And at least two other related sections, the relevant language in condensed form reads who ever corruptly endeavors to influence or impede the due administration of justice shall be punished. Keep that in mind as we go along tonight. Two portions of the hearing from the president s valentines day meeting in the oval office when he asked the director to drop the investigation of fired general flynn. And the friendly language in director comeys account and director comey pushing back. He did not direct you to let it go. Not in his words, no. He did not order you to go . Again, those words are not in order. He said, i hope. Like me, you probably did hundreds of case, maybe thousands of cases charging people with criminal offenses and you have knowledge of the thousands of cases outside there where people have been charged. Do you know of any case where a person has been charged for obstruction of justice or for that matter, any other criminal offense where they said or thought they hoped
This. But weve got a long way to go, as john said. And you cant cherry pick this. The democrats, if theyre going to embrace jim comey, cannot wave away what they said about loretta lynch. But as republicans, rightfully so, as they say that, they find james comey to be a credible witness. If you believe everything hes saying there about loretta lynch, dont you have to believe everything hes said about donald trump . They are going to pick at james comey leaking a document that he knew would lead to a special counsel and the reason he told us he did it very forthrightly and i dont recall anybody doing Something Like that before, is that, you know, the president tweeted about the tapes. And he tweeted it at comey. And comey, being a very seasoned, smart player, we can talk about how hes handled this entire hearing, giving them the road map in his testimony yesterday and then leaking this so that, through a friend, so that this story would appear and that would clearly make rosenstein thin
He unilaterally made unauthorized disclosures to the press of Privileged Communications with the president. Ahead, complete coverage of the comey hearing and what we learned about what we need to find out. Lets get to it. First on the fox news deck, lordy, i hope theres tapes. Thats what the fired fbi director said today among other things about his meetings with President Trump. Comey testified he was worried the president might lie about their conversations. So he wrote them down, in detail. Comey said the white house did indeed lie about why President Trump fired him and about the fbi itself. Although the law required no reason at all to fire an fbi director, the administration then chose to defame me and more importantly the fbi by saying the organization was in disarray. That it was poorly led. That the work force lost confidence in its leader. Those were lies, plain and simple. What was it about that meeting that led you to determine that you needed to started putting down a writ
But first, a highspeed Train Derailment in the state of washington. Investigators are on the scene. Joining us now with the latest details is dan springer. Dan. Horrible and tragic day here in western washington. As the Washington State patrol has confirmed three fatalities, but the Associated Press is reporting six, at least six, and the discrepancy could be that three have been pulled from the wreckage, but there could be three bodies still inside some of those cars. You can see behind me dangling off of a trestle here about 50 miles south of seattle over i5. That training delivery held at about 7 40 this morning at the height of rush hour traffic. Speed might be a factor. They will definitely look at the speed of the train. There were multiple reports that this train was traveling upwards of 80 miles an hour, about a quarter mile away from where it went off the tracks and where it went off the tracks, there was a very sharp curve. When investigators get here a little bit later tonig