i hope you can let this go. he did not say anything to mr. trump about curtailing the investigation, only replying, i a agree he is a good guy. defending the integrity of the president trump and attacking the accuracy of the memo saying, this is not a truthful or accurate portrayal of the conversation between the president and mr. comey. joining us now, connecticut, democrat senator who is a member of the judiciary committee. thank you very much for joining us tonight on this important night and i wanted to get your reaction to your reading of that comey memo as presented in the new york times. what you re seeing, lawrence, is actually an obstruction of justice case unfolding in real time. as a fellow alumnus and also a prosecutor, i have written more than a few of those memoranda of conversations and i am willing to bet that there are more of them they will provide more evidence in this case against against donald trump for obstruction of justice.
let s get more senate reaction on this and this happened moments after the news of the comey firing first broke today about 15 minutes after that i spoke with senator mark warner, he s a top democrat on the senate intelligence committee. joining us now, virginia senator mark warner, vice chair of the senate intelligence committee. thank you for joining us, your reaction to the firing of the fbi director? it s pretty outrageous. and here is what we know, lawrence, we know that this president has now fired the deputy attorney general in terms of ms. yates. he s fired nearly ever u.s. attorney. he s now fired the fbi director. he had his national security adviser have to resign because of communications with russians. we ve had his attorney general have to recuse himself. we ve had the new deputy attorney general, the first
would that be possibly something that should be a consensus pick, suggested by both parties in the judiciary committee. lawrence, i think if there was ever a time for a consensus pick to get somebody who was a career prosecutor, to get somebody that was, in effect, above pressure, but that was suppose to be the deputy attorney general who now we ve seen written frankly laughable letter explaining the firing for comey was because he didn t treat then secretary clinton nice enough, whoever believes that, maybe there is a piece of real estate i can sell you in russia or in south florida. but, you know, i think more than ever now we need that kind of consensus pick, but what we ve not seen from this administration at any turn is this move to the center, or this move to rising above the story of the day. you know, there s a whole lot of dots, lawrence, that we ve got to connect. boy oh boy if you look at the
judiciary committee. lawrence, i think if there was ever a time for a consensus pick to get somebody who was a career prosecutor, to get somebody that was, in effect, above pressure, but that was suppose to be the deputy attorney general who now we ve seen written frankly laughable letter explaining the firing for comey was because he didn t treat then secretary clinton nice enough, whoever believes that, maybe there is a piece of real estate i can sell you in russia or in south florida. but, you know, i think more than ever now we need that kind of consensus pick, but what we ve not seen from this administration at any turn is this move to the center, or this move to rising above the story of the day. you know, there s a whole lot of dots, lawrence, that we ve got to connect. boy oh boy if you look at the timeline of people being fired. if you look at the timeline of ms. yates testimony yesterday, you look at the actions today, you look at the fact that we were moving forward with
prosecutor. prosecutor. but boy oh, boy, lawrence, more than ever, this senate investigation, which i ve been frustrated sometimes at our pace. but it becomes more absolutely essential than ever. and we ve got to keep it as much as possible bipartisan and we ve got to follow the facts because this is now been elevated to a you picked the defcon level than it was. earlier in the day, as we heard, an update on this investigation and we had not actually director comey appearing before our committee on thursday. the questions and the tension level just builds. senator, do you have any suggestions to the white house about how to choose the next fbi director.