and replacement. we need to get after tax reform. therefore, get our country moving again. we rolled back a lot of regulations that have hurt business. neil: when the president was outlining this infrastructure plan first of all, are you on board with that? is it doable? forget about getting congressmen on board. can republicans as a group get on board with that? i m very familiar with the public private partnership. in our construction business, we ve done many of those ourselves. it s a way to combine the government and private capitol. neil: the idea that you can build off of that five times the amount the government puts in, leverage off of that? if that is the case, you can work that for tax cuts and a variety of things. yeah.
senate intelligence committee and some of that sworn testimony at least written already released today by james comey. however, that s kind of the buffet tomorrow, if you will, some of the appetizer was with mike rogers and dan coats testifying before that very same committee, too. the nsa director rogers testifying that he had never been directed to cross the line, as he put it, or do anything illegal whereas the dni had dan coats said that he never felt pressured in any way to shape an intelligence product. to the best of my recollection, i have never been directed to do anything i believed to be illegal, immoral, unethical or inappropriate. i never felt pressure to intervene or interfere in any way with shaping intelligence in a political way. their testimony came on the heels of a washington post article which reported that president trump asked intelligence officials, including coats, to try to
senates next year. it s like hearings a go-go even if they re not justified. what do you say? senator mark warner was disappointed when rogers and coats wouldn t give him the answer that he wanted. they both said we never felt any pressure, anything that would have been improper put on us by anyone. neil: and saying that their conversations with private with the president. so there wasn t a way to develop it. you can feel the air go out of the room for mark warner and the other democrats. it s not the answer. he kept badgering them. he didn t want to accept that answer. comey, of course, should remember, neil, there will be private testimony as well. so things could be said there that were not said in public that could be damaging to the president. by and large, so far, maybe he s been damaged a little bit politically but legally, nothing yesterday.
hoped, so they trust. so the question will go tomorrow when mr. comey appears to talk to congress. the other side, democrats, are saying there s plenty there about the president trying to exonerate general flynn that will raise serious concerns about obstruction of justice charges. it s in the eye of the beholder. if wall street was worried about any of this and that we could have a long summer of investigation and hearings, ala what we had in 1973, they had a funny way of showing it. stocks up north of 31 points. a lot of cross currents here. we go into the legal back and forth on this. you heard a great deal over the last couple hours pretty much on everything about this. we ll try to step back here and get the what is next stage. blake burman at the white house with that part of it. blake? hi, neil. you have the james comey testimony tomorrow before the
new york post michael goodwin is here. what do you think of what you ve read and seen? you and i might be old enough to remember the summer of 73 and the start of hearings that went on and on and on and escalating into the watergate affair. does this approach that from your gut? neil, speak for yourself in terms of remembering. neil: i had to do that. i think president trump had a good day today. it doesn t mean he s out of the woods and a long way to do. but i think what we heard today and what we ve seen from the comey prepared remarks, certainly there s no charge against the president as i see it that would carry the political weight. it s all this great area. i don t think you launch impeachment proceedings over a gray area. it has to be black and white to go that far. still, there s more to come. when comey actually says under oath what he said in writing and