He completely ignores the fbi investigation threatening his administration. Lets get to the biggest bombshell just today. Listen. I have been authorized by the department of justice to confirm that the fbi as part of our Counter Intelligence mission is investigating the russian governments efforts to interfere in the 2016 president ial election. And that includes investigating the nature of any links between individuals associated with the Trump Campaign and the russian government. And whether there was any coordination between the campaign and russias efforts. As with any Counter Intelligence investigation, this will also include an assessment of whether any crimes were committed. This is not politics as ush. Weve said that before, and were going to keep saying it, it is not politics as usual for the fbi to investigate a president ial campaign for possible ties to a Foreign Government. It is not politics as usual for that investigation to go on for eight months with no end in sight. A
Ken tucky tonight he completely ignores listen. I have been authorized by the department of justice to confirm that the fbi as port of our Counter Intelligence is investigating the russian efforts to interfere in the 2016 election. And that includes investigating the nature of any lengths between vijs associate would the Trump Campaign and the russian government and weather there was any coordination between the campaign and the russias efforts. As with any Counter Intelligence investigation, this will also include an assessment of whether any crimes were committed. This is not politics as vulgs. Weve said that before, and were going to keep saying it. It is not politics as usual for the fbi to investigate a Prejudice Campaign with possible ties to a foreign government. And its definitely not politics as usual for the fbi director to publicly state the bureau is investigating whether any crimes were committed by those associated to the Trump Campaign. Political km political commentator
Month. Can you say whether you are aware that anyone who advised your campaign had contacts with russia during the course of the election . Nobody that im aware of . You are not aware how many times do i have to answer this question. Russia is a ruse. I have nothing to do with russia. To the best of my knowledge, no person i deal with does. We know three advisers had contact with him, then senator Jeff Sessions, j. D. Gor dan and carter paige. Since then, Michael Flynn and his soninlaw Jared Kushner met with him. Flynn had trouble getting the story straight about the content. The Washington Post said flynn denied he discussed sanctions with the ambassador. Asked in an interview, he said no. Cut to a day later. Thursday, flynn backed away from the denial. They said flynn indicated while he has no recollection, he couldnt be certain the topic never came up. Here is sean spicer on january 23rd. A total of two calls with the ambassador and general flynn. The second call came, i think three
Press corps thought comey was coming in the back door. We will eventually see him here and there will be no shortage of pictures still and video of director comey. Nicole wallace, his reputation in washington. So interesting, i asked republicans this morning if trump isnt happy with what he hearse today, does he have any recourse, to Pete Williams point. And he said no, this president is stuck with comey basically. Theres no case to be made that hes done anything other than his job. You can criticize how hes gone about doing his job. I know some democrats are still pretty enraged about how hugh he handl how he handled the Hillary Clinton emails and i feel like weve been on this beat for many months. Comey was my colleague in the white house. He became famous for going to jim ashcrofts bedside and making a point on the terror policie policies. Theres nothing to suggest he isnt probably perfectly suited for this job under this president. Kasie hunt is outside in the hallway. What should
Judiciary committee will off a multiday affair. Each senator will give an Opening Statement and well hear from neil gorsuch himself. In an hour james comey and mike rodgers will testify before the House Intelligence Committee on alleged russian interference in the election and President Trumps claim which is still unsubstantiated on the wiretapping of president obama. Well have more on that in just a moment. First, lets go back to shannon in the senate skybox for what we can expect when the gorsuch confirmation hearing starts this morning. Shannon. Shannon judge neil gorsuch comes in with a sterling resume but democrats are vowing to be tough on the president s pick for the nations highest court. Hes a graduate of columbia, Harvard Law School and got a ph. D. At oxford and where hes his wife and the American Bar Association has unanimously given him the highest ranking. Gorsuch knows hes heading into potentially rough waters today. Way back in 2005 he wrote an article that touched on h