president about whether or not he could fire the fbi director. i ve never heard such a thing but i guess in this white house we have heard of aides hiding information, shading information, not providing all the information that they could to president trump because they are trying to protect him from himself. correct. and i mean, look, we just hadn t heard of it being of this magnitude. it does raise the question of being how many other potentially enormous pieces of information they have kept from him to try to keep him from going in the wrong direction. but it s really striking and it s also striking they would be able to tell him this and he wouldn t look for some other validation of it. he accepted it and believed it. the other really interesting piece of reporting that mike unearthed was that an aide to sessions went to capitol hill to a staffer there to ask about negative information about james
fury and the details of the decision to fire comey, the concoction of this fake reason why jared kushner and others had the meeting at trump tower, how might that impact the senate judiciary committee s investigation? i believe it s very important we continue this. you have to let director mueller do his job and these attempts to undermine it have been so concerning to my as a former prosecutor, everything from people calling on sessions to resign because of this to saying the special counsel got his documents illegally when in fact he had to come out and say that s not true and it makes me think we need to continue the judiciary committee investigations. the public has a right to know this. we have an election that is less than a year away and we have information we have to get out there about the coordination
so all of this reporting really backs up that kind of testimony. and the second thing i learned from this is how important it is to allow the investigation to continue and to allow mueller to do his job. there is a large part of this about the leadup to firing fbi director comey. the new york times reporting the president was searching for reasons to get rid of comey. an aide to the attorney general approached a capitol hill staffer and asked if that staffer had any derogatory information on the former fbi director. had you heard about any of that? i had not heard about that and of course we ve had some testimony in the judiciary committee that s public and then we have the transcripts we d like to release. but they the ones that i have seen are not related to this. how might this story, how might the book fire and fury and the details of the decision to fire comey, the concoction of
from them, he ll explain what happened. so the president put himself into the story. he thought he was such a brilliant spin meister that he could get it done well. there s no evidence, i don t think that mcgahn or others were consulted on that and as the times or is it wolff now reports, hard to get these things straight, the lawyers are saying you put out a statement and maybe somebody resigned because they thought it was an obstruction of justice and this week he gets his private lawyer into a nutty, in my view, looks kind of nutty, cease-and-desist letter that there s no information that the white house counsel knew about. stick around, we re getting started. lots more on the shocking report from the new york times, including the president s public reaction when sessions refused to remain in charge of the russia investigation. stay with us. cash back new cardmembers earn at the end of their first year, automatically. whoo! i got my money! hard to contain yourself, isn t it?
this fake reason why trump jr. and jared kushner and the others had that meeting at trump tower, how might that impact the senate judiciary committee s investigation? i believe it s very important we continue this. you have to let director mueller do his job and these attempts to undermine it have been so concerning to me as a former prosecutor, everything from people calling on sessions to resign because of this to saying the special counsel got his documents illegally when in fact he had to come out and say that s not true and it makes me think we need to continue the judiciary and intelligence committee investigations. whatever we can make public we should. the public has a right to know this. we have an election that is less than a year away and we have information we have to get out there about the coordination that was going on with russia, what russia was doing to attempt to influence our