into testimony. i think most significantly whether he will take questions that go beyond this, because legal experts have said if he doesn t take questions on this particular topic beyond what he states, in opening testimony, that means it is still of investigative interest of the special counsel robert mueller. eric: may i ask you, i read this seven pages. i knew you would. eric: i honestly can t find is where james comey outlines his testimony, sworn testimony in front of i believe it was congress and he never mentioned some of these things. he never really explain why he didn t mention the meetings. that he outlines in this june 8 missive. you raise an interesting point because the fired fbi director says in the statement that it was routine right out of the gate for him to document his meetings and conversations with
want to speak to you alone. rather than to just, seems like, the testimony leaked the day before. kat: does this interfere with trump s life tweeting plans? eboni: this kind of rains on that parade. we will talk about the announcement of his nominee for the new fbi director. eric: let s not forget, andrew, that this was a big smoking gun that james comey took extensive extemporaneous notes and one of the notes he took was after meeting with donald trump come after dinner, washington post and the new york times went ballistic about it. saying, we ve got him. i am reading this, and he talks about the notes he takes after these meetings, and every single one of these meetings in the notes, he talks about, none of them rise to the level of illegality.
get what you want. eric: this hearing was supposed to be a hearing whether we should free up section 702 of the fisa act. i think most people on the committee, probably both sides, agree with re-upping it but they spent most of the day on the russian probe. kat: it was like the pregame for tomorrow s party. it s going to be a very, very long, long, long party. going to be the same kind of attitude. you kind of saw what i think tomorrow s going to to look like with comey and it s correct that until this stuff is out of the way, other things are going to be harder. i don t think it would ve been the same if james comey s testimony hadn t been tomorrow. eric: one of the things i was hoping to hear today on this 702 fisa re-upping was one of the issues that happen was during the course of the last year, mike flynn s name not only got unmasked. it got leaked, and the reason why they were talking to these people in the first place, how do we stop it so regular
explanation tomorrow. maybe it was an effort for people to digest what was going to be in the testimony, but i can t think of another case. usually you get the prepared testimony 3 minutes or 5 minutes before the hearing and then there is an embargo until the hearing begins. eboni: thank you, catherine. kat: time to meet today s specialists. he s the youngest person to ever be elected to the new york state legislature. he was president of the new york city council and the former chairman of democrats for trump during the presidential campaign. he specializes in hiking in wyoming and montana. andrew stein is here. and he s a radio talk show host for ceo radio, the founder and ceo of the national diversity coalition, and he was an executive committee member of president trump s transition team but he specializes in theological discussion and debate. pastor darrell scott is here. eric: i honestly think i
the level of obstruction. it s inappropriate to even suggest about stopping an investigation. could be that trump was doing it for personal reasons and then you get out of it because comey said he wasn t doing anything previously. i m interested to see how the testimony goes tomorrow. people are going to be trying really, really hard to make this an obstruction thing. it s certainly not a collusion thing. eboni: can i ask the pastor or something. so many people, and we talked about this yesterday, the issue of the independence of the fbi and how historically that s been an independent part of the executive branch, not the usurped by even the sitting president. so much of what kat talks about about being disturbing and uncomfortable is comey describing that, what he feels was the president trying to maybe intimidate him out of objectivity and independence. if so, is it appropriate?