examining as obstruction of justice. professor sugarman, what are the prosecuters looking for in that skreed that they now process and may have possessed for quite a while. for all of trump s lies, he s already confessed, as you showed with lester holt, to the basic he told the truth to lester holt, that he fired jim comey because of the russia investigation. that could be the nixon articles of impeachment there. he also said in his letter, explaining the firing of jim comey, he said while i appreciate you telling me on three separate times that i wasn t under investigation, i nevertheless am firing you. that s an amazing confession. the first part of that sentence explained what he was thinking about which is thanks for telling me i wasn t under investigation. now we find out what the letter, and this is what you re asking, lawrence, what mueller is looking at is the rest of the
i m not under investigation, comey, you ve got to get out there and say i m not under investigation. by the way, when you fii fire ym going to say, he told me i wasn t under investigation. trump considers that total vindication. and as you noted, on the two-year anniversary of him coming down the escalator, he says to the country, i m under investigation. and that s what s gotten us here today. so, nick, weigh in on this. and if we re all following this, follow the bouncing ball on this one when it comes to the firing of james comey. it appears now that the president is going back to the original line and reasoning offered by the white house and so many of why the president fired james comey was because of rod rosenstein s recommendation that was written, despite the fact, of course, that he he s completely said the opposite. he said he has said the opposite. the president tweeting this this morning. does that impact the investigation? it doesn t impact the investigation at
investigative work well and as quickly as we could. immediately after that conversation, i called acting deputy attorney general general bentay. sessions had recused himself on all russia-related matters and said i would await his guidance. i did not hear back from him before the president called me again two weeks later. so again, my takeaway is this insistent personal investigation questioning of that. well, i also wanted in this context to follow up on something that jeffrey said. i think that the law is what it is and it applies pretty quickly. one of the unique did i mentions of this case is that the president with regard to this case is the architect of his narrative. he s the author. there are things he s not able to dispute, the white house has supported that, we also have this unique dimension that is personal to the president where he puts it out on twitter. we ve been talking about
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.
control. and comey is getting him madder and madder every time he talks to him, even though comey said, you are not personally under investigation, he makes the point here that there is some n nuance because that didn t mean he would never be under an investigation. and there s a parallel here. there s a parallel here. january 20th, 1973, when richard nixon and h.r. haldeman after watergate, six days after the watergate break-in, they have this fbi investigation that they can t control. exactly. and they come up with this idea of telling the fooe that the cia wants this investigation stopped and it s that tape that s the smoking gun tape that persuades the house judiciary committee to vote to impeach