the president s power to assert executive privilege is well established however in order to facilitate a swift and thorough examination of the facts sought by the senate intelligence committee, president trump will not assert executive privilege regarding james comey s scheduled testimony. well you heard it there. from the white house, president trump will not try to stop jim comey from testifying thursday fore the senate intelligence committee. it is the firstime we will hear from the former fbi director since he was fired and it could be a blockbuster testimony about his conversations with the president on the russia election meddling investigation. joining me msnbc justice and security analyst matt miller, a former spokesperson at the justice department under general eric holder and my panel steve kornacki and jason johnson. matt, start with you, committee chairman republican richard burr says james comey pretty much can discuss anything. take a look. has mueller urged him not t
a politics editor at the root.com and msnbc contributor. ned, i want to start with you. i would think it would be a lot more difficult it leak classified info, kind of seems like it was easy? well, stephanie, i think you saw here what happened in this case. it had this individual gone about this in a less careless and reckless way, i think it would have been much more difficult to identify her and ultimately apprehend her. you can tell by the reference to fvey that this document was provided to not only the united states intelligence community but our four closest intelligence allies, so thousands of people had access to this document. but not thousands of people printed it. six people printed it as we know and in addition to what pete williams said, the document was postmarked from the hometown of this individual so she made it incredibly easy to track down what she had done.
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the times sources. one other story that s now being communicated publicly by a friend of james comey is in that meeting that the two had just a couple days after the inauguration, remember when donald trump saw james comey, they shook hands, had the half bro hug as it were, comey as his friends describe it was trying to steer clear of the president as best he could. he was wearing a blue suit, despite being 6 8 and hoped he would blend into the curtains in the blue room. i want to bring in my panel, joel, he was a senior adviser to the clinton campaign and is an msnbc political analyst. ned ryan, ceo of american majority, and a former speechwriter for president george w. bush and mid wynn charles, an attorney, gentlemen, i always go with the lady first. ladies first. after rod rosenstein met with senators, they came out and spoke to reporters and lindsey graham said this now looks like a criminal investigation.
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