Of obstruction of justice by the president when mr. Trump asked him to let go of his investigation of Michael Flynn and he suggestions its possible that mr. Trump has been compromised by the russians. Needless to say, there is a lot to discuss following the interview with james comey on abc. Lets get to our correspondents, analysts and political commentators. Weve been waiting for this interview to happen. Finally james comey is speaking out. This is the man who used to be the head of the fbi, one of the highest offices in the government calling the president of the United States morally unfit. Your reaction . Look, i mean, this is something that in any other time would be seismic and i think even in this time where its easy to kind of lose sight of things that are enormously out of balance and enormously unusual for an fbi director, even though he was fired and he has, you know, he certainly feels a sense he says of higher loyalty but retribution, lets face it, to say the things he di
months and he never at one point during. he already knew you were loyal. i worked against him in the primary. how did he know? let s take a step back. james comey has been interviewed by mueller which means if this account isn t true you know, here is the interesting thing about that dinner:the w dinner. the way he describes that dinner, he describes it as a shake down. he views the briefing in early january after the intelligence briefing where he gets told about the dossier. he viewed comey as shaking him down and here we are later that same month they are having this private dinner and he asks for the loyalty according to comey and the ky comey describes it is he views it as the president shaking him down. in exchange for your loyalty, i ll let you keep your job. how important is that for him being the key witness and that s how he viewed it?