Of stone wawalling, refusing toe whether the president asked him to stop russian investigation. Get nothing answers. And no confidence . President holding any words of support for his attorney general, Jeff Sessions. As their tensions apparently continue to simmer. With the russia probe exploding, could sessions now be on his way out . We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer, youre in the situation room. Breaking news tonight, james comey declaring on the record that President Trump asked him to let go of his investigation of Michael Flynn. Fired fbi directors Opening Statement to senators released today at comeys request in advance of his testimony tomorrow morning. The sevenpage statement includes very specific details of comeys nine one on one conversations with the president in person and on the phone. Comey, citing his famous memos of his various talks with the president saying the commanderinchief flatly told him he expects loyalt
But first, flynn is appearing in federal court in washington, d. C. Now. Court documents we have here released this morning show that he is charged with a single count of, quote, willfully and knowingly making false statements to the fbi. Those statements about two conversations with the Russian Ambassador last december during the president ial transition. All right. Nbc news intelligence reporter ken dilanian joins us. We have been speaking throughout the morning. We knew something was coming. But here we are. Mike flynn pleading guilty admitting to lying to the fbi. What does that mean . We did know it was coming. Weve been reporting it was coming, but its still a remarkable, dramatic thing for me to be standing outside the federal courthouse knowing he is inside getting ready to plead guilty to a felony. And its about the interactions with the Russian Ambassador. We learned something in this document. We knew for some time there were questions about flynns account with kislyak befor
And the new report about the killing of jamal khashoggi. That was a very immature report. Officials reveal this staggering number. Nearly 1,000 people remain missing. We have nothing left. Were all living minute by minute out here. We begin with the latest shoe dropping in the Mueller Investigation. He says it was easy. So why did he take so long . I want to explain. When the president and his legal team submit their response to the special counsel, it will mark the end of months of back and forth negotiations. We know the president s lawyers have repeatedly said he would only answer questions about russia. To hear the president , he says hes the one, not his lawyers. Your team is preparing written answers not my team, im preparing written answers. Yes, theyre writing what i tell them to write. The questions were asked and answered. I got the questions. I responded. I read them a second time. We made some changes. Thats it. Very simple. I did nothing wrong. The president has also said
against that out of fear the president could perjury himself. trump seems to be willing to do it their way. there s going to be no sit-down interview on obstruction? i would say probably. i can change my mind, but probably. i think i ve wasted enough time on this witch hunt. probably. we re finished. i want to go straight to ken dilanian. the president says no biggie, what do we know? i don t think this marks the end of anything. the president agreed to answer questions only about what happened during the campaign. but he s completely leaving on the table the obstruction of justice, mike comey.