comey, will arrive on capitol hill for what is sure to be another contentious day of questioning by republicans on judicial oversight committees. all this will happen, once again, behind closed doors. manu raju is on capitol hill. what do we expect lawmakers to drill down on today? the second day of questioning of james comey, part of this investigation to what the fbi did in 2016. the russia investigation, the clinton investigation were improperly handled and last couple of weeks of power here bringing back james comey and will bring laura lynch, obama attorney general later this week. comey sat down a week and a half ago. more questions they want to ask. since then two news developments that will be part of the republican questioning going forward. court proceedings that summary of that two-page summary
juan: welcome back. former fbi director jim comey s book a higher loyalty hit the stores. former fbi director comey sat down for his first live interview. he had this response to president trump s suggestion that comey should be in jail. that s not normal. that s not okay. first of all, he has just making stuff up. most important, the president of the united states is calling for the imprisonment of up private citizen, as he s done for a whole lot of people who criticize him. it s not acceptable. i hope people read the book and see why the rule of law is such an important value in this country and keep to that, they re the president doesn t get to decide who goes to jail. juan: it s not a one-way fight. remember, comey said this president is unfit, unethical. i m going to ask my man jesse to respond on the part of president trump. jesse: hear, hear.
democrats may swoon over the book, just as they cheered comey s role in the russian investigation but are still livid. comey sat reopening of the hillary clinton email investigation late in the campaign. believing it could ve cost the election. our next guest has choice thoughts. former white house press secretary ari fleischer. great to see you. this book, usually you put out your hot stuff to get people to buy it. if this is all they have. i think it s a big snore. i don t see why this book is going to sell copies. let s start with the personal stuff. seems petty. he called him a congenital liar, actually, and an unethical man. my point here is if that s what the fbi thought of the commander in chief, the president to whom
written question and answer that answers can be reviewed. putting the president in a room with experienced prosecutors, i think that s fraud material. michael zeldon is joining us, one of robert mueller s former aides, legal analyst for us here at cnn. michael zeldon, to you, now knowing that comey sat and was interviewed by the mueller team at some point last year and we have talked many, many times about those memos and how he says that trump was asking for comey s loyalty and how the president was pressuring him not to you know, to drop the flynn investigation, take us behind those closed doors. what would that back and forth questioning look like? again, how would it have differed from what we saw on capitol hill? previous guests are correct that the setting is much more controlled with mueller than it
first, mr. comey, was decades of experience with the department of justice and fbi serving in the presence of both parties, he was so unnerved by the actions of the president, that fell, compelled to fully document every interaction they had. mr. comey sat where you are sitting today and testified that he was concerned that the president of the united states might lie about the nature of their meetings. that s a shocking statement from one of our nation s law enforcement officials. we also heard that director comey took it as a direction from the president that he is to drop the fbi s investigation into former national security advisor, michael flynn. we finally heard from mr. comey that we believed that he and conspired over the russian investigation paired the present also confirmed the statements with the media.