this investigation and it s hurting you politically. let s keep reading. everyone join me. page 6. it s like being in class. here we go. this is james comey. if you re just joining us, we have gotten this massive statement ahead of his testimony tomorrow in front of the senate intel committee. on the morning of march 30th, the president called me at the fbi. he said he had nothing to do with russia, had not been involved with hookers in russia and had always assumed he was being recorded when in russia. he asked what we could do to, quote, lift the crowd. i responded that we were veging the matter as quickly as we could and there would be great benefit if we didn t find anything to having doing the work well.
obstruction, maybe worse. this is the equivalent of the nixon tapes. and we are in very choppy waters. let me follow up quickly before we bring in two more voices. what do you say to trump supporters who say this is political, ax to grind, guy was fired? well, i think president trump has already lost that battle. the american people, majority of them we have heard have made up their mind but it s not political. i think the document itself speaks to the patience of jim comey and the american people will be watching tomorrow. comey is a master at testimony. he s at his best. again, like a trial witness, he himself a prosecutor trial
being very disturbed by it, going to a small group of people and understanding that they didn t want to infect their investigation and they had to and then and again, i don t want to jump too far ahead here, but he goes to sessions, his boss, the attorney general, and says don t let me be alone with the president anymore. right. okay. because this is what he s doing and it s inappropriate. the one place where he seems to draw a conclusion and not just be a fact witness is in saying that the president was going about what he wanted to accomplish the wrong way by going to jim comey and he should be going to make requests about a public declaration of being cleared in this to the justice department and the attorney general and the deputy attorney general and he said very clearly here in what was the final interaction, phone call between donald trump and jim comey on april 11th it is clear that donald trump was done with jim comey on april 11th. i know it was all about that may
lawyer, he knows how that game is played. he s going to be convincing and he s going to be credible. trump is wrong-footed. he s already losing the argument, scrambling to catch up. releasing the statement today is just another devastating blow to him. so i don t think those political arguments are going to fly. okay. norm eisen, thank you for your time as we re all listening to this statement released ahead of tomorrow s testimony on capitol hill, now fired fbi director james comey sitting in front of and being questioned by members of the senate intelligence committee. i have here with me now david jolly and matt sclapp, former political director for george w. bush. so two republicans. matt sclapp, to you first, ambassador eisen said this is the equivalent of the nixon tapes. i like ambassador eisen very
and his family first included and he provided such a level of detail which we know jim comey wants to build a narrative and tell a story here. i think that s going to help him bolster his own credibility because he remembers these incidents in such incredible detail, i think it s going to make it harder for the president to push back on it. so this is very long and you read a very important fascinating part of it talking about the loyalty pledge. yep. later he talks about the now infamous valentine s day meeting in the oval office where he, james comey, is confirming very explicitly that the president of the united states asked him to back off michael flynn. this is on page 5 of his testimony. he says, the president returned to the topic of mike flynn saying can i interrupt? yes. i think brooke should should we take it section by section? it s a potential obstruction