counsel robert mueller, who should be closing up shop. one, he has stunning conflicts of interest, like the fact that he has known james comey for years. they are good friends. in fact, comey testified that the reason he had a friend leaked the memo, which we believe is illegal to the new york times, is to bring about the appointment of a special counsel good and big surprise, it ended up being robert mueller, and fox news previously reported, comey s testimony last week was called closely coordinated with the special counsel. think about this for a minute. you have a disgruntled former fired employee in james call me, clearly spiteful and now one of his closest personal friends is now leading the investigation into president trump, who comey is accusing him of wrongdoing. there is no way that this investigation can be fair or objective. it is now impossible. so, who do you think mueller is going to side with? his friend or the president?
deadlines, but really a sense of urgency here to get whatever exists in their hands. and first and foremost, they are trying to put pressure on the president. if there are tapes that exist between the president and his conversations with comey, to hand them over. we have heard from senator susan collins, republicans saying, look, you know, they shouldn t have to subpoena these tapes, but if they have to, this is something that they are definitely debating and considering. we have heard from senator james langford who has suggested that perhaps these tapes don t even exist. democrat senator chuck schumer saying, look, it is time for the president to stop playing games. so, there is definitely a sense of pressure to get that in those committee hands. another committee working on this, the senate judiciary committee, is pushing to get the comey memos, those comey memos from the columbia professor, his good friend, daniel richmond, who comey was working with, to get those in the hands of t
reported. the existence of classified intelligence suggesting undisclosed meeting between sessions and russian ambassador of the u.s. at the may flower hotel. two sources familiar with who comey said in the closed door gatherings told nbc news about the confirmation. a speakswoman for sessions said there wasn never such a meeting they met aboard a private plane. many have questions not just the timing, but the ethics of such a meeting which happened while the doj conducted an investigation into hillary clinton s e-mail server. comey told this story in testimony last week. drew concern from the democratic committee. 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. that was one of the bricks in the load that led me to conclude
separated so you keep having it coming back up in the various differ ways usually by republican members of the congress and to some level relitiga relitigate it and reuse it to paint a picture of who comey is and who trump is and what the real truth of the matter is there. this is why i woke up because this say part of the discussion that would never allowed in a court of law maybe it would go to his state of mind, maybe, but it was a clear departure and a gotcha and equivalency test about the republicans. oh you juan to talk about what trump did. let s talk about clinton again. they re talking about the russia probe. it has nothing to do with the russia probe but it means so much politically and it was the metaphor moment. you saw the gop line-up whether it was ryan, with his awkward and obvious defense of well he s
can t. it s the same thing sally yates went through before she testified. she went to the white house and said, can i go ahead and discuss this? and they let her do it, but they could assert executive privilege here, leading us to a really big problem, because we won t be able to hear comey s side of the story. would there be a compelling legal argument for executive privilege in this case made? he could try. and comey being who comey is is going to want to follow the law. that s the one thing i ve always said about jim comey, he is not as concerned about the political ramifications as he is following the law. he is a true boy scout. and if he thinks that executive privilege prevents him from responding directly to the president, then i don t think he s going to respond, unless he s required or compelled to by a judicial subpoena. though i will say there are some critics of james comey that say that james comey also cares a lot about james comey, and if he feels like his honor is