else to leave and makes this request, will you please shut off the investigation into me, will you make the fbi stop investigating me? why would you remember that? happens all the time, right? why would you recall? you know, maybe it does happen all the time. i mean, just look at where we are now. look at the height to which we have risen. with nixon, it was a revelation at the end, all the stuff we learned that we had done, all the stuff that prosecutors and investigators collected evidence of in terms of his criminal behavior. with president trump, it s been a mountain that s been built up in public, stone by stone, from the very beginning, from the very start of this presidency. i mean, president trump has not credibly denied any of this. he asked fbi director james comey to lay off the fbi investigation into michael flynn as it pertained to russia.
history in a way that people can see it for themselves, and it was co-authored by the former co-counsel of the fbi, james baker, one of the people who james comey confided in about his interactions with president trump, when it came to president trump pressuring him about this investigation. since we had that question so implicitly, provocatively raised about what happens when a president gets information about an investigation into himself improperly, since then, we have gotten information that the president has also a different source of information from inside the investigation, namely his convicted felon campaign chair, the president s attorney rudy giuliani has confirmed the arrangement, and it s interesting enough now to focus on what that might mean for the criminal case against paul manafort. but what does it mean for the president? this feels like a momentous thing, putting our finger on
that analysis is not directly about president trump, never mentions the current president by name, but it explores watergate history in a way that people can see it for themselves, and it was co-authored by the former general counsel of the fbi, james baker, one of the people who james comey confided in about his interactions with president trump, when it came to president trump pressuring him about the fbi investigation. since we had that question so implicitly, provocatively raised about what happens when a president gets information about an investigation into himself improperly, since then, we have gotten information that the president has also a different source of information from inside the investigation, namely his convicted felon campaign chairman. the president s attorney rudy giuliani has confirmed the arrangement, and it s interesting enough now to focus on what that might mean for the criminal case against paul manafort.
campaign hadn t colluded with russia. so the russia investigation was way off-base. the day before that nine-second pause, nbc reported that not only had president trump directed him as the director of national intelligence and also the head of the nsa to make those public statements to undermine the russia investigation, but also the two of them, head of the nsa, head of the office of the director of national intelligence, the two of them had talked to each other about that request from the president. sort of compared notes after the president approached them both. i ll ask both of you the same question, why are you not answering these questions? is there an invocation by the president of the united states of executive privilege, is there or not? not that i m aware of. then why are you not because i feel it is inappropriate, senator. what you feel isn t relevant, admiral. what you feel isn t the answer why are you not answering the questions?
supposed witness to the president trying to enlist the director of national intelligence to kibosh the investigation into his campaign as a historical mirror to what nixon got busted for. so director, this account strongly suggests that the president asked you and director cotes to interfere with then fbi director comey s investigations into the trump campaign s contacts with russia. what did president trump say to you and director cotes in that meeting? senator, i m not going to talk about the conversation the president and i had. did he ask you to do anything as it relates to that investigation? senator, i don t recall what he asked me that day. i, i, mm, why would something like that stand out? the president in the oval office committing blatant obstruction of justice when it s just you as the director of national intelligence. the president asked everybody