want to subpoena memos from james comey. james comey felt it was important to document some of these conversations he had with president trump. this one in particular, i m told through my source, a person fam with the matter that he was appalled by the fact that he believed the way he perceived it was pluresident trump asking hi to end the probe into the former national security advisor, so he helps that for ethical, legal reasons, it was important to document this. he apparently shared it with close associates, with senior people in the fbi. the question remains outside of that, who knew? did the department of justice know, who at the department of justice might know? andy mccabe testified last week on capitol hill and said that there is no indication that the white house has tried to interfere in the russia investigation.
people s behavior in the counter intelligence investigation, not that i know of. i think that we re not clear about. i think the thing that we re not clear about at this point is whether a grand jury has actually been convened and there may in fact be an investigation being conducted by a grand jury of contacts with the russians and it may in fact involve general flynn and when you look at a possible obstruction charge here, comey s going to come in and say, you know, the reason i didn t act and do something about this was because it was an a attempt to make something of it at the time. however something did come of it, however comey was fired to try to stop the investigation from going forward. people who are going to come in against the president, that was the act that turned a possible
totally inappropriate conversation. the bottom line glows to what jeff was sighing earlier, which is if this is all true, the president was trying to put his thumb on the scale. maybe the simple truth is he felt bad about what was happening to general flynn and was trying to be a nice guy and help him out. even if that was the intent, the president of the united states interfering even for good reasons in an ongoing investigation and possible prosecution is totally inappropriate and ideally the fbi director would have told him so. there are questions, though, to this point, however he handled it. mark, there was the hearing on may 11th, right, when the now interim director of the fbi, mccabe was asked about marco rubio whether the white house has tried to impede the
i think people watching have come to say there s always something. ok? but in the context of there being something on a one and something on a ten, this is significant. well, this is very high, because if the report is true and if the memo that comey described accurately described what went on, that seems clearly to be obstruction of justice. this is a pending investigation in february 14th. everybody knew that the fbi was investigating michael flynn yes. for his role in the trump campaign, whether he made false statements, whether he participated in colluding with the russian government and if donald trump says to him, let it go, says to comey, let it go yeah. the only interception i can make is him telling him to shut down the investigation. i think jake tapper made an
memo with quotes he said he wrote right after this meeting on february 14th. he was obviously fired only a week or so ago. so what happened in between then and now? the claim why didn t he put the memo out right away? who did he tell? exactly. that s the problem you re going to have here. technically, if what he said in the memo happened, i agree with jeffrey. this is a criminal conduct which translates into an impeachble conduct. look at comey s situation. he hears the president asking him to stop an investigation. his krebltd is going to be harmed quite a bit. instead comey continues on the job. there will be a strong argument by trump supporters that trump is more believable on this than comey. what do you say to that?