within that. however, remember, last time comey was here he said the f.b.i. was investigating four trump campaign associates for possible inappropriate talks with russia during the campaign and trump was not one of them. bill: more to come on that. peter doocy. see you next hour. four minutes past. julie: fox news alert on another big story this morning. facebook defending itself after a stunning new report. according to the new york times facebook gave other tech giants like apple, amazon, netflix gave them more data than previously disclosed. good morning. according to internal documents obtained by the new york times, the social media giant partnered with more than 150 companies allowing them specially negotiated windows into user s privacy. windows that smaller companies did not have.
welcome back to the load. breaking news in our politics lead on the upcoming testimony from the fired fbi director james comey. a source close to comey telling me he does not anticipate that comey will come to any legal conclusions about whether president trump s actions in his meetings with comey constituted obstruction of justice. when mr. trump according to comey was trying to influence his judgment about the russia investigation because comey does not believe it s his place to do so much. comey will be there as a fact witness and will leave the legal analysis for others. as far as any big dramatic revelations, the source also suggests, quote, the center of gravity is going to be what s already out there, that is the request that the president made according to comey that he lay off michael flynn when it came to the russia probe and also him asking comey for a pledge of loyalty. joining me now to discuss all of this is congressman adam schiff, the ranking democrat on olt house int
investigation so by definition almost that means that everything was basically okay. otherwise comey would have quit, so it would be interesting to see whether that narrative prevails on thursday, at the end of the day if comey was comfortable going ahead in his job who are we to say there was nothing real untoward, or do we learn new things, other my god, it was more pervasive than i realize. the potential for news nobody made there, according to a source close to comey with whom i spoke just a few minutes ago is how comey felt about the conversations he had with trump when trump asked for him to pledge his loyalty, when he asked him to lay off michael flynn, how he felt about that and his success and putting that away and and containing it is different now that he has been fired, that the president told lester holt on nbc that he was thinking of the russia investigation when he made the decision to fire him, that he told the russians in the oval office allegedly that the pressure
right now, would you say go ahead, be yourself. live tweet it, or what would you do? no. think maybe less tweeting would be wise, both in northern policy where have you a delicate situation with the saudis and qatar and with respect to the testimony. trump can be annoyed or not annoyed. comey could be a very theatrical witness or compelling witness, but, again, what if he says, you know, putting it back together i m worried about a conversation i had with attorney general sessions onex date, and sessions sort of hinted to me something i didn t understand and now i see where he s going. then they can call sessions to testify. he s the attorney general and testifies before congress. did you discuss this with president trump? then we have executive privilege and the number of strings can increase exponentially. and you really want trump live tweeting that. when he s complaining about the main strome media, the fake media not wanting him on twitter, he s not talking about
verse, and i think that we re going to get a bit of a show here. he is not beholden to anyone right now, and in some ways that s perhaps almost as damaging what is he has to say because we know that that gets underneath s trump s skin. he talks about how much he hates that about comey. he s a showboat, a grandstander, so that s the part of the comey testimony that s going to provoke some and he ll be live tweeting it. trump will be living tweeting it. robert costa from the washington post said he talked to two white house sources it s possible that trump will be sitting there live tweeting this event and this is, of course, in the middle of this debate public and private about his use of twitter. director of social media tweeted a graphic talking about how great how great the president s impressions are, how great his reach is on social media, that that, of course, does not take in fact what kind of impression he s making with those impressions. if you were his senior adv