He might lie about the nature o our meeting and so i thought it really important to document. Comeys testimony rocks washington. Any reaction . Thank you very much. Do you think he told the truth . The president never directed or suggested that mr. Comey stopped investigating anyone. Somebody asked me did it bother me that he called the president a liar. Jim comey probably perjured himself. We now know hes the leaker. He fired the head of the fbi who was leading the investigation. What in the hell did he think was going to happen. He fell pain. He was hurt. He was the guy who got dumped. Hes basically running d. C. Comey is saying comey dont play that. It officially hung resulted hung parliament. Heartsstopping in illinois as a pair of balloons got tangled up. A mama bear giving her cubs a little climbing lesson. Oh, my god. He scores. Total abomination by the penguins. And all that matters do you believe donald trump colluded with russia . Thats a question i dont think i should answer in an open setting. Why the hell are we watching it in an open setting. On cbs this morning. Ill make this easy for you. You dont have to respond with words. Just signal me in any ways. Did donald trump collude with the russians . Got it. Announcer this morning ice eye opener presented by toyota. Lets go places. Welcome to cbs this morning. President trump just tweeted a respon response. The president said despite so many false statements and lies total and complete vindication and wow, comey is a leaker. James comey told the Senate Intelligence committee that the president told lies about him and the fbi. He also accused the white house of giving a phoney explanation for his firing. The administration then chose to defame me and more importantly the fbi by saying that the organization was in disarray, that it was poorly led, that the work force had lost confidence in its leader. Those were lies, plain and simple. James comey says he believes that he was fired because the investigation of Russian Election meddling was putting pressure on the president. Nancy cordes was in the hearing room for comeys public testimony. Nancy, good morning. Good morning. Committee aides see comeys testimony as a turning point in this investigation. They think it will compel other top kurnl and former Administration Officials to meet with the committee as well. What left senators really scratching their heads were the number of times that comey said that the president lied to him or to the public and pressured him about the investigation. I think there are a lot of questions that remain to be answered. Ive had hundreds of outstanding concerns. I like getting all the evidence before i make a decision. Reporter comeys fourhour hearing left senators with a lot to mull other. It was unmistakable by comeys testimony today that President Trump engaged inappropriate and unethical behavior. Some argue its unethical rather than criminal. Comey described for senators why he decided to keep memos of his oneonone meetings with the president. Was honestly concerned he might lie about the nature of meetings, so i thought it important to document. He said mr. Trump asked him in the oval office to drop the investigation of former National Security adviser Michael Flynn. Why didnt you stop and say, mr. President , this is wrong, i cannot discuss this with you. Thats a great question. Maybe if i were stronger, i would have. I was so stunned by the conversation they just took it. Do you say the president obstructed justice . I took it as a concerning thing. He said after he was fired the president disparaged him and the fbi so he shared the memos professoring asking him to press it along to the press. Why not yourself than to an intermediate party . I felt like the reporters were camping at the driveway, like seagulls aet the beach if it were getting it out. What happens next . The counsel will meet with Robert Mueller next week and the staff is going to be conducting an interview with white house Senior Adviser jared kushner. Nancy, thank you so much t president today during a rose garden news romanias president. He said yesterday comeys testimony proves theo interfere the russian government. Margaret brennan is at the margaret, good morning. Good morning. The president will no doubt be asked about the fired fbi direct press later today. The political calculation from the reporters seems to be that the president can overcome any damage by lumping comey in with the same washington establishment that he was elected disrupt. President trump was notably restrained from tweeting or commentinghe testimony of the fired fbi director james comey. I think the president was worried. The president is new at this. Hes new to government. The trump teams s a politic while changing the focus from the ongoing into collusion and Russian Election meddling. The president yesterday characterized it to evangelical support as battle. Au were under siege. You understand that. T come out bigger and better and stronger than ever. W. Any response to comeys accusations isnt coming from the white house. That assignment has been outsourced to the president s personal lawyer marc kasowitz. Mr. Comey has now he is one of these leakers. Kasowitz is trying to put co giving notes from his conversation with the president to the press after he was fired. We will leave appropriate authorities to determine whether these leaks should be Justice Department ha not said whether it will pursue an investigation, but any re conversations with comey would be key to such a probe. Lordy, i hope there are tapes. There was a tweet three days after he fired comey that the former fbi director should hope no tapes exist but white house Spokesperson Sarah Huckabee Sanders laughed at the suggestion. Ill look under the couch. There were several reasons as to why attorney general Jeff Sessions had to recuse himself from the russian investigation. Gayle, yesterday, the white house, after several days of not responding said that the president had full confidence in his attorney general. All right. Thank you very much, margaret. James comeys testimony also raises questions about president obamas attorney general, thats loretta lynch. I want to know, was she going to authorize us to confirm we had an investigation. She said, yes, but dont call it that. Call it matter. I said, why would i do that. And she said, just call it a matter. And, again, you look back in hindsight, codo you think i should have re1i69ed harder. I looked back and thought this isnt a hill i should be dying on. They opened the matter. They all reported the fbi has an investigation opened. That concerned me because that language tracked the way the campaign was talking about the fbis work and thats concerning. Now, Lynch Associates said using the word matter just follows just it Department Policy where officials dont confirm or deny an ongoing investigation. Bob woodward is an editor with the Washington Post. Es no stranger. Hes one of the reporters who broke the watergate story that led to the resignation of president nixon. Good morning. Welcome. Thank you. This began as a probe into whether russia was colluding with the trump transition team. Where are we on the big story . That is the question. The big story is about what russia did. Thats whats got to be investigated and whats missing here at this point is a clear crime. What bob did in the election last year, it was a classic espionage operation. Our cia used to do this decades ago. And so youve got to find out who did that, was somebody in the United States in the Trump Campaign or trump himself shom involved. Thats a big task. We have 5 to 10 of the answers. 5 so many and so many have to do with russia. Thats exactly what the fbi was trying to do and cast with. And then we have the man whos been in charge of this independent agency saying before the world its my judgment i was fired because of the russia investigation by the president of the United States. I think thats true, and i think you look at the chronology and the evidence at the same time. You know, what was trump thinking . What was he doing . And comey gives a window into this. Trump was obsessed with getting a public declaration that he, trump, was not under investigation. And comey told him that three times and then never would say it publicly. Do you think he should have said it publicly many. I think he should have. His argument is, well if trump came under investigation, wed have to fix that. Wed have to correct that. But there is a way. If you look at for four months trump was essentially begging, tell them im not under investigation. Was comeys credibility damaged, do you think, bob, when he revealed he leaked information to a friend in the hopes that it would lead to a special prosecutor . I think it was enhanced because he was honest about it. s like our old source deep throat mark felt who was number two in the fbi. Felt would meet in an underground garage lurking in the shadows and comey has come out and said, look, i wanted to get this out. I think we needed a special counsel to investigate that. Are their core comparisons s watergate . There is dramatic difference. Comey not john dean. Comey is a witness about what trump allegedly did. Dean was so powerful 45 years ago as a witness because he said, look, i was the president s lawyer in the white house and what i did was corrupt. We led the obstruction of justice. The president was in charge of this. And i was responding that way. Was there any positive takeaway for team trump yesterday in your opinion . Well, just the argument that, hey, look, why didnt they tell the world that trump was not under investigation. And if you get into the chronology of this, there are two points where comey waits two weeks before kind of responding to what clearly was President Trumps number one demand. You get the impression, though, that the trump team is a bit relieved by this because they expected perhaps he had things to say that he had not said before that might have been even more damaging. Its very possible. But he said, look. The president said let the Flynn Investigation go. Trump, a lot of people are saying, trump is new to this, hes not lawyer. If you check the record, and i have, trumps been involved in more lawsuits than just about anyone and he knows you have to get legal advice and not get involved in this business of telling the fbi director drop an investigation. Thats off the rails and way out of bounds. We sat here together all day yesterday and remarked about how many times the fbi director mentioned tapes. Multiple occasions was the reason he actually released the memos and became part of the papers. He said, lordy, e hope theres tapes. Do you think theres tapes . Its always the best evidence. If there had not been tapes in the nixon case, he would have stayed in officing im sure. I mean say youre mueller, the special investigator scle einve in this. What do you want . You want a defector from russian intelligence to come to the United States and i will tell you how we ran this operation. I mean all of everyone in the Intelligence Community has been very clear and very powerful in s saying there is evidence that everyone agrees, establishes that russia did this. Now, was there money involved . Whoa was involved . Who they say putin directed it. Are there people in this country . Thats why i say we still have 90 or 95 on that. Britain woke up to a political earthquake. Headlines capture how Prime Minister mays gamble backfired and she lost the overall majority but she vows to stay in power. Shes heading to Buckingham Palace to ask the queens permission to form a new government. Mark phillips is in london. Good morning. Reporter good morning. Theresa may made a hud mistake, a huge gamble thinking she could cruise to a majority. That didnt happen. Theresa may this morning looked shaken, chastened, and beaten, odd that one party had more seats than any other. Thats the take here. This country needs a period of stability and whatever the results are the results for her were disastrous. She had called this snap election while riding a doubledigit poll lead. I have just chaired a meeting on f the cabinet where we agreed the government should call a general election. Reporter she built her Campaign Around her leadership, which she called over and over again. Strong and stable. Strong and stable. Strong and stable leadership. Reporter but she looked, her opponent said, weak and wobbly, refusing to do tv debates, flipflopping on policy. And Jeremy Corbyn turned out not to be as bad as they thought. He rode on a tax and spend. Appeal to the youth vote, a kind of british bernie sanders. Corbyn is where the action is. Reporter corbyn still finished second, but for him not being obliterated, even making gains smelled like victory. The mandate she government has lost conservancy, lost votes, lost support, and lost confidence. I would have thought that was enough to go. Reporter but apparently shes not going to go. Frankly its a mess. Theresa may said shell try to cling onto power with one of the smaller parties in ireland. How long will that go . My guess well be back here doing this not too long from now. Ahead, what investigators found in reality a much anticipated mine is country. Well take you inside to fin comeback. 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