jim comey is saying that he thought that he didn t say anything because the president had pushed at him. he didn t think the president was successful at making it stop. he thought that living with this president was standing up and pushing back. he thought he could do so and protect the integrity of the investigation. does that add upped to you as an explanation for him not telling congress, telling anyone what the president supposedly did? it does add 7-to me, erin. it would be good to hear directly from mr. comey in his own words what he was thinking. again, we re looking at what he did or didn t do in this instance. and again maybe ideally he would have come out with this right away. but the hard truth is this. time and again, going back a long period of time, the president has represented that the relationship is adversarial. now there s a question of
it comes to the investigation into general flynn, apparently that memo from february 14. if this happened, john, does this mean the legal of obstruction of justice which is of course is the impeachable offense. you have two levels of obstruction, you ve got the legal level which he cannot be charged with as president. or the impeachable level of obstruction. there is an obstruction here, without getting into the weeds of technical legal issues, not always is it an an obstruction to interfere with an fbi investigation. but there s no question, it could be impeachable, indeed nixon was impeached for just this such act.
united states? if he did it, it s impeachble. but remember ok. the the congress has to vote to ima peach. i don t see them voting to impeach on this evidence. le. one reason comey might give is he wanted to finish the russia investigation, which was his job, and he didn t want it to be politicized because he thought the investigation into 2 hacking into an american election was just that important to the country that he wanted to finish that job. look. i can t speak for comey nor would i ever try to. but i would think that that might have been a more important thing that he was thinking about getting done. so tony, let me ask you, because i know you also have been in the situation room. you know jim comey. what do you make of the fact he would say that in a memo and perhaps now as we understand, multiple memos, multiple times
investigation. has the dismissal of mr. comey in any way impeded, interrupted, stopped or negatively impacted any of the work any investigation or any ongoing projects at the federal bureau of investigation? the work of the men and women of the fbi continues. there has been no effort to impede our investigation to date. so mark, what does that mean? context of what we re learning now? did mccabe who was the number two at the fbi have no idea. well, two things. one is we don t know if mccabe had any idea in whether or not then director comey shared with him this information. if you go back and listen to that clip right there, senator rubio is saying has the dismissal of director comey negatively affected the investigation and then, of course with we saw mccabe say no, in fact, that is not the case. that is sperveg wording. le. yes. but he continued to say there
conversation with the president? yeah. in which he asked you to see your way through to clearing something. in the memo, part of the memo according to to the new york times, he said i hope you can see yourself clear to letting this go. he said he s a good guy i hope you can let this go. mr. comey did not say anything to mr. trump about curtailing the investigation. he said, i agree, he is a good guy. what do you hear when you hear that. jim comey acquiescing? is that jim comey making donald trump think he s acquiescing? he s not responding to the full comment of donald trump but he is, sort of, trying to play indicate him. well, i think he s trying to end the conversation on that topic and move on. ideally what he would have said is mr. president this is a