when he was named special counsel, i said the selection was good news. knowing him, i had confidence he d handle the matter properly. i still have that confidence today. that s what he intends to tell his confirmation hearing tomorrow, well aware this is going to be topic a. yeah. comments clearly designed to address the concerns that have been expressed by some democrats there in the upper chamber. mr. williams, thanks, as always, sir. you bet. now to the russia front and the loyalty question. president trump s under scrutiny. his nominee for attorney general likely to get an earful during his confirmation tomorrow. house democrats already waving the threat of their newfound subpoena power, all because of a pair of stories from the new york times and washington post. one, one reports on a hereto foe intelligence into trump s loyalties. the latter, how he concealed any and all details of his face-to-face encounters with vladimir putin. these articles contain no
conversations between the president and any public official should be viewed as privileged and off-limits, who does that include? comey, it includes all of the material that you just discussed from michael schmidt s story in terms of rosenstein. so all of these things, which they are tangentially selling to the base are not going to happen during the course of this investigation. considering that obstruction is one of the major lines here of probing. but secondly on sessions, i wanted to weigh in a little bit on this because to the loyalty question, guys, i was on the plane with sessions, just totally coincidentally, it was right after the access hollywood tape had broken and i can vouch, there s no official who is more loyal, because jeff sessions was on that plane, he was the only surrogate with a horde of media who was still willing to stand there and take questions and stand behind this president when everyone else, including reince priebus was
different issues, he circled back to the loyalty question. he brought it up. comey claims that he didn t give any sort of signal, didn t nod, do anything. then they went and talked about these different issues and the president circled back to it toward the end of the dinner. it s clear based on comey s account of things that this is something the president wanted to reach an agreement on with comey, don? listen, josh, there was a comment of the nature from vladimir putin in an interview with bloomberg in 2017. here s the quote. it says trump is a grown man and secondly, he is someone who has been involved with beauty contests for many years and has met the most beautiful women in the world. i find it hard to believe that he rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. josh, as you answer this, you re the former assistant, i should note, to comey. what do you make of that comment? wow. what can you say? you know, i har
because he does not tell the truth all the time. or he has convenient lapses of memory. with respect to the two other things. one, mccabe. of course it is an inappropriate comment. he is a federal employee and he can t ask another federal employee how he he voted. there are regulations about it. he is acting director of the fbi and just fired former fbi director who said i was asked for loyalty. this is sort of back door loyalty question in and of itself. so the pattern of inappropriate communications between the white house and the fbi in an ongoing investigation context is manifest in that exchange. finally, the last thing, chris, is this fighting back thing. the fighting back thing may be the beginnings of what we see as a legal strategy out of the white house, which is to say this. the crime of obstruction of justice is a crime of intent. did you intend by your action to
we heard chants of lock her up. outside. chant of lock her up inside before donald trump took the podium. another chant we heard during the campaign we heard today while donald trump was speaking was build the wall. donald trump said, we will build the wall. but what was notable, andersen. he did not say mexico will pay for it. anderson. gary tuckman. thank you very much. next, the panel s take on whether the attorney general will resign. the loyalty question. sessions was the first senator to support the president. president trump says loyalty is important. why the disconnect now? the wall street journal reporter who asked the president about that joins me as well.