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while 30% say it has given them a less favorable one. 61% said it had no impact. and finally, this is the most troubling number 46% said they feel that president trump fired comey to slow down the russia investigation. and 38% buy the original explanation from the white house, that it was done over legitimate concerns over how comey handled the hillary clinton e-mail issue. and there s a report that a frustrated president trump is considering firing many of his top white house aides. it adds up to a week, at best, the administration has a communications problem. or at worst, it is facing accusations of obstruction of justice. i was going to fire comey. donald trump contradicted his white house aides and his vice president, adding to questions as to why the president chose to fire fbi director james comey when he did. no one from the white house. that was a d.o.j. decision. he took the recommendation but the president needs to back off and let the investigation go forwa ....
Not. listen to the exchange that william barr had during the cop f copconfirmation hearing. you talked about the comey decision. you talked about obstruction of z justice. you wrote on page one that a president presueersuading a pero commit perjury would be any person. you said a president or any person convincing a witness to change testimony would be obstruction. is that right? yes. she issued a statement saying her questioning of barr she had no idea what buzzfeed was about to report. sometimes you are lucky. she was lucky in that questions. the one thing about barr is that i found his testimony to be very interesting before the senate. i know a lot of people weren t taken by it. i thought he had this attitude of, there s nobody that can ....
so if there was some reason to believe the president tried to coach somebody not to testify or to testify falsely, that could be obstruction of justice? yes, under an obstruction statute, yes. so if there is evidence that the president tried to conceal evidence, that would be obstruction of justice potentially, right? right. in your memo, you talked about the comey decision. you talk about obstruction of justice and you already went over that, which i appreciate. you wrote on page one a president persuading a person to commit perjury would be obstruction. is that right? yes. okay. any any person who persuades another yeah. you also said a president or any person convincing a witness to change testimony would be obstruction. is that right? yes. josh campbell, those were not equivocal answers there. ....
Investigation and this, the clinton email investigation. we wondered all along these seem like pretty high-level decision whether to spy on your political opponents or for jim comey the f.b.i. director to break all protocols essentially declare her innocent without ever leaving it to the justice department which normally makes charging decisions. how high did this go? and so now to see in this email from page to strzok that she needs to brief comey because the president wants to know everything. that would suggest if he didn t know everything he knew a lot unless they were avoiding briefing him somehow. sandra: if that s the case and it is as it appears when we read this as they released in the senate report, what happens then? another special counsel needed? where does this go? there is a lot more left to learn. these texts are coming from ron johnson s homeland security committee. his committee did not was not told about them any of ....
Although we don t know what happened in the relationship, we do know, bill, this was about 1500 messages the inspector general at the doj has many more. we may learn even more in the coming days and weeks. bill: thank you, leading our coverage from washington sandra: over at the white house the clock is ticking on a decision to release the democrats version of the f.b.i. memo. the document written by adam schiff is a rebutteal to the controversial gop memo that accuses the f.b.i. of abusing its surveillance power. kevin corke is following this from the north lawn of the white house this morning. what s the timeline on the possible release of this democratic memo? a couple things i think you ll find useful, sandra. the review is ongoing as you ve pointed out throughout the morning as have our colleagues at fox news. that it continue through close of business thursday. there is a mountain of granular ....