influence or prevent an ongoing investigation. tucker: just one moment, this is a meaningful thing, you are a lawyer. so you re saying that the president of the united states does not have a constitutional right to direct investigations by his subordinates, is that what you re saying? no, that is not what i m saying. i said it is unlawful to attempt to impede, obstruct, interfere, or influence an election. it is unlawful for the president to do that with in the fbi. so saying that i want you to drop the investigation, i would like you, that is not permitted. so the reality is, this further reinforces why we need to understand, why was the president so eager to stop the investigation surrounding michael flynn, and a reinforces tucker: but hold on, this is why you are dodging the question. this is what drives me so crazy. yes, you are. because the investigation was not into whether or not michael flynn was colluding with the russian government. the investigation was into
campaign officials, but perhaps people in the cabinet, and the family members. tucker: what is replaced in the senate? what specifically did we learn today, and i am quoting you, the collusion about we heard that he lied about the describing of the narrative, the conversations that he had with the fbi director. that alone tells us tucker: are you talking about collusion? obstruction of justice is closer and closer to these issues. a tucker: so answer my question, where s the evidence? there was collusion during the campaign, what do you not say that that is treasonous? i would say it is crazy, horrible, if a president is doing that my question was, the government right now. you representing hold on a minute. after seven months, any evidence, i keep asking you, any evidence. seven months, when is this? no formal investigation, and we have the republican head of intelligence committee.
the president with us. let him flail around and took notes on it. you told the president, i would see what we could do. what did you mean? that was a cowardly way of trying to avoid telling him, we are not going to do that. at that i would see what we could do, that was a way of getting off the phone, frankly. and then i turned and handed it to the active deputy general, mr. ben tape. tucker: and finally, fits, and most important by far, we learned that the russian collusion story, the one that we have seen the handmaidens in the media for months now, starting to look weaker than ever. at the heart of the entire scandal, the reason we have not been able to focus on the problems in the country is the claim that donald trump collaborated with vladimir putin s government and undermining america s interest. if that is actually true, comey did not suggest it today or even come close. instead, he confirmed that trump
happen? yes and no, how about for a lawyer s answer? and i think his testimony as it unfolds undermines the obstruction case, but what i found disturbing is what looks to be a post hoc attempt to construct a obstruction case that was not even there in the first case. so to be more clear about that, i think that if you listen to the story, there is no proof beyond a reasonable doubt of corrupt behavior. the president is allowed to influence the executive branch. all the problems that we discussed last night are still there. and the case is not there. here s what he died, he said in the clip that you just played. you know, it was not my place to decide whether that was obstruction. yes, it was. right there and then. there is nobody in america that knows the law of obstruction of justice better than jim comey does. he was a top prosecutor top cop
russian intelligence. and incited those ubiquitous former officials that you see in every story these days. according to comey, the article was garbage. that reported by the new york times was not true. is that a fair statement? in the mena was not true. if the people talking about it, often don t understand what is going on, and those that understand, we are not talking about it. we do not call the press to say, hey, you got this thing wrong about the sensitive topic. we have to leave it there. tucker: unless we are leaking to the press ourselves, but that was not the only lie that s made it into the news cycle recently, cnn cited an unnamed source to claim that james comey would deny ever telling president trump that he was not under investigation. trump told him that three times. cnn said, that is untrue. less than a day later, the opening statement prove that to be laughably false. the group has been responsible more than anyone else for fueling the past have amounts of