russia officials. documents describe to the times in may telling them he was not under investigation and quote i just fired the head of the fbi. he was crazy. a real nut job. i faced great pressure bus of russia. that s taken off. can you stop there, seriously, that is, you know, because, everybody used to love watching perimason, i watched the rerun, right? nobody really breaks down on the stand and says, oh my god, i did it, i did it? nobody does that. but donald trump mike barnical, it s the final scene in every perry mason tv show, except he did it in the oval office on his own when the russian foreign minister and the russian ambassador to the united states was there. he literally laid out the case for obstructing justice. to continue with the perry
missteps made at the white house around statements made around the comey firing, around drafting this don junior statement on air force one with white house officials, this has now become a west wing investigation. mueller over the summer has slowly been marching his way to the white house and now we are at the moment where he is requesting the documents, he s requesting interviews with staff and this is quickly going to cast a cloud of paranoia and stress over the west wing if it hasn t already. i m pretty sure they have been stressed and paranoid for quite some time. i also don t think it s been a slow march. it feels like it s been a streamline. i want to talk about these documents that were described to the new york times, quote, the president telling russians that he was not under investigation and that he fired the head of the fbi because he was crazy, a real nut job, and that trump faced great pressure because of russia and now that s taken off. the fact that the new york t
lester holt and admitted, he had intended to fire comey all along and hit something 22nd the russia investigation which comey then supervised. regardless of recommendation, i was going to fire him. knowing there was no good time to do it. and in fact, when i decided to just do it, i said to myself, you know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a made-up story. an excuse by the democrats for having lost an mexico they should have won. days later, the times reported in a minute with top russian diplomats, the day after comey was let go, the president told them, i just fired the head of the fbi. he was crazy. a real nut job. i faced pressure because of russia. that s taken off. remember, comey had confirmed in congressional testimony less than two months earlier that the trump administration was under investigation for ties to russia. but comey stopped short of
and in fact, when i decided to just do it, i said to myself, you know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a made-up story. an excuse by the democrats for having lost an mexico they should have won. days later, the times reported in a minute with top russian diplomats, the day after comey was let go, the president told them, i just fired the head of the fbi. he was crazy. a real nut job. i faced pressure because of russia. that s taken off. remember, comey had confirmed in congressional testimony less than two months earlier that the trump administration was under investigation for ties to russia. but comey stopped short of announcing the president himself was not personally under investigation which he later acknowledged, having informed the president in private. comey said he resisted pressure explaining that he worried about having to update the public. he recounted other fwamts the
what? he called me a genius and i ll going to disavow that statement? how stupid are you. we want you to disavow the statement. wouldn t it be good if we got along with countries? wouldn t it be a positive thing? since taking office, the president has been swayed to take saudi arabia s side with yemen and qatar following his lavish saudi arabia visit. he changed his mind about china s ability to affect north korea after a brief conversation with the chinese president saying, after listening for ten minutes, i realized it s not so easy. then there s time the president revealed highly classified information to the ambassador and the foreign minister during a meeting in the oval office, a meeting that was taken at the request of vladimir putin. it was set up. a while ago. i could have waited. what does does it make? when i spoke with putin, he asked me whether or not i would see lavrov. she called him crazy, a real nut job.