustrated with sessions, and the russia probe so much so that he offered to resign. Meantime, sessions says he plans to testify on that topic tomorrow before the Senate Intelligence committee but the panels chairman not publicly green lit. His testimony has not said if it is public or behind closed Laura Jarrett is live in washington. It is odd, sessions was supposed to testify in front of some different house and senate subcommittees, instead hes sending his Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein to do that. Why the switch . Exactly right. Lawmakers have been demanding for weeks to question sessions on everything from his role in the firing of former fbi director james comey to any undisclosed contacts he might have had with the Russian Ambassador kislyak. He appears to have caught members by surprise agreeing to come to the panel tomorrow.
Them. The administrative moab, if you will, and the shock wave will probably reverberate for a very long time. President trump is defending his decision. He tweeted earlier today comey lost the confidence of almost everyone in washington, republican and democrat alike. When things calm down they will be thanking me. Cnn learning this morning and i want to listen in as we hear the Vice President coming toward the microphone. Yesterday President Donald Trump provided strong and decisive leadership to restore the trust and confidence of the American People and the federal bureau of investigation. I am grateful for the action the president has taken, and i am confident as we go forward that the president will choose an individual who will be able to restore the confidence of our nation and our leading Law Enforcement agency. President trump made the right decision at the right time to accept the recommendation of the Deputy Attorney general and the attorney general, to ask for the terminat