in the white house as a possible, you know, some could say, you know, possible obstruction to that investigation. earlier i spoke with republican congressman charlie dent and this is how he saw it. if the president, as he has stated, that he has done nothing wrong, i don t understand why he seems to want to interfere with this, with this process. i thought it was a mistake to fire director comey the way at least the way it was done was terrible. so, selenselena, do you see might be more republicans on board who are curious as to why the president has gone to so many lengths on so many occasions in which to end, stop or disrupt this investigation? right. i m not sure. i mean, charlie dent, he s from my state, he s an exception in that there is no political capital he loses by making a statement like that because he s
are lining up the facts about all the things james comey did, which would be why you might fire a guy. all we want to do is let the truth come out, provide all the documents and information. what should have been pop my probably the most popular bipartisan thing you could have done was fire director comey. they are upset because it s politically convenient and republicans are investigating this but his story is unraveling. if i was given advice, plead the fifth the next time he goes up. harris: let s jump to the justice department, a democratic congressman says the doj is trying to undermine the robert mueller investigation. there are people in the department of justice who apparently are cooperating with an effort to undermine the integrity and the strength of
believe in reopening that investigation right now only because, you know, we ll become a nation of investigations. we should look at how the investigation was conducted rather than reopen the whole investigation. look at the conduct to see if director comey should have done more and known what this person s bias was. how flagrant was it? how well-known was it? did comey know about him when mueller took over the investigation and he was kept in that position for a number of months? bill: senator feinstein talking about the general flynn matter. this is how she characterizes it. based on what we believe we know from the president and his interaction there. she said the following. i think we see this in the indictments, the four indictments and pleas that have just taken place. i see it most importantly in what happened with the firing of director comey and it is my
catherine herridge live in washington with the latest. sandra, this f.b.i. agent, peter strzok at the center of a new investigation was on the ground floor email intelligence referral to the f.b.i. in 2015 after highly classified information passed through clinton s unsecured server used for government business. according to a lengthy new york times profile on f.b.i. director james comey two weeks before he was fired a profile done with the full cooperation of the f.b.i. media office, this agent peter strzok was central. he was a key player in drafting of the july statement by director comey that recommended against criminal charges now referred to as the exoneration statement. and he was in the lead on the review of classified emails found on anthony wiener s computer that belonged to clinton aide huma abiden.
talking about obstruction of justice, the president had the right to fire director comey. he was leading the nation and the world to believe that president trump himself was under investigation and yet he had told us privately for months that the president at no time was the subject of the investigation. yet you have a president going around the world negotiating with foreign leaders trying to build support in this country and 99 percenters of the country thought that president trump was under investigation. when the president asked him to say publicly he is not he wouldn t do it. that was the main reason why he should have been fired. he was putting a cloud over the presidency. i liked jim comey but in this area i can t defend him at all. to let the world think the president of the united states is being investigated when he is not and you have the power to say that i understand why the president fired him. bill: i need a quick answer on this. i know you are against the tax plan for