former director had to say during the hearing, among those things, that a, the president is not the subject of the russia investigation. he never asked comey to stop the investigation and he never demanded comey s loyalty to him. however, he did accuse him of leaking those private memos again detailing his recollection of conversations with the president and that had him up in arms. listen. although mr. comey testified that he only leaked the memos in response to a tweet, the public record reveals that the new york times was quoting from those memos the day before the referenced tweet, which belies mr. comey s excuse for this unauthorized disclosure of privileged information and appears to be entirely retaliatory. if you were expecting a nice, quiet day you won t get it. there is a press conference
broader counter intelligence investigation into russian interference in the election. bill: do we know more today after the testimony yesterday? we definitely do. all we had before the testimony yesterday was speculation. now we have some facts on the table. not enough to reach conclusions but we finally are getting facts. and that s what we need for the american people to produce the credible investigation. bill: i hope you come back, senator. thank you for your time. susan collins, member of the senate intelligence committee from capitol hill. appreciate that. now you have the woman who was asking the questions and the response. you heard her say it was stunning to hear that answer. shannon: it almost seemed nonchalant that he admitted to her any verbal sparring, i released a memo essentially through my friends. far from over. the news doesn t stop there.
bill: we have this clip that you are referring to. i believe what you are referring to is the tarmac meeting that was asked to characterize it as a matter instead of an investigation. i think it s the second bound bite we have queued up. let s get a comment after this. at one point the attorney general directed me not to call it an investigation but instead to call it a matter which confused me and concerned me but that was one of the bricks in the load that led me to conclude i have to step away from the department if we re to close this case credibly. bill: that s to what you were referring. how do we now characterize it and view it in the way that the former director presented it yesterday? well, the good thing is i ve heard a lot of democrats who expressed concern about those comments as well because it s pretty apparent that loretta lynch was giving political direction to the f.b.i.
you have to get ready for out numbered. do you have another song? we always have some songs. [cheering and applause] have a great weekend, everybody, see you monday. bill: good morning, fox news alert. president trump firing back after f.b.i. director james comey makes his case to the country. the president saying he feels vindicated. we expect much more when he holds a joint news conference today as we say good morning. what a day yesterday and friday we go forward. i m bill hemmer, good morning and welcome to america s newsroom. shannon: if we thought it would be quiet today, we were wrong. stick around. i m shannon bream. fired f.b.i. director james comey laid it all out accusing the president of lying and saying he was fired because of the russia investigation. meanwhile, fox news has learned the president s legal team will file a complaint with the justice department and the
bill: she also has a better understanding today than yesterday. senator david perdue with me today. susan collins said she was stunned when she asked the questions about the memos and they were leaked. what do you make of that now? well, it s new news, right, that he was the one that actually leaked that. but my take on the testimony yesterday, bill, as objectively as i look at it, i think the president was totally vindicated. comey himself said three times the president wasn t under investigation and the president had not asked him and did not ask him to stop the russia investigation. i think this totally vindicates the president and shows how the national washington media hyped this into something that it wasn t. bill: it does not end the investigation, you know that. there are mine fields out there potentially, correct or not? well, there are two separate issues and there always was. first of all, there are intimations that the president had done something wrong.